The Week in Pictures

  28 November 2015    Read: 1696
The Week in Pictures
A Russian military is engulfed in flames in the Kizildag region of Turkey`s Hatay province, close to the Syrian border, on Nov. 24.
1. A Malian police officer stands guard as municipal workers clean ouside the Radisson Blu hotel in Bamako, Mali, following the terrorist attack on the hotel which claimed 19 lives, on Nov 22.

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2. Migrants and refugees on the Greek-Macedonian border protested by sewing and taping up their mouths after being stopped from continuing their journey across Europe, on Nov 23.

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3. France launched its first missions against Islamic State (IS) militants from its Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier having stepped up its bombing following the attacks on Paris, in which 130 people were killed, on Nov 24.

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4. Brussels was placed on its highest level of terror alert over fears of a Paris-style attack by the militant Islamic State group, on Nov 24.

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5. Mother of 18-year-old Israeli soldier Ziv Mizrahi reacts during his funeral at a military cemetery in Jerusalem, on Nov. 24. Mizrahi was killed in a Palestinian stabbing attack at a West Bank gas station Monday

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6. Investigators and firefighters work the scene of a fire and shooting on Nov. 24 in Philadelphia. A Pennsylvania state police trooper was shot in the shoulder after a fiery crash along Interstate 676.

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7. US President Barack Obama pardons the National Thanksgiving Turkey in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. The turkey will be spared from someone`s Thanksgiving dinner and will instead go to a Virginia farm. "Time flies, even if turkeys don`t," Mr Obama joked, on Nov 25.

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8. A volunteer held up a baby as migrants and refugees disembarked from a dinghy after their arrival on the Greek island of Lesbos. About 5,000 migrants are reaching Europe each day over the so-called Balkan migrant route, on Nov 25.

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9. Two boys and their father head to a mass led by Pope Francis in Kenya`s capital Nairobi. On his first official visit to Africa, the Pope urged Kenyans to work for peace and reconciliation, on Nov 25.

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10. A group of 26 people walked across a 209m (685ft) long highline rigged more than 50m (164ft) above the ground before getting comfortable in 17 brightly coloured hammocks. Monte Piana in the Italian Dolomites provided the perfect backdrop for the hammocks, where those inside read newspapers, played instruments, ate, and passed each other drinks, on Nov 26.

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