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President Xi Jinping and visiting Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi signed a document at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Tuesday establishing a comprehensive strategic partnership.  Wu Zhiyi / China Daily

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Zhang Yuanyuan is among soldiers taking an oath to perform their duties regardless of the circumstances, on Monday in Laiyang, Shandong province. China is preparing to send an infantry battalion to South Sudan on a peacekeeping mission.  Qiu Chengliang / for China Daily

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Officers guard the scene at a shooting where two New York City police officers were killed execution-style on Saturday afternoon as they sat in their marked police car on a Brooklyn street corner. The suspect, who killed his girlfriend in Baltimore earlier in the day, was apparently motivated by the controversial deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Brown, both of whom were killed by police officers.  Spencer Platt / Getty Images VIA AFP

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President Xi Jinping is welcomed by children on his arrival in Macao on Friday. He is visiting the city to mark the 15th anniversary of its handover to China.  Agence Francepresse

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Premier Li Keqiang and his Serbian counterpart Aleksandar Vucic wave to crowds during the inauguration ceremony for the Mihajlo Pupin Bridge in Belgrade on Thursday. The bridge is the first to be built by China in Europe.  Rao Aimin / Xinhua

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Women mourn their relative Mohammed Ali Khan, 15, a student who was killed during the attack by Taliban gunmen on the Army Public School, at his house in Peshawar on Wednesday.  Zohra Bensemra / Reuters

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Volunteers carry a student injured in the school shootout at a hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan, on Tuesday.  Mohammad Sajjad / Associated Press

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An injured hostage is carried out of a cafe in the central business district of Sydney on Tuesday after police stormed the building.  Peter Parks / AFP

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Premier Li Keqiang is welcomed by his Kazakh counterpart Karim Masimov at the Astana airport on Sunday.  Huang Jingwen / Xinhua

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Officers from the Chinese and US navies demonstrate their shooting skills on Thursday when the two navies launched their latest anti-piracy exercise in the Gulf of Aden.
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A worker prepares to dismantle a barricade on Thursday that was set up illegally by protesters in Admiralty. A section of thoroughfare in central Hong Kong reopened to traffic after 9 pm.  Roy Liu / China Daily

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