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Week In Photos

(22 June - 29 June 2012)

 

Edited by Adel Alsalman

22 June 2012
An activist blows "ecological" sopa bubbles during last day of the People's Summit at Flamengo Park in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in the framework of the UN Rio+20 Conference on Sustainable Development. (Photo: AFP - Christophe Simon)
23 June 2012
A horse rears in a crowd during the horse parade of the traditional San Juan (Saint John) festival in Ciutadella, on the Balearic Island of Menorca, Spain, on the eve of Saint John's day. (Photo: AFP - Jaime Reina)
25 June 2012
South Korean Marine Corps' amphibious vehicles take part in a landing operation in the sea off Taean, about 170 kms southwest of Seoul, South Korea. (Photo: AFP - Jung Yeon-Je)
25 June 2012
An Indian Hindu devotee peers alongside a temple after praying near the Yamuna river in New Delhi, India. (Photo: AFP - Andrew Caballero-Reynolds)
25 June 2012
Bolivian low rank policemen on strike are seen among tear gas thrown by themselves at Plaza Murilllo in La Paz, Bolivia. (Photo: AFP - Jorge Bernal)
26 June 2012
A protestor stand next to the front gate of Électricité Du Liban. The writing on the gate translates: "Closed until further notice. No to injustice." (Photo: Marwan Tahtah)
26 June 2012
A general view of the downtown area of Beirut. Recently Venus Real Estate Development Company, successfully set their bulldozers and destroyed the Phoenician port in Mina al-Hosn. (Photo: Marwan Tahtah)
27 June 2012
(L-R) Switzerland's quadruple scull team Andre Vonarburg, Augustin Maillefer, Nico Stahlberg and Florian Stofer train on the Sarnersee at the Swiss rowing center in Sarnen, Switzerland. (Photo: Reuters - Denis Balibouse)
27 June 2012
FMX-13 team pro-riders Alexei Kolesnikov (L) and Alexei Aisin, both of Russia, perform during the Red Bull X-fighters Jams freestyle show during the Day of the Youth, which is celebrated in Russia, in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk. (Photo: Reuters - Ilya Naymushin)
28 June 2012
Guests look out from the elevated skyway of the Supertrees Grove at the Gardens by the Bay in Singapore. (Photo: Reuters - Tim Chong)
29 June 2012
France's Alice Decaux takes the start of the women's 100m hurdles qualifications at the 2012 European Athletics Championships at the Olympic Stadium in Helsinki, Finland. (Photo: AFP - Olivier Morin)
29 June 2012
People's Liberation Army soldiers stand at attention in the heavy rain during a military parade before the arrival of Chinese President Hu Jintao at Shek Kong airbase in Hong Kong, People's Republic of China. (Photo: Reuters - Bobby Yip)
29 June 2012
A woman looks out from a window of a house destroyed during the war at a fishermen port in Mogadishu, Somalia. (Photo: Reuters - Goran Tomasevic)
29 June 2012
A Palestinian protester uses a sling to hurl a stone at Israeli security forces during clashes at a protest against the nearby Jewish settlement of Kdumim, in the West Bank village of Kfar Kadum, near Nablus. (Photo: Reuters - Ammar Awad)