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Day in photos International Women’s Day, Egyptian protests, Hugo Chavez’s funeral, a world-record attempt at fake-mustache-wearing and more.
March 8, 2013
Hindus release fowls and offer agricultural produce during a religious purification ritual called Melasti on the shore of Banyuwangi, on the Indonesian island of Java. Melasti is held days before Nyepi, the annual Hindu “day of silence,” which minority Hindus in Indonesia and around the world will celebrate Tuesday.
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Students protect themselves from a water cannon during clashes with the police in Santiago, Chile, amid a student protest demanding that the government of Chilean President Sebastian Pinera improve the public education system.
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People make their way through wind-driven snow in New York’s Times Square. A slow-moving winter storm brought a combination of snow, rain and high winds to the Northeast after moving through the mid-Atlantic states earlier in the week.
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Women march during International Women’s Day in Jakarta, Indonesia.
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Female laborers lay a cable for an electricity company on International Women’s Day in Ahmadabad, India.
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March 8, 2013
Artist Peter Fischli poses next to “Rock on Top of Another Rock” in London’s Hyde Park. The piece, commissioned by the Serpentine Gallery, was created by the artistic duo Fischli/Weiss and was one of the last works they jointly conceived before David Weiss’s death last year.
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March 8, 2013
A Chinese hostess, who serves delegates of National People’s Congress, supervises her colleagues as they pose for souvenir photographs in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square during a plenary session of the NPC at the Great Hall of the People. The outgoing head of China’s legislature has praised the body for upholding the ruling Communist Party’s leading role and for rejecting Western models of multiparty democracy.
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March 8, 2013
Maltese dogs are lined up for the judge during the second day of the Crufts dog show in Birmingham, England.
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March 7, 2013
Randy Roest and 6-month-old Gwyneth wear false mustaches in Grand Rapids, Mich., as a crowd attempts to break the Guinness World Record for the most people wearing false mustaches.
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March 8, 2013
An unnamed male baby giraffe sits in the straw at the zoo in Duisburg, Germany. The zoo is now looking for a name of the calf.
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A woman walks past campaign posters for Kenyan presidential candidate and Prime Minister Raila Odinga in the Nairobi slum of Kibera, which is an Odinga stronghold. Odinga’s camp, Coalition for Reform and Democracy, claimed Thursday that the presidential election has been rigged. Both the election chief and Odinga’s rival, Uhuru Kenyatta, have rejected the claims.
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Madinatou Soumailou Toure, 15, wears a traditional Songhai headdress made by artisan Hally Bara in Gao, Mali. The radical Islamist group Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MUJAO) placed limitations on the wearing of traditional women’s headdresses during their nine-month reign in Gao, which ended in January with the arrival of French and Malian troops. Issues surrounding the treatment of women have received special attention Friday, which marks International Women’s Day.
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Israeli soldiers participate in a drill near Revivim, in southern Israel. On a dusty field in Israel’s southern desert, the military is gearing up for the next battle against a familiar foe: Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon. As the Syrian civil war intensifies on Israel’s northern doorstep, military planners are growing increasingly jittery that the fighting could spill over into Israel, potentially dragging Hezbollah into the fray.
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March 8, 2013
A visitor looks at a statue of Bruce Lee during an exhibition of limited-edition Hollywood movie collectibles entitled “The Stuff Dreams Are Made Of” in Karachi, Pakistan. The exhibition is based on over 55 sculptures from several Hollywood movies.
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March 8, 2013
A diesel locomotive fell into the Venoge river near Penthalaz, Switzerland. The freight locomotive derailed near Cossonez railway station, leaving its driver slightly injured.
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People take a part in a bird-singing competition in front of a mosque in the southern Thai province of Pattani. Last week, in a deal brought about with the help of Malaysia, Thailand agreed to pursue a peace talks with the Barisan Revolusi Nasional, one of the Muslim groups fighting for autonomy in the south. Resistance to Buddhist rule from Bangkok has existed for decades in the predominantly Muslim provinces of Pattani, Yala and Narathiwat, which were part of a Malay sultanate before being annexed by Thailand in 1909.
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Cubans line up at Havana’s Revolution Square to attend the tribute to late Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez at the Jose Marti Memorial. Chavez's body will be moved to a barracks, where he will lie in state for longer than had been planned, and will then be embalmed “like Lenin,” interim leader Nicolas Maduro said Thursday.
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Hugo Chavez's mother Elena Frias, third from left, and brothers Adan, second from left, Argenis, first right, and Adelis, fourth from right, stand next to the flag-draped coffin containing the body of the late Venezuelan president, on display during his wake at a military academy. Seven days of mourning were declared and foreign delegations were expected for an elaborate funeral Friday.
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March 8, 2013
Protesters chant slogans during a demonstration after the noon prayer in Port Said, Egypt. With the country in chaos from weeks of protests against the Islamist president, the police have now joined the fray, launching their own protests. Some security forces in Port Said have refused to leave their barracks to move against street protesters. Others have refused orders to deploy to Port Said from elsewhere to help in the fight.
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