From prisoner swaps to Greek riots, Kosovo roadblocks, and the undoing of a Libyan dictator.
Photos Of The Week -- October 15-21
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An Afghan man holds balloons for sale in Kabul. (Mohammad Ismail for Reuters)
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Thais pass the time next to a motorbike hanging from the beams of a bus stop above a flooded road in Pathum Thani province, on the outskirts of Bangkok. (Damir Sagolj for Reuters)
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Protesters wearing masks depicting German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy in front of the German Chancellery in Berlin on October 21. (Tobias Schwarz for Reuters)
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A Yemeni protester shows blood-soaked hands after helping evacuate a wounded colleague after a pro-democarcy march came under fire from gunmen loyal to embattled President Ali Abdullah Saleh in Sanaa. (Marwan Naamani for AFP)
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Pro-communist union protesters clash with rival groups of demonstrators in Athens. (AFP)
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A man plays a guitar during the siege of Sirte by fighters loyal to Libya's National Transitional Council. (Aris Messinis for AFP)
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A youth throws a gasoline bomb at police during riots with police in Athens. (John Kolesidis for Reuters)
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Palestinians wait at the Beituniya checkpoint near the West Bank city of Ramallah for prisoners being released from Israeli jails. (Darren Whiteside for Reuters)
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A NATO Kosovo Force (KFOR) soldier from France walks along barricades at the closed Serbia-Kosovo border crossing of Brnjak. (Marko Djurica for Reuters)
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A laborer carries a sack of coal at a coal dumpsite outside Kabul. (Ahmad Masood for Reuters)
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Saeed, 38, poses for a photograph while working in a cotton factory in Karachi, Pakistan. (Athar Hussain for Reuters)
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A policeman is hit with red paint while police try to disperse protesters from central Athens' Syntagma Square. (Louisa Gouliamaki for AFP)
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A Palestinian prisoner gestures as he enters Gaza via the Rafah crossing from Egypt as part of a Hamas-Israel swap. (Amr Abdallah Dalsh for Reuters)
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A man carries an elderly woman during an evacuation from a flooded area of Thailand's Pathum Thani province, in Bangkok's suburbs. (Sukree Sukplang for Reuters)
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Activists from the Food Not Bombs movement climb a mast of the cruiser "Aurora" to protest against war and poverty in St. Petersburg, Russia. (Ruslan Shamukov for ITAR-TASS)
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A woman prays as others celebrate the death of former Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi after Friday Prayers on Martyrs' Square in Tripoli, Libya. (Suhaib Salem for Reuters)
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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev speaks at a meeting with his supporters at his residence in Gorki. (AFP)
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Two Turkish soldiers stand guard at the Asayis Tepe army base. (Mustafa Ozer for AFP)
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An ethnic Albanian pushes a boy on a bicycle pass KFOR German soldiers, part of the NATO mission in Kosovo, in the village of Cabra. (Hazir Reka for Reuters)
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Afghan youths play at a cemetery in Kabul. (Ahmad Masood for Reuters)
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KFOR soldiers employ tear gas against Kosovo Serbs during clashes in the village of Jagnjenica to clear roadblocks. (Marko Djurica for Reuters)