Week in Pictures: December 10 - 16, 2011

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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:

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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)

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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

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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