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Day in photos Easter decor, sea gulls in Mexico, Paris Fashion Week, protests in Lisbon and more in the day in photos.
March 2, 2013
A fisherman hangs fish to dry in the sun in Karachi, Pakistan. The European Union is to resume imports of seafood from Pakistan, officials said, ending a six-year suspension imposed over hygiene fears.
Asif Hassan
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AFP/Getty Images
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March 3, 2013
Belarusan soldiers pour cold water over themselves during a military show marking the Maslenitsa festival on the outskirts of Belarus’s capital, Minsk. Maslenitsa is an medieval pagan festival that celebrates the end of winter.
Victor Drachev
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AFP/Getty Images
March 4, 2013
A model presents a creation by Russian designer Valentin Yudashkin as part of his fall/winter 2013-14 women's ready-to-wear fashion show during Paris Fashion Week.
Benoit Tessier
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Reuters
March 2, 2013
The dome of St. Peter's Basilica is seen at the Vatican, where cardinals from around the world were summoned Friday to meetings that will set a date for a conclave to elect a new pope, as Benedict XVI settles into a pensioner's life after becoming the first pontiff to resign in more than 700 years.
Tiziana Fabi
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AFP/Getty Images
March 4, 2013
Painted eggs are checked at a Dutch Van Beek-groep branch in Viersen, Germany. The company provides the eggs for Easter to most Dutch supermarkets.
Robin Utrecht
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European Pressphoto Agency
March 3, 2013
Cyclists ride past the Colosseum as they take part in the Roma Maxima cycling race in Rome.
Tiziana Fabi
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AFP/Getty Images
March 1, 2013
A hot-air balloon descends as the sun sets north of Phoenix.
Charlie Riedel
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AP
March 3, 2013
The Great Hall of the People is seen during the opening session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. Thousands of delegates from across China are meeting this week to seal a power transfer to new leaders.
Mark Ralston
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AFP/Getty Images
March 3, 2013
Onlookers and firefighters stand near the collapsed portion of the a highway flyover in Kolkata, India. A huge portion of the flyover on the eastern side of the Indian metropolis collapsed, injuring three people.
Dibyangshu Sarkar
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AFP/Getty Images
Kia's 2014 Forte5-Door car is on display during the media preview of the Chicago Auto Show at McCormick Place in Chicago on Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013. (AP photo/Nam Y. Huh)
Nam Y. Huh
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AP
March 4, 2013
Kenyans line up in the early morning for voting in a general election in Kisumu, Kenya. Five years after more than 1,000 people were killed in election-related violence, Kenyans went to the polls Monday to begin casting votes in a nationwide election seen as the country's most important, and complicated, in its 50-year history.
James Keyi
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AP
March 4, 2013
Atlanta Braves players stretch before an exhibition spring training baseball game against the New York Mets in Port St. Lucie, Fla.
Julio Cortez
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AP
March 2, 2013
An ethnic Rohingya refugee who was among two boatloads of 184 asylum-seekers from Burma who were recently rescued by fishermen off the waters of Sumatra, stands by the window of an immigration quarantine center in Aceh province, Indonesia. Indonesia is expecting an influx of Rohingya as Thai authorities crack down on the refugees entering their country. The United Nations considers the Rohingya, a stateless Muslim ethnic group, one of the most persecuted minorities in the world; Burma views its roughly 800,000 Rohingya as illegal Bangladeshi immigrants.
Chaideer Mahyuddin
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AFP/Getty Images
March 2, 2013
A young girl rides a camel along Bamburi beach in Mombasa, Kenya.
Ivan Lieman
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AFP/Getty Images
March 4, 2013
Smoke rises from a police vehicle that protesters set on fire under Qasr El-Nile Bridge, which leads to Tahrir Square in Cairo.
Hussein Tallal
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AP
March 2, 2013
A woman blows blue paint powder onto her friend during the Holi One Color Festival in Cape Town, South Africa. Thousands of people threw paint powder at one another to express freedom and the color of everyday life.
Schalk van Zuydam
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AP
March 4, 2013
A cloud of sand suspended in the air passes over the Mediterranean coastal city of Netanya, Israel.
Jack Guez
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AFP/Getty Images
March 4, 2013
A security officer helps douse a fire after protesters set alight two coaches of a train parked at the main railway station in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Activists from Bangladesh's largest Islamic party clashed with security forces for a fifth day Monday during a nationwide strike called to denounce war crimes trials, leaving at least three people dead and dozens injured, police and media reports said.
A.M. Ahad
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AP
March 2, 2013
Demonstrators holding placards march down Lisbon's main Liberdade Avenue during a protest against austerity measures taken by the Portuguese government in exchange for a $101 billion international bailout in 2011.
Francisco Seco
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AP
March 2, 2013
Handoko Njotokusumo and his dog Ace ride through traffic during a weekend joy ride on a motorcycle in Surabaya, located on Indonesia’s Java Island.
Juni Kriswanto
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AFP/Getty Images
March 3, 2013
Sea gulls are seen silhouetted against the setting sun on a beach in Acapulco, Mexico.
Henry Romero
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Reuters
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