November 1, 2011. Hindu devotees in the Indian state of Bihar wade into the Ganges during an annual festival honoring the sun deity.Aftab Alam Siddiqui—AP Photo
From the G20 Summit protests and Kabul’s suicide bombings to escalating violence in Gaza and religious pilgrimages, TIME’s photo department presents the best images of the week.
October 29, 2011. In the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh, Palestinian stone throwers clash with Israeli forces following the weekly demonstration against Israel’s continued settlement expansion. Abbas Momani—AFP/Getty ImagesOctober 29, 2011. A policeman in riot gear arrests a protester at the Occupy Denver camp. Police trying to tear down some newly erected tents at the encampment scuffled with demonstrators. They also arrested about six people and pepper-sprayed others during the melee. John Moore—Getty ImagesNovember 1, 2011. Protesters demonstrate in the French resort town of Cannes, two days before the G-20 economic summit convened there. Demonstrators planned to march by the thousands through the streets of neighboring Nice in opposition to omnipotent corporations and their government enablers.
Valery Hache—AFP/Getty ImagesNovember 1, 2011. Members of the Gendarmerie erect a barricade ahead of an anti-G20 demonstration in Nice, France. Anti-G20 demonstrators are gathering in Nice ahead of the arrival of the world's top economic leaders for the G20 summit in Cannes. Christopher Furlong—Getty ImagesNovember 1, 2011. General view as anti G20 demonstrators hold up signs near a sphere decorated as the planet with the message, "Hello, the G20?" as they take part in a protest march against globalisation in Nice, southeastern France. Eric Gaillard—ReutersOctober 31, 2011. A bloodied Afghan policeman stands near a building in Kandahar that housed offices of a U.N. refugee agency. At least five died when a suicide bomber backed a truck into the building. It was the second major attack in days on international aid organizations in the provincial capital.
Ahmad Nadeem—ReutersOctober 29, 2011. A foreign soldier investigates the crater caused by an explosion at the site of a suicide attack in Kabul. At least four people were killed when a suicide car bomber attacked a convoy of foreign soldiers in the Afghan capital, Kabul, with an unspecified number of NATO-led troops among other casualties. Mohammad Ismail—ReutersNovember 1, 2011. Nepalese riot police chase a Tibetan protester near the Jwalakhel Refugee Camp in Kathmandu. Nepalese police arrested more than 50 Tibetan exiles demonstrating in support of monks from their homeland who have set themselves on fire in protest against Chinese rule. Nine Buddhist monks and a nun have self-immolated since March in southwest China's Sichuan province, home to a large ethnic Tibetan population. Prakash Mathema—AFP/Getty ImagesNovember 1, 2011. Hindu devotees in the Indian state of Bihar wade into the Ganges during an annual festival honoring the sun deity.Aftab Alam Siddiqui—AP PhotoNovember 1, 2011. An Indian Hindu woman offers prayers to the setting sun during the festival of Chhath at the Arabian Sea, in Mumbai, India. During this ancient Hindu festival, rituals are performed to thank the Sun god for sustaining life on earth. Rajanish Kakade—AP PhotoOctober 31, 2011. A general view shows hundreds of thousands of pilgrims praying at Mecca's Grand Mosque in Saudi Arabia for the Hajj pilgrimage to the Shrine City.Fayez Nureldine—AFP/Getty ImagesNovember 1, 2011. A view of Nueva Esperanza cemetery during the Day of the Dead celebrations in Villa Maria, Lima. Each year people visit the cemetery, one of Latin America's largest, to honor the dead. Enrique Castro-Mendivil—ReutersNovember 1, 2011. A boy flies a kite in the cemetery on Day of the Dead in Zunil, Guatemala. Mayans believe the dead are allowed to visit their families on earth for one day. Family members fly kites to guide their departed relatives to their earthly homes. Decorating graves with fresh flowers is common throughout Latin America, as is having a picnic at the departed relative's grave site.Rodrigo Abd—AP PhotoNovember 1, 2011. A tombstone is seen partially submerged at the cemetery of a flooded temple where hundreds of victims found shelter in Laksi, Bangkok. Dario Pignatelli—PolarisOctober 31, 2011. Rescuers pull Thai flood victims through oily waters that swamp a major highway in Bangkok. At least 381 have died and millions more have been affected in the most devastating floods to hit Thailand since 1995. Health concerns are rising as filthy water inundates parts of the capital and northern provinces.
