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Week in pictures: From Yemen crisis to Kashmir killing

A photo roundup of some of last week’s events, including political crisis in Peru and protests in Palestine.

A Palestinian protester throws a stone at Israeli forces during protest against U.S. President Donald Trump''s decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, near Qalandia checkpoint near th
A Palestinian protester throws a stone at Israeli forces during a protest against US President Donald Trump's decision to recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, by the Qalandia checkpoint, near the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah. [Goran Tomasevic/Reuters]
Published On 22 Dec 2017
People pray next to the coffin of slain journalist Gumaro Perez during his wake inside his mother''s home in Acayucan, Veracruz state, Mexico, Wednesday, Dec. 20, 2017. The 34-year-old Perez was shot t
People pray next to the coffin of slain journalist Gumaro Perez during his wake inside his mother's home in Acayucan, Veracruz state, Mexico. Perez, 34, was shot to death on Tuesday while at a Christmas party at his son's school in Acayucan. [Felix Marquez/AP Photo]
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Children dressed in Santa Claus costumes sit inside a classroom before participating in Christmas celebrations at a school in Chandigarh, India, December 20, 2017. REUTERS/Ajay Verma TPX IMAGES OF THE
Children dressed in Santa Claus costumes sit inside a classroom before participating in Christmas celebrations at a school in Chandigarh, India. [Ajay Verma/Reuters]
Sixty-day-old Nadia Ahmad Sabri, who suffers from severe malnutrition, lies in bed at a malnutrition treatment center in the Red Sea port city of Hodeida, Yemen December 20, 2017. REUTERS/Abduljabbar
Sixty-day-old Nadia Ahmad Sabri, who suffers from severe malnutrition, lies in bed at a malnutrition treatment centre in the Red Sea port city of Hodeida, Yemen. [Abduljabbar Zeyad/Reuters]
Women prepare to sell candy on the steps of the government palace where police stand guard and impeachment proceedings against Peru''s President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski are going on in Lima, Peru, Wednes
Women prepare to sell candy as police stand guard by the steps of the government palace where impeachment proceedings against Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski are going on in Lima, Peru. Congressional opposition leaders initiated the proceedings after an investigative committee revealed documents showing Kuczynski's private consulting firm received payments from Brazilian construction company Odebrecht more than a decade ago. [Martin Mejia/AP Photo]
An artist holds a portrait of former Soviet leader Josef Stalin outside the GUM, State Department store decorated with New Year and Christmas illumination in Moscow''s Red Square, Thursday, Dec. 21, 20
An artist holds a portrait of former Soviet leader Josef Stalin outside the GUM department store, decorated with New Year and Christmas illumination in Moscow's Red Square. Communist supporters marked the anniversary of Stalin's birth on Thursday. [Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Photo]
Qatar National Day
A military aircraft flies during Qatar's National Day celebrations in Doha. Qatar celebrated National Day amid the ongoing Gulf diplomatic crisis, which appears to have created a greater sense of unity among the nation's 2.5 million residents. [Sorin Furcoi/Al Jazeera]
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In this Oct. 9, 2017, photo, Fatima Ahmed Aswad cries as the body of her 15-year-old daughter Sana is exhumed in Mosul for forensic investigation in order to receive a death certificate. The girl died
Fatima Ahmed Aswad cries as the body of her 15-year-old daughter, Sana, is exhumed in Mosul for forensic investigation in order to receive a death certificate. The girl died from a mortar attack in the final battle to drive out the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant group (ISIL, also known as ISIS). [Bram Janssen/AP Photo]
A police officer helps a demonstrator remove herself from clashes during a general strike against a pension reform measure outside Congress in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Monday, Dec. 18, 2017. Union lea
A police officer helps a demonstrator remove herself from clashes during a general strike against a pension reform measure outside Congress in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Union leaders complain the legislation, which already passed in the Senate, would cut pension and retirement payments as well as aid for some poor families. [Natacha Pisarenko/AP Photo]
Kashmiri villagers walks across the house which was damaged during a gun-battle at Shopian 55 kilometres (34 miles) south of Srinagar, Indian-administered Kashmir . Police say a woman was killed durin
Kashmiri villagers walk by a house damaged during a gun-battle at Shopian, 55 kilometres south of Srinagar, in Indian-administered Kashmir. Two fighters and a 25-year-old woman were killed in the firefight with Indian soldiers in the village. [Danish Ismail/Reuters]