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The Week in Pictures
From union struggles in Chicago to Mideast protests, a look at what dominated the headlines this week
By Carmen GarciaTopics: The Week in Pictures, Life News
The Week in Pictures
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Indian policemen line up to control residents protesting against the Russian built Kudamkulam nuclear plant on the Bay of Bengal coast at Kudamkulam, Tamil Nadu state, India, Monday. Activists opposed to the plant argue that Japan's Fukushima nuclear disaster caused by a massive earthquake and tsunami last March showed that such plants are vulnerable to natural disasters. (AP Photo)
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Public school teachers picket outside Amundsen High School on the first day of a strike by the Chicago Teachers Union, Monday, in Chicago. The school is one of more than 140 schools in the Chicago Public Schools' "Children First" contingency plan, which feeds and houses students for four hours during the strike. (AP Photo/Sitthixay Ditthavong)
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrives for the first session of the budget 2012 debate at the parliament Bundestag in Berlin, Tuesday. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
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Prince William Duke of Cambridge and his wife, Catherine Duchess of Cambridge, view an orchid hybrid named after Diana, Princess of Wales, during a tour the Orchid Garden within the Singapore Botanical Gardens in Singapore, Tuesday. The Duke and Duchess are on their first stop of a 10 day tour of Southeast Asia and the South Pacific on behalf of Queen Elizabeth II to commemorate her Diamond Jubilee. (AP Photo)
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Oakland Raiders running back Darren McFadden (20) runs against San Diego Chargers linebacker Demorrio Williams (58) during the second quarter of an NFL football game in Oakland, Calif., Monday. (AP Photo/Tony Avelar)
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Vice President Joe Biden, left, and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar arrive at the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, Pa., for a 9/11 memorial service, Tuesday. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
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Monday, Shiite Muslims pray inside the Shiite mosque of Imam Bargah Kallah in Pakistan's violent Baluchistan capital of Quetta, Pakistan, where radical Sunni Muslim rivals have terrorized and murdered minority Shiites in a wave of suicide bombings and target killings. (AP Photo)
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Judges Britney Spears, left, and Demi Lovato sign their names during a handprint ceremony at "The X Factor" Season 2 premiere at Grauman's Chinese Theatre on Tuesday, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)
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Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Nda looks on during a debate by Democratic Party presidential election candidates at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo Wednesday. Noda and three others from the Democratic Party of Japan, none of them high-profile politicians, announced Monday that they will run in the Sept. 21 poll. (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye)
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The Tribute in Light lights up lower Manhattan, Tuesday, on the 11th anniversary of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, in New York. (AP Photo/Henny Ray Abrams)
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Protesters chant slogans amid orange smoke outside the U.S. embassy in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday. Egyptian protesters, largely ultra-conservative Islamists, have climbed the walls of the U.S. embassy in Cairo, went into the courtyard and brought down the flag, replacing it with a black flag with Islamic inscription, in protest of a film deemed offensive of Islam. (AP Photo/Mohammed Abu Zaid)
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Overseas Filipino Workers, who fled the civil war in Syria, cry upon arriving at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport via a chartered flight by the International Organization for Migration on Tuesday, in Manila, Philippines. The nearly 300 workers, all of them young women who worked as baby sitters and maids in Syria, said they were scared for their safety and sought shelter at the Philippine Embassy in Damascus until their repatriation Tuesday. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)
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Conservative VVD supporters react as the first results of the general elections are announced in The Hague, Netherlands, Wednesday. (AP Photo/Ermindo Armino)
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A large group of public schoolteachers rally at John Marshall Metropolitan High School on Wednesday in West Chicago. (AP Photo/Sitthixay Ditthavong)
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The alleged leader of the Gulf drug cartel, Jorge Eduardo Costilla Sanchez, aka "El Coss," is shown during a media presentation at the Mexican Navy's Center for Advanced Naval Studies in Mexico City,Thursday. One of Mexico's most-wanted men, the 41-year-old is charged in the U.S. with drug-trafficking and threatening U.S. law enforcement officials. U.S. authorities offered $5 million for information leading to his arrest. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)
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Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, center, and Finance Minister Yannis Stournaras, right, meet with French Finance Minister Pierre Moscovici, in Athens, on Thursday. (AP Photo/Louisa Gouliamaki, pool)
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UNHCR Special Envoy Angelina Jolie meets with Syrian refugee children in an undisclosed refugee camp close to the Syrian border in eastern Turkey Thursday. United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres and his Special Envoy, Angelina Jolie, continued their regional tour visiting Turkey today, to hear accounts from Syrian refugees. (AP Photo/UNHCR, Jason Tanner)
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Yoko Ono arrives at a "Lady Gaga Fame" fragrance launch event at the Guggenheim Museum on Thursday in New York. The black tie masquerade event will feature a performance art piece by Lady Gaga. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)
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Spain's David Ferrer celebrates after winning against Sam Querrey of the U.S., unseen, in the first singles match at Davis Cup World Group Semi-final tennis match in Gijon, northern Spain, Friday. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)
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Sweden's Linda Wessberg plays to the green on the 18th hole during the first round of the Women's British Open golf championships at Royal Liverpool Golf Club, Hoylake, England, Thursday. (AP Photo/Jon Super)
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Lisa Montgomery embraces her nephew Thursday after a tornado tore apart her home in Cleburne, Texas. The twister killed six people and destroyed entire swaths of the North Texas town.
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Attorney General Eric Holder pauses as he testifies on Capitol Hill before the House Judiciary Committee Wednesday. Holder is under fire, among other things, for the Justice Department's gathering of phone records at the Associated Press.
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O.J. Simpson sits during an evidentiary hearing at Clark County District Court in Las Vegas, Nev., Thursday. Simpson, who is currently serving a nine-to-33-year sentence in state prison for armed robbery and kidnapping, is using a writ of habeas corpus to seek a new trial.
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Major Tom to ground control: On Sunday astronaut Chris Hadfield recorded the first music video from space, a cover of David Bowie's "Space Oddity."
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When it rains it pours. President Barack Obama speaks during a news conference Thursday with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, inexplicably inspiring an #umbrellagate Twitter meme.
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A smoke plume rises high above a road block at the intersection of County A and Ross Road east of Solon Springs, Wis., Tuesday. No injuries were reported, but the the wildfire caused evacuations across northwestern Wisconsin.
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