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Day in photos Newtown, Conn., school shooting and other news.
Dec. 16, 2012
From left, Newtown, Conn., residents Claire Swanson, Ian Fuchs, Kate Suba, Jaden Albrecht and Simran Chand hold candles at a memorial for victims following the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Twelve girls, eight boys and six adult women were killed in the Newtown shooting Friday.
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Kathy Murdy and her husband, Rich Murdy, look at the list of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Conn.
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Dec. 16, 2012
A woman falls to her knees and cries at a makeshift memorial near Sandy Hook Elementary School for the victims of the school shooting in Newtown, Conn.
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Dec. 16, 2012
Twenty-seven angel wood cutouts are set up on hillside in memory of the victims of the elementary school shooting in Newtown, Conn.
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Dec. 16, 2012
Newtown police officer Maryhelen McCarthy places flowers at a makeshift memorial outside St. Rose of Lima Roman Catholic Church in Newtown, Conn.
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Dec. 16, 2012
A woman covers her face as she watches President Obama speak on a television at Church Hill restaurant in Newtown, Conn.
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Dec. 16, 2012
President Obama speaks at a memorial service for the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Conn. “I am very mindful that mere words cannot match the depths of your sorrow, nor can they heal your wounded hearts,” the president said. “I can only hope it helps for you to know that you’re not alone in your grief, that our world, too, has been torn apart, that all across this land of ours, we have wept with you.”
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Dec. 16, 2012
A man mourns at the site of a makeshift memorial for the victims of the school shooting in Newtown, Conn.
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Dec. 16, 2012
Members of the Philadelphia Little Flyers hockey team arrive with wreaths at a memorial for the victims of the school shooting in Newtown, Conn.
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Dec. 15, 2012
A collection of classroom-safe training pistols are on display as students take a concealed-weapons permit class at Take Aim Gun Range in Sarasota, Fla. The number of active concealed-weapons licenses in Florida, already home to more owners of such registered weapons than any other state, is expected to reach the 1 million mark next week, a state official said Wednesday.
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Dec. 16, 2012
One of the chimneys of the Marsa Power Station is seen at sunset outside Valletta, Malta. The most polluting and least efficient boilers at the power station have been shut down after an extension at a more modern power station came online. But the government has admitted that it would not be in a position to completely shut down the Marsa station before sometime in 2013, despite the fact that its operation is in breach of European Union rules, according to local media.
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Dec. 16, 2012
Ecuador's Tungurahua volcano spews large clouds of gas and ash near Banos, south of Quito, the nation’s capital.
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Dec. 17, 2012
Mount Lokon spews volcanic ash during an eruption in Tomohon, in Indonesia's North Sulawesi province. Mount Lokon has erupted 800 times since July.
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Dec. 17, 2012
Security personnel walk in front of the Soyuz TMA-07M spacecraft as it is transported to its launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The spacecraft is scheduled to fly to the international space station Wednesday, bringing with it with U.S. astronaut Thomas Marshburn, Russian cosmonaut Roman Romanenko and Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield.
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Dec. 16, 2012
North Korean military officers bow before an image of the late North Korean leader Kim Jong Il during a national meeting of top party and military officials on the eve of the anniversary of Kim's death in Pyongyang, North Korea. The vertical banner at left reads, “Hurrah to the Workers' Party of Korea.”
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Dec. 15, 2012
An Egyptian woman walks past a wall stained with ink by voters who tried to clean their marked fingers at a polling station in Cairo’s City of the Dead district. Egypt's opposition cried fraud in the first round of a divisive referendum on a new constitution, accusing the Muslim Brotherhood, which supports President Mohamed Morsi, of rigging votes to adopt the Islamist-backed text.
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Dec. 16, 2012
A mosaic of Hafez al-Assad, the former president of Syria and the father of President Bashar al-Assad, had been shot at by Free Syrian Army soldiers after heavy clashes with government forces at a military academy besieged by the rebels in Tal Sheer, Syria.
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Dec. 17, 2012
Photographers take pictures of old taxis being scrapped in Changsha, China. About 48 taxis that were exceeding their service lives were destroyed by Changsha police.
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Dec. 17, 2012
Jacintha Saldanha's widower, Ben Barboza, center, and her children Lisha, second from left, and Junal, second from right, mourn during her funeral in Shirva, India. The body of Jacintha Saldanha, the nurse who committed suicide in London after a prank call by two Australian radio hosts, was buried at her husband's native village.
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Dec. 17, 2012
Villagers stand around the bodies of girls who were killed by an explosion in Jalalabad, Afghanistan. The blast killed 10 Afghans between 9 and 11 years old as they were collecting firewood in eastern Afghanistan, government officials said.
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Jessica Rekos, 6, was killed Friday when a gunman opened fire at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. “Jessica was our first born. She started our family, and she was our rock. She had an answer for everything, she didn’t miss a trick, and she outsmarted us every time,” her family said in the statement.
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Courtesy of the Rekos family via AP
Noah Pozner, 6, was one of the victims in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Conn. Noah was a “rambunctious little maverick” who was “smart as a whip,” said his mother, Veronique, speaking through a relative. He loved his family, his parents, his siblings and especially his twin sister, she said. “He called her his best friend.”
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Courtesy of Pozner family
Emilie Parker — seen here in a photo posted to the Emilie Parker Fund Facebook page — was among the 20 children killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School on Friday. Fighting back tears and struggling to catch his breath, Robbie Parker, the father of 6-year-old, told the world about a little girl who loved to draw and was always smiling, and he also reserved words of sympathy for the gunman’s family. “Emilie was always willing to try new things, other than food,” her father said Saturday, with a hint of a smile.
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Emilie Parker Fund via AP
Jack Pinto, 6, was one of the victims killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School on Friday. Jack was a big New York Giants fan and an admirer of star Giants wide receiver Victor Cruz. Cruz, who spoke with the family Saturday, honored Jack by wearing his name on his cleats in Sunday’s game against the Falcons.
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