November 13, 2011. Syrians take to a fountain with their national flag to show support for President Bashar Assad after the Arab League suspended Syria because of its treatment of protesters.Louai Beshara—AFP/Getty Images
From demonstrations in support of Iran’s nuclear program and Berlusconi’s resignation to a castle in the sky and a tiny African nation’s preparations for the Pope’s visit, TIME’s photo department presents the best images of the week.
November 13, 2011. Syrians take to a fountain with their national flag to show support for President Bashar Assad after the Arab League suspended Syria because of its treatment of protesters.
Louai Beshara—AFP/Getty ImagesNovember 11, 2011. A woman sports buttons picturing Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh on her headscarf during a pro-government rally in Sana‘a. Army forces loyal to Saleh have reportedly shelled residential areas and anti-government protesters in the southern city of Taiz, killing at least 15 people, including five women and two children.
Yahya Arhab—EPANovember 13, 2011. Wearing the traditional red poppy (the first flower to grow on soldiers’ graves in Flanders fields, where some of the fiercest fighting of World War I took place), Queen Elizabeth II closes her eyes during the annual Remembrance Sunday ceremony at the Cenotaph in London.
Eddie Keogh—ReutersNovember 14, 2011. An aerial view shows a flooded residential suburb of Bangkok as water from heavy monsoon rains four months ago makes its way to the ocean. The deluge has killed more than 500 and affected about two million since late July. Vehicles have been moved to bridges, and tens of thousands of people have been evacuated to shelters.
Damir Sagolj—ReutersNovember 12, 2011. A civilian volunteer signals during a military training exercise led by veterans of Haiti’s disbanded army in Port-au-Prince. President Michel Martelly wants to restore the nation’s military— against the advice of foreign diplomats, who are concerned about its long history of human-rights abuses.
Ramon Espinosa—APNovember 10, 2011 (released on November 14, 2011). Hohenzollern Castle emerges from dense fog in Hechingen, Germany. There has been a castle on the somewhat isolated Mount Hohen zollern since the 11th century, although this version—the third— was finished in 1867 and restored after earthquake damage in the 1990s. Still privately owned, it’s one of Germany’s most visited castles.
Roland Beck—EPANovember 13, 2011. A man is arrested after allegedly throwing something at a policeman at the Occupy Portland campsite in Oregon. After several months, civic authorities are cracking down on protesters inspired by Occupy Wall Street, in some cases sparking violence.
Natalie Behring—Getty ImagesNovember 12, 2011. After Italy’s longtime Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi resigned, he faced jeers and singing as he left his office. Nevertheless he has hinted at a comeback, saying he was forced out by treachery and blackmail. “I am deeply embittered,” he told reporters, adding that he plans to stay involved in politics.
Kika Press/Zuma PressNovember 13, 2011. Yushu, in China’s Qinghai province, was the site of a 6.9-magnitude earthquake in April 2010 that left nearly 2,700 people dead and injured more than 12,000. The Chinese government has been racing to build new homes for earthquake survivors in this remote region near Tibet before the arrival of a second winter.
AFP/Getty ImagesNovember 12, 2011. A fan embraces a statue of former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno before the football game against Nebraska at Beaver Stadium. Paterno was fired amid allegations that former Penn State defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky had sexually abused young boys.
Patrick Smith—Getty ImagesNovember 13, 2011. A boy watches a police officer patrol in the Rocinha slum of Rio de Janeiro. Police and soldiers occupied the slum in the latest effort to assert control over lawless areas of the city ahead of the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Summer Olympics.Mauricio Lima—The New York TimesNovember 17 2011. Market workers search for scraps of metal to sell among the bulldozed and burnt remains of Zongo market, in Cotonou, Benin. Workers and residents say police forces destroyed the market without warning, citing an order from the city to make the area presentable ahead of the arrival of Pope Benedict XVI. Rebecca Blackwell—AP PhotoNovember 17, 2011. Smouldering remains of houses are seen following a blaze at a slum in Dhaka. Over a hundred homes burnt down as a devastating blaze raged through the slum. Munir uz Zaman—AFP/Getty ImagesNovember 15, 2011. Yang Weihao, a burn victim, talks to his cousin outside his home in Zhuanji town, Anhui province. Yang, 9, was severely burnt in a fire in June and has to wear a surgical mask and a pair of gloves to prevent the wounds from becoming infected. He has had two skin-graft surgeries but stopped treatment due to a lack of funds. Yang's family said a local hospital has agreed to treat Yang for free after learning of his plight. Yang is holding a bandage wrapped around a bamboo slice which he bites to prevent the wounds around his mouth from sticking together. Stringer—ReutersNovember 15, 2011. A boy stands outside the closed main entrance of the Roosevelt Hospital in Guatemala City. Members of the hospital's union closed the hospital's main entrance, keeping only the accident and emergency section open to patients, as they protested what they said was the Ministry of Health's failure to provide adequate medicine and hospital supplies. Jorge Dan Lopez—ReutersNovember 17, 2011. Members of the National Guard attend a ceremony in Caracas, Venezuela. Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez deployed more than 3,200 troops to the streets of Caracas as well as the surrounding states of Miranda and Vargas, according to Gen. Miguel Vivas Landino, urging them to help outgunned police curb widespread violent crime. Ariana Cubillos—AP PhotoNovember 17, 2011. Protesters are seen through smoke from a tear gas canister throw by riot police outside the Embassy of the United States, in Athens. Masked youths clashed with riot police outside Greece's parliament and the U.S. embassy in Athens as some 28,000 austerity-weary Greeks marched in an annual commemoration of a bloody student uprising in the 1970s. Seven thousand officers were monitoring the crowd.Petros Giannakouris—AP PhotoNovember 16, 2011. An abandoned dog sits on a concrete pipe at a flooded area in Bangkok.Sukree Sukplang—ReutersNovember 14, 2011. A Yemeni child receives a polio vaccination at a health center in Sana'a, Yemen. The nation launched a polio immunization campaign, targeting more than 4.5 million children less than five years of age. Yahya Arhab—EPANovember 16, 2001. A Palestinian boy of the Moor family plays at his family home lit by electricity provided by a solar panel in the southern West Bank village of Imneizil. The Israeli army which controls civilian affairs in the area issued in October a demolition order for the panels and an adjacent control structure, which was built without a permit by the SEBA, a Spanish NGO an the Al-Najah University. The solar panels serve 34 Palestinian families in the small village. Menahem Kahana—AFP/Getty ImagesNovember 17, 2011. A Hungarian soldier, a member of a transport helicopter battallion of the Hungarian Air Force stands with night vision goggles attached to his helmet at an air base near Papa, Hungary. The battallion has started training to use the NVGs used by US forces. Tamas Kovacs—EPANovember 17, 2011. U.S. President Barack Obama greets Australian troops and US Marines at RAAF Base Darwin in Darwin. Obama signalled a pivotal US shift to Asia pledging not to let Washington's budget crunch compromise his expansive vision and military presence in the region. Jim Watson—AFP PhotoNovember 15, 2011. An Iranian student holds up an anti-U.S. poster as he attends a demonstration to show his support for Iran's nuclear program, before a ceremony to form a human chain around the Uranium Conversion Facility (UCF), in Isfahan, 450 km (280 miles) south of Tehran.Morteza Nikoubazl—ReutersNovember 14, 2011. Mourners carry coffins and pictures of killed Major General Hassan Moqaddam during the funeral of members of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards in Tehran after they were killed in a munitions blast that ripped through a base.AFP/Getty ImagesNovember 17, 2011. Zalva Genaeva (2L), wife of murdered Chechen poet Ruslan Akhtakhanov, grieves with daughter Zalina (3R) Indira (2R) and Zarema (R) during the funeral in the village of Znamenskoye some 80kms from Grozny. Akhtakhanov, a poet and academic from Russia's volatile region of Chechnya, was found dead Wednesday outside a Moscow apartment building in what investigators said appeared to be a contract killing. Diana Markosian—ReutersNovember 11, 2011. The body of Zoila Esperanza GarcÌa, 50, lies on the ground on Simeon Canas avenue, about 500 m (0.3 miles) from the presidential palace in Guatemala City. Garcia was shot dead this morning when she was exercising and her sister said the attack is for unknown reasons. According to human rights group Mutual Supporter (GAM) of Guatemala, more than 314 women have been killed in 2011, and local media also reported about 15 people are murdered every day in Guatemala, making it one of the most dangerous countries to live in in Latin America. Jorge Dan Lopez—ReutersNovember 12, 2011. A human art installation is displayed at the 2011 MOCA Gala. An Artist's Life Manifesto, directed by Marina Abramovic, is on display at the museum in Los Angeles, California. Frazer Harrison/Getty Images for MOCANovember 14, 2011. Men queue at a theatre performance where they pay to watch girls dance on stage during the Sonepur Mela in Sonepur near Patna, India. The cattle fair, held in the Indian state of Bihar, has its origins during ancient times, when people traded elephants and horses across the auspicious river Ganges. The mela used to attract traders from places as distant as Central Asia. It is one of Asia's largest cattle fairs and lasts for a fortnight.Daniel Berehulak—Getty ImagesNovember 12, 2011. A Pakistani Hindu bride sits during a mass marriage ceremony in Karachi. Around 80 Hindu couples participated in a mass wedding ceremony organised by The Pakistan Hindu Council. Rizwan Tabassum—AFP PhotoNovember 11, 2011. A reveller holds a mask during a so-called "Karnival der Empoerten" (Carnival of the Outraged) street demonstration by the Occupy movement in Berlin.Tobias Schwarz—Reuters
