Here they are, the best photos of week 12. A bit later then usual, but I’ve still got my hands full with my newborn and all the paperwork that goes with her being born prematurely and in a foreign country. I’ve no idea what’sbeen going on in the news, but I hope you enjoy this set either way. Don’t forget we’ll have the best sports photos coming up this Monday. [50 photos total]
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Mandaeans perform religious rituals under a parasol on the first day of the Benja festival in Baghdad.
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One of the coffins of victims of the Sierre bus crash is carried out of a cargo plane at Melsbroek military airport after returning from Switzerland.
(POOL/REUTERS)
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A labourer rests on sacks filled with charcoal as he takes a break inside a steel factory on the outskirts of Jammu.
(MUKESH GUPTA/REUTERS)
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A vendor rests next to sacks of onions at a wholesale vegetable market in Kolkata.
(RUPAK DE CHOWDHURI/REUTERS)
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Naomi Laet, 22, an Israeli pro-Palestinian activist, is escorted by Israeli border police officers during clashes with Palestinian stone-throwers at a weekly protest in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh.
(MOHAMAD TOROKMAN/REUTERS)
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A technical worker brushes a human skeleton in a mass grave in a cemetery at Teba.
(JON NAZCA/REUTERS)
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An electoral worker helps a woman dip her finger into a bottle of ink to vote during the country's presidential election in Dili.
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File photo of convicted Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk.
(MICHAEL DALDER/REUTERS)
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Britain's Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge presents a shamrock to 'Conmael', the mascot Irish hound at Aldershot army base in southern England.
(TOBY MELVILLE/REUTERS)
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Syrian security officials inspect a damaged building near the intelligence building after an explosion in Damascus.
(HANDOUT/REUTERS)
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Somali National Army (SNA) soldiers parade as part of a passing-out ceremony in Mogadishu.
(HANDOUT/REUTERS)
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Sostis feeds his chickens on a bay near his house on the the volcanic islet of Palaia Kameni located in the caldera of Santorini.
(YANNIS BEHRAKIS/REUTERS)
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Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan is depicted as a vampire during a protest in Bochum.
(WOLFGANG RATTAY/REUTERS)
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The fountain on the South Lawn of the White House flows with water dyed green for St. Patrick's Day, in Washington.
(JONATHAN ERNST/REUTERS)
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The New York Fire Dept. marches past St. Patrick's Cathedral during the 251st St. Patrick's Day Parade in New York.
(CARLO ALLEGRI/REUTERS)
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A worker walks near a soccer ball inside the national stadium Mane Garrincha as they prepare to take part in the Solidarity Cup in Brasilia.
(UESLEI MARCELINO/REUTERS)
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Buddhist monks walk in lines past people who have gathered for a mass alms-offering ceremony in Bangkok.
(CHAIWAT SUBPRASOM/REUTERS)
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People are reflected in the water as they look at snow in a lake at Ritan Park in central Beijing.
(JASON LEE/REUTERS)
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Girl smiles as her face is covered in coloured powder during Holi festival celebrations in Kuala Lumpur.
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Child plays on the road near the bank of Yangon River.
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A fan of Dynamo Kiev reacts during a local soccer match at the Olympic stadium in Kiev.
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French police inspect outside the Ozar Hatorah Jewish school in Toulouse, southwestern France.
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An anti-government protester throws a molotov cocktail towards riot police after the funeral procession of Sabri Mafooz in the village Sarakan, south of Manama.
(HAMAD I MOHAMMED/REUTERS)
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Effigies burn during the finale of the Fallas festival in Valencia.
(HEINO KALIS/REUTERS)
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Vehicles of the U.S. Army, are unloaded from MV Green Ridge at Pier 8 in Busan.
(LEE JAE-WON/REUTERS)
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An Afghan police helicopter flies over Hazrat Ali (Kart-i-Sakhi) shrine where Afghans celebrate the Afghan New Year (Nawroz) in Kabul.
(OMAR SOBHANI/REUTERS)
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A boy plays in the mud on the bank of the Bago river in Bago.
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Lifeguards and rescue workers try to push a dead Bryde's whale, as identified by the Aqualung Institute, near Sao Conrado beach in Rio de Janeiro.
(SERGIO MORAES/REUTERS)
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Military police and mourners surround ambulance carrying coffin of Pope Shenouda III upon its arrival for burial at St Bishoy Monastery in Wadi al-Natrun.
(MOHAMED ABD EL GHANY/REUTERS)
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U.S. Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney waves with his wife Ann at his Illinois primary night rally in Schaumburg.
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A steel-worker is pictured at a furnace at the plant of German steel company Salzgitter AG in Salzgitter..
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People carry the body of Monsonego during a joint funeral in Jerusalem.
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Riot police fire tear gas during clashes with anti-government protesters in the village of Sanabis, west of Manama.
(AHMED JADALLAH/REUTERS)
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The coffins of the victims of a bus crash in Switzerland, are seen during a ceremony at the Soeverein Arena in Lommel.
(POOL/REUTERS)
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An Ethiopian girl looks as she waits with her family for repatriation at a transit center in the western Yemeni town of Haradh, on the border with Saudi Arabia.
(Khaled Abdullah/REUTERS)
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Indio smokes at the entrance of the national congress, during a protest against two proposed constitutional amendment (PEC) presented by parliamentarians that alter the process of demarcation of indigenous lands.
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Police officers stand near Occupy Wall Street protesters in New York's Union Square.
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A combination of pictures shows booth assistants in costumes posing at the Tokyo International Anime Fair 2012 in Tokyo.
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A student protester walks past burning tyres during a protest against the government's plans to raise fuel prices near a fuel station in Makassar.
(YUSUF AHMAD/REUTERS)
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A farmer carries cucumbers from his field to sell in the markets in Allahabad.
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Workers prepare to launch a 45-foot paper airplane from the Pima Air and Space Museum over the desert in Eloy, Arizona.
(JOSHUA LOTT/REUTERS)
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Riot policemen charge through Lisbon's downtown during the Portuguese general strike.
(HUGO CORREIA/REUTERS)
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Shepherds lead their flock of sheep along on the Guozigou segment of the Lianyungang-Horgos expressway as vehicles drive past the other side of the expressway.
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A Balinese man hits another with fire during a ritual ahead of Nyepi day in Ubud Gianyar, Bali.
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A Maharashtrian dressed up as the 10-headed mythical demon king Ravana takes part in celebrations in Mumbai.
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A man holds up his Tibetan mastiff as they perform on stage during a dog beauty contest in Shenyang.
(SHENG LI/REUTERS)
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Somali police arrest a suspected member of al Shabaab among beach goers at the Lido beach north of Somalia's capital Mogadishu.
(FEISAL OMAR/REUTERS)
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A man drinks coffee in front of a mural near the coastal town of Kalamatta in the Messinia area of Greece.
(CATHAL MCNAUGHTON/REUTERS)
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A man is silhouetted against the setting sun while selling balloons and bubbles from a stall at the Rawal Lake Park in Islamabad.
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