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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. 28, 2012
A new portrait of Mao Zedong is hung from a truck onto Tiananmen Gate in Beijing ahead of China's 63rd National Day on Oct. 1.
Jason Lee
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Reuters
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Sept 28, 2012
A Palestinian protester walks away from a water cannon used by Israeli troops to disperse protesters during a weekly protest against the expansion of the nearby Jewish settlement of Halamish, in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh.
Majdi Mohammed
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AP
Sept 28, 2012
A man dives with an idol of Lord Ganesha into an artificial pond that was dug for the Ganesh Chaturthi festival to help control pollution and waste, along the banks of the Sabarmati River in Ahmedabad, India. Hindus bring home idols of Lord Ganesha during the 11-day festival in order to invoke his blessings for wisdom and prosperity. The festival culminates in the immersion of the idols.
Sam Panthaky
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AFP/Getty Images
Sept 28, 2012
Two Hindu men swim with an idol of Lord Ganesha in an artificial pond that was built for the Ganesh Chaturthi festival.
Sam Panthaky
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AFP/Getty Images
Sept 27, 2012
A member of the Free Syrian Army opens fire during clashes with Syrian Army forces in Aleppo, Syria.
Zain Karam
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Reuters
Sept 27, 2012
A soldier carries marijuana plants to be destroyed after a large pot plantation was seized in Hostotipaquillo, Mexico. During the operation, more than 98 acres of marijuana were seized, according to the army.
Bruno Gonzalez
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AP
Sept 27, 2012
An Indian Forestry Department official, riding an elephant, pulls away the carcass of a rhino killed by poachers at Bagori Range in India’s Kaziranga National Park. The rare rhino, who suffered from gunshot injuries and a wound on its snout after poachers cut off its horn, nose and part of its ear, died after struggling for its life for over a day.
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AFP/Getty Images
Sept. 27, 2012
A monkey crosses telephone wires on a street in New Delhi.
Kevin Frayer
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AP
Sept. 27, 2012
Visitors tour the illuminated decorations and lighting of small bulbs set up at Victoria Park to celebrate the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival in Hong Kong. Like ancient Chinese poets, Hong Kong people appreciate the beauty of the full moon in the Mid-Autumn Festival, which falls on Sept. 30.
Kin Cheung
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AP
Sept. 27, 2012
Former U.S. Marine Paul Lewis, right, along with many other men wearing high heels, takes part in the Walk a Mile in Her Shoes charity event in downtown Toronto. The event is held to raise awareness and funds for the White Ribbon Campaign to end violence against women.
Nathan Denette
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AP
Sept. 26, 2012
A worker is partially submerged as he tries to repair a broken pipe in Caracas, Venezuela.
Rodrigo Abd
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AP
Sept. 27, 2012
Naira Kalandiya, right, comforts crying women as they mourn their dead sons in Tbilisi, Georgia, at a memorial to those who perished while fighting in the province of Abkhazia in the 1990s.
Shakh Aivazov
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AP
Sept. 26, 2012
A Free Syrian Army fighter holds a rocket-propelled grenade launcher while taking cover after a tank blast in Aleppo, Syria. Syria's unrest began in March 2011 when protests calling for political change met a violent government crackdown. Activists say that the conflict has killed nearly 30,000 people.
Manu Brabo
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AP
Sept. 25, 2012
A woman cries while holding the body of her brother, who was killed by the Syrian army, in front of Dar Al-Shifa hospital in Aleppo, Syria. Over the past few months, rebels have increasingly targeted security sites and symbols of regime power in a bid to turn the tide in Syria's 18-month conflict, which activists say has left some 30,000 people dead.
Manu Brabo
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AP
Sept. 25, 2012
Miners stand on the side of a highway blanketed with stones to block traffic on the outskirts of El Alto in La Paz, Bolivia. Independent and state miners have been staging rival protests for months for control of the Colquiri tin mine, which is 100 miles south of La Paz.
Juan Karita
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AP
Sept. 24, 2012
A Free Syrian Army soldier, far right, looks through a mirror, which helps him see Syrian troops from the other side, as he takes his position with a fellow soldier in Aleppo. Most of those fighting the regime of President Bashar al-Assad are ordinary Syrians and soldiers who have defected, having become fed up with the authoritarian government, analysts say.
Hussein Malla
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AP
Sept. 23, 2012
Children laugh as they flee the Syrian city of Aleppo with their family because of fighting between Syrian rebels and government forces.
Manu Brabo
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AP
Sept. 24, 2012
Ultra-Orthodox Jews of the sect Hassidic Vizhnitz gather on a hill overlooking the Mediterranean as they participate in a Tashlich ceremony in Herzeliya, Israel. Tashlich, which means “to cast away” in Hebrew, is the Jewish practice by which adherents go to a large, flowing body of water and symbolically “throw away” their sins by throwing a piece of bread, or similar food, into the water before the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, which starts Tuesday.
Ariel Schalit
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AP
Sept. 24, 2012
Children pole a raft in the Indian village of Burhabrhi in the northeastern state of Assam. The state government said flood waters have killed at least seven people and forced nearly a million to leave their homes. Flash floods and landslides triggered by heavy rains have killed at least 30 people in India's remote northeast over the past three days.
Anupam Nath
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AP
Sept. 24, 2012
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gestures as he attends the U.N. General Assembly’s high-level meeting on the rule of law at the United Nations.
Richard Drew
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AP
Sept. 24, 2012
Israeli delegates walk out of the U.N. General Assembly as Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad approaches the podium to speak at Monday’s high-level meeting.
John Minchillo
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AP
Sept. 23, 2012
An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man swings a chicken — later to be slaughtered as part of the Kaparot ritual, in which it is believed that one transfers one's sins from the past year into the chicken — in Jerusalem's religious Mea Shearim neighborhood. The ceremony is held before the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement.
Bernat Armangue
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AP
Sept. 23, 2012
Rithika, 6, is tossed into the air by her father as they join devotees at the Arabian Sea on the fifth day of the 10-day-long Ganesh Chaturthi festival in Mumbai. Idols of the Hindu god Ganesh, the deity of prosperity, are taken through the streets in a procession accompanied by dancing and singing and later immersed in a river or the sea symbolizing a ritual seeing-off of his journey toward his abode, taking away with him the misfortunes of all mankind.
Vivek Prakash
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Reuters
Sept. 23, 2012
Members of one of the election commissions count ballots after the elections in Minsk, Belarus. The ex-Soviet state held parliamentary elections two years after a presidential poll ended in the beating and arrest of hundreds of protesters who had accused President Alexander Lukashenko of vote rigging.
Viktor Drachev
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AFP via Getty Images
Sept. 23, 2012
Belarus soldiers vote during the parliamentary election in Minsk.
Viktor Drachev
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Agence France-Presse via Getty Images
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