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Photos Of The Week -- July 23-29

From turmoil on Kosovo's border to flooding tragedy in Pakistan and catastrophic drought and famine in East Africa.
Activists of the Pamiat, or Memory Searching Organization, for victims of World War II, carry the coffin with the remains of Ukrainian, German, and Soviet soldiers of the "Galician" SS Division during a reburial ceremony near Chervone, some 70 kilometers from the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, on July 24. Photo by Yuriy Dyachyshyn for AFP
1 Activists of the Pamiat, or Memory Searching Organization, for victims of World War II, carry the coffin with the remains of Ukrainian, German, and Soviet soldiers of the "Galician" SS Division during a reburial ceremony near Chervone, some 70 kilometers from the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, on July 24.

Photo by Yuriy Dyachyshyn for AFP
Nune Abdil, aged 2, a malnourished child from southern Somalia, receives treatment in Mogadishu on July 16 amid the worst drought in eastern Africa in seven decades. Photo by Farah Abdi Warsameh for AP
2 Nune Abdil, aged 2, a malnourished child from southern Somalia, receives treatment in Mogadishu on July 16 amid the worst drought in eastern Africa in seven decades.

Photo by Farah Abdi Warsameh for AP
A remnant of a former Soviet fighting position against the Afghan mujahedin is marked by the rusted barrel of an old machine gun in northern Kajaki, Helmand Province, in Afghanistan. Photo by David Goldman for AP
3 A remnant of a former Soviet fighting position against the Afghan mujahedin is marked by the rusted barrel of an old machine gun in northern Kajaki, Helmand Province, in Afghanistan.

Photo by David Goldman for AP
Members of the French KFOR clear a barricade near the northern Kosovo village of Zubin Potok on July 26 after Kosovo sent special police forces to its Serbian-populated north late on Monday to enforce a ban on imports from Serbia and local Serbs resisted the move. Photo by Marko Djurica for Reuters
4 Members of the French KFOR clear a barricade near the northern Kosovo village of Zubin Potok on July 26 after Kosovo sent special police forces to its Serbian-populated north late on Monday to enforce a ban on imports from Serbia and local Serbs resisted the move.

Photo by Marko Djurica for Reuters
Libyan rebel fighters search for soldiers loyal to Muammar Qaddafi in Um al-Far after taking control of the village on July 28. Photo by Alessio Romenzi for AFP
5 Libyan rebel fighters search for soldiers loyal to Muammar Qaddafi in Um al-Far after taking control of the village on July 28.

Photo by Alessio Romenzi for AFP
A Libyan man poses for a picture in front of a portrait of leader Muammar Qaddafi during a meeting of senior Libyan clerics in Tripoli on July 27. Photo by Caren Firouz for Reuters
7 A Libyan man poses for a picture in front of a portrait of leader Muammar Qaddafi during a meeting of senior Libyan clerics in Tripoli on July 27.

Photo by Caren Firouz for Reuters
People from southern Somalia stand behind barbed wire in a line to receive aid at a refugee camp in Mogadishu, Somalia, on July 16. More than 10 million people are now affected in drought-stricken areas of Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, and Uganda, and the situation was said to be deteriorating. Photo by Farah Abdi Warsameh for AP
8 People from southern Somalia stand behind barbed wire in a line to receive aid at a refugee camp in Mogadishu, Somalia, on July 16. More than 10 million people are now affected in drought-stricken areas of Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, and Uganda, and the situation was said to be deteriorating.

Photo by Farah Abdi Warsameh for AP
Belgrade residents attend a protest in the city center on July 24 after a Hungarian court cleared 97-year-old Sandor Kepiro of involvement in the massacre of more than 1,000 civilians in the Serb city of Novi Sad during World War II. (REUTERS/Ivan Milutinovic)
9 Belgrade residents attend a protest in the city center on July 24 after a Hungarian court cleared 97-year-old Sandor Kepiro of involvement in the massacre of more than 1,000 civilians in the Serb city of Novi Sad during World War II. (REUTERS/Ivan Milutinovic)
A woman passes a mysterious poster depicting Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in a "Captain America" costume with the words "Captain Russia , the first Lord" in central Moscow on July 26. Photo by Natalia Kolesnikova for AFP
10 A woman passes a mysterious poster depicting Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in a "Captain America" costume with the words "Captain Russia , the first Lord" in central Moscow on July 26.

Photo by Natalia Kolesnikova for AFP
A child, displaced for a year by Pakistan's deadly flooding, plays with an empty juice box outside his family tent while taking refuge along a road in Jamshoro, north of Karachi, on July 25. Photo by Akhtar Soomro for Reuters
11 A child, displaced for a year by Pakistan's deadly flooding, plays with an empty juice box outside his family tent while taking refuge along a road in Jamshoro, north of Karachi, on July 25.

