Week in photos (Nov. 18-22)

View a gallery of photos from the week of Nov. 18, 2013.

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Fri., Nov. 22, 2013

An Indian farmer waits for customers near his camels for sale during the Jhiri fair at Kanachack village, outskirts of Jammu, India, Monday, Nov. 18, 2013. According to legend, the fair is held in memory of Baba Jitu, a simple and honest farmer who killed himself since he was not prepared to submit to the unjust demands of a landlord who wanted him to part with his crop.

Channi Anand Associated Press
Greenpeace International activist Ana Paula Alminhana Maciel of Brazil sits behind bars during a court hearing to consider the request to extend the detention of 30 members of the Arctic Sunrise Greenpeace International ship in St. Petersburg, Russia, Monday, Nov. 18, 2013. The 30 people arrested following a Greenpeace protest at an Arctic oil rig were transferred to St. Petersburg from Murmansk.

Dmitry Lovetsky Associated Press
Two Sumatran tiger cubs, a male, Bandar and a female, Sukacita, play on a set of stairs as they make their public debut at the National Zoo in Washington, Monday Nov. 18, 2013. The two cubs were born in August and are now on public view.

Jacquelyn Martin Associated Press
People touch the coffin of the former Cyprus President Glafcos Clerides during his funeral at the Orthodox Christian Church of the Lord's Wisdom in Nicosia, Cyprus, Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2013. Politicians, dignitaries, and hundreds of ordinary people gathered for the state funeral of Cyprus' former president, Glafcos Clerides, who died last week at the age of 94.

Petros Karadjias Associated Press
Orbital Sciences Corp.'s Miotaur I rocket carrying the Air Force's ORS-3 mission launches from Pad 0B of the Mid Atlantic Regional Spaceport on Wallops Island, Va., Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2013.

Jay Diem Eastern Shore News
In this Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2013 photo, American singer Alicia Keys performs on stage during her world tour concert "Set The World On Fire" in Shanghai, China.
Karis, an eleven week old lion cub, plays in fallen leaves brushed up by keepers in her enclosure at Blair Drummond Safari Park, near Stirling, central Scotland, Wednesday Nov. 20, 2013.

Andrew Milligan Pa
Smoke billows from a new island off the coast of Nishinoshima, seen left above, a small, uninhabited island in the Ogasawara chain, far south of Tokyo Thursday, Nov. 21, 2013. The Japan Coast Guard and earthquake experts said a volcanic eruption has raised the new island in the seas to the far south of Tokyo. The coast guard issued an advisory Wednesday warning of heavy black smoke from the eruption.
People gather before a ceremony to mark the 50th anniversary of the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Friday, Nov. 22, 2013, at Dealey Plaza in Dallas. President Kennedy's motorcade was passing through Dealey Plaza when shots rang out on Nov. 22, 1963.

Tony Gutierrez Associated Press
Firefighters from Schell Vista of Sonoma County and Santa Clara County Cal Fire prepare to put out hotspots on a fire in the hills of Soda Canyon above Napa, Calif., Friday, Nov. 22, 2013. The fire grew to over 300 acres by daybreak, fanned by high winds.

Kent Porter The Press Democrat