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Images from around the world Here is a look at some of the week’s best photographs from around the globe.
Sept. 8, 2012
Protesters in Thessaloniki, Greece, hold a shark balloon meant to represent the International Monetary Fund. Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras says a final round of austerity measures contains painful and unjust cuts but is necessary to restore Greece's credibility and allow the country to receive funding from creditors.
Thanassis Stavrakis
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AP
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Sept. 8, 2012
A giant balloon of Betty Boop floats during the Balloon Day Parade in Brussels. Giant figures representing well-known comic-strip and Belgian characters were paraded along the downtown boulevards as part of the Belgium Comic Strip Festival.
Yves Herman
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Reuters
Sept. 8, 2012
Protesters demonstrate outside government headquarters in Hong Kong. Officials backed down Saturday on plans to make students take Chinese patriotism classes following a week of protests in the former British colony sparked by fears of pro-Beijing "brainwashing." The semiautonomous Chinese city's leader, Leung Chun-ying, said it would be up to schools to decide whether to hold the classes. They were to have become a mandatory subject in 2015 after a three-year voluntary period.
Kin Cheung
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AP
Sept. 8, 2012
Syrian refugees walk between tents during German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle's visit to al-Zaatri refugee camp in Mafraq, Jordan, near the border with Syria.
Ali Jarekji
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Reuters
Sept. 8, 2012
A preacher gestures during the funeral for Mgcineni Mambush Noki, one of 34 striking platinum mineworkers shot dead at Lonmin's Marikana mine, at his hometown of Mqanduli, South Africa. Even if Lonmin Plc seals a deal to bring all of its striking South African miners back to work, the world's No.3 platinum producer still faces a long and costly road to recovery. The group's battered-down shares rose for the first time in more than a week on Thursday, on news it had signed an accord with some of the unions at the Marikana platinum mine after four weeks of strikes marred by deadly violence.
Siphiwe Sibeko
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Reuters
Sept. 7, 2012
Yves "Jetman" Rossy took to the skies with fellow "Breitling Flyer" pilot Nigel Lamb in the renowned Spitfire MH434 in Valais, Switzerland. In this unique close-formation flight, the British iconic aircraft offered a stark contrast to the futuristic Jetwing, the cutting edge of Swiss innovation.
Marie Schenk
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Photopress/Breitling via AP
Sept. 7, 2012
Youths compete to catch a bank note of 2,000 guaranies, worth about 50 cents, during "Natividad de Maria," or Birth of Mary, celebrations at the Virgin Mary Catholic church in Guarambare, Paraguay. The money throwing is part of celebrations that honor the birth of Mary, during which people who believe they have received special favors from her, throw bank notes from the church's balcony to children below, as a way to return the favor.
Jorge Saenz
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Associated Press
Sept. 7, 2012
Documents are exchanged as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, left, and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov sign a memorandum of understanding for cooperation in Antarctica during the Asian-Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit in Vladivostok, Russia. The United States and Russia will cut down on paperwork and fees for visas as part of efforts to build ties, U.S. officials said.
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AFP/Getty Images
Sept. 7, 2012
A California Fire air tanker drops a load of fire retardant across the head of the Scotts Fire above Scotts Valley in Lake County, Calif.
Kent Porter
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AP
Sept. 7, 2012
People run as falling rocks land near their vehicle after the area was hit by an earthquake in Zhaotong, China. A series of earthquakes collapsed houses and triggered landslides Friday in a remote mountainous part of southwestern China where damage was preventing rescues and communications were disrupted. Dozens of deaths have been reported.
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Associated Press
Sept. 6, 2012
Russian President Vladimir Putin touches an octopus at an oceanarium on Russky Island in Vladivostok.
Ria Novosti
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Reuters
Sept. 6, 2012
A warehouse roof in east London's Hackney neighborhood hosts guests for a hot tub cinema event.