Barbara Walton—EPANovember 1, 2011. A Thai boy is reflected on floodwaters at a residential area in Bangkok, Thailand. It will take at least ten days to drain 5.5 billion cubic meters of floodwaters north of Bangkok around the capital and then into the sea. Rungroj Yongrit—EPANovember 1, 2011. Airplanes are reflected in flood waters in Bangkok's domestic Don Muang airport at dawn. Nearly 400 people have been killed in months of floods that have disrupted the lives of more than two million. Adrees Latif—ReutersOctober 28, 2011. A police officer walks past paper airplanes thrown by protesters at the Bank of America headquarters in Manhattan as protesters associated with Occupy Wall Street gather outside. Protesters delivered 6,000 letters from angry bank customers to the headquarters of Bank of America, Morgan Stanley, Wells Fargo, Citigroup and JP Morgan.Andrew Gombert—EPANovember 1, 2011. A U.S. military helicopter flies over the Ramadi desert, Iraq. The U.S. has promised to withdraw from Iraq by the end of the year as required by a 2008 security agreement between Washington and Baghdad. Some 39,000 U.S. troops are scheduled to clear out along with their equipment. Khalid Mohammed—AP PhotoOctober 31, 2011. Barges laden with stolen oil are stationed along the Imo Rivers at Abia state, Nigeria. In a raid along Imo River, the military reported seizing 30 barges with unspecified quantities of crude and illegally refined oil. Thieves often sabotage pipelines in order to gain access to crude, resulting in oil spills. The military said it has arrested dozens of suspected oil thieves in recent months and destroyed some 2,000 illegal make-shift refineries. Pius Utomi Ekpei—AFP/Getty ImagesNovember 1, 2011. US Crew Chief specialist Saul Avila from the U.S. Army's Task Force Lift "Dust Off," Charlie Company 1-171 Aviation Regiment looks on with his night vision goggles in a medevac helicopter while the hospital staff move three Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers to the ambulance after they were airlifted in Helmand province. Behrouz Mehri—AFP/Getty ImagesOctober 31, 2011. A severely wounded US Marine hit by an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) is carried by his comrades to a medevac helicopter of U.S. Army's Task Force Lift "Dust Off", Charlie Company 1-171 Aviation Regiment to be airlifted in Helmand province. Behrouz Mehri—AFP/Getty ImagesOctober 29, 2011. A door remains standing around rubble after buildings collapsed during the earthquake, in Guvecli village. Authorities overseeing relief efforts after Turkey's biggest earthquake in over a decade were confident emergency needs for tens of thousands made homeless would be met in hardest hit urban areas. Morteza Nikoubazl—ReutersNovember 1, 2011. Blood is seen on a storm drain on the sidewalk at the corner of Bourbon St. and St. Louis St. in the French Quarter section of New Orleans, where eight people were shot. Another four were shot nearby on Canal St. in a separate incident. Fifteen people were shot and at least two killed in a bloody wrap up of Halloween.Gerald Herbert—AP PhotoOctober 28, 2011. Outside the Church of San Simon in Iztapa, near Guatemala City, a woman conducts a ritual for devotees of St. Simon. For some, he is synonymous with prosperity and happiness; others link him to witchcraft and paganism. The faithful offered money, liquor or tobacco in exchange for his blessings.
