The document appears to be a collection of news images from December 1-2, 2013 covering various international news stories. The images show events such as protests in Kiev against the Ukrainian government's decision to delay an EU trade deal, clashes between police and protesters in Bangkok, rescue efforts after a helicopter crashed into a pub in Glasgow, and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos announcing plans to use drones for package delivery. A total of 35 images with captions are included documenting global news from those two days.

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Nov. 29, 2013. An Egyptian man walks amid tear gas smoke during clashes
between Egyptian security forces and Muslim Brotherhood and ousted
President Mohamed Morsi supporters following a demonstration in Cairo.
December 31, 2013
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Nov. 30, 2013. Stand-up paddle boarders row past before the lighting
ceremony for Rio de Janeiro's famed floating Christmas tree in Lagoa
Rodrigo de Freitas in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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Dec. 1, 2013. Rescue workers lift the rear rotor blades from the site of
a police helicopter crash onto the Clutha Pub in central
Glasgow, Scotland.
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Dec. 1, 2013. A woman dressed
as "fairy godmother"
participates in the Paris Parade
along Alameda Avenue, in
Santiago, Chile as part of the
Christmas celebrations.
December 31, 2013
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1
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Dec. 1, 2013. Supporters of European integration
clash with Berkut riot police officers on Bankova
Street during a People's Veche protest against the
government's decision to delay signing a trade deal
with the European Union.
December 31, 2013
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1
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Dec. 1, 2013. An Ultra-Orthodox Jewish man prays and
lights candles with his family on the fifth night of the
Jewish holiday of Hanukkah, the festival of lights, at the
ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Mea Sheaarim in
Jerusalem.
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Dec. 1, 2013. A Metro-North passenger train
lays on it's side after derailing in the Bronx
borough of New York City.
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Emergency workers examine the site of a Metro-North train derailment in
the Bronx borough of New York December 1, 2013. At least four people
were killed and 63 injured, including 11 critically, when the suburban train
derailed, with at least five cars from the Metro-North train sliding off the
tracks, officials said. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri
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12. Dec. 1, 2013. A Metro-North locomotive lies on its
side after derailing in the Bronx borough of New York
City.
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1
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1
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Dec. 1, 2013. A woman adjusts a wreath during the
Wreaths Across Canada ceremony at the National Military
Cemetery in Ottawa.
December 31, 2013
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14. Dec.
1
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A woman, with HIV, receives treatment at a HIV/AIDS
hospice, founded by a member of the National League for
Democracy (NLD) party, in the suburbs of Yangon
December 1, 2013. World AIDS day is observed on
December 1, 2013. REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun
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15. Dec.
1
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A friend of local resident Valentin Krasin cools off with cold water after a steam bath in his mobile bathing station on the
banks of the Tuba river near the village of Kochergino, about 460 km southeast of Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk,
December 1, 2013. Krasin designed and constructed the mobile bathing station based on a traditional Russian banya or
steam bath, intending it for trips with friends and possibly as a small commercial venture. Picture taken December 1, 2013.
REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin (RUSSIA - Tags: SOCIETY HEALTH)
December 31, 2013
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1
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Dec. 1, 2013. A friend of local resident
Valentin Krasin cools off with cold water
after a steam bath in his mobile bathing
station on the banks of the Tuba river near
the village of Kochergino, about 460 km
southeast of Russia's Siberian city of
Krasnoyarsk.
December 31, 2013
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1
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December 31, 2013
A "scissors" dancer grabs her shoe with her mouth while performing
in a national scissors dance competition in the outskirts of Lima
December 1, 2013. The Danza de las tijeras, or scissors dance, is a
traditional dance from the Peruvian southern region of the Andes, in
which two or more performers take turns dancing while accompanied
with music from a harp and a violin. Dancers would display various
skills and moves, which include cutting the air with the use of a
scissors. REUTERS/Enrique Castro-Mendivil
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18. Dec.
1
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Two men walk during a sandstorm in Bangui, Central
African Republic, December 1, 2013. REUTERS/Joe Penney
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1
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A Kathakali dancer wears a dress ahead of her
performance during the annual Vrischikotsavam
festival at a temple in the southern Indian city of
Kochi December 1, 2013. Kathakali is an
elaborate classical dance-drama from the
southern Indian state of Kerala that combines
literature, music, painting, acting and dance. The
dance depicts stories from Hindu mythology and
is usually religious in nature. Picture taken
December 1, 2013. REUTERS/Sivaram V (INDIA Tags: SOCIETY)
December 31, 2013
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20. Dec.
1
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Protesters try to break through police lines near the presidential
administration building during a rally held by supporters of EU
integration in Kiev, December 1, 2013. Ukrainian opposition
leaders called on Sunday for President Viktor Yanukovich and his
government to resign at a rally of about 350,000 people, the
biggest protest in the capital Kiev since the "Orange Revolution" of
nine years ago. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich
December 31, 2013
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1
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A man kneels down while riot police stand guard near the
presidential administration building during a rally held by
supporters of EU integration in Kiev, December 1, 2013.
Ukraine's interior minister warned tens of thousands of
protesters starting a pro-Europe rally in the capital Kiev on
Sunday that police would respond if there were mass
disturbances.REUTERS/Gleb Garanich
December 31, 2013
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1
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A man swings a chain as protesters try to break through police lines
near the presidential administration building during a rally held by
supporters of EU integration in Kiev, December 1, 2013. Hundreds of
thousands of Ukrainians shouting "Down with the Gang!" rallied on
Sunday against President Viktor Yanukovich's U-turn on Europe and
some used a building excavator to try to break through police lines at
his headquarters. REUTERS/Vasily Fedosenko
December 31, 2013
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1
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An anti-government protester throws back a teargas canister