OLIVIA HARRIS
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REUTERS
Sept. 5, 2012
Firefighters attempt to extinguish a blaze in Povoa de Calde, near Viseu, Portugal. More than 500 firefighters have been mobilized.
Rafael Marchante
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Reuters
Sept. 5, 2012
A boy flies a kite atop a mountain in Kabul.
Ahmad Jamshid
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AP
Sept. 5, 2012
A riot police officers mask was stained with paint thrown by students in Bogota, Colombia during a protest regarding the government's educational policies .
William Fernando Martinez
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AP
Sept. 5, 2012
Police try to prevent striking workers from marching to the Karee shaft at the Lonmin platinum mine near Rustenburg, South Africa. Miners refuse to return to work until their demands over pay and working conditions are met.
Denis Farrell
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AP
Sept. 4, 2012
Female supporters of Pakistani religious party Jamaat-e-Islami in Karachi, Pakistan, take an oath to continue wearing the hijab. Rallies were organized nationwide to observe the value of wearing the veil for Muslim women.
Shakil Adil
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AP
Sept. 4, 2012
A woman is seen through a hole in a house damaged during bombing by government forces on the outskirts of Aleppo, Syria.
Muhammed Muheisen
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AP
Sept. 3, 2012
Ho Chi-kwan, an assistant professor, was one of 10 hunger strikers taken to a hospital outside government headquarters on the first day of the new school term for primary and secondary schools in Hong Kong. An alliance consisting of student, and parent and teacher groups protesting against the implementation of national education in schools, promised further action following the government's failure to withdraw the subject, government radio reported.
Tyrone Siu
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Reuters
Sept. 3, 2012
A worker pulls his cart through a flooded street during monsoon rains in Mumbai. The monsoon rains, which usually hit India from June to September, are crucial for farmers whose crops feed hundreds of millions of people.
Rajanish Kakade
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AP
Sept. 3, 2012
A general view, taken using slow shutter speed, shows the West Bank city of Ramallah at night. Palestinian dreams of building a powerful economy to speed their drive towards independence could soon be plunged into darkness. The cash-strapped government of the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Authority, is so behind with its bills that an Israeli electricity supplier has threatened to cut the power unless they pay outstanding debt of almost $80 million.
Mohamad Torokman
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Reuters
Sept. 2, 2012
Students from a Tibetan school throw barley flour as they attend a program to mark the Tibetan Democracy Day in Katmandu, Nepal.
Niranjan Shrestha
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AP
Sept. 2, 2012
Tokyo city officials and experts on a small boat enter a cave in Uotsuri, one of the tiny islands in the East China Sea, called Senkaku in Japanese and Diaoyu in Chinese.
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AP
Sept. 2, 2012
A woman offers prayers at a Lord Shiva temple during "Malmas" in Allahabad, India. "Malmas" is an extra lunar month according to the Hindu calendar that occurs once in three years and is considered auspicious for Shiva worship.
Rajesh Kumar Singh
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AP
Sept. 2, 2012
Pakistani police officers escort blindfolded Muslim cleric Khalid Chishti to appear in court in Islamabad. In the latest twist in a religiously charged case that has focused attention on the country's harsh blasphemy laws, police allege Chishti planted evidence in the case of a Christian girl accused of blasphemy.
Anjum Naveed
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AP
Sept. 2, 2012
Israeli police officers speak with an Ultra Orthodox Jewish man standing in front of the door of his son's house in the unauthorized West Bank Jewish settlement of Migron. Israel completed an evacuation of Migron, culminating years of legal wrangling in a case that has become a rallying cry for hard-line settler groups opposed to any withdrawal from occupied land claimed by the Palestinians.
Sebastian Scheiner
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AP
Sept. 2, 2012
A boy looks back while he and another boy play on a Syrian military tank, destroyed during fighting with the Rebels, in the Syrian town of Azaz, on the outskirts of Aleppo.
Muhammed Muheisen
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AP
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