Photos Of The Week #49
Pearl Harbor survivors embrace at a ceremony marking the 72nd anniversary of the attack on Hawaii on December 7. (Getty Immages/AFP/John Moore)
A pro-EU protester plays the piano near the presidential administration in Kyiv. (RFE/RL / Iryna Slelmakh)
A woman holds a sign at a gathering in memory of Nelson Mandela outside the South African High Commission across from Trafalgar Square in London. (Reuters/Suzanne Plunkett)
An Indian artist draws a miniature portrait of former South African President Nelson Mandela on his thumbnail as part of his homage in Siliguri. (AFP/Diptendu Dutta)
Two men hold EU and Ukrainian flags during a pro-European rally on Independence Square in Kyiv. (epa/Zurab Kurtsikidze)
A Ukrainian woman addresses Interior Ministry personnel during a rally to support EU integration in Kyiv. (Reuters/Vasily Fedosenko)
Waves lash at the fish auction hall of the fishmarket in Hamburg harbor as the "Xaver" storm hits northern Germany. (AFP/dpa/Bodo Marks)
People walk on the North Sea beach near the German town of Norddeich. Germany's northern coast has been battered by a storm called "Xaver," which has brought strong winds and high tides to the region. (Reuters/Ina Fassbender)
Mourners grieve during the funeral of their relative, who was killed in an attack by suicide bombers in Najaf, 160 kilometers south of Baghdad, Iraq. (Reuters/Alaa al-Marjani)
Former Georgian Defence Minister Davit Kezerashvili arrives at Aix-en-Provence courthouse in France. An appeals court there was due to rule on his request that he be released pending a decision on his extradition to Georgia. Kezerashvili, an ally of former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, is wanted on corruption charges in his homeland. (AFP/Boris Horvat)
Newly graduated Afghan midwives attend a commencement ceremony at the Governor's House in Jalalabad, Nangarhar Province. (AFP/Noorullah Shirzada)
Russia's Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar (fourth right) attends Hanukkah celebrations at the the notorious Butyrka remand prison in Moscow. (AFP/Kirill Kudryavtsev)
Antigovernment protesters play soccer on Independence Square in Kyiv, Ukraine. (epa/Filip Singer)
Afghan security officials attend their graduation ceremony in Herat. (epa/Jalil Rezayee)
An Orthodox monk and anti-shale-gas protester stands at his improvised campsite at the entrance of the village of Pungesti, Romania. (AFP/Daniel Mihailescu)
Men try to remove an overloaded cart from a horse that fell on a road in Lahore. (Reuters/Mohsin Raza)
A man kisses his baby at a room in a temporary refugee camp in Vrazdebna, Bulgaria. (epa/Vassil Donev)
Disabled children and their families form a human chain organized by the Disability Activists Forum demanding rights from the Bengal government in Calcutta on December 3, International Day of Persons with Disabilities. (epa/Piyal Adhikary)
A balloon vendor rides his bicycle in Kabul. (Reuters/Omar Sobhani)
An Orthodox priest walks past a police cordon near Independence Square in Kyiv. (Reuters/Stoyan Nenov)
A girl wearing glasses reading "Power closes my eyes. I am not a slave" takes part in an antigovernment march in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv. (AFP/Yuriy Dyachshyn)
Armenians protest against the visit of Russian President Vladimir Putin in Yerevan. Armenia's recent decision to join a Russian-led customs union has angered many in the Caucasus country. (AFP/Karen Minasyan)
A Buddhist monk puts on a gas mask as riot police use water cannon and tear gas during antigovernment protesters' attempts to remove barricades outside Government House in Bangkok,Thailand. (Reuters/Dylan Martinez)
A Ukrainian man kneels down while riot police stand guard near the presidential administration building during a rally held by supporters of EU integration in Kyiv. (Reuters/Gleb Garanich)
Afghan schoolchildren take lessons in an open classroom at a refugee camp on the outskirts of Jalalabad, Nangarhar Province. (AFP/Noorullah Shirzada)
A supporter of the opposition Self-Determination party twirls firecrackers in the second runoff of local elections in Pristina. (AFP/Armend Nimani)