The World in Photos This Week

Egypt implodes (again), Greeks head for the polls, and Shiite pilgrims converge on a bloody Baghdad.

JUNE 15, 2012

Protestors gesture towards military police through a barricade of barbed wire during a protest against presidential candidate Ahmed Shafiq outside the Supreme Constitutional Court on June 14 in Cairo, ahead of a final round of presidential elections on June 16-17 . Egypt's Supreme Court ruled that the Islamist-led parliament must be immediately dissolved, plunging the country's transitional government further into chaos.

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