07 June 2012 11:31 | By Antony Bennison
Week in pictures - 8 June 2012

Abyan

Yemeni army forces fire a missile towards al Qaeda-linked militants positions in the southern province of Abyan. Hundreds of Yemeni troops backed by tanks advanced in a bid to retake a coastal town from al Qaeda-linked fighters on Monday, residents said, part of a US-backed offensive in a country Washington sees as a frontline against Islamist militants. (© Reuters)
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  • A bee sting therapist holds a bee to sting the arm of a patient in a bee farm in Silang, Cavite. Farm owner Joel Magsaysay uses bee sting to treat patients with ailments such as hypothyroidism, paralysis and cancer. Magsaysay claims the bee's venom contains a potent cocktail of proteins that boost auto-immune system that let the body activate the nerves and heal itself. (© Reuters)
  • Yemeni army forces fire a missile towards al Qaeda-linked militants positions in the southern province of Abyan. Hundreds of Yemeni troops backed by tanks advanced in a bid to retake a coastal town from al Qaeda-linked fighters on Monday, residents said, part of a US-backed offensive in a country Washington sees as a frontline against Islamist militants. (© Reuters)
  • People gather near the engine of a plane, after it crashed into a neighbourhood in Ishaga disrict, an outskirt of Nigeria's commercial capital Lagos. (© Reuters)
  • Men cool down in a canal in the eastern city of Lahore, Pakistan. (© Reuters)
  • A Thai fisherman catches freshwater white tilapia fish at a fish farm in Samut Prakarn province. The price per kilo of white tilapia fish has decreased to almost half the price it was before historic floods hit Thailand last year. The country's exports unexpectedly fell in April from a year earlier as industry continued to feel the impact of the flooding but the Commerce Ministry expects a significant improvement in the second half of the year. (© Reuters)
  • A Kashmiri boatman removes weeds from the waters of Dal Lake during early morning in Srinagar. (© Reuters)
  • A helicopter crosses dry creek beds as it makes an approach to a base in Kunar Province in eastern Afghanistan. (© Reuters)
  • A NASA image shows the planet Venus at the start of its transit of the Sun. One of the rarest astronomical events occurred on Tuesday and Wednesday when Venus passes directly between the sun and Earth, a transit that won't occur again until 2117. (© Reuters)
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Yemeni army forces fire a missile towards al Qaeda-linked militants positions in the southern province of Abyan. Hundreds of Yemeni troops backed by tanks advanced in a bid to retake a coastal town from al Qaeda-linked fighters on Monday, residents said, part of a US-backed offensive in a country Washington sees as a frontline against Islamist militants.

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