THE GLOBAL SNAPSHOT

This week in photos: Demonstrations dominate in Tunisia, Egypt, Burma and Bangladesh

November 30, 2012

AP Photo / Rafiq Maqbool)

Nov. 30, 2012. A homeless man in Mumbai, India. The country’s economic growth is at a three-year low.

Getty Images / David Paul Morris

Nov. 26, 2012. The Amazon.com distribution center in Phoenix, Arizona on Cyber Monday.

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Nov. 30, 2012. Demonstrators in Siliana, Tunisia, gather to walk to Tunis, the capital. Tunisia’s prime minister accused opposition parties and unions Thursday of provoking three days of violent clashes in Siliana and pleaded for patience while the government tackles the nation’s economic problems.

Getty Images / Ed Giles

Nov. 27, 2012. Protesters fill Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt, in response to the sweeping new powers assumed by President Mohammed Morsi.

Getty Images / Oli Scarff

Nov. 28, 2012. British Prime Minister David Cameron leads the Emir of Kuwait, Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, to Number 10 Downing Street in London during the Amir’s three-day state visit to the UK.

Getty Images / Chung Sung-Jun

Nov. 29, 2012. Supporters of South Korea’s ruling Saenuri Party’s presidential candidate, Park Geun-Hye, during a presidential election campaign in Seoul.

Getty Images / Hong Wu

Nov. 28, 2012. Thai monks pray as they light floating lanterns to celebrate the Loy Krathong Festival in Chiang Mai, Thailand.

Getty Images / Chip Somodevilla

Nov. 28, 2012. Goldman Sachs chairman and CEO Lloyd Blankfein is interviewed after a fiscal cliff meeting at the White House with President Barack Obama and other business leaders.

AP Photo / Jerome Delay

Nov. 27, 2012. A man pushes his scooter as Congolese M23 rebels drive by returning from an incursion into Rwanda.

AP Photo / Pavel Rahman

Nov. 29, 2012. Protesters hold signs while others lie down on the ground posing as dead bodies, after the death of workers in a weekend fire at a garment factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh.