The week in Pictures

  23 January 2016    Read: 1708
The week in Pictures
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, and Swiss Minister of Foreign Affairs Didier Burkhalter, center, share a light moment during a bilateral meeting at the 46th Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum, in Davos, Switzerland, January 21.

1. Juliana, a 20-year-old rebel fighter for the 36th Front of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, rests from a trek in the northwest Andes of Colombia, in Antioquia state, on Jan. 6, 2016. Like many of her comrades in arms, her path to the FARC was born as much from personal tragedy as political ideology. In her case, she fled an impoverished home at age 16 and followed in the footsteps of an uncle after being raped by her stepfather, January 18.



2. Migrants walk through a frozen field after crossing the border from Macedonia, near the village of Miratovac, Serbia, January 18.



3. A women and her children stand in the ruins of battle-damaged house in the Kurdish town of Silopi, in southeastern Turkey, near the border with Iraq. January 19.



4. German Chancellor Angela Merkel looks at a combat diver during her visit to Naval Base Command in Kiel, Germany. January 19.



5. Davos economic forum kicks off. Political and business leaders gather at Swiss ski resort to discuss issues including robots, terrorism, migration and inequality, January 20.



6. An artist`s rendering shows the distant view from "Planet Nine" back towards the sun, in this handout photo provided by the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena, California. January 20.



7. The dancing lights of the Aurora Borealis is shown over the Pacific northwest taken from the International Space Station by astronaut Scott Kelly in this handout provided by NASA. January 20.



8. Azerbaijani people visit the graves of victims of Black January,which is also known as Black Saturday or the January Massacre, was a violent crackdown in Baku on January 19–20, 1990, pursuant to a state of emergency during the dissolution of the Soviet Union to stop pogroms and violence against the Armenian population in Baku, January 20.



9. Anger over a $1 billion corruption scandal and the influence of an oligarch, with the competing pull of Europe and Russia in the background, has left ex-Soviet Moldova locked in a complex political crisis with no end in sight.January 20.



10. Europe and the United States lifted economic and financial sanctions related to Iran`s nuclear program. It hasn`t take Iran long to get its oil on the move. Iran didn`t waste much time getting its oil on the move again after sanctions were lifted, January 22.



11. A massive blizzard bringing more than 2ft (61cm) of snow and punishing winds is advancing up the US East Coast, January 22.




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