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Images from around the world Take a look at some of the week’s best photographs from around the globe.
Dec. 8, 2012
A man runs with "toro encuetado," a structure resembling a bull and covered in exploding firecrackers, as part of celebrations in honor of the Virgin Mary of the Immaculate Conception in Managua. Nicaragua's patron saint is the Virgin Mary of the Immaculate Conception, whose feast day is Saturday.
Esteban Felix
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AP
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Dec. 8, 2012
A train on a narrow-gauge railway line makes its way through the winter landscape near Wernigerode, Germany. Parts of Europe were hit hard by heavy snow and freezing temperatures.
Jens Schlueter
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AP
Dec. 8, 2012
A group of dancers wait for the start of the inauguration ceremony of the new "Arena do Gremio" stadium in Porto Alegre, Brazil. After the opening ceremony, Gremio will face Germany's Hamburg in a friendly football match.
JEFFERSON BERNARDES
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AFP/Getty Images
Dec. 8, 2012
Recruits of Ukrainian internal forces stand during the oath-taking ceremony in front of the Motherland Monument at the WWII open air museum in Kiev. Some 3, 000 soldiers took part in the mass event.
SERGEI SUPINSKY
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AFP/Getty Images
Dec. 7, 2012
Ghanaians wait their turn to vote at an outdoor polling stations in Accra. Ghanaians went to the polls Friday to choose between four candidates, including President John Dramani Mahama, who inherited the top post in July after President John Atta Mills died in office, and Nana Akufo-Addo, who lost the presidency by less than one percent to Mills in 2008. With its coup era over and five peaceful elections under its belt, Ghana is expected to hold a peaceful poll as voters decide which candidate will ensure the country's new-found wealth reaches the poor and middle-class.
Gabriela Barnuevo
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AP
Dec. 7, 2012
Afghan spectators watch a quail fight in Mazar-i Sharif. A popular sport in Afghanistan, two birds are placed inside a circle and made to fight each other until any one of the bird runs out of the circle and the bird that stays is declared the winner. Bird fighting was not allowed during the years of rule by the Taliban regime.
QAIS USYAN
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AFP/Getty Images
Dec. 7, 2012
Indian students play on a swing after morning assembly at the Central Baptist Church School in New Delhi, India. Built in 1814, the church is one of Delhi's oldest and stands on the historic Chadni Chowk Road.
Kevin Frayer
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AP
Dec. 7, 2012
A woman leaves a shop displaying Union Jack flag posters in the window along the Shankill Road area of West Belfast, Northern Ireland. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton travelled to Northern Ireland on Friday to lend her support to the British province's fragile peace, the frailty of which was underlined by overnight rioting on the eve of her visit and the seizure of a bomb.
CATHAL MCNAUGHTON
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Reuters
Dec. 7, 2012
Bosnian workers reinter human remains in the grave at the memorial center Potocari near Bosnian town of Srebrenica. Authorities in Bosnia are opening 98 graves containing incomplete remains of Srebrenica massacre victims to add newly found and identified bones to the graves. Serb troops executed more than 8,000 Muslim Bosniaks after they overran Srebrenica close to the end of Bosnia's 1992-95 war. They dumped their bodies into mass graves but later relocated them with bulldozers in order to hide their crime.
Amel Emric
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AP
Dec. 6, 2012
A member of Liwa (Brigade) Salahadin, a Kurdish military unit fighting alongside rebel fighters, aims at a regime fighter in the besieged district of Karmel al-Jabl in Aleppo, Syria. Protests in Aleppo against the Free Syrian Army highlight the waning influence of mainstream rebel groups and the rise of more disciplined and better-equipped radical Islamists.
JAVIER MANZANO
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AFP/Getty Images
Dec. 6, 2012
A worker welds steel bars at a construction site for a new train station in Ningbo, China. Annual growth in China's factory output, investment and retail sales may have gained pace in November because of recent pro-growth policies, a Reuters poll showed.
CHINA DAILY
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Reuters
Dec. 6, 2012
The flag-draped coffin containing the remains of Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer is carried past an honor guard toward the entrance of the Planalto presidential palace in Brasilia. Niemeyer, 104, was the groundbreaking architect who designed Brazil's futuristic capital and much of the U.N. complex.
Eraldo Peres
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AP
Dec. 6, 2012
Lawyers gather in front of the Marseille's courthouse to pay tribute to lawyer Raymonde Talbot, who was found murdered at her office.
