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The Week in Pictures

The Week in Pictures

From shopping mall dress codes to fireworks on the Fourth of July, here's what dominated the headlines this week

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    Presidential "candidate" Enrique Peña Nieto gestures to supporters at his party's headquarters in Mexico City, early Monday. Mexico's federal elections institute's preliminary count says Peña Nieto has won the presidency. The candidate for the old-ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, has won about 38 percent of the vote according to a representative count of the ballots.

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    Spain's Fernando Torres holds his son Leo after an award ceremony as Spain won the Euro 2012 soccer championship final between Spain and Italy in Kiev, Ukraine, early Monday.

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    Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev walks on the cable-stayed Russky Island Bridge in Vladivostok on Monday.

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    Marcia McCloud (right) and her great-granddaughter Makayla Milton find some comfort together at the Red Cross cooling shelter at Sandusky Middle School in Lynchburg, Va., on Sunday.

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    Israel's prime minister on Monday dissolved a high-profile committee assigned to reform the country's military draft law to spread the burden among more sectors of society, conscripting ultra-Orthodox Jews and requiring Israeli Arabs to do civilian service.

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    Horst Reichenbach, head of the Task Force of the European Commission, and Greek Deputy Minister of Development Notis Mitarachi, right, look on during a conference in Athens, on Tuesday.

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    A Palestinian woman stands by a drawing of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, displayed on a street corner in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Thursday.

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    Tuesday, Lee Sang-deuk, the elder brother of South Korean President Lee Myung-bak, is surrounded by media upon his arrival at the Supreme Prosecutors' Office in Seoul, South Korea. Lee is the latest high-profile figure to face questioning about alleged bribery in the country's banking industry.

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    Tuesday, Casey Anthony's defense attorney, Jose Baez, gestures as he speaks with the Associated Press in Coral Gables, Fla., as he promotes his new book.

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    President Barack Obama visits with service members while hosting an Independence Day celebration Wednesday on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington.

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    Russian President Vladimir Putin listens during a meeting with representatives of Russia's Belgorod region at a residence in Russia's Black sea resort of Sochi on Wednesday.

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    Wednesday, spectators watch as fireworks light up the sky during the Macy's fireworks display in New York City.

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    Indian Foreign Secretary Ranjan Mathai, right, shakes hand with his Pakistani counterpart Jalil Abbas Jilani before the start of delegation level talks in New Delhi, India, Wednesday. Officials from India and Pakistan have started another round of peace talks after the recent arrest of a key suspect in the terror attack on India’s financial capital four years ago.

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    Nassau County Police Department Detective Lt. John Azzata, left, gives information about a fatal boating accident during a news conference in Oyster Bay, N.Y., Thursday. Police say three bodies pulled out of New York's Long Island Sound after a yacht capsized on the Fourth of July were all children.

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    Actors perform during a show marking 50 years of Algeria's Independence in Algiers, early Thursday. As the Muslim North African nation celebrates 50 years of nationhood on Thursday, Algeria and France are locked in a war of memories that still weighs on lives on both sides of the Mediterranean, and on the two countries' ties.

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    President of European Central Bank Mario Draghi in Frankfurt, Germany, Thursday, after the ECB announced it would lower its main interest rate to 0.75 per cent.

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    A Libyan man walks near National Assembly election campaign posters at Martyr's Square in Tripoli, Libya, Thursday. The Libyan National Assembly elections take place on Saturday, the first free elections since 1969.

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    A Muslim Emirati woman passes by a dress code sign at a shopping mall in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. As the numbers of foreigners have increased, so have the stories of them violating the UAE's strict indecency code, which limits drinking to bars and nightclubs and bans public displays of affection.

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    A couple kisses outside a court where Argentina's historic "stolen babies" trial is being held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Thursday. Former dictators Jorge Videla and Reynaldo Bignone and a handful of other retired military and police officials are accused of systematically stealing babies from leftists who were kidnapped and killed when a military junta ran the country three decades ago.

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    Visitors tour near the huge screen at Samsung Electronics Co. showroom in Seoul, South Korea, Friday. Samsung Electronics Co., the world's largest maker of memory chips, mobile phones, flat-screen panels and televisions, said Friday that its preliminary second-quarter operating profit jumped nearly 80 percent from a year ago to a record high.

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