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Veckans bästa bilder, 9-15 jan

av Martin Schori
TOPSHOT - US First Lady Michelle Obama (R) hus US President Barack Obama as daughter Malia looks on after the President delivered his farewell address in Chicago, Illinois on January 10, 2017. Barack Obama closes the book on his presidency, with a farewell speech in Chicago that will try to lift supporters shaken by Donald Trump's shock election. / AFP PHOTO / Nicholas Kamm / TT / kod 444
Michelle Obama kramar om sin man Barack  efter att han hållit sitt avskedstal i Chicago. I bakgrunden syns deras dotter Malia. AFP PHOTO / Nicholas Kamm / TT

TOPSHOT - Peugeot's French driver Sebastien Loeb and co-driver Daniel Elena of Monaco compete in Stage 10 of the 2017 Dakar Rally between Chilecito and San Juan, Argentina, on January 12, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / FRANCK FIFE / TT / kod 444
Franske föraren Sebastien Loeb åker över stäppen mellan de argentinska städerna Chilecito och San Juan i Paris-Dakar-rallyt. AFP PHOTO / FRANCK FIFE / TT /
TOPSHOT - Iranian women attend the funeral ceremony of former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani in the capital Tehran, on January 10, 2017. The heavyweight politician, who died on January 8 at the age of 82, will be buried inside the crypt of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the leader of Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution, at Khomeini's mausoleum is in south Tehran. / AFP PHOTO / ATTA KENARE / TT / kod 444
Iranska kvinnor deltar i begravningen av före detta presidenten Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani i Tehran. AFP PHOTO / ATTA KENARE / TT
Secretary of State-designate Rex Tillerson testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2017, at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Trumps utrikesministerkandidat Rex Tillerson grillas i senaten.  AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite
TOPSHOT - An Iraqi army T-72 tank heads to the frontline during a battle against the Islamic State (IS) group near the Fourth Bridge over the Tigris River connecting eastern and western Mosul on January 10, 2017. Iraqi government forces launched a major offensive to recapture Mosul from the Islamic State group on October 17, 2016. Since then, they have retaken many areas in the eastern parts of Iraq's second city, but districts to the west of the Tigris River are still firmly in IS hands. / AFP PHOTO / Dimitar DILKOFF / TT / kod 444
En irakisk T-72 tank åker mot fronten i Mosul för att bekämpa IS. AFP PHOTO / Dimitar DILKOFF / TT
TOPSHOT - Venezuelan soldiers prepare to embark for military maneuvers at the port of La Guaira, Venezuela on January 8, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / FEDERICO PARRA / TT / kod 444
Soldater i Venezuelas armé går på en båt för att delta i en militärövning. AFP PHOTO / FEDERICO PARRA / TT /
TOPSHOT - US President-elect Donald Trump gives a press conference January 11, 2017 in New York. Donald Trump is holding his first news conference in nearly six months Wednesday, amid explosive allegations over his ties to Russia, a little more than a week before his inauguration. / AFP PHOTO / DON EMMERT / TT / kod 444
USA:s tillträdande president Donald Trump håller sin första presskonferens sedan han vann valet.  AFP PHOTO / DON EMMERT / TT
TOPSHOT - Relatives wait for information following a riot that ended with at least four prisoners killed inside Desembargador Raimundo Vidal Pessoa Public Jail, on January 8, 2017, in Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil. At least four inmates were killed in a facility in Manaus, the capital of Amazonas state, sending the number of violent prison fatalities over 100 in just one week. Deadly prison riots have intensified in Brazil since a truce broke down in July between the country's two largest drug gangs, the First Capital Command (PCC) and the Red Command (CV). / AFP PHOTO / RAPHAEL ALVES / TT / kod 444
Anhöriga till fångarna i fängelset Desembargador Raimundo Vidal Pessoa väntar på besked efter att minst 100 personer dödats i upplopp på anstalten.  AFP PHOTO / RAPHAEL ALVES / TT /
TOPSHOT - A displaced Iraqi girl who fled the violence in the Islamic State (IS) group stronghold of Mosul, holds a balloon at the Khazer refugee camp for displaced people near the Kurdish checkpoint of Aski kalak, 40 km West of Arbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq on January 9, 2017. Iraqi forces will retake east Mosul from the jihadists within days, a top commander said, after his fighters in the city reached the Tigris River for the first time. / AFP PHOTO / Dimitar DILKOFF / TT / kod 444