during clashes with police near the Government House in
Bangkok December 1, 2013. Police fired several rounds of teargas
in an area of Bangkok near Government House, after a chaotic
night of street fighting elsewhere in the capital during which two
people were killed and at least 45 wounded. REUTERS/Damir
Sagolj
December 31, 2013
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1
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An anti-government protester uses a fire extinguisher during clashes
with police near the Government House in Bangkok December 1, 2013.
Thousands of protesters launched a "people's coup" on Thailand's
government on Sunday, swarming multiple state agencies in violent
clashes, taking control of a broadcaster and forcing the prime minister
to flee a police compound. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha
December 31, 2013
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1
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Supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood and ousted Egyptian
President Mohamed Mursi flee teargas fired by riot police at
Tahrir Square in Cairo December 1, 2013. Egyptian security forces
fired teargas to disperse protesters demonstrating against the
army-backed government in Cairo's Tahrir Square on
Sunday, witnesses said. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh
December 31, 2013
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December 31, 2013
Andean women wearing traditional clothes attend a national scissors dance
competition in the outskirts of Lima December 1, 2013. The Danza de las
tijeras, or scissors dance, is a traditional dance from the Peruvian southern
region of the Andes, in which two or more performers take turns dancing while
accompanied with music from a harp and a violin. Dancers would display
various skills and moves, which include cutting the air with the use of a
scissors. REUTERS/Enrique Castro-Mendivil
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27. Dec.
1
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Iraqi police take up position during a raid and weapons search
operation in west of Baquba, about 50 km (30 miles) northeast
of Baghdad, December 1, 2013. The operation led to the arrest
of wanted figures and the seizing of various weapons and
ammunition, according to an Iraqi Army officer. Picture taken
December 1, 2013. REUTERS/Mohammed Adnan (IRAQ - Tags:
POLITICS CIVIL UNREST) - RTX1624G
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Free Syrian Army fighters dig a tunnel in Deir alZor, eastern Syria December 1, 2013. Picture
taken December 1, 2013. REUTERS/Khalil
Ashawi (SYRIA - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST
CONFLICT)
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Activists covered in fake blood perform during a
protest against the use of fur at Sant Jaume square in
Barcelona December 1, 2013. REUTERS/Albert Gea
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December 31, 2013
Flowers and movies left by fans are seen at the scene of the car crash
where actor Paul Walker was killed in the Santa Clarita area of Los Angeles
December 1, 2013. Walker, best known for his roles in the "Fast and the
Furious" action movies, died on November 30 in a car crash in Southern
California, his publicist said. REUTERS/Phil McCarten
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31. Dec.
1
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A protester (C) is arrested by the riot police during
clashes with protesters after they took part in a march
against Mexico's President Enrique Pena Nieto on the
anniversary of his first year in power and his
government's proposed energy reforms, in Mexico City
December 1, 2013. REUTERS/Antonio Becerril
December 31, 2013
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1
Afghan students in an outdoor
classroom in a refugee camp on the
outskirts of Jalalabad, Nangarhar
province, Afghanistan, on December
1, 2013.
December 31, 2013
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1
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Residents inspect their home that was damaged
by what activists said was shelling from forces
loyal Syria's President Bashar Al-Assad in
Qatana, Aleppo, December
1, 2013. REUTERS/Mahmoud Hebbo
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December 31, 2013
A woman takes a picture of herself with part of
the Christmas illumination of the main shopping
mall Kurfuerstendamm boulevard in
Berlin, December 1, 2013.REUTERS/Fabrizio
Bensch
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36. Dec.
2
Angry Birds balloons shaped
procession down Hollywood
Boulevard in the Hollywood
Christmas Parade 82 th in Los
Angeles, California, December
1, 2013.
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37. Dec.
2
Indian Navy Ranger performing
skills in the Navy Day
celebrations at Arabian sea in
Mumbai, India. Indian Navy
Day is celebrated on December
4.
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38. Dec.
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos launched aircraft
"octocopter"-machine mini-drones will be used
for delivery to consumers. His company is
looking forward to the future with plans to use
mini unmanned aircraft to deliver small
packages.
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2
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Palestinians wave to others on boats during a protest against
the blockade on Gaza, at the seaport of Gaza City December
2, 2013. Israel imposed a blockade on Gaza in 2007 after
Islamist group Hamas seized control of the territory in a brief
civil war with Western-backed Palestinian President
Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah party. REUTERS/Suhaib Salem
(GAZA - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST) - RTX160X2
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2
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A Thai Buddhist monk puts on a gas mask as riot police use water cannon and tear gas
while anti-government protesters attempt to remove barricades outside Government
House in Bangkok December 2, 2013. Thai protesters took to the streets on Monday to
renew their fight to topple Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, prompting riot police
to fire teargas and stun grenades for a second day outside her fortified office
compound to keep them at bay. REUTERS/Dylan Martinez
December 31, 2013
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2
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December 31, 2013
Demonstrators burn tires and block roads against the arrest of Mali's former
junta chief, General Amadou Sanogo in Kati, outside Bamako December
2, 2013. Mali's former junta chief, General Amadou Sanogo, has been
detained and charged with complicity in kidnapping after being questioned by
a judge on November 27, the government said on state television. Sanogo
was taken into custody by soldiers earlier on Wednesday, the defence
ministry said. He had failed to heed summons to appear in court for
questioning over the deaths of six soldiers and a missing colonel during an
army protest in September. REUTERS/Adama Diarra
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2
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December 31, 2013
Anti-government protesters flee as riot policemen use water cannon
during clashes with the police the metropolitan police headquarters
in Bangkok December 2, 2013. Thai protesters took to the streets on
Monday to renew their fight to topple Prime Minister Yingluck
Shinawatra, prompting riot police to fire teargas and stun grenades
for a second day outside her fortified office compound to keep them
at bay. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha
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43. Dec.
2
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Rescue workers prepare to lift the wreckage of a police
helicopter that crashed into pub in central Glasgow, Scotland
December 2, 2013. The number of people killed after a
helicopter crashed into a pub in Scotland's biggest city
