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Images from around the world Take a look at some of the week’s best photographs from around the globe.
Jan. 12, 2013
A man sweeps an exposed tiled area of the earthquake-damaged Santa Ana Catholic church, where he now lives, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Haitians recalled Saturday the tens of thousands of people who lost their lives in the devastating earthquake three years ago. Most of the rubble created by the quake has since been carted away but more than 350,000 people still live in displacement camps.
Dieu Nalio Chery
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AP
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Jan. 12, 2013
The Costa Concordia cruise ship still lies keeled over by the port the Italian island of Giglio, Italy. It has been a year since the Costa Concordia tragedy in which 32 people lost their lives.The ship and its captain, Francesco Schettino, have become global figures of mockery.
FILIPPO MONTEFORTE
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AFP/Getty Images
Jan. 12, 2013
Girls from the Pontevedra Bagpipe Band wait for their appearance at the unveiling of the 2013 cycling classic La Vuelta route in Vigo, Spain. The event will start on Aug. 24 in Vilanova de Arousa, Pontevedra, and will finish Sept. 15 in Madrid.
Paulo Duarte
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AP
Jan. 12, 2013
A cyclist rides along a bridge as a camp and festival ground is enveloped in a morning fog at Sangam, the confluence of the rivers Ganges, Yamuna and mythical Saraswati, ahead of the Maha Kumbh festival in Allahabad, India. Millions of Hindu pilgrims are expected to take part in the large month-long religious congregation on the banks of Sangam during the Maha Kumbh festival, which falls every 12th year.
Manish Swarup
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AP
Jan. 11, 2013
Members of the media talk to artist Paul Emsley, center right, in front of his newly commissioned portrait of Catherine, duchess of Cambridge, on display at the National Portrait Gallery in London.
Sang Tan
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AP
Jan. 11, 2013
A man falls into water while performing a boxing match with another winter swimming fan on the frozen Songhua River during the Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival in Harbin, China.
Sheng Li
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Reuters
Jan. 11, 2013
A man lays flowers at the door of the Kurdish Institute of Paris a day after three Kurdish women were found shot dead at the Kurdistan Information Center in central Paris. The three female Kurdish activists each received at least three bullets in the head, judicial sources said, giving further credence to the theory they were victims of an execution-style killing. Along with images of the deceased is, at right, a portrait of jailed Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan.
Kenzo Tribouillard
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AFP/Getty Images
Jan. 10, 2013
A supporter of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez holds up a banner bearing the image of the leader at a rally in Caracas. Hundreds of supporters gathered outside the presidential palace in an alternative inauguration, showing their support for the ailing leader and wearing T-shirts with the slogan "I am Chavez." The government organized the rally for the cancer-stricken leader on the streets outside Miraflores Palace on what was supposed to be his inauguration day. A swearing-in ceremony has been indefinitely postponed, despite opposition complaints.
Ariana Cubillos
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AP
Jan. 10, 2013
Volunteers and employees of Selfridges department store on Oxford Street in London pose for the media in "The Silence Room", a space they unveiled for shoppers to quietly relax in. The room, where shoes are to be left outside and mobile phones not to be used, is part of a campaign by the store to integrate shopping with meditation to encourage people to be more considerate and mindful in their everyday life.
Matt Dunham
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AP
Jan. 10, 2013
French President Francois Hollande, center, wearing security glasses, looks at a technician at work as he visits the Amplitude Systemes plant, specialized in ultra-fast diode-pumped solid-state lasers, in Pessac, France.
Regis Duvignau
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AFP/Getty Images
Jan. 10, 2013
Striking farmworkers and other protesters throw stones while hiding behind broken road signs during violent clashes with members of the South African Police Services in De Doorns, South Africa. The farmworkers have said that they won’t return to work on the fruit-growing region's farms until they receive a daily wage of at least $17, which is about double what they currently earn.
Rodger Bosch
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AFP/Getty Images
Jan. 10, 2013
A man walks through snow-covered tombs on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem. Stormy weather conditions continued on Thursday, bringing snow, torrential rains and strong winds across the region.
Bernat Armangue
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AP
Jan. 9, 2013
A Catholic devotee is carried to an ambulance after fainting during the raucous procession of the centuries-old image of the Black Nazarene in celebration of its feast day in Manila.
Bullit Marquez
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AP
Jan. 9, 2013
Relatives of people killed in a stampede weep during a funeral ceremony at the Treichville morgue in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. The official death toll rose to 63 two days after a New Year stampede, which broke out among crowds returning from a fireworks display in the economic capital of Abidjan.
Issouf Sanogo
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AFP/Getty Images
Jan. 9, 2013
Samantha Kidd , the estranged wife of former stuntman Eddie Kidd, is shielded from view by friends as she leaves Brighton Magistrates Court, charged with assaulting Kidd in Brighton, England, six times over a period of four months starting in July 2012. Kidd is paralysed and brain-damaged after a stunt went wrong in August 1996.
Oli Scarff
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Getty Images
Jan. 9, 2013
South Korean special warfare forces take part in a winter season drill in Pyeongchang. The Korean peninsula is the world's last Cold War frontier as Stalinst North Korea and pro-Western South Korea have been technically at war since the 1950-53 conflict.
