{"id":2576,"date":"2012-08-25T15:15:49","date_gmt":"2012-08-25T15:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noi3.org\/site\/?p=2576"},"modified":"2012-08-25T15:15:49","modified_gmt":"2012-08-25T15:15:49","slug":"the-world-in-photos-this-week-18-25-08-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.noi3.org\/?p=2576","title":{"rendered":"The World in Photos This Week (18-25.08.2012)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\tIranian women pray to mark the first day of Eid al-Fitr on Aug. 19 in a neighborhood in west Tehran. Muslims around the world celebrated the holiday, which marks the end of the month of Ramadan, the Muslim calendar's ninth and holiest month during which followers are required to abstain from food, drink, and sex from dawn to dusk.<\/p>\n

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\tSouth African miners gesture as they listen to former youth leader Julius Malema on Aug. 18 at Lonmin's Marikana platinum mine. The mine was the site of a massacre on Aug.16 when police opened fire <\/a>on hundreds of workers staging a strike, killing 34. The protest violence was the deadliest the country has seen since the end of apartheid.<\/p>\n

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\tFirefighters work at the site of a wildfire in Tabuyo del Monte, Spain, on August 21. Numerous wildfires have broken out across the country as temperatures hit record highs in recent weeks, an extra headache for authorities struggling to get the country's deep economic recession under control.<\/p>\n

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\tAn Ethiopian woman walks past posters of late Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi<\/a> on Aug. 22, in Addis Ababa. Thousands of wailing Ethiopians turned out to greet the body of the country's leader for the last two decades after his death in a Brussels hospital.<\/p>\n

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\tA child cools off in a fountain in downtown Rome on Aug.18, the seventh day of a heat wave hitting most of Europe.<\/p>\n

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\tA man dressed in a costume takes part in a gay pride parade in Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic, on Aug. 18. The event – part of the city's second gay pride festival – attracted thousands of marchers.<\/p>\n

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\tAn activist holds the Japanese flag before a dozen members of the right-wing group Gambare Nippon (Hang in There Japan) swam ashore to place the country's flag on a disputed island in the South China Sea, part of a group known as the Senkakus in Japanese and the Diaoyus in Chinese, on Aug. 19. The island is at the heart of a corrosive territorial row with China, and the activists' move is likely to further inflame tensions with Beijing.<\/p>\n

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\tThe security guard of the headquarters of the group which edits the Ivorian newspaper Le Temps<\/i> observes damage after the group's headquarters were attacked by unidentified assailants facilities on Aug. 19 in Abidjan. The paper was known to be close to former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo. The attackers set fire to one room and stole computer equipment following an Aug. 18 attack on Ggagbo's headquarters.<\/p>\n

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\tA rebel sits in a van during a patrol in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on Aug. 19. Syrian army helicopters loyal to embattled President Bashar al-Assad dropped leaflets over the city urging residents not to shelter rebels and warning the Free Syrian Army it had one last chance to surrender.<\/p>\n

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\tIndian bakers arrange trays of Parotha and Naan breads on the eve of Eid in Ahmedabad, India, on Aug. 19.<\/p>\n

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\tPilgrims gather around a statue of the Virgin del Rocio during a traditional pilgrimage, in Huelva, Spain, on Aug. 20. Once every seven years, the statue travels by night from El Rocio to Almonte.<\/p>\n

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\tReporters gather for the Aug. 20 unveiling of the stage inside of the Tampa Bay Times Forum in preparation for next week's Republican National Convention. Thousands will descend on the west Florida city for the four day convention, which takes place Aug. 27-30.<\/p>\n