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From the Pope in Mexcio to birthday celebrations for the late Kim Jong Il, here is this week’s news in pictures

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Mothers posing at Pedro I hospital in Campina Grande with their babies who were born with microcephaly, are shown in this combination photo in Brazil. The World Health Organization, which declared the Zika outbreak a global public health emergency on February 1, said last week that a stronger view of Zika's link to microcephaly could become clearer within weeks. While that link has not been proven scientifically, Brazilian authorities coping with an unprecedented number of babies with microcephaly say they are sure Zika is the cause because most cases of microcephaly have occurred in the poorer northeast of Brazil where the Zika outbreak has hit hardest. [Ricardo Moraes/Reuters]
Published On 19 Feb 2016
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Pope Francis arrives in the popemobile at Viktor Manuel Reyna stadium, in Tuxtla Gutierrez, Mexico, on Monday, February 15, 2016. Francis is celebrating Mexico's Indians on Monday with a visit to Chiapas state, a centre of indigenous culture, where he presided over a Mass in three native languages thanks to a new Vatican decree approving their use in liturgy. The visit is also aimed at boosting the faith in the least Catholic state in Mexico. [Gregorio Borgia/AP]
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Refugees walk towards a makeshift camp close to the Austrian border town of Spielfeld in the village of Sentilj, Slovenia. [Leonhard Foeger/Reuters]
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People and civil defence members remove rubble while looking for survivors in the ruins of a destroyed Doctors Without Borders-supported hospital hit by missiles in Marat Numan, Idlib province, Syria. [Ammar Abdullah/Reuters]
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North Koreans gather at Munsu Hill to bow in front of bronze statues of late leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il as part of celebrations a day before the birthday anniversary, or 'Day of the Shining Star', of Kim Jong Il in Pyongyang, North Korea. On Tuesday, February 16, North Korea marks the late leader Kim Jong Il's 74th birthday anniversary. [Wong Maye-E/AP]
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A Palestinian woman cries as she asks for a travel permit to cross into Egypt through the Rafah border crossing, in the southern Gaza Strip. Egypt opened the Rafah crossing on Saturday for three days to allow Palestinians on humanitarian grounds to travel in and out of the Gaza Strip, officials said. Gaza is under blockade by neighbouring Israel, and Egypt has kept its Rafah crossing largely shut since Cairo's president was toppled by the army in 2013. [Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters]
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A Ugandan policeman struggles to keep hold of a box containing voting material as excited voters surround him after waiting more than seven hours without being able to vote at a polling station in Ggaba, on the outskirts of Kampala. Ugandans went to the polls on Thursday but in Ggaba hundreds of people waited for seven hours for voting papers to arrive and when they discovered there were only ballots for choosing MPs, with no ballots to vote for a president, they overpowered the police, destroyed the ballots for MPs, and the polling station had to be abandoned. [Ben Curtis/AP]
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Many of the protesters carried flowers as a symbol of peace and placards with slogans including, 'Free speech is under attack'.[Showkat Shafi/Al Jazeera]
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Family members and relatives of Wednesday's car bombing victims mourn outside a morgue in Ankara, Turkey. Twenty-eight people were killed and dozens wounded in Turkey's capital Ankara on Wednesday when a car laden with explosives detonated next to military buses near the armed forces' headquarters, parliament and other government buildings. [Umit Bektas/Reuters]