Glasgow rose to nine, police said on Monday. Officers
continue to sift through the wreckage at the site where a
police helicopter crashed into the roof of the packed 'Clutha'
pub on Friday, trapping many inside in choking dust and
debris. REUTERS/Russell Cheyne
December 31, 2013
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Dec. 2, 2013. An anti-government protester runs away as riot police use a
water cannon during clashes with the police the metropolitan police
headquarters in Bangkok.
December 31, 2013
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2
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Hawaii Undersea Research Laboratory (HURL) photo shows a light from a
research submarine illuminating the deck of a submerged World War II-era
Japanese mega-submarine, the I-400, discovered off the coast of
Oahu, Hawaii in August 2013. Scientists plumbing the Pacific Ocean off the
Hawaii coast have discovered a World War Two era Japanese submarine, a
technological marvel that had been preparing to attack the Panama Canal
before being scuttled by U.S. forces. The 400-foot (122-meter) "Sen-Toku"
class vessel - among the largest pre-nuclear submarines ever built - was
found in August off the southwest coast of Oahu and had been missing since
1946, scientists at the University of Hawaii at Manoa said.
REUTERS/Courtesy NOAA HURL archives/Handout
December 31, 2013
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December 31, 2013
People supporting EU integration attend a rally in Kiev, December 2, 2013.
Ukrainian protesters blockaded the main government building on
Monday, seeking to force President Viktor Yanukovich from office with a general
strike after hundreds of thousands demonstrated against his decision to
abandon an EU integration pact. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich (UKRAINE - Tags:
POLITICS CIVIL UNREST TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) - RTX161E6
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47. Dec.
2
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Dec. 2, 2013. Pope Francis meets Israeli Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a private
audience at the Vatican.
December 31, 2013
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Dec. 2, 2013. Two Western Lowland gorillas lay entwined inside the Great
Ape House at the Smithsonian National Zoological Park during the
ZooLights celebration in Washington.
December 31, 2013
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49. Dec.
2
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A Free Syrian Army fighter rests near weapons in Aleppo December 2, 2013.
REUTERS/Molhem Barakat (SYRIA - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST CONFLICT)
December 31, 2013
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50. Dec.
2
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A butterfly wing artist cuts up wings to make mosaics
in Bangui, Central African Republic, December 2, 2013.
Mosaics made out of butterfly wings are a popular art
form in Central African Republic. Professional butterfly
hunters gather butterflies in the forest outside
Bangui, then sell them to artists, who use the wings to
make mosaics. Picture taken December 2, 2013.
REUTERS/Joe Penney (CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC Tags: ANIMALS SOCIETY ENVIRONMENT BUSINESS)
December 31, 2013
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December 31, 2013
Indigenous Aymara men attend the inauguration of
the Bolivian space agency control plant in
Amachuma on the outskirts of La Paz December 2,
2013. REUTERS/David Mercado (BOLIVIA - Tags:
BUSINESS TELECOMS) - RTX161DJ
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52. Dec.
2
,2013
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stands as he listens to
the national anthems during a meeting with his Italian counterpart
Enrico Letta at Villa Madama in Rome December 2, 2013.
REUTERS/Alessandro Bianchi (ITALY - Tags: POLITICS)
December 31, 2013
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2
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Wen Changlin and Zhang Feng pose for a picture with
their son at home in Ningxiang county of Changsha, Hunan
province, December 2, 2013. According to local media, 27year-old Zhang, married 72-year-old Wen after she carried
Wen's baby earlier this year. The couple met and
generated affection towards each other during the years
Wen helped treating Zhang's father of his
diseases. REUTERS/Stringer
December 31, 2013
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2
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Men try to remove an overloaded cart from a horse
that fell on a road in Lahore December 2, 2013.
REUTERS/Mohsin Raza (PAKISTAN - Tags: SOCIETY
ANIMALS)
December 31, 2013
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55. Dec.
2
,2013
An anti-government protester throws a water bottle at
riot police as they attempt to remove barricades
outside Government House in Bangkok December 2,
2013. Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra said on
Monday she would "open every door" to find a
peaceful solution to a political crisis gripping Bangkok
as police used rubber bullets against protesters seeking
to topple her government. REUTERS/Dylan Martinez
(THAILAND - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST TPX IMAGES
OF THE DAY)
December 31, 2013
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A newly recruited paramilitary policeman participates in a drill in Hohhot, Inner
Mongolia autonomous region December 2, 2013. Picture taken December 2, 2013.
REUTERS/China Daily (CHINA - Tags: MILITARY TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)
CHINA OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN CHINA
,2013
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December 31, 2013
Aleya sits beside her husband Sabed Ali, an auto rickshaw driver, with her son
Areef in Dhaka Medical College Hospital December 2, 2013. Ali sustained
burns after protestors torched his auto rickshaw on Tuesday during a
Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP)-led nationwide protest. At least five
people were injured after protestors threw crude bombs, vandalized and
torched vehicles in different parts of the city on Monday, local media reported.
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Artist John Coleman paints faces of pets on a mural at the Animal Hospital of Desert Hot Springs Save-A-Pet clinic
in Desert Hot Springs, California, December 2, 2013. The resort town in California warned on November 12 that it
will run out of money by March due to burdensome salary and pension costs and could join other U.S. cities that
have recently filed for bankruptcy protection. A bankruptcy filing by Desert Hot Springs, a city of 26,000 about 110
miles (177 km) east of Los Angeles, would make it the third California city since 2012 along with San Bernardino
and Stockton to seek court protection from creditors. Picture taken December 2, 2013. REUTERS/Kevork
Djansezian (UNITED STATES - Tags: ANIMALS SOCIETY BUSINESS TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)
December 31, 2013
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59. Dec. 2, 2013. A Buddhist monk wearing a gas mask and carrying saline rushes to tend to
an anti-government protesters overcome by tear gas during an anti-government protest
near Government House in Bangkok, Thailand.
Dec.
2
,2013
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Dec. 2, 2013. Surfers paddle on boards in
the Mediterranean Sea off the shore of
Tel Aviv, Israel.
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Dec. 3, 2013. A giant bronze sculpture portraying Pope John Paul II by
Italian sculptor Oliviero Rainaldi is pictured outside Rome's Termini
train Station.
December 31, 2013
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Dec. 3, 2013. A Thai flag is reflected in an antigovernment protester's sunglasses as he celebrates after
demonstrations are called off outside Government
House in Bangkok.
December 31, 2013
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Dec. 3, 2013. An Indian girl plays next to a