Dong-a Ilbo
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AFP/Getty Images
Jan. 9, 2013
Argentina's naval training tall ship ARA Libertad arrives in port as planes fly overhead during a ceremony in Mar del Plata, Argentina. The Argentine ship was detained for more than two months in Ghana because of a financial dispute and returned home to a triumphant welcome. Ghana courts ordered the ship held in October on a claim by Cayman Islands-based hedge fund NML Capital. But the U.N.'s International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea ordered the ship's release last month after Argentina argued that warships are immune from seizure.
Natacha Pisarenko
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AP
Jan. 8, 2013
A man polishes a snow sculpture in preparation for Shenyang International Ice and Snow Festival in China's Liaoning province.
Sheng Li
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Reuters
Jan. 8, 2013
People flock to Bondi Beach in Sydney to cool off as temperatures in Australia were expected to reach as high as 109 degrees.
Marianna Massey
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Getty Images
Jan. 8, 2013
A man pushes his moped through floodwaters in Beirut as stormy weather, including high winds and heavy rainfall, lashed the eastern Mediterranean coast, downing power lines and trees and causing injuries in a number of countries.
Joseph Eid
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AFP/Getty Images
Jan. 8, 2013
French actor Gerard Depardieu's lawyer Eric de Caumont, center, speaks to reporters at a Paris court. De Caumont has said his client will not appear at a Paris court to face charges of drunk driving on his scooter last November.
Christophe Ena
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AP
Jan. 8, 2013
A Greek presidential guard performs during a snowfall in Athens.
Aris Messinis
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AFP/Getty Images
Jan. 7, 2013
An anti-government protester prepares to throw a gasoline bomb at riot police during clashes in the village of Malkiya, Bahrain, where the nation's highest court upheld jail sentences against 20 opposition figures convicted of plotting to overthrow the Western-allied government, including eight prominent activists facing life in prison.
Hasan Jamali
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AP
Jan. 7. 2013
People search for survivors under the rubble from a missile hit in the Syrian city of Aleppo's al-Mashhad district.
MUZAFFAR SALMAN
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REUTERS
Jan. 7, 2013
Heavy clouds cover the sky over Beirut after high winds and heavy rainfall lashed the eastern Mediterranean coast, downing power lines and trees and causing several injuries in a number of countries.
JOSEPH EID
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AFP/GETTY IMAGES
Jan. 6, 2013
Men jump into a lake in an attempt to grab a wooden cross on Epiphany Day in Sofia, Bulgaria. Traditionally, an Eastern Orthodox priest throws a cross in the river, and it is believed that the one who retrieves it will be healthy through the year.
Stoyan Nenov
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Reuters
Jan. 6, 2013
An Orthodox priest baptizes a newborn baby in the icy waters of the Tundzha river during celebrations of Epiphany Day in the town of Kalofer, Bulgaria.
Valentina Petrova
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AP
Jan. 6, 2013
A tourist offers candy to a boy dressed as Santa Claus at the Church of the Nativity, the site revered as the birthplace of Jesus, in Bethlehem during the Eastern Orthodox Christmas.
Ammar Awad
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Reuters
Jan. 6, 2013
Children sing a hymn during a midnight Christmas service at the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Tbilisi, Georgia. Georgians celebrate Christmas on Jan. 7, according to the Julian calendar used by the country's Eastern Orthodox Church.
David Mdzinarishvili
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Reuters
Jan. 6, 2013
A woman prays inside the Church of the Nativity, the site revered as the birthplace of Jesus, in Bethlehem during the Eastern Orthodox Christmas.
Ammar Awad
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Reuters
Jan. 6, 2013
Nuns look on as Pope Benedict XVI leads the Epiphany Mass in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican.
Alessandro Di Meo
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Reuters
Jan. 6, 2013
From bottom, Angelo Vincenzo Tani, Fortunatus Nwachukwu, Georg Ganswein and Nicolas Marie Denis Thevenin lie on the ground as they are named bishops during an Epiphany Mass celebrated by Pope Benedict XVI in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican. The Epiphany is a joyous day for Catholics in which they recall the journey of the Magi, or the three kings, to pay homage to baby Jesus.
Alessandro Di Meo
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AP
Jan. 6, 2013
People take part in an Epiphany procession in Torun, Poland.
Wojciech Kardas
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Agencja Gazeta via Reuters
Jan. 6, 2013
Women cry outside the state-run Indian Oil Corp.'s fuel depot in Hazira, near Surat city of India's western state of Gujarat. Two contractors working in the terminal were killed by a fire at a fuel-storage terminal on Saturday. The dead were identified as Raisingh Choudhary, 38 and Rahul Prasad, 20, the company said in a statement on Sunday, adding that the fire is now under control.
Amit Dave
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Reuters
Jan. 6, 2013
Haitian merchants salvage their goods at a public market after a fire in Port-au-Prince. The fire — which, according to officials, was started deliberately — damaged more than 85 percent of the market and affected jobs.
Swoan Parker
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Reuters
Jan. 6, 2013
People in traditional Befana costumes compete in the Regata delle Befane, or the Witches' Race, on the Grand Canal in Venice. Befana is an old woman from Italian folklore who delivers gifts to Italian children on the eve of the Epiphany, and men dress as her during the race.
Manuel Silvestri
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Reuters
Jan. 6, 2013
Thousands of Orthodox worshipers wait by the Black Sea for the start of an Epiphany religious service in Constanta, Romania.
Vadim Ghirda
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AP
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