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Dec. 12, 2012. Pope Benedict XVI clicks on an iPad to send his first twitter message during his weekly general audience at the Vatican in Italy, Rome. (Photo: CPP/Polaris)
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.