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Week in Photos

The Week in Photos: Face Off

This is the week that was, in photos…
6.30pm, 15 Jun 2013
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THIS IS THE week that was, in photos…

The Week in Photos: Face Off
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  • Red faced

    A Beijing Opera performer applies make-up on her face before the show in the back stage in Shanghai, China. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

  • Face to face

    An Iranian woman displays her ink-stained finger after casting her vote to choose a new president at the Iranian embassy in Damascus, Syria. What Iran's next president can potentially influence is the tone and tactics with world powers if stalemated nuclear talks resume at some point after a successor is picked for the firebrand President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. (AP Photo/Bassem Tellawi)

  • About face

    A protester, face stained by tear gas antidote sleeps in Gezi Park, in Istanbul. Riot police fired tear gas, water cannon and rubber bullets in day-long clashes that lasted into the early hours Wednesday, battling protesters who have been occupying Istanbul's central Taksim Square and its adjacent Gezi Park in the country's most severe anti-government protests in decades.(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

  • Face facts

    A balloon depicting Russian President Vladimir Putin behind barbed wire, reflects in glasses of an opposition protester during a protest rally in St.Petersburg, Russia. Wednesday's rally is in support of 27 people who face charges related to a protest that turned violent on the eve of Putin's inauguration more than a year ago. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)

  • Brave face

    U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Jason Dinkins with the 3rd Combat Aviation Brigade is hugged by his daughter Olivia Chastain after a welcome home ceremony at Hunter Army Airfield in Savannah, Ga. The aviation brigade deployed 2,200 soldiers to Afghanistan in December on a 9-month mission, but came home earlier than expected because of the readiness of the Afghan National Security. (AP Photo/Stephen Morton)

  • In the face of danger

    A masked protester is backdropped by a Turkish flag on the edge of Gezi Park, in Istanbul, Turkey. Riot police fired tear gas, water cannon and rubber bullets in day-long clashes that lasted into the early hours Wednesday, battling protesters who have been occupying Istanbul's central Taksim Square and its adjacent Gezi Park in the country's most severe anti-government protests in decades.(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

  • Save face

    A Munduruku Indian, holding a wooden bird topped walking stick, pauses during a march to the Ministry of Mines and Energy, in Brasilia, Brazil. The group along with others had been occupying the controversial Belo Monte dam being built in the Amazon on the Xingu River. They were recently flown to Brasilia by the government for talks to try to end the occupation. Environmentalists and indigenous groups say the dam would devastate wildlife and the livelihoods of thousands of people who live in the area to be flooded. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

  • Long face

    The dog of a protester wearing sun glasses lays on the ground at the Gezi park of Taksim square in Istanbul. Turkey's main opposition party leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu has called on the prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to stop escalating tensions as anti-government protests that have led to three deaths entered their 11th day. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

  • Face off

    As they are seen through the holes in a giant photograph, a protester sleeps, left hole, as another closes his tent, center hole, at the Gezi park of Taksim Square in Istanbul. Turkey's government on Wednesday offered a first concrete gesture aimed at ending nearly two weeks of street protests, proposing a referendum on a development project in Istanbul that triggered demonstrations that have become the biggest challenge to Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's 10-year tenure. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

  • Facing it

    Lions performs during a show in Ukraine's National Circus in Kiev, Ukraine. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

  • Facing the past

    A peace activist with painted face symbolizing a victim of the civil war between the Ethnic Kachin fighters and Myanmar government security forces participates in a peace march marking second anniversary of the resumption of the fighting between Kachin rebels and government forces in Myanmar's northern Kachin state, in Yangon, Myanmar. 17-year old ceasefire broke down in northern Kachin estate in June 2011, displacing thousands, injuring and killing hundreds more.(AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)

  • Face of the earth

    A woman sports an image of a cannabis leaf on her forehead during a march in favor of the legalization of marijuana in Sao Paulo, Brazil. (AP Photo/Nelson Antoine)

  • Face value

    Protesters sleep in Kugulu Park in Ankara, Turkey. A senior European Union official, the EU enlargement commissioner Stefan Fule on Friday, criticized Turkish police's harsh crackdown on protesters in the last week. Fule stated Turkey should aspire to the highest standards of democracy.(AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)

  • Face of wisdom

    An elderly Kashmiri Muslim woman belonging to nomadic Gujjar tribe reacts to the camera at a forest shrine of Miyan Peer, in Baba Nagri, about 44 kilometers (28 miles) northeast of Srinagar, India. Thousands of devotees thronged the shrine of Miyan Peer, a revered Muslim saint of the nomadic Gujjar tribe, to observe his death anniversary in Baba Nagri. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