Jorge Dan Lopez—ReutersOctober 29, 2011. Students attend morning exercise before going to classrooms in a private school at a slum area on the outskirts of Karachi, Pakistan.Akhtar Soomro—ReutersOctober 30, 2011. Spectators watch from behind a fence during the Formula One Grand Prix of India at the Buddh International Circuit on the outskirts of New Delhi.Diego Azubel—EPAOctober 31, 2011. Sheep colored to attract customers gathered at a market ahead of the Eid-al-Adha festival in Srinagar, India. Muslims in Kashmir celebrate Eid-al-Adha on Nov. 7 with sacrificial killing of sheep, goats, cows or camels. Dar Yasin—AP PhotoOctober 28, 2011. Men pray at a mosque in the Kyrgyz capital Bishkek. The presidential vote in the Central Asian nation of Kyrgyzstan was held Oct. 30. Vyacheslav Oseledko—AFP/Getty ImagesOctober 28, 2011. A Delta 2 launches with an advanced environmental satellite to observe our home planet at 2:48 a.m. PST from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. Gene Blevins—Los Angeles Daily News/ZUMAPRESS.comOctober 28, 2011. Schoolchildren leave after throwing flowers into the sea in honor of rebel hero Camilo Cienfuegos from Havana's seafront boulevard "Malecon." Cienfuegos was a commander of Fidel Castro's rebel army but died less than a year after their victory when his plane disappeared over the ocean on Oct. 28, 1959 enroute from Havana to Camaguey. The plane and his body were never found. Every year on Oct. 28, Cubans toss flowers into the sea in his honor.Enrique De La Osa—ReutersOctober 30, 2011. A man walks near a tree down on a power line a day after a snow storm in Glastonbury, Conn.Jessica Hill—AP PhotoNovember 1, 2011. Russian soldiers in historical uniforms march during a military parade rehearsal on the Red Square in Moscow. The parade will take place on Nov. 7 to mark the anniversary of a historical parade in 1941 when Soviet soldiers marched through the Red Square to the front lines of World War II. Maxim Shipenkov—EPAOctober 28, 2011. New U.S. citizens celebrate after taking the oath of citizenship during a naturalization ceremony beneath the Statue of Liberty, which recently celebrated its 125th anniversary.Mike Segar—ReutersOctober 31, 2011. Palestinian militants from the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) during the funeral of Ahmed Jarghuon in Rafah town in the southern Gaza Strip. Jarghoun was killed in an Israeli air strike on Oct. 30. Nine Palestinian militants and an Israeli civilian were killed in an escalation of violence in Gaza and southern Israel.Ali Ali—EPANovember 3, 2011. A demonstrator waves a flag as rubbish burns at the Occupy Oakland demonstration in Oakland, California. Police in riot gear clashed with protesters in Oakland in the early morning hours on Thursday, firing tear gas to disperse demonstrators lingering in the streets after a day of mostly peaceful rallies against economic inequality and police brutality. Stephen Lam—ReutersNovember 3, 2011. A fireman holds a flare during a demonstration of the profession against a reform changing the methods of recruitment in Paris.Joel Saget—AFP/Getty ImagesNovember 3, 2011. Israeli soldiers from the army's Home Front Command and rescue teams take part in defence drill simulating a missile attack at a school in Holon, near Tel Aviv. Jack Guez/AFP/Getty ImagesNovember 1, 2011. A decorated camel is seen at a livestock market for upcoming Eid al-Adha festival in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Pakistani Muslims will celebrate Eid al-Adha or the Feast of the Sacrifice on Nov 7. Ahmad Kamal—Xinhua/LandovOctober 30, 2011. The Soyuz-V launch vehicle with the Progress M-13M blasts off from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan. It will bring more than 2.6 tons of cargo to the International Space Station (ISS). Oleg Urusov—Itar-Tass/NewscomOctober 29, 2011. Sex workers in skeleton masks pause for a moment after a procession in Mexico City just before the Day of the Dead (Nov. 1 and 2). The demonstration by more than 100 prostitutes was in memory of deceased colleagues, especially those murdered by their clients.
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