The Week in Pictures: January 14 - 21, 2016 - NBC News

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1. A mother receives free blanket handed out to earthquake victims at Lapark, Nepal, Jan. 19, 2016. Lapark is one of the epicenter villages of the Gorkha district, where more than 600 hundreds houses were destroyed during earthquake on April 25, 2015. Hundreds of earthquake victims living in shelters at a highland altitude have been facing a harsh winter season after snowfall in Lapark.
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2. A sled dog is covered in ice after spending the night in the open air with his musher at the polar base of Val-Cenis, as they ready for the next stage of the 12th edition of "La Grande Odyssee" sledding race across the Alps on Sunday in Val Cenis Lanslevillard, France.
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3. A women and her children stand in the ruins of battle-damaged house in the Kurdish town of Silopi, in southeastern Turkey, near the border with Iraq on Jan. 19, 2016. Turkey is waging an all-out offensive against the separatist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), with military operations backed by curfews aimed at flushing out rebels from several southeastern urban centers.
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4. Migrants walk through a frozen field after crossing the border from Macedonia, near the village of Miratovac, Serbia, on Jan. 18, 2016.
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5. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at the John Wayne Birthplace Museum on Jan. 19, 2016 in Winterset, Iowa. Trump received the endorsement of Aissa Wayne, John Wayne's daughter.
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6. A California Highway Patrol officer moves belongings from a Greyhound bus crash that left two dead and at least eight injured on Jan. 19, 2016, in San Jose, Calif. A Greyhound spokeswoman said the bus, which left Los Angeles Monday night, was carrying 20 passengers in addition to the driver.
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7. Thousands of Ultra-Orthodox Jews attend the funeral of Rabbi Rafael Shmuelevitz, head of the Mir Yeshiva in Jerusalem, Israel, on Jan. 19, 2016. Thousands attend the funeral of Rabbi Rafael Shmuelevitz who died late on Monday at the age of 78. Mir Yeshiva is the largest yeshiva (Jewish institution for studying traditional religious texts) in Israel and one of the largest in the world with over 7,500 students.
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8. A couple stands under an umbrella to shield themselves from heavy rain on the seafront at the Corniche, or waterfront promenade, in Beirut, Lebanon, on Jan. 19, 2016. This photo was taken through the window of a car.
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9. Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., leaves after speaking to a crowded room during a campaign stop on Jan. 18, 2016, in Birmingham, Ala.
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10. Donald Trump supporters sing Christian songs before the Republican presidential candidate delivers the convocation on the campus of Liberty University on Jan. 18, 2016 in Lynchburg, Va. A billionaire real estate mogul and reality television personality, Trump addressed students and guests at the non-profit, private Christian university that was founded in 1971 by evangelical Southern Baptist televangelist Jerry Falwell.
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11. A polar bear enjoys the cold winter weather at the zoo in Gelsenkirchen, Germany on Jan. 20, 2016.
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12. Russian Orthodox believers bathe in ice water in a pond to mark Epiphany outside Simferopol, Crimea, on Jan. 19, 2016. Water that is blessed by a cleric on Epiphany is considered holy and pure until next year's celebration, and is believed to have special powers of protection and healing. The Russian Orthodox Church follows the old Julian calendar.
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13. A man holds his baby while waiting with other migrants and refugees at a train station in the Presevo, Serbia on Jan. 20, 2016. As refugees continued to flow from Greece through the Balkans on their way to western Europe, aid workers sounded alarms over inadequate shelter from the current freezing temperatures and snowy conditions, particularly for children.
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14. The burned-out exterior of the "Cappuccino" restaurant is seen in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, on Jan. 17, 2016, a day after security forces retook the Splendid Hotel from al-Qaeda fighters who seized it in an assault that killed two dozen people from at least 18 countries and marked a major escalation of Islamist militancy in West Africa.
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15. Juliana, a 20-year-old rebel fighter for the 36th Front of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, rests from a trek in the northwest Andes of Colombia, in Antioquia state, on Jan. 6, 2016. Like many of her comrades in arms, her path to the FARC was born as much from personal tragedy as political ideology. In her case, she fled an impoverished home at age 16 and followed in the footsteps of an uncle after being raped by her stepfather.
This photo was released by The Associated Press on January 18.
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16. Kashmiri Muslims watch the funeral procession of Shariq Ahmad Bhat, a suspected rebel, in Bandnu village, Indian controlled Kashmir, on Jan. 20, 2016. Bhat was killed in a gunbattle with Indian government forces Wednesday.
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17. A migrant child looks out of a window of a passenger train in Presevo, close to the Serbian border with Macedonia, Serbia, on Jan. 18, 2016. Bracing cold temperatures and snow storms hundreds of migrants continue to arrive daily into Serbia in order to register and continue their journey further north towards Western Europe.
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18. A man and a woman play their accordions and sing as they ride a horse drawn sleigh celebrating the Kolyada holiday (Pull Kalyada to the oak) in Martsiyanauka, Belarus on Jan. 21, 2016.
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