  • What's-his-face

    A Beijing Opera performer applies make-up on his face before the show in the back stage in Shanghai, China. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
  • A Beijing Opera performer applies make-up on her face before the show in the back stage in Shanghai, China. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
  • An Iranian woman displays her ink-stained finger after casting her vote to choose a new president at the Iranian embassy in Damascus, Syria. What Iran's next president can potentially influence is the tone and tactics with world powers if stalemated nuclear talks resume at some point after a successor is picked for the firebrand President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. (AP Photo/Bassem Tellawi)
  • A protester, face stained by tear gas antidote sleeps in Gezi Park, in Istanbul. Riot police fired tear gas, water cannon and rubber bullets in day-long clashes that lasted into the early hours Wednesday, battling protesters who have been occupying Istanbul's central Taksim Square and its adjacent Gezi Park in the country's most severe anti-government protests in decades.(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
  • A balloon depicting Russian President Vladimir Putin behind barbed wire, reflects in glasses of an opposition protester during a protest rally in St.Petersburg, Russia. Wednesday's rally is in support of 27 people who face charges related to a protest that turned violent on the eve of Putin's inauguration more than a year ago. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)
  • U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Jason Dinkins with the 3rd Combat Aviation Brigade is hugged by his daughter Olivia Chastain after a welcome home ceremony at Hunter Army Airfield in Savannah, Ga. The aviation brigade deployed 2,200 soldiers to Afghanistan in December on a 9-month mission, but came home earlier than expected because of the readiness of the Afghan National Security. (AP Photo/Stephen Morton)
  • A masked protester is backdropped by a Turkish flag on the edge of Gezi Park, in Istanbul, Turkey. Riot police fired tear gas, water cannon and rubber bullets in day-long clashes that lasted into the early hours Wednesday, battling protesters who have been occupying Istanbul's central Taksim Square and its adjacent Gezi Park in the country's most severe anti-government protests in decades.(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
  • A Munduruku Indian, holding a wooden bird topped walking stick, pauses during a march to the Ministry of Mines and Energy, in Brasilia, Brazil. The group along with others had been occupying the controversial Belo Monte dam being built in the Amazon on the Xingu River. They were recently flown to Brasilia by the government for talks to try to end the occupation. Environmentalists and indigenous groups say the dam would devastate wildlife and the livelihoods of thousands of people who live in the area to be flooded. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)
  • The dog of a protester wearing sun glasses lays on the ground at the Gezi park of Taksim square in Istanbul. Turkey's main opposition party leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu has called on the prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to stop escalating tensions as anti-government protests that have led to three deaths entered their 11th day. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)
  • As they are seen through the holes in a giant photograph, a protester sleeps, left hole, as another closes his tent, center hole, at the Gezi park of Taksim Square in Istanbul. Turkey's government on Wednesday offered a first concrete gesture aimed at ending nearly two weeks of street protests, proposing a referendum on a development project in Istanbul that triggered demonstrations that have become the biggest challenge to Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's 10-year tenure. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)
  • Lions performs during a show in Ukraine's National Circus in Kiev, Ukraine. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
  • A peace activist with painted face symbolizing a victim of the civil war between the Ethnic Kachin fighters and Myanmar government security forces participates in a peace march marking second anniversary of the resumption of the fighting between Kachin rebels and government forces in Myanmar's northern Kachin state, in Yangon, Myanmar. 17-year old ceasefire broke down in northern Kachin estate in June 2011, displacing thousands, injuring and killing hundreds more.(AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)
  • A woman sports an image of a cannabis leaf on her forehead during a march in favor of the legalization of marijuana in Sao Paulo, Brazil. (AP Photo/Nelson Antoine)
  • Protesters sleep in Kugulu Park in Ankara, Turkey. A senior European Union official, the EU enlargement commissioner Stefan Fule on Friday, criticized Turkish police's harsh crackdown on protesters in the last week. Fule stated Turkey should aspire to the highest standards of democracy.(AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)
  • An elderly Kashmiri Muslim woman belonging to nomadic Gujjar tribe reacts to the camera at a forest shrine of Miyan Peer, in Baba Nagri, about 44 kilometers (28 miles) northeast of Srinagar, India. Thousands of devotees thronged the shrine of Miyan Peer, a revered Muslim saint of the nomadic Gujjar tribe, to observe his death anniversary in Baba Nagri. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)
  • A Beijing Opera performer applies make-up on his face before the show in the back stage in Shanghai, China. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

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