New Year joy to violence in Baghdad: Best photos of the week
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An aerial view of the meandering Bermejo river, the limit between the Argentine provinces of Formosa (L) and Chaco, near the town of General Lucio V. Mansilla in Formosa. (AFP)
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Fireworks and confetti usher in the new year at Times Square in New York, US. (REUTERS)
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People walk on the snow-covered road at Sanjauli, Shimla on January 7. (Deepak Sansta / Ht photo)
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A replica of the Granma yacht passes by during a march to mark the Armed Forces Day and commemorate the landing of the Granma, which brought the Castro brothers, Ernesto "Che" Guevara and others from Mexico to Cuba to start the revolution in 1959, in Havana, Cuba. (REUTERS)
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A view of the “Jalau” (show of splendour) displayed in the sanctum of Golden Temple on the occasion of 350th birth anniversary of Guru Gobind Singh ji, in Amritsar on Thursday January 5, 2017. (Sameer Sehga / HT Photo)
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People look at a burned vehicle at the site of a car bomb attack in a busy square at Baghdad's sprawling Sadr City district in Iraq on January 2. (REUTERS)
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Jockeys compete in a race for purebred Arab horses during the Liwa 2017 Moreeb Dune Festival on January 3 in the Liwa desert, some 250km west of the Gulf emirate of Abu Dhabi. The festival, which attracts participants from around the Gulf region, includes a variety of races (cars, bikes, falcons, camels and horses) or other activities aimed at promoting the country's folklore. (AFP)
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Newly recruited Houthi fighters rehearse for a parade before heading to the frontline to fight against government forces, in Sanaa, Yemen, on January 3. The headband reads: "We are tough on infidels." (REUTERS)
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In this December 31 photo, visitors take a tour of a castle-like structure made from blocks of ice at the Harbin International Ice and Snow festival held in Harbin in northeastern's China's Heilongjiang province. The city of Harbin in China's frigid northeast is in its final stages of preparation for one of the world's largest ice and snow festivals, an annual event that last year drew more than a million visitors. (AP)
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The remains of a victim is carried away after a fire ripped through a boat carrying tourists to islands north of the capital at Muara Angke port in Jakarta on January 1. (REUTERS)
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The school band of the Mizo High School in Aizwal performs during the inauguration of the NCC Republic Day Camp by vice-president Hamid Ansari at Delhi Cantt Parade Ground on January 6. (Vipin Kumar/HT PHOTO)
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Pope Francis holds the monstrance as he leads the Te Deum prayer in St Peter's Basilica at the Vatican on December 31, 2016. (AFP)
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A three-day-young giraffe baby is cleaned by its mother in the 'Giraffe House' at Zoo and Botanic Garden of Budapest on January 3. (AFP)
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A man stands among bottles at the Van Tuijl glass recycling plant following Christmas and New Year celebrations in Gameren, the Netherlands, on January 3. (AFP)
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An aerial view shows fireworks over Munich on January 1 during New Year's celebration. (AFP)
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Foreign tourists click photos and enjoying the weather at Vijay chowk, in New Delhi January 04. (Sonu Mehta/HT PHOTO)
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Icicles hang from a tree at Kokernag, some 100km from south of Srinagar on January 2. (Waseem Andrabi / HT photo)
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Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel dance as they rehearse for the forthcoming Republic Day parade at Rajpath in New Delhi on January 4. (Arun Sharma/HT PHOTO)
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