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Week in Pictures : From Castro to Colombia air crash

A photo round-up of some of the week’s key events, from the death of Cuba’s Fidel Castro to a Colombia air crash.

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An Iraqi mourns the death of his son, who was killed during clashes in the ISIL stronghold of Mosul. [Mohammed Salem/Reuters]
Published On 2 Dec 2016
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Cubans await the caravan carrying late President Fidel Castro's ashes in Ciego de Avila, Cuba, after he died at the age of 90. Castro led a rebel army to victory, embraced Soviet-style communism and defied the power of US presidents during his half-century rule. [Enrique De La Osa/Reuters]
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A person prays along the Cannonball River during a Native American water ceremony at the Oceti Sakowin camp, where people have gathered to protest against the Dakota Access oil pipeline. So far, protesters have shrugged off the heavy snow, icy winds and frigid temperatures that have swirled around their large encampment on the North Dakota grasslands. [David Goldman/AP]
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A Muslim man weeps as he prays during a rally against Jakarta's minority Christian Governor Basuki 'Ahok' Tjahaja Purnama, who is being prosecuted for blasphemy. Several hundreds of thousands rallied in the Indonesian capital on Friday in the second major protest in a month against the governor. [Dita Alangkara/AP]
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Gambians wait to cast their votes in the city of Banjul. Voters in the small West African nation cast marbles on Thursday in an election widely expected to keep the country's ruler of more than two decades in power despite a unified effort by the opposition. [Jerome Delay/AP]
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Syrians who fled eastern Aleppo reach out for Russian food aid in the government-controlled Jibreen area of the Syrian city. The text on the bag with the Syrian and Russian flags reads in Arabic: "Russia is with you." [Omar Sanadiki/Reuters]
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Protesters in Brasilia, Brazil, shield themselves as police fire tear gas outside Congress, where senators planned to vote on a spending cap bill and the lower Chamber of Deputies was considering controversial anti-corruption legislation. Brazil, home to Latin America’s largest economy, is suffering its worst recession in decades. [Eraldo Peres/AP]
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Rescue workers recover bodies of victims of an aircraft crash in La Union, Colombia. The chartered plane was carrying a Brazilian football team to the biggest match of its history when it crashed into a hillside and broke into pieces. Seventy-one people were killed in the crash. [Luis Benavides/AP]
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President-elect Donald Trump, left, and Vice President-elect Mike Pence acknowledge the crowd during the first stop of Trump's post-election tour in Cincinnati, US. [John Minchillo/AP]