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Week in Pictures: From Aleppo evacuation to Egypt blast

A photo round-up of some of the week’s key events, from evacuation of east Aleppo to a deadly bombing at a Cairo church.

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A man lights up his cigarette with the flames of a bus burned by Brazilian anti-government demonstrators during a protest in front of the National Congress in Brasilia against a constitutional amendment that limits public spending. [Adriano Machado/Reuters]
Published On 16 Dec 2016
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A woman casts her vote in Sintesti, Romania. Romanians voted in a parliamentary election, a year after a massive anti-corruption drive forced the last socialist prime minister from power in a country of about 19 million, one of the poorest in the European Union. [Andreea Alexandru/AP]
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Somalis carry the body of a man killed in a suicide car bomb attack on a police station next to the seaport in the capital Mogadishu. The suicide car bomber killed a number of people. Al-Shabab claimed responsibility for the attack. [Farah Abdi Warsameh/AP]
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A child waves from inside a bus evacuating people from a rebel-held sector of eastern Aleppo, Syria. [Abdalrhman Ismail/Reuters]
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Sultan Muhammad V, who will serve a five-year term as King of Malaysia, salutes after his welcome ceremony as he walks with Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, right. [Vincent Thian/AP]
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Coptic Christians chant slogans during a protest outside St Mark's Cathedral in central Cairo following a deadly bombing. The blast at Egypt's main Coptic Christian cathedral killed dozens of people and wounded many more on Sunday. [Nariman El-Mofty/AP]
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Displaced Iraqi girls, who fled the ISIL stronghold of Mosul, play at Khazer camp, Iraq. [Ammar Awad/Reuters]
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Refugee children, residents of the Karatepe camp for refugees on the Greek island of Lesbos perform during a concert. The event was organised by the ART initiative, whose members for the past year have been teaching music daily to more than 60 refugee children in the camp. The children come from various countries such as Syria, Eritrea, Congo, Afghanistan and Iraq. [Lefteris Pitarakis/AP]
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Departing UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, left, hugs his successor Antonio Guterres after Guterres was sworn in at UN headquarters on Monday, becoming the ninth UN chief in the body's 71-year history. He will take up the post on January 1. [Seth Wenig/AP]