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Week in Pictures: From Baghdad blasts to Turkey attack

From the prison break in Brazil to blasts in Baghdad and an attack on a Turkish nightclub, here is the week in pictures.

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A member of Iraqi rapid response forces helps displaced civilians, who fled the ISIL stronghold of Mosul. [Thaier Al-Sudani/Reuters]
Published On 7 Jan 2017

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An overcrowded raft drifts out of control in the central Mediterranean Sea, off the Libyan coast, before lifeguards from the Spanish NGO Proactiva Open Arms rescue all 112 on aboard, including two pregnant women and five children. [Yannis Behrakis/Reuters]
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Samah, 11, and her brother, Ibrahim, transport their salvaged belongings from their damaged house in Doudyan village in northern Aleppo governorate, Syria. [Khalil Ashawi/Reuters]
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Flowers are placed outisde the Reina nightclub which was attacked by a gunman in Istanbul, Turkey. ISIL claimed responsibility for the attack killing 39 people. [Huseyin Aldemir/Reuters]
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People wearing masks dance at a square among heavy smog during a polluted day in Fuyang, Anhui province, China. [China Daily/Reuters]
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Newly recruited Houthi rebels pose during a gathering in Sanaa aimed at mobilising more fighters into battlefronts to fight pro-government forces in several Yemeni cities. [Hani Mohammed/AP Photo]
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A worker prepares graves for inmates who died during a prison riot, at the cemetery of Taruma in Manaus, Brazil. 60 people were killed in the prison riot in the Amazon jungle city. [Ueslei Marcelino/Reuters]
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Israeli solider Elor Azaria waits with his parents for the verdict inside the military court in Tel Aviv, Israel. Azaria, an army medic, was convicted of manslaughter in the deadly shooting of an incapacitated Palestinian attacker, and police officers. The verdict, which marks an extremely rare case of an Israeli military court siding against a soldier over lethal action taken in the field. [Heidi Levine/Pool/AP]
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A car bomb attack hit a busy square in Baghdad's sprawling Sadr City district, in Iraq. At least 36 people were killed. [Ahmed Saad/Reuters]
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Palestinian children sit on exotic taxidermied animals, which according to their owners died because they could not afford to feed the animals, at a park in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. [Ibraheem Abu Mustafa /Reuters]
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Rebel fighters walk inside a trench on the forth day of the truce in Syria, near the rebel-held besieged town of Douma, in the eastern Damascus suburbs. [Bassam Khabieh/Reuters]