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7 powerful photos you may have missed this week

Marelom Cassanares, 37, with five children and no home cries at the grave of her husband in the aftermath of Super Typhoon Haiyan in Palo, the outskirts of Tacloban on November 15, 2013. Getty Images

TORONTO – As thousands have yet to receive aid and assistance after Typhoon Haiyan hit the Philippines one week ago, 12 migrants were found dead Friday and a further 15 were rescued after a boat capsized in western Greece.

Here’s a look at seven heartbreaking and heartwarming photos you may have missed this week:

Baby Beatriz Joy is born at a makeshift medical center in the storm damaged central Philippine city of Tacloban on November 11, 2013. (Photo credit: Getty Images). Read the latest on Typhoon Haiyan here. Getty Images
Bangladeshi garment workers are pictured on the ground as others react after riot police fired tear gas shells colleague during clashes in Ashulia, a key garment manufacturing hub outside Dhaka, on November 12, 2013. (Photo credit: Getty Images). Read the latest here. Getty Images
Pope Francis hugs a disabled man during a meeting with the UNITALSI, the Italian Union responsible for the transportation of sick people to Lourdes and the International Shrines in PaulVI hall, at the Vatican, on November 9, 2013.  (Photo credit: Getty Images). Getty Images
This image made available by the Hellenic Coast Guard Friday, Nov. 15, 2013, shows a capsized boat on the coast of Lefkada, an island in the Ionian Sea, western Greece. Twelve migrants were found dead Friday and a further 15 were rescued after the boat capsized in western Greece, authorities said. The Merchant Marine Ministry said the victims included four children. (Photo credit: AP Photo). Read the story here. AP Photo
Sri Lankan members of the ‘Dead and Missing Person’s Parents’ organisation hold photographs as they take part in a protest in Jaffna, some 400 kilometres (250 miles) north of Colombo on November 15, 2013. (Photo credit: Getty Images). Getty Images
Canadian rower Mylene Paquette (R) hugs her father Jean as she arrives at Lorient harbour, western France, on November 12, 2013. Paquette is the first North American woman to have crossed the Atlantic in a rowing boat in 129 days between Halifax and Lorient. (Photo credit: Getty Images). Read the story here. Getty Images

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