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Week in Pictures : From Yemen air raids to Manila fire

More air raids in Yemen, a horrific fire in the Philippines, and celebrations in Somalia. Here is the week in pictures.

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People who fled the violence from the ISIL-controlled northern Syrian town of al-Bab arrive in the rebel-held outskirts of the town, Syria. [Khalil Ashawi/Reuters]
Published On 10 Feb 201710 Feb 2017
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Men carrying a shrine jump over a bonfire for good luck at a traditional Chinese lunar new year celebration in Jieyang, Guangdong province. [China Daily/Reuters]
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A man inspects the site of a Saudi-led air strike in the northwestern province of Saada, Yemen. [Naif Rahma/Reuters]
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Anti-government demonstrators clash with riot policemen during a protest against a Rio de Janeiro state government plan to limit public spending, next to the State Assembly of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. [Ricardo Moraes/Reuters]
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Civilians ride on a police car as they celebrate the election of President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed in the streets of Somalia's capital Mogadishu. [Feisal Omar/Reuters]
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Sub-Saharan Africans are seen on board an overcrowded raft during a rescue operation by the Spanish NGO Proactiva Open Arms in the central Mediterranean Sea, 21 miles north of the coastal Libyan city of Sabratha. [Giorgos Moutafis/Reuters]
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A supporter of Haiti's President Jovenel Moise impersonates the new president, with a sign behind him that reads in Creole 'Energy plus encouragement plus movement plus work' during Moise's inauguration in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Moise was sworn in as president for the next five years after a bruising two-year election cycle, inheriting a struggling economy and a deeply divided society. [Dieu Nalio Chery/AP Photo]
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Police scuffle with Afghans as they block the entrance of the Hellenikon migrant camp during the visit of Migration Minister Yannis Mouzalas, in southern Athens. The protest was organised against conditions at the camp as Greece says more than 60,000 people are stranded in camps here after European border closures last year. [Thanassis Stavrakis/AP Photo]
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Myanmar protesters hold banners outside Thilawa port where a Malaysian ship arrived, in Yangon, Myanmar. The 'Food Flotilla for Myanmar', carrying 2,300 tonnes of food and medicine to help members of Myanmar's persecuted Muslim Rohingya minority, arrived as rights groups accused the army of mass killings, rapes and other crimes targeting the group. The protesters deny that the ethnic group Rohingya even exists. Many in Myanmar refer to the Rohingya as Bengalis, suggesting they belong in Bangladesh. [Thein Zaw/AP Photo]
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A man throws a bucket of water at burning buildings as a community of informal settlements were engulfed by a fire in Catmon, Malabon city, metro Manila, Philippines. Fire officials said no casualties were reported but more than a thousand homes were destroyed and about 15,000 people were left homeless. [Romeo Ranoco/Reuters]

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