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Week in Pictures: From Trump to air strikes in Syria
A photo round-up of some of last week’s key events, including Donald Trump’s win and continued air strikes in Syria.
Tens of thousands of South Koreans poured into the streets of Seoul on Saturday to demand that President Park Geun-hye step down amid an explosive political scandal involving and old friend of the president. The signs read "Park Geun-hye should step down". [Ahn Young-joon/AP]
Published On 11 Nov 2016
11 Nov 2016
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A protester carries an upside down American flag as she walks along Sixth Avenue while demonstrating against President-elect Donald Trump in New York. Thousands of protesters around the country took to the streets on Wednesday to condemn the election of Trump as president. [Julie Jacobson/AP]
Flames and smoke rise from oil wells set ablaze by ISIL before they fled the oil-producing region of Qayyara, Iraq. [Alaa Al-Marjani/Reuters]
Members of hardline Muslim groups hold a giant national flag as they attend a protest against Jakarta's incumbent governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, an ethnic Chinese Christian running in the upcoming election, in Jakarta, Indonesia. [Beawiharta/Reuters]
US President-elect Donald Trump speaks at election night rally in Manhattan, New York. [Mike Segar/Reuters]
An injured girl reacts at a site hit by an air strike in the rebel-held Douma neighbourhood of Damascus, Syria. [Bassam Khabieh/Reuters]
Inmates sleep in the open at Quezon City Jail in Manila, Philippines. Nearly 2,300 drug users and dealers have been killed in police operations or by suspected vigilantes since President Rodrigo Duterte took office on June 30, according to the Philippines police. Thousands more have been arrested, filling the country's already seething jails to bursting point. Quezon City Jail was built to hold 800 inmates but is now home to more than 3,400. [Damir Sagolj/Reuters]
Displaced people who fled Hammam al-Alil, south of Mosul, head to safer territory, Iraq. The United Nations says more than 34,000 people have been displaced from Mosul, with about three quarters settled in camps and the rest in host communities. [Thaier Al-Sudani/Reuters]
Servicemen dressed in historical uniforms wait before a military parade marking the anniversary of the 1941 parade when Soviet soldiers marched towards the front lines of World War II, in Red Square in Moscow, Russia. [Maxim Shemetov/Reuters]
A fighter of Libyan forces allied with the UN-backed government aims his weapon as he takes up position inside a ruined house at the frontline of fighting against ISIL in Ghiza Bahriya district in Sirte, Libya. [Ismail Zitouny/Reuters]