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

According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, more than 37,000 people have been killed since the outbreak of Syria's anti-regime revolt since March 2011, with over 1,000 dead in the past week. Above, Syrian children play on the rubble of buildings in the northern Syrian town of Atareb in the Aleppo province on Nov. 7.

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