TIME's Best Pictures of the Week: February 14 – February 21, 2014

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Alexey Furman—EPA
Feb. 19, 2014. Riot police officers stand on Independence Square during on-going anti-government protests in downtown Kiev, Ukraine.





Brian Snyder—Reuters
Feb. 15, 2014. Team USA's Cam Fowler scores against Russia's goalie Sergei Bobrovski and Russia's Alexei Tereshenko during the second period of their men's preliminary round ice hockey game at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, Sochi, Russia.





Oliver Weiken—EPA
Feb. 17, 2014. African asylum seekers and inmates of the Holot Detention centre stand at the fence of the facility during a protest in Holot, Israel.





Thomas Peter—Reuters
Feb. 18, 2014. German Chancellor Angela Merkel watches a dance performance by Liana Wolf during a reception of German carnival societies at the Chancellery in Berlin.





Peter Komka—EPA
Feb 14, 2014. The International Space Station flies in front of a full moon as seen from Salgotarjan, 109 kms northeast of Budapest, Hungary.





Kim Hong—Reuters
Relatives of victims who were killed when a resort building collapsed, comfort each other at a group memorial altar in Gyeongju, about 235 miles southeast of Seoul, Korea.





Win McNamee—Getty Images
Feb. 18, 2014. A wax figure of former U.S. first lady Nancy Reagan with former U.S. President Ronald Reagan is unveiled for the first time at Madame Tussauds in Washington, D.C.





Joseph Nair—AP
Feb. 15, 2014. The T-50 jets of South Korean Air Force aerobatics team, the Black Eagles, perform a maneuver in the aerial display at the Singapore Air Show in Singapore.





Fabio Bucciarelli—AFP/Getty Images
Feb. 15, 2014. A Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) government soldier from the 2nd Battalion rests under a tree at the SPLA headquarters in Nyang, in the county of Yirol East, South Sudan.





Oded Balilty—AP
Feb. 14, 2014. Druse women walk down the stairs during a rally, demanding the return of the Golan Heights, captured by Israel in 1967, close to the Syrian border in Majdal Shams, Golan Heights.

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Joe Raedle—Getty Images
Feb. 14, 2014. Maria Rodriguez (L) and Edor Philogene wait to wed at the group Valentine's day wedding ceremony at the National Croquet Center on in West Palm Beach, Florida.





David Gray —Reuters
Feb. 14, 2014. First-placed Japan's Yuzuru Hanyu bows after the flower ceremony for the figure skating men's free skating program at the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics, Sochi, Russia.





Al Bello—Getty Images
Feb. 15, 2014. T.J. Oshie of the United States shoots during a shootout against Sergei Bobrovski of Russia during the Men's Ice Hockey Preliminary Round Group A game on day eight of the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics at Bolshoy Ice Dome.





Christopher Brown—Polaris
Feb. 14, 2014. Tens of thousands of Thais and Buddhist monks attend Makha Bucha ceremonies at Wat Phra Dhammakaya on the outskirts of Bangkok, Thailand.





Dar Yasin—AP
Feb. 15, 2014. A relative of a missing Kashmiri youth takes part in a silent protest, organized by Association of Parents of Disappeared People (APDP), in Srinagar, India.





Hasan Jamali—AP
Feb. 15, 2014. Bahraini pro-democracy protesters hold up a large banner in the colors of their national flag with the words, "we will be there for Bahrain," during a march near Barbar, west of the capital of Manama, Bahrain.





Fabio Bucciarelli—AFP/Getty Images
Feb. 16, 2014. Residents attend a Sunday Christian mass at Yirol church, South Sudan.





Reuters
Feb. 16, 2014. People gather at the site where a passenger train derailed after a blast in Pakistan's southern Kashmore district.





Aaron Favila—AP
Feb. 16, 2014. Filipino firemen take a rest after controlling a fire in Manila, Philippines.





Mario Tama—Getty Images
February 16, 2014. Drums queen Thalia Cristina walks into an office space at a Jacarezinho samba school practice session ahead of Carnival celebrations in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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Pornchai Kittiwongs—AFP/Getty Images
Feb. 17, 2014. Thai soldiers stand guard during a protest against the government's repeatedly delayed payments for rice submitted to the pledging scheme at the government's temporary office in Bangkok, Thailand.





Ronen Zvulun—Reuters
Feb. 17, 2014. Israel's President Shimon Peres waits for the arrival of his Peruvian counterpart Ollanta Humala (not pictured) before their meeting in Jerusalem.





Dado Ruvic—Reuters
Feb. 17, 2014. Anti-government protesters simulate an execution scene during a protest in Sarajevo.





Andres Kudacki—AP
Feb. 17, 2014. A model displays an Autumn/Winter design by Carlos Diez during Madrid Fashion Week, Madrid, Spain.





Darron Cumming—AP
Feb. 17, 2014. Meryl Davis and Charlie White of the United States celebrate their first place following the flower ceremony in the ice dance free dance figure skating finals at the Iceberg Skating Palace during the 2014 Winter Olympics, Sochi, Russia.





Luc Gnago—Reuters
Feb. 17, 2014. A boy sits by the edges of a window at Ouango, in Bangui, Central African Republic.





Manjunath Kiran—AFP/Getty Images
Feb. 18, 2014. Thai police officers prepare to march forward in an attempt to push back anti-government protestors near the Government House in Bangkok.





Charlie Neibergall—AP
Feb. 18, 2014. New York Yankees starting pitcher Masahiro Tanaka is seen through the bullpen fence during spring training baseball practice in Tampa, Fla.