makeshift shelter in New Delhi.
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3
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A Syrian man holds his child as he waits for medical supplies at a
recently opened shelter in Vrazhdebna, near Sofia December
3, 2013. More than 9,800 people, mainly from Syria, have sought
asylum in Bulgaria, the poorest country in the European Union, this
year, a total that the Interior Ministry says may reach 11,200 by the
end of 2013 - a sharp rise from 1,380 last year. REUTERS/Pierre
Marsaut (BULGARIA - Tags: SOCIETY IMMIGRATION POLITICS TPX
IMAGES OF THE DAY)
December 31, 2013
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Dec. 3, 2013. Pakistanis play cricket in a field next to a
slum in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.
December 31, 2013
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December 31, 2013
Dec. 3, 2013. People pray in front of the
casket of a man before his funeral at a
Mosque in Bangui. The man was found
stabbed to death on the road to Bouali,
some 30km from Bangui.
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68. Dec.
3
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Dec. 3, 2013. A Pakistani boy wraps
himself with a shawl to shield from the
evening cold, while a woman cooks for
her family using a fire as the sets in a
slum in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.
December 31, 2013
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3
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Dec. 3, 2013. Singers rehearse for the Mona
Shores Singing Christmas Tree at the Frauenthal
Center for the Performing Arts.
December 31, 2013
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70. Dec.
3
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Dec. 3, 2013. Lines of Ukrainian
police in riot gear guard the
Ukrainian Parliament building
during a protest in
Kiev, Ukraine.
December 31, 2013
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71. Dec.
3
,2013
Policemen watch the news as anti-government protesters
enter their compound of metropolitan police headquarters,
the site of fierce clashes over the last few days, in Bangkok
December 3, 2013. Thailand's government ordered police to
stand down and allow protesters into state buildings on
Tuesday, removing a flashpoint for clashes and effectively
bringing an end to days of violence in Bangkok in which five
people have died. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj (THAILAND - Tags:
CIVIL UNREST POLITICS CRIME LAW)
December 31, 2013
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72. Dec.
3
,2013
A protestor holds a flag as he stands in front of a police line during
a demonstration in support of EU integration in Kiev December
3, 2013. Ukrainian protesters blockaded the main government
building on Monday, seeking to force President Viktor Yanukovich
from office with a general strike after hundreds of thousands
demonstrated against his decision to abandon an EU integration
pact. REUTERS/Vasily Fedosenko (UKRAINE - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL
UNREST CRIME LAW)
December 31, 2013
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Dec. 3, 2013. Members of the Civil Police Core
Coordination of Special Assets unit train in a mock favela
at Police City, in Rio de Janeiro.
December 31, 2013
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74. Dec.
3
,2013
Former Bolshoi Theatre dancer Pavel Dmitrichenko
stands inside the defendant's cage during a court
hearing in Moscow December 3, 2013. A Russian
judge on Tuesday found Dmitrichenko and two codefendants guilty in an acid attack that nearly
blinded the artistic director of the Bolshoi Ballet
last January. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov (RUSSIA Tags: CRIME LAW ENTERTAINMENT)
December 31, 2013
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December 31, 2013
A graffiti is seen at the fence surrounding the construction site of
the new European Central Bank (ECB) headquarters in Frankfurt,
December 3, 2013. The ECB council will hold its monthly meeting
on December 5 to decide whether interest rates will be changed
or not. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach (GERMANY - Tags: BUSINESS TPX
IMAGES OF THE DAY) - RTX1624R
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76. Dec.
3
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Dec. 3, 2013. A flock of birds fly near Mount Sinabung
as seen from Berastepu, North Sumatra, Indonesia.
December 31, 2013
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77. Dec.
3
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A truck drives along a dirt road in the Pilbara region of Western
Australia December 3, 2013. Western Australia's Pilbara
region, which is the size of Spain, has the world's largest known
deposits of iron ore and supplies nearly 45 percent of global trade
in the mineral. REUTERS/David Gray (AUSTRALIA - Tags:
ENVIRONMENT TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)
December 31, 2013
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December 31, 2013
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un looks at his
uncle, North Korean politician Jang Song Thaek (L), during
a parade to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the
signing of a truce in the 1950-1953 Korean War, at Kim Ilsung Square in Pyongyang July 27, 2013. Jang, North
Korean leader Kim Jong Un's uncle, widely believed to be
the power behind the throne in the secretive dynastic
state, has been dismissed from his post, South Korean
media said on December 3, 2013, citing officials at Seoul's
top spy agency. Yonhap news agency and YTN cable news
channel said Jang, who holds the title of vice chairman of
the North's powerful National Defence Commission, had
been removed from his post, citing the National
Intelligence Service. Picture taken July 27, 2013.
REUTERS/Jason Lee (NORTH KOREA - Tags: POLITICS
MILITARY ANNIVERSARY)
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Dec. 3, 2013. This handout picture released
by Greenpeace shows activists disguised as
polar bears during a protest against Gazprom
in Geneva.
,2013
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Dec. 3, 2013. A Bahraini protester holds stones during clashes with
riot police following an anti-regime demonstration in the village of
Sanabis, west of Manama.
December 31, 2013
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Dec. 3, 2013. Residents of the city
of Damara, 75 km north of
Bangui, leave the region for Bangui.
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Dec. 3, 2013. Survivors and their
supporters sit next to photographs of
the Bhopal gas disaster displayed
during a protest on the anniversary of
the tragedy near the Indian parliament
in New Delhi.
December 31, 2013
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,2013
December 31, 2013
A girl poses for pictures, beside a burnt out police truck, with her boyfriend as antigovernment protesters call off demonstrations outside Government House in Bangkok
December 3, 2013. Thailand's government ordered police to stand down and allow
protesters into state buildings on Tuesday, removing a flashpoint for clashes and effectively
bringing an end to days of violence in Bangkok in which five people have died.
REUTERS/Dylan Martinez (THAILAND - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST)
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December 31, 2013
German professional racecar driver Nico Bastian sits in a Mercedes SLS
sport car on the pit lane during the international presentation of the
new Sony PlayStation "Gran Turismo 6" video game at Ascari Race
circuit in Ronda, southern Spain, December 3, 2013. One of Ronda's
most high-profile streets was named after Kazunori Yamauchi, Gran
Turismo creator, yesterday. The surroundings of Ronda will be available
in one of the game's functions, incorporating stunning Andalusian
scenery and the nearby Ascari Race Resort, an exclusive, private race
circuit. REUTERS/Jon Nazca (SPAIN - Tags: BUSINESS SOCIETY SPORT
MOTORSPORT)
84

