Pictures of the week

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This gallery contains photos published Jan. 4 - Jan. 12, 2017. 

Ricky Brabec, from the U.S., races his Honda motorbike during the third stage of the Dakar Rally between San Miguel de Tucuman and San Salvador de Jujuy, Argentina, Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2017. The race started in Paraguay and will pass through Bolivia. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

A couple dressed as characters from the movie "La Vaquilla" wear masks as they pose for a photo, during a winter masquerade gathering in Salsas, Portugal on Saturday, Jan. 7, 2017. Many of these masquerades are of ancient origin and can often be traced to pre-Christian Celtic and often pre-Roman traditions around the renewal of fertility and life and an end of winter. (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza)

A bride waits for the procession to the altar at the San Jose or Altar de Oro church in the Casco Viejo neighborhood of Panama City on Saturday, Jan. 7, 2017. Casco Viejo is the old colonial district of Panama City, with cobblestone streets and colonial-era buildings. (AP Photo/Arnulfo Franco)

People hunting small animals search the terrain as plumes rise from a heating plant with morning temperatures of -19 degrees Celsius (-2.2 degrees Fahrenheit) in Minsk, Belarus, Monday, Jan. 9, 2017. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

A flock of birds fly past Kashmiri Muslim devotees praying during a display of a relic of Sufi saint Syed Abdul Qadir Jilani at his shrine in Srinagar in Indian-controlled Kashmir, Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2017. Thousands thronged the shrine Tuesday to mark the saint's Urs, an annual commemoration. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)

President Barack Obama waves as he take the stage to speak during his farewell address at McCormick Place in Chicago, Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2017. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Mourners attend the funeral of former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2017. Hundreds of thousands of mourners flooded the streets of Tehran, beating their chests and wailing in grief for Rafsanjani, who died at the age of 82. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Members of the military wait for an Army carry team to move a transfer case containing the remains of Spc. Isiah L. Booker at Dover Air Force Base, Del., Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2017. According to a statement from the Department of Defense, Booker of Cibolo, Texas, died Jan. 7, in a non-combat related incident while in Jordan supporting Operation Inherent Resolve. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Mourners pray over the body of Musaap Yaser Hazem, 17, who died in an Islamic State mortar attack, during his funeral in Mosul, Iraq, Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2017. Hazem's father said his son was killed in early December 2016, and had to be buried in the neighborhood because of the poor security situation. With government forces making the area safer, the family was finally able to give Hazem a proper burial in the Mosul cemetery. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

President-elect Donald Trump calls on a reporter during a news conference in the lobby of Trump Tower in New York, Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2017. This was his first news conference as president-elect. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Timber frame houses at Frankfurt, Germany's Roemerberg square are reflected in water on Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2017. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)

An employee looks out of a window as he smokes in a high-rise building in Tokyo on Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2017. (AP Photo/Shuji Kajiyama)

A Syrian refugee child walks barefoot on frozen ground at the Ritsona, Greece refugee camp, about 86 kilometers (53 miles) north of Athens, on Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2017. The European Commission said conditions for refugees on islands and other camps where they are housed in tents in severe cold weather is "untenable." (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

Laborers walk down a path in the Nihran Bin Omar field north of Basra, Iraq, 340 miles (550 kilometers) southeast of Baghdad, on Thursday, Jan. 12, 2017. Iraq's state-run South Gas Company inaugurated a gas pipeline to transport gas, a by-product of oil production, from Nihran Bin Omar field to the national network. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani)

Railway workers hold back passengers at the Hankou Railway Station in Wuhan on the eve of the annual Spring Festival travel rush in central China's Hubei province on Thursday, Jan. 12, 2017. Officials expect that travelers will make almost 3 billion trips during the holiday travel rush that starts Friday and runs through Feb. 21. These trips include intercity flights, trains and local bus rides to villages. (Chinatopix Via AP)

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