Week in Pictures: 11 - 17 February 2012

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Visitors at Tunnel View, like Kaori Nishimura and Eriko Kuboi from Japan, pose in front of Half Dome, center facing, during the reopening of Yosemite National Park, Calif., Oct. 17, 2013.

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Yamda Johnson, kisses a signed photo of Whitney Houston as she and her friend Regina Kujemya both from Staten Island, N.Y., pay their respects at New Hope Baptist Church, in Newark, N.J., Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012.

3
Sudanese Mutasim Qamrawi, 22, shows his scars from four months he was held in captivity by smugglers in Egypt's Sinai desert, at a shelter in Tel Aviv, Israel, Thursday, Feb. 16, 2012.

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Carnival dancers perform on a float during a parade by the Perola Negra samba school in Sao Paulo, Brazil, early Sunday Feb. 19, 2012.