85. Dec.
3
,2013
A camel, part of a nativity scene procession, and its
handler are escorted by a bicycle policeman past the
U.S. Library of Congress in Washington December
3, 2013. The religious group "Faith and Action" held their
annual "Live Nativity on Capitol Hill" on Tuesday to
exercise their first amendment rights. REUTERS/Jason
Reed (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS RELIGION
CITYSCAPE ANIMALS)
December 31, 2013
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86. Dec.
3
,2013
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden meets with Japanese business leaders at the
headquarters of internet commerce and mobile games provider DeNA Co. in Tokyo
December 3, 2013. Biden urged Japan and China to lower tensions that have spiked
since Beijing announced an air defense zone over disputed islands in the East China
Sea, while repeating that Washington was "deeply concerned" by the move.
REUTERS/Toru Hanai (JAPAN - Tags: POLITICS BUSINESS)
December 31, 2013
86

87. Dec.
3
,2013
People walk over drawings depicting chalk outlines of bodies during a protest
at Carioca square in downtown Rio de Janeiro December 3, 2013. The
drawings represent the 4,000 victims of violence who died in Rio de Janeiro
state in 2012, according to the group JMV - "Juventude Marcada para Viver"
(Youth Tagged for Living). REUTERS/Ricardo Moraes (BRAZIL - Tags:
CRIME LAW CIVIL UNREST POLITICS)
December 31, 2013
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December 31, 2013
Pigeons are seen near graffiti in Detroit, Michigan, December 3, 2013.
Detroit is eligible for the biggest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history
because the city is broke and negotiations with its thousands of
creditors were unfeasible, a federal judge said on Tuesday in a wideranging ruling that also said the city could cut retiree pensions.
REUTERS/Joshua Lott (UNITED STATES - Tags: CITYSCAPE BUSINESS) -
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89. Dec.
3
,2013
Pedestrians walk along Woodward Avenue in
Detroit, Michigan December 3, 2013. Detroit is
eligible for the biggest municipal bankruptcy in U.S.
history because the city is broke and negotiations
with its thousands of creditors were unfeasible, a
federal judge said on Tuesday in a wide-ranging
ruling that also said the city could cut retiree
pensions. REUTERS/Joshua Lott (UNITED STATES Tags: CRIME LAW BUSINESS POLITICS)
December 31, 2013
89

