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Pictures of the Week: January 11 – January 18

Giath Taha—Reuters Jan. 16, 2013. Internally displaced children watch cartoons in a classroom of a school in Kafranbel in Idlib province, Syria.

From Obama's gun control stance and Lance Armstrong's doping confession to the Kumbh Mela pilgrimage and a runaway train in Sweden, TIME presents the best images of the week.

From Obama’s gun control stance and Lance Armstrong’s doping confession to the Kumbh Mela pilgrimage and a runaway train in Sweden, TIME presents the best images of the week.

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