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The week in pictures

From ISIL’s blitzkrieg across Iraq to Mauritania’s elections, Al Jazeera showcases the week in images.

A Mauritanian casts her ballot at a polling station in Nouakchott during the presidential elections. President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, an ex-general who led a coup in 2008, is expected to win Saturday(***)s presidential election amid an opposition boycott.
Published On 25 Jun 2014
The top legislative body of the Presbyterian Church USA voted by large margins to recognise same-sex marriage as Christian in the church constitution. It also backed a measure approving divestment in three companies it said were linked to the Israeli occupation.
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Two Canadian students created HitchBOT, a robot that will try to hitchhike across Canada by using voice recognition and speech processing algorithms. It is also programmed to live tweet its adventures.
NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, left, and Steve Swanson, and European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst take a break to watch 10 minutes of live World Cup matches between science experiments aboard the International Space Station.
Pakistani civilians fleeing from a military operation in North Waziristan arrive with their livestock in Bannu district. Pakistani helicopter gunships pounded targets in the country(***)s northwest, killing up to 20 rebels, as the number of civilians fleeing passed 150,000.
A Harvard University professor and a team of students created a prototype that sends electronic scents through the internet to users. Dubbed the "oPhone", the machine tags various smells, such as cocoa beans, butter and red wine to photos.
Demonstrators chant in support of the rebel group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), waving flags in front of the provincial government headquarters in Mosul, 360km northwest of Baghdad. ISIL fighters captured Iraq(***)s second-largest city earlier this month.
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