Dec. 30, 2012. A boy watches men dig graves for future casualties of Syria’s civil conflict at Sheikh Saeed cemetery in Azaz city, north of Aleppo, Syria. (Ahmed Jadallah—Reuters)

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Dec. 10, 2012. Syrian boys, whose family fled their home in Idlib, walk to their tent at a camp for displaced Syrians, in the village of Atmeh, Syria. (Photo: Muhammed Muheisen—AP)

From continued protests in Egypt and a mass wedding in Indonesia to Syrian refugees in Turkey and the Pope’s first tweet, TIME presents the best images of the week. See more on LightBox.

From Rodina.

Irina Ruppert’s intimate knowledge of Kazakhstan and Eastern Europe comes from an experience of emigration and a complex family history. See more here.

Grace and Emma Goebel waiting for the schoolbus at Virginia and 22nd streets in Joplin, Mo.

Photographer Greg Miller traveled to Joplin, Mo., in the days leading up to the anniversary of the tornado that devastated the city last year. See more here.

Home III

Orup, Denmark

Joakim Eskildsen’s new body of work explores the poetry of place through the five different homes to which he has moved his family over the past six years. See more here.