The Week in Pictures

The Week in Pictures

From elections in Egypt to the death of a mob legend, here's what dominated the headlines this week

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    This publicity image released by AMC shows Jon Hamm as Don Draper in a scene from the finale of "Mad Men." The popular drama ended its fifth season on Sunday.

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    Actress Ann Rutherford, who played Scarlett O'Hara's sister Carreen in the 1939 movie classic "Gone With the Wind," died at her home in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Monday. She was 94.

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    Pope Benedict XVI delivers his blessing during the opening day of Rome's dioceses ecclesiastic meeting at St. John at the Lateran Basilica in Rome on Monday.

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    A television cameraman tapes the traffic crossing in the San Gabriel area of Los Angeles Monday, where the U.S. Commerce Department Secretary John Bryson suffered a traffic accident Saturday, June 9. Officials on Monday said U.S. Commerce Secretary Bryson had suffered a seizure in connection with two Los Angeles-area traffic crashes that led to a felony hit-and-run citation.

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    Miners block a motorway making a barricade with burning tires in Campomanes, Oviedo, Spain, Tuesday. Strikes, road blockades and mine sit-ins continue as 8,000 mineworkers at over 40 coal mines in northern Spain continue their protests against government action to cut coal subsidies.

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    Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper speaks during a news briefing in Bellvue, Colo., about the efforts of firefighters battling the wildfire west of Fort Collins, Colo., on Tuesday. The fire, which started on Saturday, has burned more than 40,000 acres as it continues to burn out of control. The U.S. Forest Service said late Monday it would add more aircraft to its aerial firefighting fleet, contracting one air tanker from the state of Alaska and four from Canada. Two more air tankers were being activated in California.

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    A man uses his mobile phone in front of the electronic stock board of a securities firm in Tokyo, Tuesday. Asian stock markets slid Tuesday as enthusiasm for a European plan to rescue Spain's teetering banks turned to skepticism. Japan's Nikkei 225 index fell 1.3 percent to 8,514.76.

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    A Tunisian firefighter tries to extinguish a burning tire on top of a truck after it was set on fire by radical Islamist protesters during overnight riots in Sijoumi near Tunis, Tuesday. Tunisian police fired warning shots to disperse radical Islamist protesters after they set a security post ablaze and ransacked an art exhibit they called offensive to Islam.

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    A man protests outside Riocentro, the venue hosting the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, or Rio+20, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Wednesday. The Rio+20 gathering marks the 20th anniversary of the so-called "Earth Summit," which some say put climate change on the world agenda.

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    Henry Hill, whose life as a mobster and FBI informant was the basis for the Martin Scorsese film "Goodfellas," died this week. His girlfriend Lisa Caserta says he died in a Los Angeles hospital after a long illness. He was 69.

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    President Barack Obama greets supporters after arriving at Philadelphia International Airport Tuesday. Friday, the Obama administration made the motion to stop deporting "younger" illegal immigrants.

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    Volunteers carry an unidentified body onto a truck at a village in Sittwe, capital of Rakhine state in western Myanmar on Thursday. The authorities in Myanmar say 29 people died in the communal violence that swept through a western state last week.

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    British Prime Minister David Cameron arrives to give evidence at the Leveson inquiry at the Royal Courts of Justice in central London, Thursday. The judge-led inquiry was set up following revelations of phone hacking at Murdoch's News of the World tabloid. The scandal has shaken the British establishment and raised questions about whether top politicians helped shield Murdoch from scrutiny.

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    People and security forces inspect the scene of a car bomb attack in the Karrada neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday. A wave of bombings targeted religious processions during the annual pilgrimage commemorating the 8th century death of a revered Shiite imam, killing and wounding scores of people, police said.

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    Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks to the media at the State Department in Washington, Wednesday.

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    Men work to pump water from below the decks of the USS Texas Wednesday, June 13, 2012, in Houston. The 100-year-old battleship's hull sprung a leak five days ago and has been taking on as much as 1,000 gallons of seawater every minute as workers struggle to contain it.

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    Russian socialite and TV host Kseniya Sobchak, daughter of the late St. Petersburg mayor, Anatoly Sobchak, takes a photo of journalists during her interview in the Echo Moskvy (Echo of Moscow) radio station in Moscow on Wednesday.

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    An Egyptian walks past posters supporting Egyptian presidential candidate Ahmed Shafiq in Cairo, Egypt, Monday. Shafiq, the last prime minister of deposed president Hosni Mubarak, will face the Muslim Brotherhood's candidate, Mohammed Morsi, in a run-off on June 16-17.

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    Falklands Islanders attend a ceremony to pay homage to Britain's soldiers who died during the 1982's war against Argentina at “Liberation Monument” in Port Stanley, Falkland Islands, Thursday.

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    State Sen. Gloria Negrette McLeod, D-Chino, urges lawmakers to approve a bill she was carrying that would allow offenders sentenced to jail to get work release credit for participating in education, vocational, and drug treatment programs during the Senate session at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif., Thursday. The measure intended to help sheriffs deal with a new state law that sends less serious offenders to local jails instead of state prisons was passed by a 21-14 vote and sent to the Assembly for a final vote.

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    Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, left, speaks with ILO director, Chilean Juan Somavia, right, during the 101th International Labor Organization (ILO) Conference at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Thursday.

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    Singer Stevie Nicks, left, introduces Lifetime Achievement Award recipient Bette Midler at the 2012 Songwriters Hall of Fame induction and awards gala at the NYC Marriott Marquis Hotel, Thursday.

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    An election banner of radical left-wing Syriza party reads ''No more bailouts and Troika" as a homeless person sleeps at the entrance of a building near Omonia square in Athens, Thursday. Greece faces crucial national elections on Sunday, that could ultimately determine whether the debt-saddled, recession bound country remains in the Eurozone.

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