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

Bahraini Shiite women attend the funeral of 43-year-old Asia Hassan al-Madeh in the western Manama suburb of Jidhafs on Nov. 6. According to the Bahraini opposition, Asia was allegedly killed after tear gas was fired by riot police inside her house. The country was rocked on Nov. 5 by the coordinated detonation of five explosives, causing observers to worry that political tensions on the island could lead to increased violence.

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