Week in Pictures: December 10 - 16, 2011
![Somali children look at a Transitional Federal Government (TFG) soldier carrying a belt of machine gun ammunition during patrol along the Indian Ocean coastline in Burgabo, south of Kismayu in Somalia December 14, 2011. REUTERS/Noor Khamis (KENYA - Tags:](https://gdb.voanews.com/69b47ed2-f4bc-4d6b-832b-19a4f27429af_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Somali children look at a Transitional Federal Government (TFG) soldier carrying a belt of machine gun ammunition during patrol along the Indian Ocean coastline in Burgabo, south of Kismayu in Somalia December 14, 2011. REUTERS/Noor Khamis (KENYA - Tags:
![Angola's Madalena Calandula attempts to score as Denmark's players look on during their Women's World Handball Championship quarterfinal match in Sao Paulo December 14, 2011. REUTERS/Ricardo Moraes (BRAZIL - Tags: SPORT HANDBALL)](https://gdb.voanews.com/965ac54a-9d0e-453f-8b7e-88225b435543_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Angola's Madalena Calandula attempts to score as Denmark's players look on during their Women's World Handball Championship quarterfinal match in Sao Paulo December 14, 2011. REUTERS/Ricardo Moraes (BRAZIL - Tags: SPORT HANDBALL)
![Egyptian protesters run as they are chased by army soldiers over the Asr el-Nile bridge leading out of Tahrir Square, in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, Dec. 17, 2011. Hundreds of Egyptian soldiers swept into Cairo's Tahrir Square on Saturday, chasing protesters](https://gdb.voanews.com/23dcdde9-341a-4626-b038-fda0f5ab2c68_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Egyptian protesters run as they are chased by army soldiers over the Asr el-Nile bridge leading out of Tahrir Square, in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, Dec. 17, 2011. Hundreds of Egyptian soldiers swept into Cairo's Tahrir Square on Saturday, chasing protesters
![In this photo taken Thursday, Dec 8. 2011, nooses hang in the gallows at the Pretoria Central Prison. The government opened the gallows, in Pretoria, South Africa, Thursday, Dec. 15, as a monument to those who were executed before being stopped in 1989](https://gdb.voanews.com/0d80293a-6949-42ba-b7d8-7e9bd8f8127a_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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In this photo taken Thursday, Dec 8. 2011, nooses hang in the gallows at the Pretoria Central Prison. The government opened the gallows, in Pretoria, South Africa, Thursday, Dec. 15, as a monument to those who were executed before being stopped in 1989