Week in Photos: Farewell to Benedict, U.S. politics and China, COVID and the Kraken

Week in Photos: Catholics bid farewell to Benedict, Republicans wrangle in House and the return of COVID tests with the Kraken

by Benedict’s closest aide, Archbishop Georg Ganswein, shows what he says were strains while two men wearing white lived in the tiny city-state.

U.S. House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy, right, greets Rep.-elect Mike Garcia in the House Chamber at the U.S. Capitol Building on Jan. 6, 2023 in Washington, D.C. Win McNamee / Getty ImagesBusiness at the Republican-led U.S. House of Representatives ground to a halt this week as lawmakers continued to wrangle over electing party leader Kevin McCarthy as speaker. Eleven failed votes by Thursday night marked the highest number of ballots for the speakership since 1859.

Worshippers pray at the Ukrainian Orthodox Saint Michael’s Golden-Domed Monastery in Kyiv on Jan. 6, 2023. Sameer Al-Doumy / AFP)Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a 36-hour ceasefire from midday on Friday to observe Orthodox Christmas, but

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