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The week in pictures
A look at some of the major events of the week February 27 – March 4 from all over the globe.
Syrian troops launched a ground attack in Homs on Wednesday in an apparent attempt to overrun the rebel-held Baba Amro neighbourhood. Above, members of the Free Syrian Army are seen deployed in al-Bayada, Homs.
Published On 4 Mar 2012
4 Mar 2012
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In the US, dozens of people were killed as severe weather and tornados ripped through several southern and midwestern states. The town of Henryville, Indiana was one of the worst-hit by the storms.
Mark Belanger (L) and April Roberts see what they can salvage from the pile of rubble, which is all that remains of a relative(***)s home that was destroyed by a tornado in Holton, Indiana.
An Iranian man shows his documents as he waits to vote at a mosque being used as a polling station in Tehran on Friday. Iran voted for a new parliament in the first nationwide elections since a bitterly contested 2009 poll that returned Ahmadinejad to power.
Supporters of the Lavalas movement and its leader, Haiti(***)s former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, hold posters and chant slogans outside the Senate building during a protest against the current government of President Michel Martelly in downtown Port-au-Prince on Wednesday.
At least 14 people were killed when two passenger trains collided head-on in southern Poland late on Saturday in one of the country(***)s worst train crashes in more than 20 years. The two trains carrying an estimated 350 passengers were heading in opposite directions on the same track.
A man casts a ballot in his house in the village of Krovatyn near the town of Ostashkov, some 350 kilometres west of Moscow. Vladimir Putin is almost certain to win a third presidential term in an election that began on Sunday in Russia(***)s far east.
China has announced that it will boost spending on its armed forces by 11.2 per cent this year, which will likely cause concern about Beijing(***)s rapid military build-up and stoke regional tensions. Official military spending will be 670.3bn yuan, or $110bn, in 2012.
Protests against the burning of Korans by US troops in Afghanistan have spread across the Muslim world. Above, Yemeni protesters burned a US flag on Thursday.