The World in Photos This Week

Four more years for Obama, austerity protests blaze across Greece, and China's 18th Party Congress begins.

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Greek police used tear gas to disperse demonstrators protesting outside parliament ahead of a key vote on a new round of austerity measures on Nov. 7. Some protestors responded by hurling petrol bombs at police forces as 70,000 people briefly rioted in Athens. Above, a protester wearing a gas mask faces riot police. 

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