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Photos Of The Week #8
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Ukrainian opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko (left) hugs her daughter Yevhenia upon her arrival at the airport in Kyiv, shortly after she was released from a prison hospital on February 22. (Reuters/Andrew Kravchenko)
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People attend the funeral of an antigovernment protester, who was killed during clashes with riot police in Kyiv, on February 21. (Reuters/Baz Ratner)
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A woman places a flower on February 21 near the site in central Kyiv where an antigovernment protester was killed during clashes with police the previous evening. (AFP/Sergey Gapon)
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Marie-Michele Gagnon of Canada in action during the first run of the women's slalom race at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Games on February 21. (epa/Justin Lane)
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A self-styled roadside dentist treats a patient at McLeod Ganj near Dharamsala in India on February 21. (AFP/Sanjay Baid)
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An elderly Afghan man carries firewood over his shoulders in Herat on February 20. (AFP/Aref Karimi)
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Protesters are set alight as they stand behind burning barricades during clashes with police in Kyiv on February 20. (AFP/Bulent Kilic)
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A Ukrainian antigovernment protester shoots an improvised device during clashes with riot police on Independence Square in Kyiv on February 20. (Reuters)
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A man holding a raw chicken shouts slogans against members of punk performance collective Pussy Riot before the group speaks to journalists at the Sochi Winter Olympics in Adler on February 20. (Reuters/Eric Gaillard)
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South Korea's Kim Hae-jin competes during the women's free skating program at the Sochi Winter Olympics on February 20. (Reuters/David Gray)
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Female Afghan medical students, who are supporters of presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah, listen to his speech during a campaign rally in Kabul on February 20. (Reuters/Omar Sobhani)
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A general view of Independence Square during the ongoing antigovernment protests in downtown Kyiv on February 19. (epa/Sergei Dolzhenko)
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Russian fans react after the men's quarterfinals ice-hockey game between Russia and Finland at the Sochi Games on February 19. Finland won 3-1. (Reuters/Eric Gaillard)
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Demonstrators clash with riot police in downtown Kyiv during protests that resulted in fatalities on February 18. (epa/Sergei Dolzhenko)
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Ukrainian riot police are set ablaze during the clashes with antigovernment protesters in Kyiv. (Reuters/Vlad Sodel)
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A woman carries stones during the violent clashes in Kyiv on February 18. (Reuters)
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Pussy Riot members in balaclavas perform in front of Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic Games mascots as they record a video in the Adler district of Sochi early on February 18. (epa/Yevgeny Feldman)
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An Afghan boy rows a homemade raft on a lake in Kabul. (Reuters/Mohammad Ismail)
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A popcorn vendor works inside his shop in Kabul. (AFP/Wakil Kohsar)
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Kosovars wave Albanian flags as they take part in celebrations marking the sixth anniversary of Kosovo's declaration of independence from Serbia in Pristina on February 17. (AFP/Armend Nimani)
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A camel lies nearby as a rocket blasts off at the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. (AFP)
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Afghan border-police officers attend a graduation ceremony in Herat. (epa/Jalil Rezayee)
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Antigovernment protesters build a new barricade on Instytuska Street in central Kyiv. (Andriy Dubchak)
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Iranian women and a girl hold up portraits of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during a meeting in Tehran. (AFP/Iranian Supreme Leader's website)
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Simon Schempp of Germany trains during heavy fog prior to the biathlon men's 15-kilometer mass-start competition at the Laura Cross-Country Ski & Biathlon Center at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Games on February 17.