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Pictures of the Week: February 21 – February 28

From tens of thousands gathering in Kiev's Independence square, to a rare meeting of North and South Koreans, and hundreds of tiny pandas packed into a Chinese theater to a Japanese island inhabited by bunnies, TIME presents the best pictures of the week.

From tens of thousands gathering in Kiev’s Independence square, to a rare meeting of North and South Koreans, and hundreds of tiny pandas packed into a Chinese theater to a Japanese island inhabited by bunnies, TIME presents the best pictures of the week.

TOPSHOTS-CENTRAFRICA-UNREST An Afghan National Army soldier looks out from the windshield of an armoured car at the Forward Base in Nari CHAD-ENVIRONMENT-ELEPHANTS Family reunion OLY-2014-CLOSING UKRAINE-UNREST-EU-RUSSIA-POLITICS A model presents a creation by designer Anthony Vaccarello as part of his Fall/Winter 2014-2015 women's ready-to-wear collection during Paris Fashion Week TOPSHOTS-SSUDAN-UNREST A member of the honor guard awaits the arrival of Georgia's Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili for a wreath laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknowns in Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington Bunnies Attract Tourists To A Japanese Islet Okunoshima TOPSHOTS-SOUTH SUDAN-UNREST-DISPLACED Violence Escalates As Kiev Protests Continue CAR Unrest - Camp Mpoko in Bangui Rio De Janeiro Gears Up For Carnival Celebration UKRAINE-UNREST-EU-RUSSIA-POLITICS UKRAINE-UNREST-EU-RUSSIA-POLITICS People look through windows of the Mezhyhirya residence of Ukraine's President Yanukovich in the village Novi Petrivtsi TOPSHOTS-FASHION-ITALY-WOMEN-MILAN-CAVALLI Mexico Captures Sinaloa cartel drug lord TOPSHOTS-URUGUAY-SAILBOATS Pope Consistory APTOPIX Sochi Olympics Figure Skating A masked reveller poses in Saint Mark's Square during the Venetian Carnival in Venice Sochi Olympics Closing Ceremony TOPSHOTS-BELARUS-THEME-LOVE TOPSHOTS-INDIA-ENVIRONMENT-WILDLIFE-LEOPARD Mass marriage ceremony in Bhopal CHAD-ENVIRONMENT-ELEPHANTS President Barack Obama addresses members of the National Governors Association at the White House in Washington. Pakistan Daily Life The body of one of the siblings killed in a bomb blast near an anti-government protest site on Sunday is prepared for a funeral at a Buddhist temple in Bangkok Yosubon, the father of siblings killed in a bomb blast near an anti-government protest site on Sunday, mourns next to their bodies in Bangkok Afghan National Army members carry the coffins of fellow soldiers shot to death by Taliban insurgents, in Kabul, Afghanistan. Palestinian girls take part in a karate class at al-Reyadi club in Gaza City TOPSHOTS-TAIWAN-FRANCE-PANDAS Palestinian boys climb a fence to watch a rally marking the 45th anniversary of the founding of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP), in Rafah Bunnies Attract Tourists To A Japanese Islet Okunoshima TOPSHOTS-SSUDAN-REFUGEES-NUER Ukraine Protests TOPSHOTS-UKRAINE-UNREST-EU-RUSSIA-POLITICS TOPSHOTS-UKRAINE-UNREST-EU-RUSSIA-POLITICS Carmen Gonzalez cries over the body of her son Jimmy Vargas Gonzalez, who was killed in clashes with national police in San Cristobal, Venezuela. A family watch through a window as riot police and protesters clash in the street outside in San Cristobal. Boys peer through the gate of a police station to look at bodies of suspected militants in Lalpora Mobile World Congress 2014 - Day 2 A model presents a creation by American-born UK-based designer Corrie Nielsen as part of her Autumn/Winter 2014-2015 women's ready-to-wear collection during Paris Fashion Week Corrie Nielsen - Backstage - Paris Fashion Week Ready to Wear F/W 2014/15 Haze covers one seventh of China. Eyad, a 12 year-old boy who lost his arm during shelling by forces loyal to Syria's President Assad, tries on a prosthetic arm in Damascus APTOPIX North Korea Daily Life Family reunion President Barack Obama speaks about manufacturing innovation institutes in the East Room of the White House. TOPSHOTS-AFGHANISTAN-VOTE-REGISTRATION UKRAINE-UNREST-POLITICS UKRAINE-UNREST-POLITICS Thai police commandos take part in an anti-terrorism drill in Bangkok CHAD-ENVIRONMENT-RANGERS-POACHING APTOPIX China Pollution TOPSHOTS-AFGHANISTAN-VOTE-REGISTRATION TOPSHOTS-US-ENTERTAINMENT-OSCARS-PREPARATIONS APTOPIX India Hindu Festival A Hindu holy man, or sadhu, performs yoga at the premises of Pashupatinath Temple in Kathmandu TOPSHOTS-ITALY-SHIPPING-TOURISM-DISASTER BAHRAIN-POLITICS-UNREST-FUNERAL BRAZIL-WC2014-SECURITY-DRILL UKRAINE-UNREST-POLITICS UKRAINE-UNREST-EU-RUSSIA-PROTEST-WOUNDED India Hindu Festival Exhibition of the artist JR in Baden-Baden Displaced South Sudanese people administer oral cholera vaccines to themselves in a camp for internally displaced people in the UNMISS compound in Tomping

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