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Pictures of the Week: July 4 — July 11

From Israel’s deadly air offensive in Gaza and Brazil’s humiliating World Cup exit to French Fashion week’s modern attitude and a double wedding for wounded Ukrainian paratroopers, TIME presents the best photos of the week.

APTOPIX Mideast Israel Palestinians TOPSHOTS-PALESTINIAN-ISRAEL-CONFLICT-GAZA TOPSHOTS-SPAIN-FESTIVAL-HORSES-SHEARING-BEASTS TOPSHOTS-SPAIN-BULLFIGHTING-SAN-FERMIN TOPSHOTS-AFGHANISTAN-UNREST-ATTACK Train derails dumping planes into river Wimbledon Championships Shiite volunteers sleep during the mid-day heat inside the Askariya Shrine, where two imams revered by Shiites are buried, in Samarra, Iraq. SSUDAN-UNREST-CRISIS TOPSHOTS-PALESTINIAN-ISRAEL-CONFLICT-KIDNAPPING-FUNERAL A man walks along the bank of the Yellow River to fish, in Pinglu Chinese Shoppers Make The Most Of IKEA's Open Bed Policy Tariq Khdeir is greeted by his mother after being released from jail in Jerusalem Palestinians clash with Israeli soldiers TOPSHOTS-PALESTINIAN-ISRAEL-CONFLICT-GAZA TOPSHOTS-SYRIA-CONFLICT Soldiers wave during a visit by North Korean leader Kim to inspect the defence detachment on Ung Islet Dresses at the Christian Dior Fashion Show in Paris. BESTPIX Chinese Amateur Dance Troupe Performs Anti-Japan Dance At Beijing Mall APTOPIX Mideast Israel Palestinians Israel Begins 'Operation Protective Edge' An Eritrean baby refugee sleeps on the floor by his mother in a tent inside the UN House IDP camp in Juba Brazil Soccer WCup Brazil Germany FBL-WC-2014-BRA-FANS A Brazil fan cries as she watches the 2014 World Cup semi-final between Brazil and Germany at a fan area in Brasilia A local resident stands outside buildings damaged by a recent shelling in Semenovka APTOPIX Spain San Fermin Wounded members of the Ukrainian force kiss their brides in hospital beds Argentina soccer fans in Copacabana Israel launches offensive in Gaza FUNERAL OF KAWARE FAMILY IN KHAN YUNIS Gaza Conflict PALESTINIANS MOURN THE DEMISE OF AL-HAJ FAMILY MEMBERS FROM ISRAELI AIRSTRIKES An Israeli soldier sleeps next to a mobile artillery unit outside the central Gaza Strip Israel keeps pounding Gaza with air raids TOPSHOTS-AUSTRIA-CZECH-HISTORY-WAR-COMMEMORATION-NAPOLEON A Bosnian Muslim woman reacts near where 175 coffins of newly identified victims from the 1995 Srebrenica massacre are placed, in Potocari Memorial Center, near Srebrenica A Bosnian Muslim woman and child cry near the coffin of their relative, which is one of the 175 coffins of newly identified victims from the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, in the Potocari Memorial Center, near Srebrenica TOPSHOTS-UKRAINE-RUSSIA-POLITICS-CRISIS-DONETSK Palestine Israel Conflict Ralph & Russo - Runway - Paris Fashion Week Haute Couture F/W 2014/2015 U.S. Capitol Dome restoration in Washington, DC.

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