GERARD JULIEN
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AFP/Getty Images
Dec. 6, 2012
A Naga tribesman talks on his mobile phone during the Hornbill Festival in Kisama, India. The weeklong Hornbill Festival of Nagaland celebrates the cultural heritage of the 16 Naga tribes. It runs annually from Dec. 1-7.
BIJU BORO
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AFP/Getty Images
Dec. 6, 2012
Residents are evacuated at New Bataan, Philippines, after Typhoon Bopha hit, washing away emergency shelters, a military camp and possibly entire families in the southern Philippines. Hundreds of people were killed and hundreds more missing, authorities said.
Bullit Marquez
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AP
Dec. 5, 2012
Denmark’s Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt loses her shoe while getting out of a car before meeting with her French counterpart at the Elysee Palace in Paris.
Mehdi Fedouach
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AFP/Getty Images
Dec. 5, 2012
People struggle against wind and drifting snow in Stockholm. Forecasters have issued a storm warning for central and southern Sweden, saying that Stockholm may face up to a foot of snow in the next 24 hours.
Anders Wiklund
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AFP/Getty Images
Dec. 5, 2012
Egyptian policemen protect an opposition demonstrator after a scuffle with members of the Muslim Brotherhood and supporters of Egypt's President Mohamed Morsi during clashes outside the presidential palace in Cairo. Morsi supporters tore down tents and forced opposition protesters to flee the presidential palace on Wednesday after his deputy said a vote on a disputed constitution would go ahead in 10 days.
Mahmoud Khaled
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AFP/Getty Images
Dec. 5, 2012
Galatasaray fans light flares at the game against Sporting Braga during their Champions League Group H soccer match in Braga, Portugal.
Paulo Duarte
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AP
Dec. 5, 2012
Thai monks release a lantern during celebrations in Bangkok to pay respect to Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej on his 85th birthday. He took the throne in 1946, making him the world's longest-reigning monarch and the world's longest-serving head of state.
Paula Bronstein
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Getty Images
Dec. 4, 2012
Ecuador's President Rafael Correa gestures to the press outside the government palace in Buenos Aires. Correa was in Argentina on a one-day visit to receive a free-speech award from the journalism department of an Argentine university despite criticism that the leader has tried to muzzle his nation's press.
Eduardo Di Baia
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AP
Dec. 4, 2012
Supporters chant as they raise their arms after Kenya's prime minister, vice president and trade minister among others announced a powerful alliance as running mates in upcoming Kenyan presidential elections in March. Kenya's Prime Minister Raila Odinga and Vice President Kalonzo Musyoka, along with Moses Wetangula and leaders of ten smaller parties, signed an agreement in front of thousands of supporters to form the Coalition for Reform and Democracy party, which rivals another coalition between Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta with opposition politician William Ruto, both of whom face indictments at the International Criminal Court. Odinga is widely tipped to be the presidential candidate with Musyoka as his deputy, although no formal announcement was made.
Tony Karumba
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AFP/Getty Images
Dec. 4, 2012
A woman carrying her child wades through a flooded road brought about by heavy rains due to a typhoon in Pantukan, Philippines. Typhoon Bopha killed 43 people in one hard-hit Philippine town Tuesday, local television station ABS-CBN reported from the scene.
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AFP/Getty Images
Dec. 4, 2012
German Chancellor Angela Merkel walks past her party's logo during a congressional meeting for Germany’s ruling conservative Christian Democratic Union party in Hanover. Merkel was reelected head of her conservative Christian Democrats by more than 97 percent of delegates' votes at a two-day party congress. It was Merkel's best result since she took over as chairman of the CDU in 2000 and comes as she gears up for fighting for a third term at the helm of Europe's top economy in elections expected in September.
Johannes Eisele
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AFP/Getty Images
Dec. 4, 2012
People line up to enter a government job center in Madrid. The number of people officially registered as unemployed in Spain has edged up toward 5 million as the country's recession shows few signs of abating and its struggling banks await crucial bailout cash, Spain's labor ministry said Tuesday.
Daniel Ochoa De Olza
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AP
Dec. 3, 2012
Residents of the district around the military barracks celebrate as a Congolese government army soldier arrives back in Goma, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Democratic Republic of Congo troops entered the eastern mining hub of Goma Monday, two days after rebel M23 fighters ended an almost fortnight-long occupation in line with a regionally brokered deal. The rebels are demanding that the Congolese government begin complex negotiations with them and have threatened to march back into Goma if Kinshasa reneges on a pledge they say was made to begin talks.
