From a ceasefire in the bloody conflict between Israel and Hamas and President Obama’s historic visit to Myanmar to a rebel takeover of Goma in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and a camel fair in India, TIME presents the best images of the week.
Nov. 19, 2012. An Israeli soldier covered in a prayer shawl reads from a holy book in a staging area near the Gaza Strip border.Ariel Schalit—APNov. 19, 2012. President Barack Obama and Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi kiss after speaking to the media during a brief joint presser at her residence in Yangon.Nicolas Asfouri—AFP/Getty ImagesNov. 19, 2012. Indian camel traders arrive with their livestock for the annual Pushkar fair in Pushkar, Rajasthan state, India.Deepak Sharma—APNov. 19, 2012. Police dogs attack a man found stealing from ethnic Somali homes during the second day of skirmishes in the Eastleigh neighborhood of Kenya's capital, Nairobi.Thomas Mukoya—ReutersNov. 16, 2012. People watch fireworks from inside their rooms in the Wyndham Hotel along Point State Park during the 52nd annual Light Up Night in Pittsburgh, Penn. Stephanie Strasburg—Pittsburgh Tribune Review via APNov. 17, 2012. Syrian fighters check their ammunition during clashes with Syrian army forces in the town of Harem, on the outskirts of Idlib, Syria.Khalil Hamra—APNov. 17, 2012. An Indian villager collects cow dung cakes after they are sun dried on the banks of the River Ganges in Allahabad, India. Cow dung cakes are a major source of domestic fuel for rural households and an environment friendly alternative to firewood.Rajesh Kumar Singh—APNov. 17, 2012. People attend a demonstration against same-sex marriage in Lyon, France.Jeff Pachoud—AFP/Getty ImagesNov. 18, 2012. Four Air Force Black Hawk helicopters, one with Vice President Joe Biden onboard, approach Seaside Park, N.J.Rich Schultz—APNov. 16, 2012. Kashmiri Muslim women comfort a wailing relative of Mushtaq Ahmed during his funeral procession in Srinagar, India. Unidentified gunmen opened fire at a liquor shop on the banks of Dal Lake, killing Ahmed and injuring four others.Dar Yasin—APNov. 16, 2012. Afghan spectators watch as two fighting mastiff dogs attack each other during the weekly dog fights in Kabul. Dog fighting was banned under the Taliban for being un-Islamic but it is now common practice.Daniel Berehulak—Getty ImagesNov. 16, 2012. Partridges in wicker cages are seen covered with material after Kowk Jangi (partridge fighting) in a park in Kabul, Afghanistan. Daniel Berehulak—Getty ImagesNov. 16, 2012. A car pushed out of the garage of the Neukom family home is seen lodged in sand deposited by the storm surge of Superstorm Sandy in the town of Mantoloking, N.J.Lucas Jackson—ReutersNov. 17, 2012. A girl watches voters at a polling station during presidential elections in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Joe Penny—ReutersNov. 17, 2012. Two Syrian fighters, one wearing a flower in his vest, take part in clashes with Syrian army forces in the town of Harem, on the outskirts of Idlib, Syria.Khalil Hamra—APNov. 17, 2012. A Tibetan girl in Kathmandu plays with a balloon near graffiti that reads "Free Tibet" during an event organized to express solidarity with the victims of violence in Tibet.Navesh Chitrakar—ReutersNov. 17, 2012. An Israeli Iron Dome missile is launched near the city of Be'er Sheva, southern Israel, to intercept a rocket fired from Gaza.Ahikam Seri—APNov. 17, 2012. Israelis take cover as an air raid siren warns of incoming rockets from Gaza as an Iron Dome missile is launched in Tel Aviv.Oded Balilty—APNov. 17, 2012. A dog walks down from a house covered with shrapnel holes, damaged by a rocket fired by Palestinian militants from the Gaza Strip after it hit a community near Ashdod, southern Israel.Tsafrir Abayov—APNov. 18, 2012. Smoke rises after an Israeli forces strike in Gaza City.Bernat Armangue—APNov. 18, 2012. Palestinians stand near the rubble of the building of Attia Abu Inkara, a Hamas militant leader, following an Israeli air strike in Rafah refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip.Eyad Baba—APNov. 18, 2012. A Palestinian man kisses the hand of a dead relative in the morgue of Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.Bernat Armangue—APNov. 19, 2012. Incense smoke wafts past the face of an Indian Hindu devotee as she prays as part of rituals at sunset in the holy Yamuna River during the Chhath Puja festival in New Delhi, India.Kevin Frayer—APNov. 19, 2012. Hindu devotees perform rituals at sunset in the holy Yamuna River during the Chhath Puja festival in New Delhi, India.Kevin Frayer—APNov. 19, 2012. Indian Hindu devotees offer prayers to the Sun God at the Chhath Puja festival on the Yamuna river in New Delhi, India.Tsering Topgyal—APNov. 