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Week in Pictures: From Mosul front line to Brazil

A photo round-up of some of last week’s key events, from protest by civil servants in Brazil to Greece student uprising.

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A car bomb explodes next to Iraqi special forces armoured vehicles as they advance towards ISIL-held territory in Mosul. Troops have established a foothold in the city's east from where they are driving north into the Tahrir neighbourhood. The families in Tahrir are leaving their homes to flee the fighting. [Felipe Dana/AP]
Published On 18 Nov 2016
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A woman talks to her relatives across a fence separating Mexico and the United States, in Tijuana. [Jorge Duenes/Reuters]
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A pile of 5,250 illegal weapons are burned by Kenyan police in Ngong, near Nairobi. The weapons consisted of both confiscated and surrendered firearms that had been stockpiled over almost a decade and were destroyed by police as a message to the public to surrender others. [Ben Curtis/AP]
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People pay their respects under a commemorative plaque next to the La Belle Equipe bar and restaurant in Paris, France, after a ceremony held for the victims of last year's attacks which targeted the Bataclan concert hall as well as a series of bars, and killed 130 people. [Gonzalo Fuentes/Reuters]
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A boy drinks expired juice on a pile of rubbish at a landfill site on the outskirts of Sanaa, Yemen. [Mohamed al-Sayaghi/Reuters]
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Protesters light fires amid clouds of tear gas fired by police during small-scale clashes outside Athens' Polytechnic complex. Dozens of anarchists who had occupied the complex threw petrol bombs and stones at police, who responded with tear gas and stun grenades. It followed a peaceful march in which thousands of protesters marched to the US embassy in an annual commemoration of a 1973 student uprising that was crushed by the military dictatorship which ruled the country from 1967 to 1974. [Thanassis Stavrakis/AP]
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Women mourn for their family members killed in the bomb blast at a shrine, before funeral prayers in Karachi, Pakistan. A suicide bomber killed more than 50 people and wounded more than 100 in a Sufi saint's shrine in southwest Pakistan. [Shakil Adil/AP]
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Public workers push against a police barrier and a water cannon as they try to reach La Moneda presidential palace in Santiago, Chile. Workers are upset with their salary increase, 3.2 percent, approved by Congress. Workers want a 4 percent increase, after lowering their demand from 7 percent. [Luis Hidalgo/AP]
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Hindu devotees sit together on the floor of a temple to observe Rakher Upabash for the last day, in Dhaka, Bangladesh. [Mohammad Ponir Hossain/Reuters]
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Civil servants protest in front of the Rio de Janeiro State Assembly, Brazil, against the state government and a plan that will limit public spending. [Ricardo Moraes/Reuters]