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The Week in Pictures: January 18, 2015

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From Pakistan’s violent Charlie Hebdo protests to Mexico City’s ‘No Pants Subway Ride,’ the most compelling images from the past seven days.

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Karachi, Pakistan
January 16, 2015

Asif Hassan (L), a photographer for Agence France-Press, is helped to safety after he was shot during a protest against satirical French weekly Charlie Hebdo, which featured a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad as the cover of its first edition since an attack by Islamist gunmen. Pakistan police fired tear gas and water cannons at about 200 protesters outside the French consulate.

Akhtar Soomro/Reuters
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Chongqing, China
January 14, 2015

The 22-story Yixin Mansion collapses after demolition by explosives as part of a urbanization project.

China Daily/Reuters
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Ciudad Juarez, Mexico
January 14, 2015

Demonstrators pull a barrier as federal policemen try to stop them during a protest against the visit of Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto.

Jose Luis Gonzalez/Reuters
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Lalitpur, Nepal
January 12, 2015

A worker stack bricks on his head at a brick factory.

Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters
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Ankara, Turkey
January 12, 2015

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan (R) shakes hands with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas during a welcoming ceremony at the Presidential Palace.

Pool photo by Adem Altan
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Tacloban, Philippines
January 15, 2015

A man walks under a ship standed after typhoon Haiyan. Pope Francis is touring venues across Leyte and Manila during his visit to the Philippines. The visit is expected to attract crowds in the millions as Filipino Catholics flock to catch a glimpse of the leader of the Catholic Church in the Philippines for the first time since 1995.

Peter Macdiarmid/Getty
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Colombo, Sri Lanka
January 14, 2015

A Catholic devotee takes a picture with a mobile phone before Pope Francis arrives to lead Mass. Hundreds of thousands of people packed the capital’s oceanfront to see the pontiff give Sri Lanka its first saint, a climax to a 300-year campaign to recognise the holiness of Indian-born missionary Joseph Vaz.

Stefano Rellandini/Reuters
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Mexico City
January 11, 2015

A passenger without pants waits for the subway train during “The No Pants Subway Ride.” The event, the fifth organized in Mexico, is an annual flash mob and occurs in different cities around the world, according to its organizers.

Edgard Garrido/Reuters
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San Diego
January 13, 2015

A hippopotamus swims in its enclosure at the San Diego Zoo.

Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty

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