Phil Moore
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AFP/Getty Images
Dec. 3, 2012
Syrians cross the border from the Syrian town of Ras al-Ain to the Turkish border town of Ceylanpinar after an airstrike.
Laszlo Balogh
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Reuters
Dec. 3, 2012
Bahraini Shiite Muslim female protesters flash the sign for victory near a cloud of tear gas, fired by riot police during clashes following an anti-government demonstration and in solidarity with political prisoners in the village of Abu Saiba, west of Manama. Bahrain's Court of Cassation has set a Jan. 7 date to announce its verdict in the trial of 13 Shiite opposition leaders jailed for their role in last year's unrest, their lawyers said.
Mohammed Al-Shaikh
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AFP/Getty Images
Dec. 3, 2012
Ambulance and construction vehicles sit parked outside the Sasago tunnel in the city of Otsuki in Yamanashi prefecture, some 50 miles west of Tokyo the morning after part of the tunnel collapsed, crushing cars and triggering a blaze inside.
Jiji Press
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AFP/Getty Images
Dec. 2, 2012
An internally displaced Congolese boy seeks shelter from the rain under a truck in the Mugunga III camp in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. U.N. refugee agency officials reported cases of looting and rape in an attack late Saturday on the Mugunga camp, which lies about six miles west of Goma and is home to as many as 35,000 displaced people.
Phil Moore
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AFP/Getty Images
Dec. 2, 2012
A Congolese national police officer carries her child after disembarking from a boat at the port in Goma, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. After M23 rebels pulled out of Goma on Saturday, 166 government police officers arrived Sunday morning from Bukavu.
Phil Moore
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AFP/Getty Images
Dec. 2, 2012
Palestinians wave their national flag and a picture of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas while they celebrate the upgraded United Nations status for the Palestinians in the West Bank city of Ramallah. A flag-waving crowd of thousands erupted when Abbas declared, “We now have a state,'' three days after the United Nations General Assembly granted the Palestinians non-member state observer status.
Abbas Momani
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AFP/Getty Images
Dec. 2, 2012
Runners dressed in Santa Claus costumes take part in the annual Santa Dash in Liverpool, England. Many runners, usually supporters of Everton FC, wear a blue suit, refusing to run in the colors of their rival Liverpool FC.
Paul Ellis
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AFP/Getty Images
Dec. 1, 2012
The 2012 Kennedy Center honorees and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, second from left, wait for former president Bill Clinton, left, to join them for a group photo after the State Department dinner for the Kennedy Center Honors gala in Washington. In the back row, from left, are honorees John Paul Jones, Jimmy Page, Robert Plant and David Letterman. In the front row, from left, are Buddy Guy, Natalia Makarova and Dustin Hoffman.
Kevin Wolf
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AP
Dec. 2, 2012
Children play with a soccer ball on a dead tree at a park in Kolkata, India.
Rupak de Chowdhuri
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Reuters
Dec. 2, 2012
A member of Hamas's Palestinian National Security personnel blows fire during a graduation ceremony in Gaza City.
Hatem Moussa
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AP
Dec. 1, 2012
History enthusiasts dressed as soldiers take part in a reenactment of Napoleon's 1805 Battle of Austerlitz near the South Moravian city of Slavkov in the Czech Republic.
Michal Cizek
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AFP/Getty Images
A woman leaves a shop displaying Union flag posters in the window, in the Shankill Road area of West Belfast December 7, 2012. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton travelled to Northern Ireland on Friday to lend her support to the British province's fragile peace, the frailty of which was underlined by overnight rioting on the eve of her visit and the seizure of a bomb. REUTERS/Cathal McNaughton (NORTHERN IRELAND - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST SOCIETY)
CATHAL MCNAUGHTON
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REUTERS
Supporters of Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi and members of the Muslim Brotherhood carry the coffin of Mohamed Mamdouh al-Husseini, who died in recent clashes at the presidential palace according to local media, at Al Azhar mosque in Cairo December 7, 2012. The crisis unleashed by Mursi's bid to wrap up Egypt's transition on his own terms has eroded his nation's faith in their nascent democracy and will complicate the already unenviable task of government. Mohamed, a supporter of Mursi, was a son of a Muslim Brotherhood leader Mamdouh al-Husseini, reported local media. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh (EGYPT - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST RELIGION OBITUARY TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)
AMR ABDALLAH DALSH
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REUTERS
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