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Day in photos Ecuador’s Tungurahua volcano, NRA protest in Washington, funerals begin for Newtown victims and more.
Dec. 17, 2012
The Tungurahua volcano, as seen from Huambalo, Ecuador, emits an an ash-filled plume. The country's National Geophysics Institute says that a constant plume of gas and ash is rising about a half-mile above the crater, with ash falling on nearby communities.
Dolores Ochoa
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AP
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Ecuador issued an orange alert — the nation’s second-highest warning level — for towns near the Tungurahua volcano as its level of activity rose, civil defense officials said.
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Dec. 17, 2012
Children slide down an artificial snow hill on Berlin’s Potsdamer Platz.
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Dec. 17, 2012
Emergency workers help remove a car trapped in snow after blizzards hit near the western Ukrainian city of Brody. About 2,000 vehicles have been freed from the snow, according to the Emergency Situations Ministry.
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Dec. 17, 2012
Indian soldiers perform the Indian martial art Kalaripayattu during an army fair and exhibition in Khasa, India. The fair, organized by the Vajra Corps, displays weapons, tanks, aircraft and military equipment.
Narinder Nanu
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Dec. 17, 2012
A Palestinian resident of the northern West Bank village of Madama argues with an Israeli soldier after security forces came to intervene in clashes between Palestinian farmers and Israeli settlers from the Yitzhar settlement in the West Bank.
Jaafar Ashtiyeh
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Female Afghan National Police (ANP) trainees fire weapons at the shooting range of a training center near the German Bundeswehr’s Camp Marmal in Mazar-e Sharif, northern Afghanistan. German police are mentoring the training program for ANP as part of an ongoing International Security Assistance Force mission.
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Dec. 17, 2012
Eddie Weingart, center, of Silver Spring participates in CREDO’s “emergency march on the NRA” in Washington. Weingart said that his mother was killed with a gun by her ex-husband when he was 2 years old.
Bonnie Jo Mount
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The Washington Post
Dec. 17, 2012
Larry Ward yells “Arm the teachers!” as demonstrators rally past his office during a protest against the NRA, organized by CREDO, in Washington. Ward said that he is a gun owner and is “tired of the one-sided argument” against guns.
Bonnie Jo Mount
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Dec. 17, 2012
Flowers, candles and stuffed animals are seen at a makeshift memorial in Newtown, Conn. Two funerals on Monday ushered in what will be a week of memorial services and burials for the 20 children and six adults massacred at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown on Friday.
Eric Thayer
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Reuters
Dec. 17, 2012
Two children comfort each other outside Newtown’s Honan Funeral Home before the start of the funeral for 6-year-old Jack Pinto. Police say Adam Lanza, 20, fatally shot his mother Friday, then drove to Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown and killed 20 children, six adults and himself. Pinto was among the victims of that shooting.
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Dec. 17, 2012
Children enter Honan Funeral Home for Jack Pinto’s funeral.
Mario Tama
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Dec. 17, 2012
Veronika Pozner, foreground, receives a hug as she leaves the funeral services for her 6-year-old son Noah Pozner in Fairfield, Conn. The boy was killed in the shooting massacre in Newtown.
Don Emmert
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Dec. 17, 2012
A man comforts a boy outside Honan Funeral Home, where the family of Jack Pinto was holding his funeral service.
Mike Segar
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Dec. 17, 2012
A mourner arrives at the funeral service for Noah Pozner in Fairfield, Conn.
Jason DeCrow
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AP
Dec. 17, 2012
Albanian children light candles in the main square of the capital, Tirana, to pay their respects to the victims of the elementary school shooting in Newtown.
Gent Shkullaku
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Dec. 18, 2012
Homeless people line up for free hot food organized by social services in Kiev, Ukraine. Nineteen people died of exposure in Ukraine in the last 24 hours amid temperatures of 4 degrees below zero, bringing the toll this month to 37, the Health Ministry said Tuesday.
Dergei Supinsky
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Dec. 18, 2012
A homeless woman drinks tea in a tent set up by the Ukrainian Emergency Ministry in the industrial Ukrainian city of Donetsk.
Alexander Khudoteply
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Dec. 17, 2012
A woman stands near fire to warm herself at a refugee camp in Azaz, Syria. Thousands of Syrian refugees who fled their homes because of fighting between Free Syrian Army fighters and government forces face cold weather as temperatures dropped to 36 degrees in Azaz.
Manu Brabo
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Dec. 17, 2012
A 5-month-old malnourished child awaits medical tests at the pediatric ward of the Banadir hospital in Mogadishu, Somalia.
Ismail Taxta
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Dec. 17, 2012
The mummy of Ramesses III. German mummies specialist Albert Zink and other experts of the European Academy of Bozen/Bolzano (EURAC) held a press conference at EURAC in Bolzano, Italy, to announce that the ancient Egyptian pharaoh had died of an injury to the throat.
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Dec. 17, 2012
A man walks with flowers in the Sandy Hook village of Newtown, Conn., as the town mourns those killed in Friday’s school shooting.
Julio Cortez
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