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The Best Pictures of the Week: Feb. 6 – Feb. 13

From the Ukrainian peace plan to Brazil’s worsening drought and the disarmament of South Sudan’s child soldiers to a sex-free Valentine’s Day in Bangkok, TIME presents the best pictures of the week.

TOPSHOTS-PALESTINIAN-ISRAEL-CONFLICT-GAZA A group of Syrian refugees struggle with cold in Ankara Ivory Coast vs Ghana A girl reacts as she watched her friend play hopscotch on the outskirts of Islamabad A couple kisses at a park in Bangkok France Strauss Kahn A bloodstain is seen on the window of a lion enclosure at a zoo in Seoul TOPSHOTS-PALESTINIAN-ISRAEL-CONFLICT-DEMO People walk on rubble as others try to put out a fire after what activists said were airstrikes and shelling by forces loyal to Syria's President Assad in Douma SYRIA-CONFLICT TOPSHOTS-UKRAINE-RUSSIA-CRISIS-CRISIS-POLITICS-MILITARY Residents of Mangueira slum watch as a participant attends a beauty contest for transvestites and transsexuals at the entrance of the Glam Gay pre-carnival Ball, in Mangueira samba school in Rio de Janeiro APTOPIX India Daily Life SSUDAN-UNICEF-UNREST-CHILD-SOLDIERS BESTPIX Ultra-orthodox Jewish men pray at the cemetery on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem Pontoons, which were previously used as a floating jetty, are seen on the cracked ground of the Atibainha dam, part of the Cantareira reservoir SKOREA-TRADITION-EDUCATION-AGE Paintings For Vision-Impaired People At The Prado Museum The battle for Debaltseve intensifies BRITAIN-LIFESTYLE-CAKE APTOPIX Winter Weather Massachusetts Delhi Holds 2015 Legislative Assembly Election Sunset

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