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The Best Pictures of the Week: Jan. 23 – Jan. 30

From Kurdish fighters recapturing the ISIS held town of Kobani, Syria to the deadly attacks on Israeli forces by Hezbollah militants on the Israel-Lebanon border and life returns to normal with Ebola cases down to single digits in Liberia to blizzard Juno hitting the U.S. East Coast, TIME presents the best pictures of the week.

Liberia Turns Towards Normalcy As Fight Continues To Eradicate Ebola TOPSHOTS-TURKEY-SYRIA-IRAQ-US-CONFLICT TOPSHOTS-VIETNAM-CHINA-ANIMAL-CRIME-FOOD SYRIA-TURKEY-IRAQ-US-CONFLICT Winter Weather Liberia Turns Towards Normalcy As Fight Continues To Eradicate Ebola President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Narendra Modi have tea at Hyderabad House in New Delhi. TOPSHOTS-KENYA-ENVIRONMENT-POACHING-WILDLIFE-RHINOS Christina Strange Mideast Israel Lebanon A man rides his bike up Beacon Street during a blizzard in Boston US-WHITE HOUSE-SECURITY-DRONE Swans swim over a lake as steam ascends above the water during sunset near the village of Urozhainy, Sovetsky district of Altai region TOPSHOTS-BRAZIL-SUMMER-FEATURE TOPSHOTS-AFGHANISTAN-UNREST-SECURITY POLAND-GERMANY-HISTORY-JEWS-AUSCHWITZ-ANNIVERSARY WINSTON CHURCHILL'S DEATH ANNIVERSARY Yochai Kalangel A Palestinian boy wearing a military costume arrives at a military-style graduation ceremony for Palestinian youths who were trained at one of the Hamas-run Liberation Camps, in Gaza City SYRIA-TURKEY-IRAQ-US-CONFLICT The Statue of Liberty is seen faintly through heavy snow in the afternoon in New York.

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