Pictures of the week: Nov. 25, 2016 - MSN.com

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Port-au-Prince, Haiti
A police officer drives a police truck with its windshield smashed during a protest by supporters of presidential candidate Maryse Narcisse on Nov. 21. Supporters of the Lavalas Family candidate marched either claiming victory for Narcisse or claiming electoral fraud that would keep her from office. Election results are expected no earlier than Sunday, Nov. 27.





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Haifa, Israel
A firefighter plane helps extinguish a bushfire on Nov. 24. Hundreds of Israelis fled their homes on the outskirts of the country's third city Haifa with others trapped inside as firefighters struggled to control raging bushfires, officials said.





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Washington, D.C.
President Barack Obama with his nephews Aaron Robinson and Austin Robinson, and National Turkey Federation Chairman John Reicks, pardons the National Thanksgiving Turkey, Tot, on Nov. 23, during a ceremony in the Rose Garden of the White House. This is the 69th anniversary of the National Thanksgiving Turkey presentation.





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Qayara, Iraq
An oil worker walks next to burning oil fields on Nov. 22. For months, residents of the Iraqi town of Qayara have lived in the darkness from a cloud of toxic fumes released by oil fields lit by retreating Islamic State fighters.





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Delhi, India
A woman paints the floor of a pond on Nov. 23.





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Tokyo, Japan
Blue LED lights illuminate trees in Shibuya, on Nov. 22.





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Shanxi, China
An aerial view of a pile-up after an accident on Beijing–Kunming Expressway in Yuxian County, on Nov. 21.





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The Vatican
A view of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican as Pope Francis, sitting in the centre of the altar, celebrates a consistory on Nov. 19. Pope Francis has named 17 new cardinals, 13 of them under age 80 and thus eligible to vote in a conclave to elect his successor





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Washington, D.C.
Actor Robert De Niro (R) comforts comedienne Ellen DeGeneres as she gets teary-eyed after receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, from President Barack Obama, during a ceremony at the White House on Nov. 22.





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Scheveningen, Netherlands
Participants compete in the Red Bull Knock Out motocross on Nov. 19.

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Mosul, Iraq
An Islamic State suicide bomber attacks Iraqi special forces soldiers with a car bomb during clashes on Nov. 19.





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Ritsona, Greece
A man balances a child on his hand at a refugee camp on Nov. 22.





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Antigua, West Indies
Prince Harry (C) is saluted by young cricketers as he attends youth sports festival at Sir Vivian Richards Stadium on Nov. 21.





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Nazare, Portugal
A surfer drops in on a large wave at Praia do Norte on Nov. 19.





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Bowraville, Australia
Volkswagen Polo WRC car, driven by Andreas Mikkelsen of Norway, seen in action during the second day of the World Rally Championship event, on Nov. 19.





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Monterrey, Mexico
Participants take a selfie after a nocturnal 5K color glow party run on Nov. 19.





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Moscow
Members of a cheerleading team warm-up during the Russian Cheerleading Championship of students on Nov. 20.





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Istanbul
A fireman tries to extinguish a fully developed fire at a plastic factory on Nov. 22.





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Brasília, Brazil
An indigenous man from the Pataxo tribe participates in a protest against agribusinesses and, in demand of the demarcation of their ancestral lands, on Nov. 22.





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Baikonur, Kazakhstan
The Soyuz MS-03 spacecraft launches carrying the International Space Station Expedition 50 Soyuz MS-03 prime crew ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet, NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson and Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy, on Nov. 18.

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Ceuta, Spain
Grace Maroura Samoura, an immigrant from Guinea-Conakry, who lives at CETI (the short-stay immigrant center), seen backstage before taking part in a fashion show organised by local Red Cross on Nov. 18.





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Mosul, Iraq
An Iraqi woman, who fled her village due to the fighting in Mosul, holds her child after crossing the Tigris River, in Tall Adh-Dhahab, on Nov. 19.





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Kiev, Ukraine
An elderly woman cries at the memorial for the killed Maidan activists during a ceremony marking the third anniversary of the Euromaidan beginning on Nov. 21.





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North Korea
This picture released by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), on Nov. 19, shows a firing contest among women multiple launch rocket system (MLRS) gunners selected from the large combined units of the KPA at an undisclosed location.





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Muscat, Oman
Participants hold candles forming the shape and colors of the Omani flag as they try to break the Guinness World Record of the largest human flag lit with candles, with a total of 2016 people, on Nov. 21, at the Qurum amphitheatre.