Photo by Akhtar Soomro for Reuters
A man transports empty water containers on a donkey cart on the streets of Quetta, Pakistan, on July 26. Photo by Naseer Ahmed for Reuters
12 A man transports empty water containers on a donkey cart on the streets of Quetta, Pakistan, on July 26.

Photo by Naseer Ahmed for Reuters
An Afghan National Army soldier carries a wounded colleague as U.S. troops carry another wounded Afghan soldier to a medical-evacuation helicopter following a roadside bomb attack on the outskirts of Kandahar, Afghanistan, on July 29. Photo by Rafiq Maqbool for AP
13 An Afghan National Army soldier carries a wounded colleague as U.S. troops carry another wounded Afghan soldier to a medical-evacuation helicopter following a roadside bomb attack on the outskirts of Kandahar, Afghanistan, on July 29.

Photo by Rafiq Maqbool for AP
A Russian Honor Guard performs during a Navy Day parade rehearsal on the Neva River in St. Petersburg on July 29. Photo by Kirill Kudryavtsev for AFP
14 A Russian Honor Guard performs during a Navy Day parade rehearsal on the Neva River in St. Petersburg on July 29.

Photo by Kirill Kudryavtsev for AFP
Mourners crowd around a floral tribute in the Norwegian capital, Oslo, to the victims of the July 22 bomb explosion that ripped through government buildings and a related shooting spree at a political youth camp. Photo by Odd Andersen for AFP
15 Mourners crowd around a floral tribute in the Norwegian capital, Oslo, to the victims of the July 22 bomb explosion that ripped through government buildings and a related shooting spree at a political youth camp.

Photo by Odd Andersen for AFP
Laborers sit atop a truck full of fresh dates as they transport them to Sukkur, in Pakistan's Sindh Province, on July 26. Photo by Akhtar Soomro for Reuters
16 Laborers sit atop a truck full of fresh dates as they transport them to Sukkur, in Pakistan's Sindh Province, on July 26.

Photo by Akhtar Soomro for Reuters
Rescue workers smoke during a break in the effort to find missing miners after an explosion at Ukraine's Sukhodolskaya-Vostochnaya coal mine, in the Lugansk region, on July 29. Photo by Aleksandr Khudoteply for AFP
17 Rescue workers smoke during a break in the effort to find missing miners after an explosion at Ukraine's Sukhodolskaya-Vostochnaya coal mine, in the Lugansk region, on July 29.

Photo by Aleksandr Khudoteply for AFP
Supporters of Yulia Tymoshenko rally in front of the Kyiv court where she is on trial for alleged abuses in office during her term as prime minister. Photo by Sergei Supinsky for AFP
18 Supporters of Yulia Tymoshenko rally in front of the Kyiv court where she is on trial for alleged abuses in office during her term as prime minister.

Photo by Sergei Supinsky for AFP
Jailed former Yukos executive and Mikhail Khodorkovsky cohort Platon Lebedev wipes sweat from his brow while in court for an ill-fated parole request in Velsk on July 27. Photo by Tatyana Makeyeva for Reuters
19 Jailed former Yukos executive and Mikhail Khodorkovsky cohort Platon Lebedev wipes sweat from his brow while in court for an ill-fated parole request in Velsk on July 27.

Photo by Tatyana Makeyeva for Reuters
An internally displaced Afghan man talks from a small window at a refugee camp in Kabul on July 28. Photo by Omar Sobhani for Reuters
20 An internally displaced Afghan man talks from a small window at a refugee camp in Kabul on July 28.

Photo by Omar Sobhani for Reuters
An Egyptian protester holds up a Koran while participating in a rally at Tahrir Square in Cairo on July 29. Photo by Mohamed Abd El-Ghany for Reuters
21 An Egyptian protester holds up a Koran while participating in a rally at Tahrir Square in Cairo on July 29.

Photo by Mohamed Abd El-Ghany for Reuters
A newly arrived Somali refugee holds her bag of relief food outside a distribution center at the Dadaab refugee camp, near the Kenya-Somalia border, on July 23. The UN World Food Program said it could not reach more than 2 million Somalis facing starvation in areas controlled by Islamist militants, who imposed a food aid ban in 2010 and have regularly threatened relief groups. Photo by Barry Malone for Reuters
22 A newly arrived Somali refugee holds her bag of relief food outside a distribution center at the Dadaab refugee camp, near the Kenya-Somalia border, on July 23. The UN World Food Program said it could not reach more than 2 million Somalis facing starvation in areas controlled by Islamist militants, who imposed a food aid ban in 2010 and have regularly threatened relief groups.

Photo by Barry Malone for Reuters
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