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Week in pictures: 8 - 14 February

15 Feb 2015

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Philippe Huguen

LILLE, TUESDAY:

LAS VEGAS, NV - FEBRUARY 10:The Clarion Hotel and Casino is imploded on February 10, 2015 in Las Vegas, Nevada. It is the first casino implosion in Las Vegas since the New Frontier Hotel & Ca

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LAS VEGAS, TUESDAY:

Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi (C) greets supporters as she leaves celebrations to mark the 100th birthday of the country's independence hero, her father Aung San, in the remote c

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MYANMAR, FRIDAY:

LOS ANGELES, CA - FEBRUARY 08:Singer Taylor Swift attends The 57th Annual GRAMMY Awards at the at the STAPLES Center on February 8, 2015 in Los Angeles, California.(Photo by Kevork Djansezian

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LOS ANGELES, SUNDAY:

A Pakistani policewoman fires a heavy machine gun during a special elite police training course at a police training centre in Nowshera, a district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province on Febru

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PAKISTAN, WEDNESDAY:

BERLIN, GERMANY - FEBRUARY 08:Actress Natalie Portman attends the 'Knight of Cups' premiere during the 65th Berlinale International Film Festival at Berlinale Palace on February 8, 2015 in Be

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BERLIN, SUNDAY:

Members of the Economic Freedom Fighters, wearing red uniforms, clash with security forces during South African President's State of the Nation address in Cape Town on February 12, 2015. Secu

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CAPE TOWN, THURSDAY:

Russia's President Vladimir Putin (C) uses an elevator at the presidential residence in Minsk, on February 12, 2015, during a meeting aimed at ending 10 months of fighting in Ukraine. There i

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MINSK, THURSDAY:

People take part in a vigil for three young Muslims killed in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, at Dupont Circle on February 12, 2015 in Washington, DC. The three were killed by a neighbour in wha

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WASHINGTON, THURSDAY:

A Muslim demonstrator (L) speaks with an opposing nationalist demonstration group, as police stand by, near Downing Street in central London on February 8, 2015. Hundreds of demonstrators den

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LONDON, SUNDAY:

Nato’s renaissance: how the world’s most powerful military alliance has taken centre stage

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Talking point

Curtailing abortion rights: will Republicans rue their victory?

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In Brief

How the Taliban is rolling back the freedoms of the past 20 years

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Today’s newspapers

‘Can we now just focus on the big issues?’

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Tall Tales

George W Bush performs ‘history’s greatest Freudian slip’

Prime Minister’s Questions in the House of Commons on Wednesday

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Instant Opinion

‘Secrecy over Tory MP accused of rape is damaging to democracy’

The flagship McDonald's on Pushkin Square in Moscow

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The latest on . . .

Russian roulette for McDonald’s, Unilever and Renault

The tombs of the Caliphs in el-Arafa necropolis

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In Depth

Inside Cairo’s City of the Dead

The mysterious Russian oligarch deaths

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In Depth

Depp v. Heard: what the latest battle has revealed

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Why we’re talking about . . .

Is Vladimir Putin seriously ill?

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Week in pictures: 8 - 14 February

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