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Photos Of The Week #10
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A protester throws a stone towards Turkish antiriot police in Istanbul as people gather to mark the second anniversary of the death of the youngest victim of the Gezi Park protests on March 11. (AFP/Ozan Kose)
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Birds fly as a rainbow arches over houses in a low-income neighborhood in Karachi, Pakistan.(Reuters/Akhtar Soomro)
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The Proton rocket that will launch the ExoMars 2016 spacecraft to Mars is transferred to the launchpad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The spacecraft will search for signs of life on the red planet and is a joint project of the European Space Agency and Russia's Federal Space Agency. It is due to blast off on March 14. (epa/Stephane Corvaja)
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un watches a ballistic rocket launch during a drill by the Strategic Force of the Korean People's Army at an unknown location in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in Pyongyang on March 11.
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A volunteer looks out to sea through binoculars on a beach of the Greek island of Lesbos, near the port city of Mytilene. At least five people, including a baby, drowned in the Aegean Sea on March 10 when a speedboat sank trying to reach Lesbos from the Turkish coast. (epa/Kay Nietfeld)
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Men unload bags of flour from a Red Crescent aid convoy in the besieged, rebel-held town of Jesreen, in the eastern Damascus suburb of Ghouta, Syria. (Reuters/Bassam Khabieh)
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Children receive oxygen at a hospital in Taza, south of the Iraqi city of Kirkuk. Iraqi Kurdish officials accused Islamic State militants of using “poisonous substances” during shelling. The officials said an attack with mortar shells and Katyusha rockets filled with a chemical agent took place on March 8 in Taza, a mainly Shi’ite Turkoman village about 20 kilometers south of Kirkuk.
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A long-range Qadr ballistic missile is launched in the Alborz mountain range in northern Iran on March 9. Iran said its armed forces had fired two more ballistic missiles as it continued tests in defiance of U.S. warnings. (AFP/Mahmmod Housseni)
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A female Pakistani laborer makes bricks at a factory on the outskirts of Lahore. (AFP/Arif Ali)
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A woman looks through a tent during a rally by Houthi loyalists against Saudi-led air strikes in Yemen's capital, Sanaa, on March 9. (Reuters/Khaled Abdullah)
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Hunger-striking Ukrainian military pilot Nadia Savchenko delivers her final statement to a court in the southern Russian town of Donetsk, where she is being tried for involvement in the murder of two Russian journalists. (AFP/Sergei Venyavsky)
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An Afghan woman begs under a 3G logo in Kabul on March 8 (International Women's Day)
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An eagle of the Guard from Above company grasps a drone during a police exercise in Katwijk, Netherlands. (AFP/Koen van Weel)
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A child stands in a razor-topped fence close to the gate at the Greek-Macedonian border near the Greek village of Idomeni. (AFP/Dimitar Dilkoff)
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Kosovar Albanians stand in front of a bonfire as they take part in "Night of the Fires" ceremony in the village of Prekaz on March 7. (AFP/Armend Nimani)
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People take part in an anti-extreme-right rally in Bratislava in reaction to the results of parliamentary elections in Slovakia on March 7. (AFP/Vladimir Simicek)
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A Syrian man rides his bicycle past the rubble of destroyed buildings in the rebel-held town of Douma, on the outskirts of the capital, Damascus. (AFP/Sameer al-Doumy)
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Migrants stand near tents as they wait to cross the Greek-Macedonian border near Idomeni, Greece. (epa/Valdrin Xhemaj)
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A woman drops a few coins into the cup of an old man asking for alms as people rush by in an underground passage in the center of St. Petersburg, Russia. (epa/Anatoly Maltsev)
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A child plays on a rail track at the Greek-Macedonian border near the Greek village of Idomeni where thousands of migrants and refugees are stranded. (AFP/Louisa Goulimaki)
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Indian policemen detain an Indian Kashmir lawmaker during a protest in Srinagar on March 7. (epa/Farooq Khan)
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A protester throws a brick at the door of the Russian Embassy on Kyiv after he climbed over a fence and after others pelted the building with eggs amid protests calling for Moscow to release jailed Ukrainian pilot Nadia Shevchenko. (AFP/Sergei Supinsky)
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A man reacts at the site of a bomb attack in the city of Hilla, south of Baghdad, on March 6. (Reuters/Alaa al-Marjani)
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Serbia -- Serbian ultra-nationalist leader Vojislav Seselj, surrounded by his Radical Party supporters, burns a NATO flag during a protest in front of the Special Court building in Belgrade, March 10, 2016