Ahmed al-Jaabari, the top Hamas military commander and
leader of the Ezzedin Qassam Brigades, was killed in an Israeli air strike on
Nov. 14. His death marked the beginning of intense Israeli strikes on Gaza. In
this photo, Palestinian firefighters extinguish Jaabari's car, which was
engulfed in flames after it was hit by an Israeli missile in Gaza City.
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After 24 hours of Israeli air strikes, the death toll in Gaza rose to 19 as militants fired more than 380 rockets at Israel, killing three
people. Above, Israelis prepare to spend the night in a bomb shelter in the southern
Israeli city of Beersheva on Nov. 15.
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Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping was appointed China's new
leader, taking the helm of a revamped top power circle that will face the
tricky task of setting the planet's second-largest economy on a new course.
Above, Xi Jinping emerges as the head of the seven-member Communist Party of
China Politburo Standing Committee, the nation's top decision-making body, at
the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Nov.
15. For FP's complete coverage of the 18th Party Congress, click here.
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Party representatives vote during the closing ceremony of the 18th
Communist Party Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, on
Nov. 14.
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Cambodia is hosting the annual ASEAN and East Asia summits of
regional leaders from November 15-20, which U.S. President Barack Obama is
attending. Above, a Cambodian girl paints the letters "SOS" under a portrait of
Obama on a roof next to the Phnom Penh International Airport on Nov. 14. On Friday, authorities arrested eight villagers for creating the signs.
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Myanmar's government has said it "warmly welcomes" Obama's
historic visit later this month, expressing hope that his trip will bolster the
nation's political reform drive. In this photo, Buddhist monks study at the
Kyat Khat Wine monastery in Bago on Nov. 14.
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President Obama held his first news conference since
winning reelection in the East Room of
the White House in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 14. During the press event,
Obama pushed back against Republican critisism of Susan Rice, the U.S.
ambassador to the United Nations, whose name is one of those being
floated as a potential successor to Hillary Clinton, the current U.S. secretary of state.
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FBI Director Robert Mueller leaves after a meeting with the chairman
and ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 14. Mueller briefed the members on
issues related to the scandals surrounding Petraeus's affair with Paula Broadwell.
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Jill Kelley, an informal social liaison for the military
community at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida, reported receiving
harassing emails to the FBI. The resulting investigation revealed the sender to
be biographer Paula Broadwell, who was found to be having an affair with Gen.
Petraeus. Above, Kelley leaves her
home in Tampa, Florida on Nov. 13.
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Riot police and anti-austerity protesters clashed in Italy
on Nov. 14 as anger boiled over on a day of strikes and mass demonstrations
that raged across Europe. In this photo, demonstrators throw projectiles at riot
policemen during a protest in Rome on Nov. 14.
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Protests also erupted in France. A police officer watches a man holding a flare as thousands
of people from France and Belgium demonstrate during an anti-austerity protest
in Lille on Nov. 14.
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One person has been killed and five wounded as protests by
South African farmworkers demanding higher pay erupted into sporadic violence
on Nov. 14. Several thousand farm workers from the vineyard region have been on
strike for more than a week, calling for their salaries to be doubled to 150
rand, or $11 a day. Above, a young man sits close to a barricade of burning tires
in De Doorns, near Cape Town, on Nov. 14.
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An Afghan Pashtun boy, who said he was forced from the troubled province
of Baglan due to threats from the Taliban, looks on as as he scavenges
for recyclables at a garbage dump site in Kabul,
Afghanistan, on Nov. 14. After a number of signs from Pakistan, there have been renewed calls for a political settlement with the Taliban.
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A member of the traditional Sikh religious warriors' Nihang
Army performs on horseback as onlookers celebrate the occasion of "Fateh Divas" in Amritsar on Nov. 14.
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