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The Week in Pictures: Nov. 4 - 11
Jubilant Trump supporters, despondent Clinton backers, football in Iraq and more of the week's best pictures.

A child practices a traditional dance during the third edition of the Souq al-Qattara festival on Nov. 11 in al-Ain, on the outskirts of Abu Dhabi. The festival, running until Nov. 12, showcases Emirati heritage with workshops, live performances, traditional handicrafts and competitions.


A Kurdish Peshmerga fighter plays with comrades with an American-style football after returning from combat against ISIS fighters in Bashiqa, Iraq, on Nov. 9.
Operations are still ongoing but Kurdish forces are finding less and less resistance as they move from house to house searching properties and clearing out a network of underground tunnels dug by ISIS linking large parts of the city.



Supporters of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump cheer as they watch election returns during an election night rally on Nov. 8 in New York.

A man mourns Hillary Clinton's loss at the Javits Center in New York, where Clinton was holding her election night event, early on Nov. 9. Donald Trump was elected the 45th president of the U.S. on Tuesday in a stunning upset. After a long campaign, Hillary Clinton acknowledged that the loss cuts deep. "This is painful, and it will be for a long time," she said.


Staff listen as President Barack Obama speaks about the election results on Nov. 9 in the Rose Garden at the White House. Senior Adviser Valerie Jarrett is at left, White House Communications Director Jen Psaki is at center and National Security Adviser Susan Rice is to Psaki's left.

President Barack Obama and President-elect Donald Trump shake hands following their meeting in the Oval Office of the White House on Nov. 10.
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Demostrators protest on top of a bus outside of the Trump Tower on Nov. 9 in Chicago. Thousands of people in several cities across the country took to the streets a day after Donald Trump was elected president.
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Children use pieces of plastic debris to slide down the roof of a building destroyed by an airstrike in Qayara, south of Mosul, Iraq, on Nov. 6. The Mosul offensive has slowed in recent days as Iraqi forces have pushed into more densely populated areas, where they cannot rely as much on airstrikes and shelling because of the risk posed to civilians.

People look out at the Statue of Liberty from the Staten Island Ferry on Nov. 9 in New York City.
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