
The World in Photos This Week
Iraqi forces drive through Ramadi after battling the Islamic State; survivors of the attack on Pearl Harbor gather for an annual memorial; and Syrian refugee families begin new lives in Europe and Canada.
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A border services officer processes a Syrian refugee family at the Toronto airport on Dec. 11. FP's Reid Standish writes about Canada's welcoming policy toward Syrian refugees here.
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Sikh devotees clean the holy sarover (water tank) amid dense fog at the Golden Temple in Amritsar, India, on Dec. 9. Ankita Rao and Bibek Bhandari write about an infertility epidemic in Punjab that is caused by contaminated water here.
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Workers in the Central African Republic butcher a long horn zebu at a public abattoir in a Muslim district in Bangui on Dec. 4.
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Syrian refugee families arrive at their new homes on the Isle of Bute, Scotland, on Dec. 4.
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Demonstrators in Quito, Ecuador, face off with policemen on Dec. 3 during a protest against a constitutional amendment which would allow indefinite re-election. FP's Megan Alpert writes about Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa's bid to weaken constitutional limits on executive power here.
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A Sudanese migrant reads the Koran at a camp known as "the Jungle" in Calais, France, on Dec. 7.
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A Russian police officer holds a German shepherd puppy before handing it over to French police in ceremony in Moscow on Dec. 7 honoring the French police dog killed during a raid on jihadists linked to the Paris attacks.
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The streets of Cockermouth, England, lie deserted and flooded on Dec. 6, after local rivers breached their banks during a torrential downpour.
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Supporters of a candidate for France's far-right party the National Front cheer at the results of the first round of the regional election in Lyon, France, on Dec. 6.
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Afghan shopkeepers try to extinguish a fire consuming a marketplace in Kabul on Dec. 5.
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Boys are hosed down with water before a mass circumcision ceremony at a mosque in the suburbs of Kuala Lumpur, Mayalsia, on Dec. 5.
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Tribes in Nagaland, India, gather for a festival held on Dec. 4.
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A man throws his boy in the air on Dec. 4, after crossing the Aegean sea from Turkey and arriving with other refugees at the Greek island of Lesbos.
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A picture of a lion is projected on St. Peters Basilica during a light show at the Vatican on Dec. 8.
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A Yemeni man looks on at a building damaged during clashes between the Houthis and forces loyal to Yemen's former President, Ali Abdullah Saleh, in Taiz on Dec. 08.
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A Kurdish fighter walks on a street in Diyarbakir on Dec. 11.
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Turkish riot police use a water cannon to disperse protestors in Diyarbakir on Dec. 6.
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Iraqi counter-terrorism forces drive through Ramadi, Iraq, on Dec. 9 after retaking a large part of the city from the Islamic State.
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A youth throws a molotov cocktail at Greek riot police during clashes in Athens on Dec. 6.
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A rescuer carries a young woman to safety through flooded streets in Carlisle, England, on Dec. 7.
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A U.S. Navy captain greets Pearl Harbor survivors on Dec. 7, before the start of a memorial service in Honolulu, Hawaii, for those killed in the attack.
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Opposition protesters destroy a bunker installed as an artwork outside government offices in Tirana, Albania, during a rally on Dec. 8.
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Protesters ignite a bunker on fire outside government offices in Tirana, Albania, on Dec. 8.
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Mourners carry the body of Malek Shahin, a 19 year-old Palestinian who was killed in clashes with Israeli security forces, during a funeral procession in the West Bank town of Bethlehem on Dec. 08.
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The singer of the U.S. rock group Eagles of Death Metal and the group's guitarist pay tribute to the victims of the Nov. 13 Paris terrorist attacks at a makeshift memorial in front of the Bataclan concert hall on Dec. 8.
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A flock of sheep and goats graze on a meadow in southern Germany on Dec. 8.
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Forty members of the German armed forces board a transport plane in Jagel on Dec. 10, on their way to Incirlik airbase in Turkey, sent as part of Germany's contingent to fight the Islamic State in Syria.
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A military police officer adjusts one of many plaques honoring police officers killed in the line of duty on Dec. 10 in Rio de Janeiro.
MARIO TAMA/Getty ImagesThe World in Photos This Week
Iraqi forces drive through Ramadi after battling the Islamic State; survivors of the attack on Pearl Harbor gather for an annual memorial; and Syrian refugee families begin new lives in Europe and Canada.