ዓለም ኣብ`ዚ ሰሙን`ዚ 4/12/10
This week's most eye-catching and news-relevant pictures.

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Children play in a makeshift shelter after losing their homes to weeks of rain in Caracas. More than a dozen people have died and thousands have been forced from their houses after weeks of downpours in Venezuela that have caused flooding and mudslides.

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A man walks in the flooded streets in Barlovento in the state of Miranda outside Caracas December 1. (REUTERS/Miranda Government/Handout)

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Detainees are displayed for the media during a news conference by Iraq's Interior Minister in Baghdad December 2. Security forces arrested 39 al Qaeda militants, including the group's leadership in Anbar province and one of its top officers in Iraq, in ra

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Rabbis inspect the setting-up of a large Menorah in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin on December 1, ahead of a ceremony marking the Jewish celebration of Hanukkah. (Tobias Schwarz/Reuters)