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3
,2013
Seleka soldiers patrol in Bangui December
3, 2013. REUTERS/Emmanuel Braun (CENTRAL
AFRICAN REPUBLIC - Tags: MILITARY)
December 31, 2013
90

91. Maria Antonia Navarro Vargas changes
the diaper of her daughter Esmeralda,
17-months-old, as her son Juan Ramon,
5, plays in the shack where they live in
Madrid December 3, 2013. Maria
Antonia's family belongs to one of the
13 Spanish gypsy families who are at
risk of having their homes demolished
by orders of Madrid's Town Hall. The
families, whose members are mostly
unemployed, have lived in shacks they
built themselves in a small settlement
in northern Madrid for more than ten
years. They say they have not been
offered any housing alternatives by
Madrid's Town Hall and that the city's
town planning board wants to evict
them to make way for future plans to
build a road on the land they occupy.
The demolition of their homes has
been held off so far due to the efforts
of the Victims' Mortgage Platform
(PAH). REUTERS/Susana Vera (SPAIN Tags: SOCIETY POVERTY POLITICS)
Dec.
3
,2013
December 31, 2013
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3
,2013
U.S. Capitol Police Chief Kim Dine
(L) affixes an honorary police badge
on Giovanni Gaynor (C) of
Colville, Washington, before Gaynor
helps U.S. House Speaker John
Boehner (R-OH) push the button to
light the U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree
in Washington, December
3, 2013. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
December 31, 2013
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93. Dec.
3
,2013
A Free Syrian Army fighter combs his hair in Aleppo's Karm alJabal district December 3, 2013. Picture taken December
3, 2013. REUTERS/Saad AboBrahim (SYRIA - Tags:
POLITICS CIVIL UNREST CONFLICT SOCIETY) RTX16313
December 31, 2013
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3
,2013
A Free Syrian Army fighter runs to avoid
snipers loyal to Syria's President Bashar
al-Assad in old Aleppo December
3, 2013. REUTERS/Mahmoud Hebbo
December 31, 2013
94

