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Day in photos Gay marriage ceremonies, snow across Europe, Santa run, protests in Egypt and more.
Dec. 9, 2012
Marji Lynn, right, and Sue Hopkins embrace before heading to City Hall to get married in Seattle. Sunday marked the first day that same-sex couples can legally wed in Washington state. The two are poodle enthusiasts and are surrounded by the five poodles of a close friend.
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Terry Gilbert, left, kisses his husband, Paul Beppler, after marrying at Seattle City Hall, becoming among the first same-sex couples to legally wed in the state. Gov. Chris Gregoire signed a voter-approved law legalizing gay marriage Dec. 5, and weddings for gay and lesbian couples began in the state on Sunday, following the three-day waiting period after marriage licenses were issued earlier in the week.
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AP
Dec. 9, 2012
Johanna Flynn, left, and Lori Robb celebrate after getting married at Seattle City Hall. Washington state made history last month as one of three U.S. states where marriage rights were extended to same-sex couples by popular vote, joining Maryland and Maine in passing ballot initiatives recognizing gay nuptials.
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Reuters
Dec. 9, 2012
Gay-rights advocate and journalist Dan Savage, left, and Terry Miller sort through roses after getting married at Seattle City Hall.
Cliff DesPeaux
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Reuters
Dec. 9, 2012
Pope Benedict XVI is pushed on a mobile trolley as he arrives during Mass at St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican. The pope held a speech during the Mass for the international congress “Ecclesia in America.”
Alberto Pizzoli
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Dec. 9, 2012
Pilgrims carry a picture of the Virgin of Guadalupe in Paso de Cortes, Mexico. Millions of Mexican Catholics travel to Mexico City to celebrate the Virgin of Guadalupe Day on Dec. 12.
Imelda Medina
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Reuters
Dec. 9, 2012
Supporters of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez rally in Caracas, Venezuela. Chavez admitted a relapse of his cancer late Saturday and designated Vice President Nicolas Maduro as his successor in case “something happened” to him. Should Chavez die or have to resign, the constitution calls for Venezuela to stage presidential elections within 30 days. Maduro, a 50-year-old former union organizer and bus driver who has risen through the ranks of Chavez’s movement, would become the candidate of the president’s United Socialist Party.
Juan Barreto
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AFP/Getty Images
Dec. 9, 2012
The remains of an Olive Ridley turtle lie on Mismaloya beach on the Pacific coast of Jalisco State, Mexico. According to the University of Guadalajara staff, 30 percent of the turtles that arrive to spawn to the area, are slaughtered by poachers to sell its skin and flesh.
Hector Guerrero
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AFP/Getty Images
Dec. 9, 2012
A woman holds a placard reading “I am gay and I don't eat chicken” as Bolivian President Evo Morales gives a speech during the International Meeting with Social Movements in Barcelona. The placard refers to a comment made by Morales in 2010, when he said that “chicken producers inject female hormones into the fowl and because of that, men who consume them have problems being men.”
Lluis Gene
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AFP/Getty Images
Dec. 9, 2012
A resident affected by Typhoon Bopha begs for aid from passing motorists along a highway at Montevista township in the southern Philippines. The number of missing in the wake of the typhoon, which devastated parts of the southern Philippines, has jumped to nearly 900, after families and fishing companies reported losing contact with more than 300 fishermen in the South China Sea and Pacific Ocean, officials said Sunday.
Bullit Marquez
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AP
Dec. 9, 2012
Residents affected by Typhoon Bopha crowd as relief goods are distributed at New Bataan township, in the southern Philippines.
Bullit Marquez
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AP
Dec. 10, 2012
Children look out of a window in a roofless house, destroyed at the height of Typhoon Bopha in the coastal Philippine town of Boston. Typhoon Bopha caused crop damage worth 8.5 billion pesos ($210 million).
