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Poverty and Development
Week in pictures: From fire in Iran to US protests
From protests in the US, to cargo plane crash in Kyrgyzstan, and jubilation in Gambia, here is the week in pictures.
Civilians flee their homes as Iraqi security forces fight members of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant group on the eastern side of Mosul. US-backed Iraqi government troops said on Wednesday that they were in "full control" of eastern Mosul, after routing ISIL from that part of the northern city three months after the major operation started. [Khalid Mohammed/AP Photo]
Published On 20 Jan 2017
20 Jan 2017
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Idris, aged three, from Mali sleeps next to his mother Aicha Keita, right, on the deck of the Golfo Azzurro vessel after being rescued from the Mediterranean Sea, about 40km north of Ras Tajura, in Libya. Spain''s maritime rescue service said the bodies of seven African migrants had been found dead along the Strait of Gibraltar in the past week. [Olmo Calvo/AP Photo]
People rally against US President-elect Donald Trump outside Trump International Hotel and Tower at Columbus Circle in Manhattan, New York City. [Stephen Yang/Reuters]
Women loyal to the Houthi rebel movement parade to show support in Yemen's capital Sanaa. [Khaled Abdullah/[Reuters]
Gambians take to the streets of their capital Banjul in jubilation as Adama Barrow is sworn-in as president of The Gambia in neighbouring Senegal. [Afolabi Sotunde/Reuters]
Arab-Israeli women sit next to the ruins of their homes after they were demolished by Israeli bulldozers in Umm al-Hiran, a Bedouin village in Israel's southern Negev Desert. [Ammar Awad/Reuters]
Bangladeshi Muslims head home in an overcrowded train after attending the last day of a three-day Islamic congregation on the banks of the River Turag, in Tongi, about 20km north of the capital Dhaka. Since the 1960s, devotees have taken part in the annual event, one of the world's largest congregations of Muslims. [AP Photo]
Impoverished Indian children watch a performance against child labour in Allahabad, India. Despite the country's rapid economic growth, child labour remains widespread in India, where an estimated 13 million children work, with laws meant to keep children in school and out of the workplace routinely flouted. [Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP Photo]
Firefighters try to put out a blaze in a high-rise building in Tehran, Iran. About 20 firefighters are believed to have died after getting caught in the collapsing building. [Foad Ashtari/Tasnim News Agency/Reuters]
Kyrgyz men carry bodies of children during funerals for a family of four killed in a plane crash in Bishkek, capital of Kyrgyzstan. A Turkish Boeing 747 cargo aircraft crashed on Monday, killing people in their homes next to Manas airport, outside Bishkek, as well as passengers and crew on the plane. [Vladimir Voronin/AP Photo]