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Week in Pictures: July 29 - August 5
Ramadan, famine in the Horn of Africa, U.S. debt crisis, and more in the week in pictures.
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August 2: President Barack Obama signs the Budget Control Act of 2011 in the Oval Office. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
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August 4: A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in New York. The Dow plunged nearly 513 points Thursday, its biggest point decline since Oct. 22, 2008. (AP Photo/Jin Lee)
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August 5: Display boards at the Australian Stock Exchange flicker with news of a falling market in Sydney. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)
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August 3: This combination image made from video taken from Egyptian State Television shows different scenes of 83-year-old Hosni Mubarak on a hospital bed inside a cage of mesh and iron bars in a Cairo courtroom as his trial began on charges of corruptio