95. Dec.
3
A Kenyan journalists participated
protesting the draconian new
media law was submitted
parliament.
December 31, 2013
95

96. Dec.
3
Workers produce fertilizer raw
materials from scrap leather at a
roadside factory in Kolkata, India.
December 31, 2013
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97. Dec.
3
,2013
A photograph dangles off the wall of a bulletriddled room in the besieged area of Homs
December 3, 2013. Picture taken December
3, 2013. REUTERS/Yazan Homsy
December 31, 2013
97

98. Dec.
Yegor Konkin, an amateur player
spiders, poisonous spiders to crawl on the first
Phormictopus antillensis as he prepares for
performances on Christmas day and New Year's in
his parents' apartment in Minusinsk, Russia.
3
December 31, 2013
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99

100. Dec. 4, 2013. The British military cemetery of Bayeux, northwestern
France. Over 4,100 tombstones of the British military cemetery of
Bayeux will be replaced for the first time since the creation of the
cemetery in 1952.
Dec.
4
,2013
December 31, 2013
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4
,2013
TV chef Nigella Lawson arrives at Isleworth Crown Court in
west London December 4, 2013. Lawson's two former
assistants, Elisabetta and Francesca Grillo, are accused of
defrauding her and her former husband Charles Saatchi out of
300,000 pounds ($484,600). REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth
(BRITAIN - Tags: SOCIETY CRIME LAW)
December 31, 2013
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4
,2013
Forensic officers search the grounds near a house where a
female police officer was shot, in Leeds, northern England
December 4, 2013. Police officers have arrested a man
following the shooting. REUTERS/Nigel Roddis (BRITAIN Tags: CRIME LAW SOCIETY)
December 31, 2013
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103. Dec.
4
,2013
U.S. first lady Michelle Obama reacts as two year old
Ashtyn Gardner from Mobile, Alabama, trips over another
child's walker after meeting Obama's new dog Sunny at
the unveiling of the decorations at the White House in
Washington, December 4, 2013.
REUTERS/Jason Reed
December 31, 2013
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4
,2013
The lights are turned on for a giant menorah at the
Reading Power Station in Tel Aviv, on the Jewish holiday of
Hanukkah December 4, 2013. Israel's electric company said
on Wednesday it had created the world's largest menorah
consisting of nine aerial platforms reaching 28 meters and
lit with nine white light beams reaching the height of ten
kilometers. Hanukkah, also known as the Festival of Lights
and one of the most important Jewish holidays came to an
end on Wednesday. REUTERS/Nir Elias
December 31, 2013
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105. Dec.
4
,2013
A man shouts slogans as he holds the European Union
flag during demonstration outside the government
building in Kiev December 4, 2013. Ukraine's prime
minister warned protesters blockading government
buildings on Wednesday that anybody guilty of violating
the constitution and laws would face
punishment. REUTERS/Stoyan Nenov
December 31, 2013
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106. Dec.
4
,2013
An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man
lights candles for the Jewish
holiday of Hanukkah in Jerusalem's
Mea Shearim neighborhood
December 4, 2013. REUTERS/Baz
Ratner
December 31, 2013
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107. Dec.
4
,2013
A sign expressing displeasure with the media is tacked on a pole
in Newtown, Connecticut December 4, 2013 . Nearly half an hour
of 911 recordings from the shooting that killed 20 children and six
adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School last December 14 were
ordered released by the state Freedom of Information Commission
. REUTERS/Michelle McLoughlin
December 31, 2013
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108. Dec.
4
,2013
A group of stranded short-finned pilot whales are seen stranded in shallow
waters in Everglades National Park, Florida in this National Park Service
handout picture taken December 4, 2013. Ten whales have died and rescuers
were trying to save dozens more that beached in Everglades National Park in
southwest Florida, park and wildlife officials said on
Wednesday. REUTERS/National Park Service/Handout via Reuters
December 31, 2013
108

