The "Costa Concordia," Romanian riots, feminist demonstrations, and Christian Orthodox Epiphany celebrations.
Photos Of The Week -- January 14-20
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The "Costa Concordia" cruise ship, which ran aground and keeled over with more than 4,000 people on board near the Italian island of Giglio on January 14. (AFP)
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Captured Taliban insurgents are presented to the media in Herat, Afghanistan, on January 15. (AFP/Aref Karimi)
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A child shouts antigovernment slogans as he holds a Romanian flag on a statue in Piata Universitatii Square during protests against austerity measures in Bucharest on January 15. (AFP/Daniel Mihailescu)
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Youths stand by a fire lit by protesters after antiausterity demonstrations turned violent in the center of Bucharest on January 15. (AFP/Andrei Pungovschi)
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Local Baluch girls lean on the walls of a man-made cave in Tiss village in the suburb of the port city of Chabahar, Iran, on January 16. (REUTERS/Raheb Homavandi)
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A family travels on a donkey cart amid dense fog on a cold morning in Lahore, Pakistan, on January 18. (REUTERS/Mohsin Raza)
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People swim in the ice-cold waters of Lake Ohrid, Macedonia, to search for a cross during Epiphany celebrations on January 19. (REUTERS/Ognen Teofilovski)
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A Orthodox Christian woman takes the plunge during Epiphany celebrations in Minsk, Belarus on January 18. (AFP/Victor Drachev)
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A man crosses himself while swimming in an ice hole in the Sea of Japan in subzero temperatures during celebrations for Russian Orthodox Epiphany in Amur Bay on January 18. (REUTERS/Yuri Maltsev)
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A man kisses a wooden cross that he managed to catch after it was thrown by a priest into the waters of the Nisava River during Orthodox Christian Epiphany celebrations in Nis, Serbia, on January 19. (REUTERS/Stoyan Nenov)
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A man crosses himself after taking a dip in the icy water of the Bolshaya Almatinka river during Epiphany celebrations in Almaty, Kazakhstan, on January 19. (REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov)
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Ukrainian army veterans take a dip in the freezing waters of the Dnieper River during Orthodox Epiphany celebrations in Kyiv on January 19. (REUTERS/Vladimir Sindeyev).
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Demonstrators take part in a protest against the Egyptian Military Council on Tahrir Square in Cairo on January 20. (REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El-Ghany)
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Women in Jerusalem dance during a flash mob demonstration on January 17 against ultraorthodox Jews seeking gender separation in Israel. (REUTERS/Baz Ratner)
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Activists from the Ukrainian women's rights group Femen protest against visa restrictions in front of the residence of the Indian ambassador in Kyiv on January 18. (REUTERS/Gleb Garanich)
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Members of the radical feminist group "Pussy Riot" stage a performance on Red Square in Moscow on January 20. (REUTERS/Denis Sinyakov)
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Russian Police officers detain an anticorruption protester holding a photo of Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev, just outside the Interior Ministry headquarters in Moscow on January 18. (AFP/Andrey Smirnov)
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Sailors from the "U.S.S. Dewey" provide food, water and medical supplies to distressed Iranian fishermen in the Arabian Sea on 18 January. (AFP PHOTO/US NAVY-- Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Joshua Keim)