Erik De Castro
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Reuters
Dec. 9, 2012
A general view of the E-1 settlement area, situated between Jerusalem and the Israeli West Bank , in Maale Adumim, West Bank. Israel has approved the building of 3,000 settler homes on the patch of land, a development that has been on hold for years due to pressure from the United States and the European Union. Should the construction go ahead, it would close off East Jerusalem from the West Bank.
Uriel Sinai
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Dec. 9, 2012
An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man lights candles on the second of the eight days of Hanukkah in the ultra-Orthodox Jerusalem neighborhood of Mea Shearim.
Menahem Kahana
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AFP/Getty Images
Dec. 9, 2012
Egyptian army soldiers stand guard as protesters stand on top of cement blocks near the presidential palace in Cairo. Egypt's liberal opposition called for more protests Sunday, seeking to keep up the momentum of its street campaign after the president made a partial concession overnight but refused the opposition’s main that demand he rescind a draft constitution going to a referendum on Dec. 15.
Hassan Ammar
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AP
Dec. 9, 2012
Egyptian protesters push through army soldiers standing guard in front of the presidential palace in Cairo.
Nasser Nasser
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AP
Dec. 8, 2012
A Syrian rebel walks past Sham II, a homemade armored vehicle made by the rebels' Al-Ansar brigade, in Bishqatin, Syria. From a distance it looks rather like a big rusty metal box, but closer inspection reveals the latest achievement of Syrian rebels: a homemade armored vehicle waiting to be deployed. Sham II, named after ancient Syria, is built from the chassis of a car and touted by rebels as "100 percent made in Syria."
Herve Bar
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AFP/Getty Images
Dec. 10, 2012
A man brushes snow off the top of a monument at Mansudae in Pyongyang, North Korea. North Korea has extended the window for a widely condemned long-range rocket launch by a week after discovering a “technical deficiency,” the isolated state's news agency said Monday.
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Dec. 10, 2012
Ice forms on the River Neva, in front of the State Hermitage Museum in central St. Petersburg. The temperature in Russia's second largest city fell to around 14 degrees below zero Monday.
Alexander Demianchuk
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Reuters
Dec. 9, 2012
A boy takes a jump with his toboggan in Riffenmatt, about 19 miles south of Switzerland’s capital, Bern.
Pascal Lauener
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Reuters
Dec. 8, 2012
A train on a narrow-gauge railway line makes its way through the winter landscape near Wernigerode, northern Germany. Parts of Europe were hit hard by heavy snow and freezing temperatures.
Jens Schlueter
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DAPD News Agency via AP
Dec. 8, 2012
Interior Ministry troops attend their oath ceremony in front of the World War II monument “Mother of the Motherland” in Kiev, Ukraine.
Anatolii Stepanov
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Reuters
Dec. 10, 2012
Tourists and locals walk past a Santa Claus statue placed on a beach for a film shoot in the southern Indian city of Kochi.
Sivaram V
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Reuters
Dec. 8, 2012
A participant in the annual Santa Speedo Run, a charity race through the streets of the Back Bay neighborhood of Boston, gets a high-five from an onlooker.
Brian Snyder
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Reuters
Dec. 9, 2012
Participants dressed as Santa Claus take off in the 4th annual Michendorf Santa Run (Michendorfer Nikolauslauf) in Michendorf, Germany. Over 800 people took part in this year's event, which included children's and adults' races.
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Dec. 10, 2012
Japanese macaque, commonly referred to as “snow monkeys,” crowd near an open-air hot spring bath, or “onsen,” at the Jigokudani (Hell's Valley) Monkey Park in the Japanese town of Yamanouchi. Some 160 of the monkeys inhabit the area and are a popular tourist draw.
Kazuhiro Nogi
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AFP/Getty Images
Dec. 9, 2012
The stars are captured in this long-exposure photograph, in the sky over the German Bundeswehr army outpost near Baghlan, Afghanistan. Picture taken with a fish-eye lens.
Fabrizio Bensch
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Reuters
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