November 28, 2011. Police watch anti-nuclear protesters demonstrating in Laase, Germany, a point along the route of a train bearing nuclear waste from La Hague, France, to Gorleben, Germany, in a record- setting 125-hour journey.Carsten Koall—Getty Images
From Egypt’s historic elections and Hillary Clinton’s Myanmar visit to German anti-nuclear protests and Nepal’s bird flu outbreak, TIME’s photo department presents the best images of the week.
November 28, 2011. Police watch anti-nuclear protesters demonstrating in Laase, Germany, a point along the route of a train bearing nuclear waste from La Hague, France, to Gorleben, Germany, in a record- setting 125-hour journey.
Carsten Koall—Getty ImagesNovember 27, 2011. A rescuer holds the unchained hand of an anti-nuclear protester being removed from the railway tracks before the arrival of the so-called Castor transport train in Hitzacker on its journey to the storage site of Gorleben. The train, carrying 11 wagon-loads of German nuclear radioactive waste, left on Nov. 23, 2011 from a reprocessing center operated by the French nuclear giant Areva in Valognes.
Christian Charisius—AFP/Getty ImagesNovember 28, 2011. Serbs near Jagnjenica, Kosovo, clash with German NATO troops over NATO efforts to remove a makeshift roadblock. Serbs have been attempting to establish de facto rule despite NATO authority over the nation’s security, and two NATO officers were shot while opening up the main road into the country’s northern regions.
Zveki—AP PhotosNovember 27, 2011. Pakistani troops in Peshawar carry the bodies of comrades killed during NATO air strikes that hit Pakistani checkpoints the day before. The attacks have jeopardized attempts to stabilize neighboring Afghanistan, as angry officials pulled out of a scheduled international conference to discuss peace efforts in that country.
Arshad Arbab—EPANovember 25, 2011. A soldier in China’s People’s Liberation Army bids goodbye at the Dandong train station to fellow troops returning home after completing their required military service. China began drafting recruits for compulsory service in 1984.
Cai Bing—XINHUA/ZUMA PressNovember 29, 2011. A veterinary official spreads disinfectant following a mass slaughter of ducks and chickens in Bhaktapur, Nepal. Some 120,000 poultry were sacrificed after an outbreak of bird flu caused by the H1N1 virus was discovered in areas surrounding the capital, Kathmandu.
Narendra Shrestha—EPANovember 26, 2011. A sugarcane worker’s hand is stained with ash from burning cane in Retalhuleu, Guatemala. Before harvesting the plant, workers burn off leaves, straw and other debris from the stalks, leaving behind the precious cane. Guatemalans migrate from all over the country to growing regions to earn $8 a day during harvest season.
Rodrigo Abd—AP PhotosNovember 26, 2011. Protesters run to escape tear gas fired by police outside N’Djili airport in Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Opposition supporters clashed with police during protests over problems with voter registration in the upcoming national elections.
Finbarr O'Reilly—ReutersNovember 29, 2011. A boy looks at the first result of parliamentary election at a polling station in the capital Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of Congo. Voting was extended in some parts of the country to a second day, due to delayed ballots. Dai Kurokawa—EPANovember 26, 2011. Anti-government protesters run down a hill during a demonstration to demand the ouster of Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh in Sanaa. The protesters were using the hill as a shortcut during their protest march. Khaled Abdullah—ReutersNovember 26, 2011. A giant wave generated by the Berit storm is poised to engulf the Atlantic Road in Averoy, Norway. Two members of a three-person film crew recording the storm remain missing from the southwestern coast of the country, where swells reached 65 ft. (20 m).
Berit Roald—AFP/Getty ImagesNovember 28, 2011. The Capitol Christmas Tree is installed by workers of the office of the Architect of the Capitol in Washington, DC. The tree is a 65-foot tall Sierra White Fir from the Stanislaus National Forest in California. Win McNamee—Getty ImagesNovember 29, 2011. Children play soccer in front of the damaged and shuttered al-Hamra Hotel as the sun sets in Baghdad, Iraq. The hotel was attacked twice with car bombs and has not re-opened since the second attack in 2010.Mario Tama—Getty ImagesNovember 25, 2011. A burnt child's bicycle sits outside a house on Orchard Ramble following a bush fire in Margaret River, Western Australia. The blaze which escaped from a prescribed burn in the Leeuwin-Naturaliste National Park, has destroyed 28 houses and nine holiday chalets over 3177 hectares.Will Russell—EPANovember 28, 2011. Chinese boys play in the courtyard of their home beside a power plant in Beijing, China. China, the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases, is rallying key allies to push developed nations to agree to binding targets for reducing carbon emissions ahead of climate change talks in Durban.How Hwee Young—EPANovember 28, 2011. Soldiers patrol the perimeter of a ranch used by hitmen to kill their rivals in the town of Cerralvo on the outskirts of Monterrey. Hitmen use the ranch to torture, kill and burn their victims.Tomas Bravo—ReutersNovember, 27, 2011. Mohammad Haqbeen, district governor of Sarobi, Afghanistan, in his office. NATO forces turned over control of Sarobi, in eastern Kabul province, where Taliban insurgents remain active, to Afghan forces as part of the continuing handoff that will leave primary responsibility for the nation’s security in local hands by 2014.
