Snapshots of the Fortnight (October 24 - November 8)

Published: Nov 9, 2012

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US President Barack Obama celebrates on stage as confetti falls after his victory speech during his election rally in Chicago on November 6, 2012

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Residents walk past burnt houses in Breezy Point, a neighbourhood located in the New York City borough of Queens, after it was devastated by Hurricane Sandy on October 31, 2012. Sandy, the massive storm that tore apart the US East Coast has resulted in 64 deaths. It knocked out power for millions and crippled transportation systems along the densely populated coastal region

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Tatyana Samokhval (L), daughter of local resident Sergei Khlystov, embraces her sobbing mother Valentina Khlystova in front of their partially demolished house in the Black Sea city of Sochi on September 19, 2012. The workers arrived at Sergei Khlystov's gate to bulldoze his home and clear a path for sewage pipes to the Olympic village being built in the Russian city of Sochi. The earthmovers ended Khlystov's battle to stay in his house, one of the last razed in the Mirny neighbourhood to make way for the Winter Olympics in 2014

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Members of the Free Syrian Army take up their positions during a truce atop a mountain in the Kurdish area of al-Qaftal overlooking the town of Azaz on October 31, 2012

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Participants hold burning torches in one of the series of processions during Bonfire night celebrations in Lewes, southern England on November 5, 2012. The processions and bonfire mark the uncovering of Guy Fawkes' Gunpowder Plot to blow up the Houses of Parliament in 1605, and commemorates the memory of Lewes' seventeen Protestant martyrs

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A policeman removes a statue of Saint Rose from a barricade during clashes between workers and residents living close to the La Parada wholesale market in Lima on October 27, 2012. Two people died and 21 others were injured in Peru's capital as protesters clashed with police trying to shut down a sprawling wholesale market

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A riot police officer is dragged by protesters after being knocked down off his horse by workers of La Parada wholesale market in Lima on October 25, 2012. Clashes between the wholesale market workers and police officers erupted when concrete blocks were attempted to be placed at the entrances by local authorities to prevent market supply, reported to local media

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Jordan Hupp of the US gets thrown off a bull during the Built Ford Tough Series Professional Bull Riders (PBR) World Finals at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas on October 28, 2012

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A llama crosses the road near the salt flat Tolillar, more than 3,800 meters (12467 ft) above sea level on the puna or high plateau of Salta Province in Argentina on October 27, 2012

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A little girl with a cricket bat walks past a guard of Malik Ishaq, the leader of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ), as he holds an AK-47 assault rifle while guarding Ishaq's home in Rahim Yar Khan in the southern Punjab province of Pakistan on October 9, 2012. With a few hundred hardcore cadres, the highly secretive Sunni Muslim extremist group LeJ aims to trigger tit-for-tat sectarian violence that would pave the way for a Sunni theocracy in US-allied Pakistan, say Pakistan police and intelligence officials

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Mina, an eight-year-old Syrian refugee girl holding a baby doll, and Saad, an eight-year-old Syrian refugee boy holding a toy gun, pose during the first day of Eid al-Adha at Yayladagi refugee camp in Hatay province near the Turkish-Syrian border on October 26, 2012

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Zoe Jurusik, 20, paddle-boards down a flooded city street in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy in Bethany Beach, Delaware on October 30, 2012. Millions of people were left reeling in the aftermath of monster storm Sandy as New York City and a wide swathe of the East Coast struggled with epic flooding and massive power outages

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Ajay Narayan cheers as the race is called for U.S. President Barack Obama by a television network during the Nevada State Democrats' election night party at the Mandalay Bay Resort in Las Vegas, Nevada November 6, 2012