The World in Photos This Week

An Olympian faces murder charges; a restive Gao erupts; and thousands get married en masse in Korea.

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

Malian soldiers fight as clashes erupted in the city of Gao on Feb. 21. That same day, an apparent car bomb struck near a camp housing French troops as Malian and foreign forces struggled to secure Mali's volatile north against Islamist rebels.

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