《Time》：Pictures of the Week: November 16 – 23

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Ariel Schalit—AP
Nov. 19, 2012. An Israeli soldier covered in a prayer shawl reads from a holy book in a staging area near the Gaza Strip border.






Nicolas Asfouri—AFP/Getty Images
Nov. 19, 2012. President Barack Obama and Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi kiss after speaking to the media during a brief joint presser at her residence in Yangon.






Deepak Sharma—AP
Nov. 19, 2012. Indian camel traders arrive with their livestock for the annual Pushkar fair in Pushkar, Rajasthan state, India.






Thomas Mukoya—Reuters
Nov. 19, 2012. Police dogs attack a man found stealing from ethnic Somali homes during the second day of skirmishes in the Eastleigh neighborhood of Kenya's capital, Nairobi.






Stephanie Strasburg—Pittsburgh Tribune Review via AP
Nov. 16, 2012. People watch fireworks from inside their rooms in the Wyndham Hotel along Point State Park during the 52nd annual Light Up Night in Pittsburgh, Penn.






Khalil Hamra—AP
Nov. 17, 2012. Syrian fighters check their ammunition during clashes with Syrian army forces in the town of Harem, on the outskirts of Idlib, Syria.






Rajesh Kumar Singh—AP
Nov. 17, 2012. An Indian villager collects cow dung cakes after they are sun dried on the banks of the River Ganges in Allahabad, India. Cow dung cakes are a major source of domestic fuel for rural households and an environment friendly alternative to firewood.






Jeff Pachoud—AFP/Getty Images
Nov. 17, 2012. People attend a demonstration against same-sex marriage in Lyon, France.






Rich Schultz—AP
Nov. 18, 2012. Four Air Force Black Hawk helicopters, one with Vice President Joe Biden onboard, approach Seaside Park, N.J.






Dar Yasin—AP
Nov. 16, 2012. Kashmiri Muslim women comfort a wailing relative of Mushtaq Ahmed during his funeral procession in Srinagar, India. Unidentified gunmen opened fire at a liquor shop on the banks of Dal Lake, killing Ahmed and injuring four others.

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Daniel Berehulak—Getty Images
Nov. 16, 2012. Afghan spectators watch as two fighting mastiff dogs attack each other during the weekly dog fights in Kabul. Dog fighting was banned under the Taliban for being un-Islamic but it is now common practice.






Daniel Berehulak—Getty Images
Nov. 16, 2012. Partridges in wicker cages are seen covered with material after Kowk Jangi (partridge fighting) in a park in Kabul, Afghanistan.






Lucas Jackson—Reuters
Nov. 16, 2012. A car pushed out of the garage of the Neukom family home is seen lodged in sand deposited by the storm surge of Superstorm Sandy in the town of Mantoloking, N.J.






Joe Penny—Reuters
Nov. 17, 2012. A girl watches voters at a polling station during presidential elections in Freetown, Sierra Leone.






Khalil Hamra—AP
Nov. 17, 2012. Two Syrian fighters, one wearing a flower in his vest, take part in clashes with Syrian army forces in the town of Harem, on the outskirts of Idlib, Syria.






Navesh Chitrakar—Reuters
Nov. 17, 2012. A Tibetan girl in Kathmandu plays with a balloon near graffiti that reads "Free Tibet" during an event organized to express solidarity with the victims of violence in Tibet.






Ahikam Seri—AP
Nov. 17, 2012. An Israeli Iron Dome missile is launched near the city of Be'er Sheva, southern Israel, to intercept a rocket fired from Gaza.






Oded Balilty—AP
Nov. 17, 2012. Israelis take cover as an air raid siren warns of incoming rockets from Gaza as an Iron Dome missile is launched in Tel Aviv.






Tsafrir Abayov—AP
Nov. 17, 2012. A dog walks down from a house covered with shrapnel holes, damaged by a rocket fired by Palestinian militants from the Gaza Strip after it hit a community near Ashdod, southern Israel.






Bernat Armangue—AP
Nov. 18, 2012. Smoke rises after an Israeli forces strike in Gaza City.

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Eyad Baba—AP
Nov. 18, 2012. Palestinians stand near the rubble of the building of Attia Abu Inkara, a Hamas militant leader, following an Israeli air strike in Rafah refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip.






Bernat Armangue—AP
Nov. 18, 2012. A Palestinian man kisses the hand of a dead relative in the morgue of Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.






Kevin Frayer—AP
Nov. 19, 2012. Incense smoke wafts past the face of an Indian Hindu devotee as she prays as part of rituals at sunset in the holy Yamuna River during the Chhath Puja festival in New Delhi, India.






Kevin Frayer—AP
Nov. 19, 2012. Hindu devotees perform rituals at sunset in the holy Yamuna River during the Chhath Puja festival in New Delhi, India.