Jeon Heon—EPA
Feb. 18, 2014. Members of a South Korean fire department's rescue team search for victims in a collapsed building in the Mauna Ocean resort in Gyeongju, South Korea.





Julian Stratenschulte—EPA
Feb. 18, 2014. A statue of a cow stands on a balcony of a private home in Hanover, Germany.

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Francesca Volpi—SIPA
Feb. 18, 2014. Anti-government protesters clash with the police during their storming of Independence Square in Kiev.





Damir Sogolj—Reuters
Feb. 18, 2014. Citizens take cover as shots are fired during clashes between anti-government protesters and the police near the Government House in Bangkok.





Athit Perawongmeth—Reuters
Feb. 18, 2014. An anti-government protester with his head covered with a plastic bag, gestures near the Government House in Bangkok.





Damir Sagolj—Reuters
Feb. 18, 2014. A person looks through the window onto the street where police and anti-government protesters clash near the Government House in Bangkok.





Chip Somodevilla—Getty Images
Feb. 18, 2014. Members of a United States Marine Corps carry team salute during the transfer of Master Sgt. Aaron Torian of Paducha, K.Y., at Dover Air Force Base in Dover, Del. Torian was killed by an improvised explosive device in Afghanistan in February.





Mohammed Salem—Reuters
Feb. 17, 2014. Palestinian Hamas militants march during a training exercise in Gaza.





Scott Olson—Getty Images
Feb. 18, 2014. A boat breaks through ice on Lake Michigan near Chicago.





Manish Swarup—AP
Feb. 19, 2014. Indian President Pranab Mukherjee, left, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, second from left, along with other officials get ready to receive Bahrain King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa at the presidential palace in New Delhi, India.





Muhammed Muheisen—AP
Feb. 19, 2014. Pakistani girls chase bubbles released by a vendor, in a slum in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.





Nichole Sobecki—AFP/Getty Images
Feb. 19, 2014. Amran Mahamood, who has made a living for 15 years by circumcising young girls, looks into a piece of a mirror in Hargeisa, Somalia.

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Massoud Hossaini—AP
Feb. 19, 2014. An Afghan internally displaced girl looks through a window made of a broken car windshield at their home in a poor neighborhood in Kabul, Afghanistan.





Giuseppe Lami—EPA
Feb. 19, 2014. Forza Italia party's Silvio Berlusconi leaves after a meeting with Italian premier-designate Matteo Renzi at the Lower Housee in Rome.





Gabriel Bouys—AFP/Getty Images
Feb. 19, 2014. Pope Francis salutes the crowd as he arrives for his general audience in St Peter's square at the Vatican.





Menahem Kahana—AFP/Getty Images
Feb. 18, 2014. Children peep from behind a curtain next to Jewish ultra-orthodox bride Rivka Hannah (Hofman) during the Mitzvah Tans dance ritual following her wedding in an ultra-orthodox neighborhood of Jerusalem.





Bernat Armangue—AP
Feb. 19, 2014. Julia Lipnitskaya of Russia competes in the women's short program figure skating competition at the Iceberg Skating Palace during the 2014 Winter Olympics, Sochi, Russia.





Issei Kato—Reuters
Feb. 19, 2014. Korea's Yuna Kim competes during the Figure Skating Women's Short Program at the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics, Sochi, Russia.





Spencer Platt—Getty Images
Feb. 20, 2014. A paper heart is viewed on top of a melting mound of snow as temperatures in New York City reach into the mid 40's revealing trash that's been buried for weeks in New York City.





Ethan Miller—Getty Images
Feb. 20, 2014. The Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System is seen in an aerial view on February 20, 2014 in the Mojave Desert in California near Primm, Nevada. The largest solar thermal power-tower system in the world, owned by NRG Energy, Google and BrightSource Energy, opened last week in the Ivanpah Dry Lake and uses 347,000 computer-controlled mirrors to focus sunlight onto boilers on top of three 459-foot towers, where water is heated to produce steam to power turbines providing power to more than 140,000 California homes.





Oded Balilty—AP
Feb. 20, 2014. Israelis enjoy the beach under heavy fog at the Mediterranean Sea beach front in Tel Aviv, Israel.





Fred Dufour—AFP/Getty Images
Feb. 20, 2014. A boy stands on an airplane in the Christian Mpoko refugee camp in Bangui, Central African Republic.

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Luc Gnago—Rueters
Feb. 20, 2014. A civilian, wounded by the impact of a rocket, sits on his bed at "Hopital de l'Amitie" in Bangui, Central African Republic.





Bulent Kilic—AFP/Getty Images
Feb. 20, 2014. A protester holds an Ukranian national flag from a burned building during a face-off against police in Kiev. Ukraine.





Bulent Kilic—AFP/Getty Images
Feb. 20, 2014. Protesters burn as they stand behind burning barricades during clashes with police in Kiev, Ukraine.





Yannis Behrakis—Reuters
Feb. 20, 2014. An injured man struggles to breathe as he is carried on a stretcher by anti-government protesters after clashes with riot police in the Independence Square in Kiev, Ukraine.





Marko Drobnjakovic—AP
Feb. 20, 2014. Bodies of anti-government protesters killed in clashes with police lay at the Independence Square in Kiev, Ukraine.





Bulent Kilic—AFP/Getty Images
Feb. 21, 2014.A scarecrow like mock anti-government protestor is pictured on a barricade between protestors and government forces in Kiev., Ukraine.