Photos of the week: Oman/Japan diplomacy, Morocco mining protest, Bus crash in Moscow subway station

Oman’s Deputy Prime Minister Fahd bin Mahmoud al Said meets with Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono in Muscat, Oman on December 27, 2017. Photo credit: Getty Images

Moroccans flash the sign for victory while holding photos of the Moroccan King with signs reading ‘work’ at a demonstration. The protest took place after the funeral of two brothers who died while digging in an abandoned coal mine in the northeastern city of Jerada, 60 kilometres southwest of Oujda, on December 27, 2017. Thousands of people protested against economic marginalisation, accusing authorities of “abandoning” them. Photo credit: Getty Images

Russian officials inspect the scene after a bus plowed into a Moscow subway entrance, leaving at least five people dead and 15 injured in Moscow, Russia on December 25, 2017. It was declared that the incident was not terror-related, but was caused by the bus driver who lost control of the vehicle. Photo credit: Getty Images

Syrian paramedics and civilians sit inside an ambulance on the second night of an evacuation operation led by the Syrian Red Crescent and the International Committee of the Red Cross in the Ghouta region on the outskirts of Damascus on December 27, 2017. Aid workers evacuated the first few patients under a deal struck after the UN said hundreds are in critical condition following a four-year government siege. Photo credit: Getty Images

Tourists visit ice sculptures illuminated by coloured lights at Harbin Ice And Snow World ahead of the 34th Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival on December 26, 2017 in Harbin, China. The Festival, established in 1985, is held annually from December 24 and lasts for over one month. Photo credit: Getty Images

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