Tsering Topgyal—AP
Nov. 19, 2012. Indian Hindu devotees offer prayers to the Sun God at the Chhath Puja festival on the Yamuna river in New Delhi, India.






Ali Ali—EPA
Nov. 19, 2012. Palestinians pray next to the bodies of members of the Dalou family during their funeral at a mosque in Gaza City. Eleven members of the Dalou family died when an Israeli air strike hit their house in Gaza City.






Marco Longari—AFP/Getty Images
Nov. 19, 2012. A Palestinian boy tends to his horse at the central market in Gaza City.






Menahem Kahana—AFP/Getty Images
Nov. 19, 2012. Israeli soldiers sleep next to armored personnel carriers at an Israeli army deployment area near the Israel-Gaza Strip border as they prepare for a potential ground operation in the Palestinian coastal enclave.






Khalil Hamra—AP
Nov. 19, 2012. Syrian army soldier prisoners stand near ammunition after Syrian fighters took over the military base in Aleppo.






Carl De Souza—AFP/Getty Images
Nov. 19, 2012. Kenyan police officers detain a man in the Somali district of Eastleigh in Nairobi.

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Nicolas Asfouri—AFP/Getty Images
Nov. 19, 2012. A US secret service security officer looks out from Aung San Suu Kyi's house before a brief joint press conference with US President Barack Obama in Yangon.






Jason Reed—Reuters
Nov. 19, 2012. U.S. President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton tour the Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon, Myanmar.






Maxim Shipenkov—AFP/Getty Images/Pool
Nov. 19, 2012. Russian space agency rescuers' helicopters and vehicles stand near the Soyuz capsule after the spacecraft landed near the town of Arkalyk in northern Kazakhstan.






Daniel Berehulak—Getty Images
No. 19, 2012. Afghan National Army commando Khairuddin Sultan, 21, is helped up by his friend Ala Mohamed, who joined the army with him 18 months ago as an orthopedic specialist. Mohamed moulded a cast for his prosthetic legs at the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) orthopedic centre in Kabul, Afghanistan.






Jeff J Mitchell—Getty Images
Nov. 20, 2012. Claire Robertson poses dressed as the Good Snow Flake inside a life-size snow globe on Buchanan Street during a promotion for Scottish Ballet's festive production of The Nutcracker in Glasgow, Scotland.






Melanie Gouby—AP
Nov. 20, 2012. A young boy paralyzed by a shrapnel wound in his spine lies in a bed at Heal Africa hospital in Goma, Congo.






Romeo Gacad—AFP/Getty Images
Nov. 20, 2012. U.S. President Barack Obama boards Air Force One as he prepares to depart the Phnom Penh airport in Cambodia.






David Hecker—DAPD/AP
Nov. 20, 2012. Swans look out of boats as they are transported to the wintering grounds at the Alster river, Hamburg, northern Germany.






Suhaib Salem—Reuters
Nov. 20, 2012. Palestinian gunmen ride motorcycles as they drag the body of a man, who was suspected of working for Israel, in Gaza City. Palestinian gunmen shot dead six alleged collaborators in the Gaza Strip who "were caught red-handed," according to a security source quoted by the Hamas Aqsa radio.






Bernat Armangue—AP
Nov. 20, 2012. Palestinian mourners cry during the funeral of Salem Paul Sweliem in Gaza City.

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Oliver Weiken—EPA
Nov. 21, 2012. Palestinian morticians prepare the body of a man who died during an Israeli airstrike for his funeral at the mortuary in a hospital in the Jabalya refugee camp, north of Gaza City.






Phil Moore—AFP/Getty Images
Nov. 21, 2012. The body of a Congolese Army soldier lies on the ground in front of a tank left by government troops in the Ndosho district of Goma in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.






Mohamed Abd El Ghany—Reuters
Nov. 21, 2012. A protester throws a molotov cocktail towards riot police during clashes after a rally to mark the one-year anniversary of fatal clashes at Mohamed Mahmoud street in Cairo.






Javier Fergo—AP
Nov. 21, 2012. A boy rides his bicycle next to burning garbage piled in the middle of a street in Jerez de la Frontera, southern Spain.






Robert Schmidt—AFP/Getty Images
Nov. 21, 2012. Two women walk past camels for sale at sunrise at a camel fair grounds on the outskirts of Pushkar.






Ronan Zvulun—Reuters
Nov. 21, 2012. Israeli soldiers pray behind artillery shells near the border with the northern Gaza Strip.






Marco Longari—AFP/Getty Images
Nov. 22, 2012. Members of the Palestinian al-Attar family, displaced during the eight-day conflict with Israel, return to their home in the al-Atatra area in the northern Gaza Strip.






Charles Sykes—AP
Nov. 22, 2012. The Kung Fu Panda balloon floats in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City.