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The Week in Pictures

From election fights in the Ukraine to unrest in Syria, here's what dominated the headlines this week SLIDE SHOW

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  • Venezuela's Vice-President Nicolas Maduro, center, accompanied by other members of the cabinet, delivers a speech at the presidential palace in Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday. Maduro said on Venezuelan television Chavez was recovering in Cuba after an operation targeting an aggressive cancer that has defied multiple treatments. The operation was "complex" but was completed "correctly and successfully," he said. (AP Photo/Miraflores Press Office, Francisco Batista)

    Nicolas Maduro

  • This image released by Starpix shows Bruce Springsteen, left, and Jon Bon Jovi performing at the 12-12-12 Concert for Sandy Relief at Madison Square Garden in New York on Wednesday. Proceeds from the show will be distributed through the Robin Hood Foundation. (AP Photo/Starpix, Dave Allocca)

    Sandy relief concert

  • Opponents of Poland's last communist leader Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski attend an annual rally in front of his house in Warsaw, Poland, Thursday to mark the anniversary of the martial law he imposed on Poland 31 years ago, a repressive crackdown against Lech Walesa's Solidarity movement in an attempt to crush the proponents of democracy. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)

    Poland

  • House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of California gestures as she meets with reporters during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday. Pelosi questions why the fiscal cliff negotiations are going to the last minute. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

    Nancy Pelosi

  • U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, center, talks with Army Maj. Gen. Robert Abrams, right, and Command Sgt. Maj. Edd Watson, left, during a visit to Kandahar Airfield in Kandahar, Afghanistan, Thursday. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, Pool)

    Leon Panetta

  • Syrian citizens gather next to cars that were destroyed by a car bomb in Qatana, (25) kilometers (15 miles) southwest of Damascus, Syria, Thursday. A bomb blast near a school in a Damascus suburb killed more than a dozen people, at least half of them women and children, the state news agency reported. (AP Photo/SANA)

    Syria

  • A woman places flowers in front of an image of Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez in preparation for a mass in support of him in Managua, Nicaragua, Wednesday. Venezuela's Information Minister Ernesto Villegas expressed hope about Chavez's returning home for his Jan. 10 swearing-in for a new six-year term after his cancer surgery in Cuba, but said in a written message on a government website that if Chavez doesn't make it, "our people should be prepared to understand." (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

    Chavez

  • Police push back hundreds of protesters trying to enter a courthouse where prosecutors are scheduled to deliver final arguments in the case against 270 people accused of plotting to overturn the Islamic-leaning government, in Silivri near Istanbul. Turkey, Thursday. (AP Photo)

    Turkey protests

  • A protester injured in his eye from recent clashes looks on in front of the presidential palace in Cairo, Egypt, Thursday. Egypt's opposition called on its followers to vote "no" in a crucial referendum on a disputed constitution drafted by Islamist supporters of President Mohammed Morsi. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

    Egypt protests

  • Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures during a state-of-the-nation address in Moscow, Wednesday. Putin on Wednesday angrily rejected what he described as attempts to enforce foreign patterns of democracy on Russia and vowed to preserve the nation's identity against interference from abroad. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

    Vladimir Putin

  • Ukrainian lawmakers fight around the rostrum during the first session of Ukraine's newly elected parliament in Kiev, Ukraine, Thursday. (AP Photo/Sergei Chuzavkov)

    Ukraine lawmakers

  • Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman speaks to the media during an event of his political party in Tel Aviv, Israel, on Friday. Lieberman has announced he is resigning a day after an indictment for breach of trust was filed against him by the country's attorney general. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty, File)

    Avigdor Lieberman

  • Switzerland's Lara Gut celebrates at the finish line after winning a women's Alpine Ski World Cup downhill race, in Val d'Isere, France, Friday. (AP Photo/Pier Marco Tacca)