19, 2012. Palestinians pray next to the bodies of members of the Dalou family during their funeral at a mosque in Gaza City. Eleven members of the Dalou family died when an Israeli air strike hit their house in Gaza City.Ali Ali—EPANov. 19, 2012. A Palestinian boy tends to his horse at the central market in Gaza City.Marco Longari—AFP/Getty ImagesNov. 19, 2012. Israeli soldiers sleep next to armored personnel carriers at an Israeli army deployment area near the Israel-Gaza Strip border as they prepare for a potential ground operation in the Palestinian coastal enclave.Menahem Kahana—AFP/Getty ImagesNov. 19, 2012. Syrian army soldier prisoners stand near ammunition after Syrian fighters took over the military base in Aleppo.Khalil Hamra—APNov. 19, 2012. Kenyan police officers detain a man in the Somali district of Eastleigh in Nairobi.Carl De Souza—AFP/Getty ImagesNov. 19, 2012. A US secret service security officer looks out from Aung San Suu Kyi's house before a brief joint press conference with US President Barack Obama in Yangon.Nicolas Asfouri—AFP/Getty ImagesNov. 19, 2012. U.S. President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton tour the Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon, Myanmar.Jason Reed—ReutersNov. 19, 2012. Russian space agency rescuers' helicopters and vehicles stand near the Soyuz capsule after the spacecraft landed near the town of Arkalyk in northern Kazakhstan. Maxim Shipenkov—AFP/Getty Images/PoolNo. 19, 2012. Afghan National Army commando Khairuddin Sultan, 21, is helped up by his friend Ala Mohamed, who joined the army with him 18 months ago as an orthopedic specialist. Mohamed moulded a cast for his prosthetic legs at the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) orthopedic centre in Kabul, Afghanistan. Daniel Berehulak—Getty ImagesNov. 20, 2012. Claire Robertson poses dressed as the Good Snow Flake inside a life-size snow globe on Buchanan Street during a promotion for Scottish Ballet's festive production of The Nutcracker in Glasgow, Scotland.Jeff J Mitchell—Getty ImagesNov. 20, 2012. A young boy paralyzed by a shrapnel wound in his spine lies in a bed at Heal Africa hospital in Goma, Congo.Melanie Gouby—APNov. 20, 2012. U.S. President Barack Obama boards Air Force One as he prepares to depart the Phnom Penh airport in Cambodia.Romeo Gacad—AFP/Getty ImagesNov. 20, 2012. Swans look out of boats as they are transported to the wintering grounds at the Alster river, Hamburg, northern Germany.David Hecker—DAPD/APNov. 20, 2012. Palestinian gunmen ride motorcycles as they drag the body of a man, who was suspected of working for Israel, in Gaza City. Palestinian gunmen shot dead six alleged collaborators in the Gaza Strip who "were caught red-handed," according to a security source quoted by the Hamas Aqsa radio.Suhaib Salem—ReutersNov. 20, 2012. Palestinian mourners cry during the funeral of Salem Paul Sweliem in Gaza City.Bernat Armangue—APNov. 21, 2012. Palestinian morticians prepare the body of a man who died during an Israeli airstrike for his funeral at the mortuary in a hospital in the Jabalya refugee camp, north of Gaza City.Oliver Weiken—EPANov. 21, 2012. The body of a Congolese Army soldier lies on the ground in front of a tank left by government troops in the Ndosho district of Goma in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Phil Moore—AFP/Getty ImagesNov. 21, 2012. A protester throws a molotov cocktail towards riot police during clashes after a rally to mark the one-year anniversary of fatal clashes at Mohamed Mahmoud street in Cairo.Mohamed Abd El Ghany—ReutersNov. 21, 2012. A boy rides his bicycle next to burning garbage piled in the middle of a street in Jerez de la Frontera, southern Spain.Javier Fergo—APNov. 21, 2012. Two women walk past camels for sale at sunrise at a camel fair grounds on the outskirts of Pushkar. Robert Schmidt—AFP/Getty ImagesNov. 21, 2012. Israeli soldiers pray behind artillery shells near the border with the northern Gaza Strip.Ronan Zvulun—ReutersNov. 22, 2012. Members of the Palestinian al-Attar family, displaced during the eight-day conflict with Israel, return to their home in the al-Atatra area in the northern Gaza Strip.Marco Longari—AFP/Getty ImagesNovember 22, 2012. Blood drips from the nose of a Kashmiri Muslim boy while he flagellates his head during a Muharram procession in Srinagar, India.Fayaz Kabli—ReutersNov. 23, 2012. Congolese people carrying their children and belongings flee from Sake on a road linking Goma and Bukavu to escape a rebel advance in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.Tony Karumba—AFP/Getty ImagesNov. 22, 2012. The Kung Fu Panda balloon floats in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City.Charles Sykes—AP
