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Day in photos Purim celebrations, U.N. Human Rights Council, newborn elephant, war in Mali and more.
Feb. 24, 2013
Inter Milan’s captain, Javier Zanetti, stands on the field, covered by smoke from flares lit by supporters, during a soccer match against AC Milan at San Siro Stadium in Milan.
Stefano Rellandini
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Reuters
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Feb. 25, 2013
Palestinian women mourn during the funeral of Arafat Jaradat in the West Bank town of Saeer, near Hebron. Thousands attended the funeral procession of the 30-year-old Palestinian man who died under disputed circumstances in Israeli custody. Palestinian officials say autopsy results show Jaradat was tortured by Israeli interrogators, while Israeli officials say that there’s no conclusive cause of death yet and that more tests are needed.
Bernat Armangue
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AP
Feb. 25, 2013
Palestinian mourners carry the body of Arafat Jaradat, an inmate who died in an Israeli prison, during his funeral in the West Bank town of Saeer. Militants of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the armed wing of Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah movement, vowed to avenge the death of Jaradat, a prisoner they say was tortured in an Israeli jail.
Marco Longari
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AFP/Getty Images
Feb. 25, 2013
A Palestinian woman prays during the funeral of Arafat Jaradat in the West Bank town of Saeer, near Hebron.
Bernat Armangue
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AP
Feb. 26, 2013
A girl stands before portraits of former Chinese leaders, from left, Zhou Enlai, Mao Zedong and Liu Shaoqi in Beijing. China will convene a key legislative session on March 5, state media reported, with new Communist Party chief Xi Jingping set to become president during the two-week meeting.
Ed Jones
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AFP/Getty Images
Feb. 24, 2013
Former Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi casts his ballot in Milan. With no one political force winning a clear path to a majority in both of Italy’s chambers, politicians in Rome began arduous talks to form a government. Most scenarios were viewed as leading to a weak coalition vulnerable to a quick fall.
Antonio Calanni
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AP
Feb. 25, 2013
German Chancellor Angela Merkel waves as a hot air balloon is reflected in her bus window during her visit to Goreme National Park in Cappadocia in Turkey’s central Anatolian province of Nevsehir.
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Reuters
Feb. 25, 2013
Ultra-Orthodox Jews celebrate the Jewish festival of Purim in the Mea Shearim neighborhood in Jerusalem. Purim marks the deliverance of the Jewish people from a genocidal plot in ancient Persia, as recorded in the biblical Book of Esther.
Menahem Kahana
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AFP/Getty Images
Feb. 25, 2013
A fleet of pointus, fishing boats typical of southern France, decorated with locally grown flowers, are shown during a parade in the harbor of Villefranche sur Mer, southeastern France. Sailors filed past the public and along the wharves, throwing flowers among the spectators.
Lionel Cironneau
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AP
Feb. 26, 2013
Chinese visitors take souvenir photos in front of a giant video screen showing cultural images at Tiananmen Square in Beijing.
Andy Wong
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AP
Feb. 25, 2013
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, back, and Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem, foreground, speak during a meeting in Moscow.
Ivan Sekretarev
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AP
Feb. 25, 2013
A general view taken on the opening day of the 22nd session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva. The council kicks off with North Korea and Mali the top items on the agenda, along with the crisis in Syria.
Fabrice Coffrini
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AFP/Getty Images
Feb. 25, 2013
A newborn elephant tries to reach a branch offered by its mother, Donna, at the Prague Zoo. The unnamed female calf, born two weeks ago, is the first ever elephant born in captivity in the history of the zoo.
Petr Josek
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Reuters
Feb. 22, 2013
A handicapped member of the Sin Limites (“Without Limits”) Charreria team is helped by volunteers during a practice at Lienzo Charro in Guadalajara, Mexico. The school aims to facilitate the social integration of people with disabilities acquired through accidents, according to organizers.
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Reuters
Feb. 25, 2013
Malian army paratrooper Soumaila Coulibaly, 26, poses with an AK-47 in Gao, some 745 miles north of Bamako, Mali. After recapturing the north’s cities from the Al Qaeda groups that had controlled them since April 2012, the six-week-long French-led offensive took the fight to the retreating Islamist insurgents’ toughest desert bastions.
Joel Saget
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AFP/Getty Images
Feb. 25, 2013
Relatives of Javed Ahmed Wani mourn during his funeral in Kalantra village, north of Srinagar, in Indian-administered Kashmir. Wani, the village council chief of Kalantra, was shot dead by suspected militants outside his home, police said.
Danish Ismail
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Reuters
Feb. 25, 2013
A stone-throwing Palestinian protester uses a sling to throw back a tear gas canister fired by Israeli troops during clashes outside Israel’s Ofer military prison near the West Bank city of Ramallah. The death of Palestinian Arafat Jaradat in an Israeli jail and a hunger strike by four other Palestinian inmates have raised tensions in the occupied territory after repeated clashes between stone-throwers and Israeli soldiers in recent days.
Mohamad Torokman
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Reuters
Feb. 25, 2013
People shout slogans during a protest outside the Syrian embassy in Sanaa, Yemen, to demand the release of a Yemeni doctor detained by Syrian authorities over alleged links to Syrian militants. The doctor, Riyadh Ahmed al-Umaisi, was reportedly arrested in Syria in December and sentenced to death this week.
Mohamed Al-Sayaghi
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Reuters
Feb. 25, 2013
A Syrian girl, Bushra al-Hassan, 4, injured by a government airstrike, cries at Jabal al-Zaweya village of Sarjeh, in Idlib, Syria.
Hussein Malla
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AP
Feb. 25, 2013
Buddhist monks hold candles as they walk around a pagoda on Makha Bhucha Day at the Dhammakaya Temple in Pathumthani province. Makha Bhucha Day is observed in Thailand on the full moon of the third lunar month and commemorates the day when 1,250 monks gathered to be ordained by the Buddha.
Pornchai Kittiwongsakul
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AFP/Getty Images
Feb. 25, 2013
Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim, right, speaks to Lim Kit Siang, the parliamentary leader of the Malaysian Democratic Action Party, during a People’s Alliance rally ahead of elections in Shah Alam outside Kuala Lumpur. Speculation has been swirling over the timing of closely contested national polls that must be called in the next two months.
Bazuki Muhammad
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Reuters
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