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    Week in pictures: 2 - 8 March

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    By The Week Staff
    published 9 March 2014
    (Image credit: Theana Breugem)

    PRETORIA, FRIDAY:

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    RIO DE JANEIRO, TUESDAY:

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    CARACAS, THURSDAY:

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    HOLLYWOOD, SUNDAY:

    12 Years a Slave

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    CRIMEA, MONDAY:

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    PARIS, TUESDAY:

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    BIRMINGHAM, THURSDAY:

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    MURCIA, MONDAY:

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    ALEPPO, THURSDAY: A Syrian man holds a crying girl following an air strike by government forces on the Sahour neighbourhood of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo.

    (Image credit: 2014 Getty Images)

    INDONESIA, TUESDAY:

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