    Lara Gut

  • Terry Kramer, head of the U.S. delegation, right, listens to a speech at the final day of World Conference on International Telecommunications in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Friday. Envoys in Dubai signed a new U.N. telecommunications treaty Friday that a U.S.-led delegation says endorses greater government control of the Internet. The U.S. and more than 20 other countries refused to ratify the accord by the 193-nation International Telecommunications Union. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)

    Terry Kramer

  • A Free Syrian Army fighter fires at Syrian Army positions in Tal Sheer village, north of Aleppo province, Syria, Thursday. (AP Photo / Manu Brabo)

    Free Syrian Army

  • This image released by NBC shows co-host Matt Lauer, left, with PGA of America president Ted Bishop, center, and golfer Tom Watson on NBC News' "Today" show, Thursday in New York. Watson was announced as the captain for the U.S. Ryder Cup team. (AP Photo/NBC, Peter Kramer)

    Tom Watson

  • New York Knicks center Tyson Chandler (6) defends Los Angeles Lakers center Dwight Howard (12) in the first half of their NBA basketball game at Madison Square Garden in New York, Thursday. The Knicks defeated the Lakers 116-107. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

    New York Knicks

  • Visitors watch waves crash on a cliff in Pescadero, Calif., Thursday. The National Weather Service says so-called King Tides caused by a rather unique combination of how the sun, the moon and the earth align will bring the highest tides of the year on Thursday, Friday and Saturday mornings. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

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  • A missing poster hangs on a tree outside the Cleveland home of Amanda Berry Wednesday. Berry and two other women, Michelle Knight and Gina DeJesus, made a daring escape this week after being held captive for more than a decade.
    Credit: AP/Tony Dejak

  • Elvis Rafael Rodriguez and Emir Yasser Yeje offer their best impression of  Eric B. & Rakim. On Thursday, New York prosecutors identified the pair as members of an international gang that robbed $45 million in a matter of hours by hacking into a database of prepaid debit cards and draining ATM machines around the world.
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  • New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie walks to a podium during the groundbreaking ceremony for the Technology Enhanced Accelerated Learning Center at Essex County Newark Tech in Newark, N.J., Tuesday. Christie made less flattering headlines this week after undergoing a secret stomach surgery to curb his weight.
    Credit: AP/Julio Cortez

  • Workers stand outside the Tung Hai Sweater Ltd. factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Thursday after a fire broke out in its 11-story building. Eight people were killed in the blaze.
    Credit: AP/Ismail Ferdous

  • Workers rescue a woman trapped for 17 days in the rubble of a garment factory building in Saver, Bangladesh, Friday. The building's collapse was the worst industrial disaster in the country's history, killing more than 1,000 people.
    Credit: AP

  • Former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford gives his victory speech Tuesday in Mt. Pleasant, S.C., after winning back his old congressional seat in the state's first district.
    Credit: AP/Rainier Ehrhardt

  • Jodi Arias reacts in Maricopa Country Superior Court Wednesday after being found guilty of first-degree murder in the gruesome killing of her one-time boyfriend, Travis Alexander. Arias has subsequently said she wants the death penalty, claiming she'd "prefer to die sooner than later."
    Credit: AP/The Arizona Republic/Rob Schumacher

  • Ariel Castro stands for his mug shot Thursday at the Cuyahoga County Corrections Center, where he is being held on $8 million bail. The former bus driver is accused of imprisoning three young women and beating them repeatedly over a period of 10 years.
    Credit: AP/Cuyahoga County

  • Charles Ramsey addresses the media Monday after helping rescue three women held captive in Cleveland for more than a decade. Ramsey's hero portraiture has been complicated by revelations of his own domestic violence record.
    Credit: AP/The Plain Dealer/Scott Shaw

  • Michael B. Donley, Secretary of the Air Force, testifies during a Senate Appropriations Defense Subcommittee hearing on Capitol Hill Wednesday. The military branch was rocked this week after its chief sexual assault prevention officer was charged with sexual battery.
    Credit: AP/Carolyn Kaster

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