En irakisk flicka håller en ballong i ett flyktingläger utanför Mosul.  AFP PHOTO / Dimitar DILKOFF / TT
TOPSHOT - Migrants drink tea at a makeshift shelter in a abandoned warehouse in Belgrade on January 8, 2017, as temperatures dropped to -15 degrees Celsius. According to the latest figures, around 7000 migrants are stranded in Serbia. / AFP PHOTO / OLIVER BUNIC / TT / kod 444
Flyktingar i Belgrad dricker te i ett tillfälligt läger i den serbiska huvudstaden. Flyktingar har drabbats hårt av kylan som drar över östra Europa. AFP PHOTO / OLIVER BUNIC / TT
TOPSHOT - Men fish along the Galata Bridge in the Karakoy district of Istanbul following a snow storm on January 10, 2017. Heavy snowstorms reached Turkey over the weekend paralysing its biggest city Istanbul where almost 65 centimetres (25 inches) of snow fell, forcing hundreds of flights to be cancelled on January 7. / AFP PHOTO / OZAN KOSE / TT / kod 444
Fiskare vid Galatabron i Istanbul, en stad s0m också drabbats hårt av kyla och snö. AFP PHOTO / OZAN KOSE / TT
TOPSHOT - A placard reading 'Merkel must go' lies on the ground during a protest of Belgian far-right activists in front of the venue where German Chancellor Angela Merkel is to receive an honorary doctorate from the KU University of Leuven and Ghent University in Brussels on January 12, 2017. The German Chancellor visits Belgium on January 12 to receive an honorary university doctorate and have dinner with the prime minister following talks. / AFP PHOTO / EMMANUEL DUNAND / TT / kod 444
Demonstranter i Belgien uppmanar Tysklands förbundskansler Angela Merkel att avgå, i samband med att hon besöker Bryssel. AFP PHOTO / EMMANUEL DUNAND / TT
TOPSHOT - Smoke billows from a rebel-held area of Daraa, in southern Syria, following reported shelling by pro-government forces during sunset on January 12, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / MOHAMAD ABAZEED / TT / kod 444
Rök stiger mot himlen i staden Daraa efter att syriska regimstyrkor attackerat med bombflyg. AFP PHOTO / MOHAMAD ABAZEED / TT
TOPSHOT - Afghan youth collect metal and plastic from a landfill to sell for recycling on the outskirts of Mazar-i- Sharif on January 12, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / FARSHAD USYAN / TT / kod 444
Afghanska pojkar samlar plast och metall på en soptipp utanför Mazar-i- Sharif. AFP PHOTO / FARSHAD USYAN / TT /
TOPSHOT - Yemeni pro-government forces patrol during clashes against Shiite rebels in Yemen's western Dhubab district, about 30 kms (20 miles) north of the strategic Bab al-Mandab Strait, on January 11, 2017. Yemeni pro-government forces have launched a major offensive to push Shiite rebels from coastal areas, in a move analysts say aims to end a military stalemate and jumpstart political talks. / AFP PHOTO / SALEH AL-OBEIDI / TT / kod 444
Jemenitiska regimtrupper patrullerar i den västra delen av landet. Regeringen och Huthi-rebellernas krig har krävt tusentals dödsoffer.  AFP PHOTO / SALEH AL-OBEIDI / TT
TOPSHOT - Palestinian labourers work at the construction site of a new housing project in the northern part of the Israeli settlement of Efrat, near the Palestinian West Bank city of Bethlehem, on January 12, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / MENAHEM KAHANA / TT / kod 444
Byggnadsarbetare, många av dem palestinier, vid ett husbygge i den israeliska bosättningen Efrat, nära Västbanken. AFP PHOTO / MENAHEM KAHANA / TT /
A man wearing a Ded Moroz (also known as Santa Claus, or Grandfather Frost) costume swims in icy water in the Neva River, as he an his friends celebrate Old New Year in St.Petersburg, Russia, Saturday, Jan. 14, 2017. Russian people celebrate so-called Old New Year, which comes on Jan. 14 under the Julian calendar formerly used by Russia and still observed by its Orthodox Church. For most Russians the Old New Year is just a way to prolong the New Year's celebrations. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)
En man i tomtedräkt tar ett iskallt bad i St Petersburg, i samband med firandet av det gamla nyåret. AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky
TOPSHOT - Firefighters battle a bush fire on Signal Hill, on the side of the central city, on January 13, 2016, in Cape Town. Wildfires have ravaged the Western Cape Province for the last two weeks, sometimes with several in different locations at the same time. Homes, farms, and other structures have been burnt during the last two weeks. / AFP PHOTO / RODGER BOSCH / TT / kod 444
Sydafrikanska brandmän kämpar mot eld i Signal Hill, i Kapstadens västra delar. AFP PHOTO / RODGER BOSCH / TT

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