The Week in Pictures: Dec. 9 - 16, 2016 - NBC News

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1. Peacekeeper troops from Ethiopia and deployed in the United Nations (UN) Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA) patrol at night in Abyei town, Abyei state, Sudan on Dec. 14, 2016.
Albert Gonzalez Farran / AFP - Getty Images





2. Kashmiri Muslims pray as a priest displays a relic believed to be a hair from the beard of Prophet Muhammed during Eid-e-Milad-un-Nabi, the birthday of the Prophet, at the Hazratbal Shrine in Srinagar, in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, on Dec. 12.
Tauseef Mustafa / AFP - Getty Images





3. A man lights up his cigarette with the flames of a bus burned by anti-government demonstrators during a protest against the constitutional amendment PEC 55, which limits public spending, in front of Brazil's National Congress in Brasilia, Dec. 13.
Adriano Machado / Reuters





4. Steven Washington, 9, dives faces first into a fresh pile of snow, taking a break from shoveling his grandmother's driveway after school was called off for a snow day Monday, Dec. 12, on Flint, Michigan's north side.
Jake May / The Flint Journal-MLive.com via AP





5. Sparrows fly along the edge of the forest as they feed in the field in outskirts Minsk, Belarus, Dec. 12.
Sergei Grits / AP





6. A reflection on waste liquid shows a man waving a Free Syrian flag as an aid convoy to Aleppo organized by IHH Humanitarian Relief Foundation is about to leave, on Dec. 14, in Istanbul.
OZAN KOSE / AFP - Getty Images





7. An elderly Syrian man is carried during an evacuation operation of rebel fighters and their families from rebel-held neighborhoods on Dec. 15, in the embattled city of Aleppo. A convoy of ambulances and buses left rebel territory in Aleppo in the first evacuations under a deal for opposition fighters to leave the city after years of fighting. The rebel withdrawal will pave the way for President Bashar al-Assad's forces to reclaim complete control of Syria's second city, handing the regime its biggest victory in more than five years of civil war.
Karam al-Masri / AFP - Getty Images





8. Forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad stand atop a damaged tank near Umayyad mosque, in the government-controlled area of Aleppo, during a media tour, Syria, Dec. 13.
Omar Sanadiki / Reuters





9. An injured man sits inside an ambulance as Syrian rebels and their families gather at the rebel-held al-Amiriyah neighborhood, while waiting to be evacuated to the government-controlled area of Ramouss, a on the southern outskirts of the city, on Dec. 15.
Karam al-Masri / AFP - Getty Images





10. The pre-Alpine region near Bernbeuren, southern Germany, is pictured during the sunrise on Dec. 16.
Karl-Josef Hildenbrand / AFP - Getty Images





11. Supporters of the opposition Social Democratic Union of Macedonia (SDSM) party hold flares and wave Macedonian flags during the party's last election rally in Skopje, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Dec. 9.
Georgi Licovski / EPA





12. An Egyptian Coptic nun weeps as she looks at damages inside the St. Mark Cathedral in central Cairo, following a bombing, Dec. 11. The blast at Egypt's main Coptic Christian cathedral killed dozens of people and wounded many others on Sunday, according to Egyptian state television, making it one of the deadliest attacks carried out against the religious minority in recent memory.
Nariman El-Mofty / AP





13. Businessman Bill Gates arrives at Trump Tower in Manhattan, New York City, Dec. 13.
Andrew Kelly / Reuters