Bryan Denton—Redux/The New York TimeNovember 26, 2011. A Filipino girl climbs a makeshift bridge at a typhoon stricken shantytown in Navotas city, north of Manila, Philippines. The US government has granted 15 million US dollars for the education and other services of Filipino children engaged in hazardous forms of child labor. Francis R. Malasig—EPANovember 26, 2011. A dancer from the Guangzhou Military Region Soldier Acrobatic Troupe performs the Chinese "Acrobatic Swan Lake" in Beijing.Jason Lee—ReutersNovember 23, 2011, photo released on November 26. A Ugandan soldier serving with the African Union Mission in Somalia (Amisom) 7th Battalion stands inside a defensive position along the front line in the Yaaqshiid District of Mogadishu, where Amisom forces have pushed Al Shabaab militants beyond the city's northern fringes to the outskirts of the Somalia seaside capital. Stuart Price—AFP/Getty ImagesNovember 25, 2011. An aerial view shows the Polish motorway A2 and a wildlife bridge near the German-Polish border in Swiecko, Poland. Six months prior to the European football championship in Poland and Ukraine, the extension of the Autobahn A12 has been completed. Patrick Pleul—EPANovember 25, 2011. A street vendor selling roses prays on a bench in downtown Rome. Alessandro Bianchi—ReutersNovember 28, 2011. General view of Tungurahua volcano and city of Banos from Cotalo, Ecuador. The Geophysical Institute of Ecuador said it had been reporting increased activity since the afternoon Nov. 27.Jose Jacome—EPANovember 27, 2011. A woman prepares food in a catering van at Winter Wonderland in Hyde Park, central London.Paul Hackett—ReutersNovember 27, 2011. A long-tailed macaque licks an ice cube with fruits encased in it during the annual Monkey Buffet Festival at the Pra Prang Sam Yot temple in Lopburi, 150km (94 miles) north of Bangkok. The festival provides food and drinks to the local monkey population, which numbers more than 2,000, to thank them for drawing tourists to the town. Damir Sagolj—ReutersNovember 27, 2011. An armed soldier stands guard amid dust from a helicopter during a visit by an aid group to a camp for flood victims in Kunri, located in Pakistan's Sindh province. Floods in August hit Sindh province in the south of Pakistan, killing at least 430 people and disrupting the lives of nine million.Akhtar Soomro—ReutersNovember 28, 2011. Voters in the Cairo slum of Manshiyet Nasser line up at a polling station. Egypt began landmark democratic elections on Monday, the first since the February ouster of long-ruling President Hosni Mubarak.
Yuri Kozyrev—Noor For TIMENovember 29, 2011. Egyptian voters stand on election leaflets before entering a polling station in Cairo, Egypt. Polls opened for a second day of voting in Egypt's landmark parliamentary elections, the first since Hosni Mubarak's ouster in a popular uprising earlier this year. Bela Szandelszky—AP PhotoNovember 29, 2011. An Egyptian man is seen through a window as he casts his vote on the second day of parliamentary elections in Cairo, Egypt. Manu Brabo—AP PhotoNovember 25, 2011. A veiled Egyptian woman waits for Friday prayers in Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt. Tens of thousands of protesters chanting, "Leave, leave!" are rapidly filling up Cairo's Tahrir Square in what promises to be a massive demonstration to force Egypt's ruling military council to yield power. Tara Todras-Whitehill—AP PhotoNovember 25, 2011. A girl who lost her mother to HIV/AIDS looks out the window at Nkosi's Haven, south of Johannesburg. Nkosi's Haven provides residential care for destitute HIV-positive mothers and their children, whether HIV-positive or not. Nkosi's Haven is named after Nkosi Johnson, the young AIDS activist who passed away on International Children's Day on June 1, 2001. Siphiwe Sibeko—ReutersDecember 1, 2011. The Christ the Redeemer statue, top right, is lit in red light to commemorate the World AIDS Day in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Rio de Janeiro's city government illuminated several urban monuments in red as part of its actions to commemorate the World AIDS Day.Victor R. Caivano—AP PhotoNovember 30, 2011. Air Force One with President Barack Obama on board departs Wilkes-Barre / Scranton International Airport in Avoca, Pa. The president was in Scranton to press his case for a bigger temporary payroll tax cut that will boost paychecks. Rich Schultz—AP PhotoNovember 30, 2011. Cambodians work late into the night recycling garbage as fires burn at the local garbage dump in Siem Reap, Cambodia. Many children work there part time to help support their families while attending school during the day. While Siem Reap's ancient temples boost massive tourism and attract millions of visitors, 28% of Cambodians still live on less than $1.25 per day according to a 2011 UNDP Human Development Report. Paula Bronstein—Getty ImagesNovember 30, 2011. Birds take to the air as a helicopter flies over the Swiss Parliament building transporting the annual Christmas tree for the Federal square in Bern. Pascal Lauener—ReutersDecember 2, 2011. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (L) hugs Myanmar's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi as they meet at Suu Kyi's house in Rangoon. Clinton held a final meeting with Suu Kyi as she wrapped up a landmark visit to Myanmar which saw the new civilian government pledge to forge ahead with political reforms and re-engage with the world community. Soe Zeya Tun—Reuters
