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Day in photos Ukraine parliament in session, Michelangelo’s “David-Apollo” in Washington, coffin therapy and more.
Dec. 12, 2012
Opposition lawmakers chase two colleagues from the parliament hall, suspecting them of preparing to defect to the party loyal to President Viktor Yanukovych, during the first session of Ukraine's newly elected parliament in Kiev. Ukraine's parliament convened after Yanukovych's Party of Regions secured a slim majority in an election criticized by the West as unfair over the jailing of ex-premier Yulia Tymoshenko.
Aleksander Kosarev
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AP
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Dec. 12, 2012
Deputies of the opposition fight with deputies of the majority party during the opening of the newly elected Ukrainian parliament in Kiev. Ukraine's parliament has seen several physical confrontations in recent years amid bitter confrontation between opposition and pro-government camps.
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Dec. 13, 2012
Ukrainian lawmakers fight around the rostrum for the second time in two days, during the second session of the newly elected parliament in Kiev.
Sergei Chuzavkov
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AP
Dec. 13, 2012
Deputies of the opposition fight with deputies of the majority for the second time in two days in Kiev, Ukraine.
Sergei Supinsky
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Dec. 12, 2012
House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio), accompanied by Rep. James Lankford (R-Okla.), listens during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington following a closed-door meeting with the GOP caucus. Boehner and other House Republican leaders are calling for Obama to come up with tax plan they can accept to avoid the “fiscal cliff” of automatic tax increases and budget reductions.
J. Scott Applewhite
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Dec. 12, 2012
Healer Flordemayo holds a sacred staff as she leads a 12/12/12 ceremony with ancient crystal skulls at Miami Circle, a Tequesta Indian site, in Miami.
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Dec. 11, 2012
Ocularist Gerhard Greiner holds a glass tube over a bunsen burner as he makes a glass eye at his medical equipment shop in Munich. Each hand-blown glass eye takes about an hour to make, with constant reference to the patient for the right color and for detailed drawing of the veins. A bespoke glass eye prostheses cost about $450. A typical modern glass eye is a hollow half-sphere that fits over the nonworking eye, if it is still there. Otherwise, it goes over a ball that has been surgically implanted into the eye socket and attached to the eye muscles.
Michaela Rehle
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Reuters
Dec. 11, 2012
Ocularist Gerhard Greiner, seen in mirror, looks at the new glass eye of Helmut Sechser in his medical equipment shop in Munich. Sechser, 72, got his first glass eye in 1960.
Michaela Rehle
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Reuters
Dec. 12, 2012
A spare eye for dolls at a doll-repair workshop in Duesseldorf, Germany.
Martin Gerten
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AFP/Getty Images
Dec. 12, 2012
Members of the press and guests take in Michelangelo’s “David-Apollo,” on loan from the Museo Nazionale del Bargelloe, at the National Gallery of Art in Washington. The sculpture was first displayed at the National Gallery in 1949 and will be on view in the West Building's Italian galleries through March 3.
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Dec. 12, 2012
Eric Howell and Paola Teran of Stanton, Calif., kiss after getting married in Las Vegas. Las Vegas wedding chapels were expected to be busy all day as many couples married on the century's last sequential date of 12/12/12.
Steve Marcus
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Las Vegas Sun via Reuters
Dec. 12, 2012
Aidan Branche, 2, dances as her parents, Adrian Branche, 32, and Andre Branche, 35, marry in Norwalk, Calif.
Lucy Nicholson
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Reuters
Dec. 12, 2012
U.S. Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class John Chen, 23, of Lakehurst, N.J., kisses his wife, Victoria Chan, 25, of Manhattan, after they were married in a civil ceremony at New York's Office of the City Clerk. Hundreds of couples packed the office in lower Manhattan to be married on 12/12/12.
Mike Segar
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Dec. 12, 2012
Police officers use their shields to cover from themselves from stones thrown by demonstrators during a protest against the acquittal of 13 people accused in the disappearance of a young woman in Buenos Aires. The acquittal on Tuesday of 13 people accused in the disappearance of Marita Veron, a young woman who was allegedly kidnapped and forced into prostitution for “VIP clients,” spread shock and outrage across Argentina, prompting street protests and calls by political leaders to impeach the three judges who delivered the verdict. The graffito reads “killers.”
Victor R. Caivano
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AP
Dec. 12, 2012
A demonstrator tries to break a glass window during a protest against the acquittal of 13 people accused in the disappearance of a young woman in Buenos Aires.
Victor R. Caivano
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AP
Dec. 12, 2012
Thousands of Bangladeshi Muslims attend a funeral prayer for Islami Oikya Jote party leader Mufti Fazlul Huq Amini in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Amini died at a city hospital early Wednesday. He was 69.
A.M.Ahad
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AP
Dec. 12, 2012
Bosnian Muslims — from left, Zijad Smajlovic, Sabaheta Fejzic and Kadira Gabeljic, all survivors of the 1995 massacre in the eastern Bosnian town of Srebrenica — gather in Sarajevo to watch a live television broadcast of the final ruling in the case of former Bosnian Serb general Zdravko Tolimir before the International War Crimes Tribunal for former Yugoslavia in the Hague. The court found Tolimir guilty of genocide Wednesday for his role in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre and sentenced him to life in prison.
Elvis Barukcic
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Dec. 12, 2012
Former Bosnian Serb general Zdravko Tolimir takes a pen and paper out of his suitcase as he waits for the International War Crimes Tribunal for former Yugoslavia to deliver its judgement and sentence for his role in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre in the Hague. The court found Tolimir guilty of genocide, sentencing him to life in prison.
Peter DeJong
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Dec. 13, 2012
Egyptian army tanks are deployed outside the presidential palace in Cairo. Egypt’s crisis showed no sign of easing as the army delayed unity talks meant to ease political divisions and the opposition set near-impossible demands for taking part in a constitutional referendum set for Saturday.
Gianluigi Guercia
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Dec. 13, 2012
An image from the Web, released by South Korea's Defense Ministry, shows South Korean sailors checking a piece of the wreckage of North Korea's Unha-3 rocket in the sea, 99 miles off Gunsan, South Korea. North Korea successfully launched a rocket Wednesday, boosting the credentials of its youthful new leader, Kim Jong Eun, who took power a year ago, and stepping up the threat the isolated and impoverished state poses to opponents.
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South Korean Defense Ministry via Reuters
Dec. 12, 2012
A man lies inside a coffin as part of a therapy session at a mental health clinic in Shenyang, China. The clinic opened three years ago and offers patients the experience of “death” by having them lie in a coffin as a form of therapy. The treatment, which lasts four to five hours, costs 2000 yuan (about $320). Patients also have to record their feelings on paper before and after the experience, and listen to a therapist's guidance and to relatives reading “epitaphs.”
Sheng Li
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Dec. 12, 2012
A stag lies in the frozen undergrowth of Richmond Park in London.
Toby Melville
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Dec. 12, 2012
Frozen undergrowth is seen in Richmond Park in London.
Toby Melville
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Dec. 12, 2012
Austrian freeskier Mathias Haunholder makes a turn on a sunny day at western Austria’s Sonnenkopf mountain ski resort in Langen am Arlberg.
Dominic Ebenbichler
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Reuters
Dec. 12, 2012
A snow cannon sprays the slope in Val d'Isere, France. Recent snowfalls have encouraged European skiers to hit the slopes.
Philippe Desmazes
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