109. Dec.
4
,2013
Interior Ministry members sit behind shields inside a
bus near the Ukrainian cabinet of ministers building
during a rally to support EU integration in Kiev
December 4, 2013. Urbane liberals are joining blackbooted skinheads to protest on the streets of Kiev, but
if the Orange Revolution of nine years ago is to be
repeated, they need a leader to unite them. Enter
Vitaly Klitschko, a towering world boxing champion
with a doctorate in sports science, who is looking
increasingly like the opposition's most powerful
contender. REUTERS/Vasily Fedosenko
December 31, 2013
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110. Dec.
4
,2013
Girls stand at their home in the low-income neighborhood of El Picachito in
Tegucigalpa December 4, 2013. Honduras' electoral authority declared Juan
Hernandez the winner of the November 24 presidential election with 36.8
percent support. Vowing to do "whatever it takes" to end gang culture related
violence, the ruling National Party's Hernandez drew support from voters tired of
the 20 murders a day in a country of just 8.5 million people. However, critics
worry that tough tactics could lead to a repeat of the bloodletting seen in
Mexico while others fear Hernandez's approach also risks ignoring Honduras'
root problems: drug abuse, weak institutions, widespread corruption and
December 31, 2013
rampant unemployment.REUTERS/Jorge Cabrera
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111. Dec.
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,2013
December 31, 2013
Anti-government protesters sweep the street around the Democracy
Monument after weeks of protesting and days of clashes with police in
Bangkok's city centre December 4, 2013. Protesters in Thailand trying to bring
down the government rallied at national police headquarters on Wednesday
and their leader said the fight would go on despite efforts to defuse the
crisis. REUTERS/Dylan Martinez
111

112. Dec.
4
The scene ceremony welcomes
new police officers to be
promoted by French Interior
Minister chaired in Paris.
December 31, 2013
112

113. Dec.
4
Haze wrapped around the top of Mather Point at the
southern edge of the Grand Canyon National Park, Grand
Canyon, Arizona, USA.
December 31, 2013
113

114. Dec.
4
Image 3 dragon Smaug in the
Hobbit films by director Peter
Jackson on the fuselage of the
airline Air New Zealand in
Auckland, New Zealand. Image has
been published to celebrate the
premiere of "The Hobbit: The
Desolation of Smaug" screened in
Los Angeles, California, USA
December 31, 2013
114

115. Dec.
Globe giant Christmas decorations in Nice,
southeastern France.
4
December 31, 2013
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116. Dec.
4
,2013
December 31, 2013
Rescue workers and civilians stand inside a flooded tunnel
leading to Beirut airport after heavy rainfall December 4,
2013. REUTERS/Hasan Shaaban
116

117. Dec.
4
A Cambodian family picking lilies on lake O-Treng
lake brought to market in Kampong Speu
province, about 45 km southwest of the
capital, Phnom Penh. Locals buy lilies make soup
ingredients.
December 31, 2013
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118. Dec.
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,2013
December 31, 2013
Rebel fighters carry weapons during an
offensive on the Canadian hospital
building, which they say is being
controlled by forces loyal to Syria's
President Bashar al-Assad, in Aleppo
December 4, 2013.
REUTERS/Houssam Abo Dabak
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119. Dec.
4
,2013
Dec 4, 2013. An anti-government protesters cut barbed wire during a rally
at the National Police headquarters in Bangkok, Thailand.
December 31, 2013
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December 31, 2013
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121. Dec.
5
,2013
The tunnel for pedestrians, bicycles and buses in a
ceremony in the city of Lyon, France, late night
December 5, 2013, rehearsal for the Festival of Lights.
Festival of Lights is one of the most famous festivals of
Lyon so far.
December 31, 2013
121

122. Dec.
5
,2013
Soldiers of the border security forces of India assemble
a mobile guard bulletproof chamber at international
border India-Pakistan Bobiya in Kathua district, from
Jammu, India, about 110 km.
December 31, 2013
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123. Dec.
5
,2013
Masaharu Nakagawa (bottom, L), chairman of the Upper
House Special Committee on National Security, is
surrounded by lawmakers during a vote on a state secrets
act at the parliament in Tokyo December 5, 2013. Japan
on November 26 moved closer towards a law that would
expand the definition of state secrets and raise penalties
for leaks, a provision critics say will block access to
information on sensitive areas, including the nuclear
industry. REUTERS/Yuya Shino
December 31, 2013
123

124. Dec.
5
,2013
A man plays violin as he roller-skates on a square on a hazy day
in Nanjing, Jiangsu province December 5, 2013. Hazardous air
pollution forced schools to shut or suspend outdoor activities in
at least two cities in eastern China, where residents complained
of the yellow skies and foul smells that are symptomatic of the
country's crippling smog crisis. In Nanjing, the capital of Jiangsu
Province, the sun was the color of "salted egg yolk" on
Wednesday as the government raised the "red alert" for poor air
quality for the first time, state-run news media
reported. REUTERS/China Daily
December 31, 2013
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125. Dec.
5
,2013
A woman runs from gunfire in Bangui December 5, 2013. Heavy
and small arms fire rang out in the capital of Central African
Republic on Thursday, the heaviest clashes in Bangui for months,
hours before a U.N. vote is due to authorise a French mission to
restore order. REUTERS/Emmanuel Braun
December 31, 2013
125

126. Dec.
5
,2013
A Jordanian soldier carries a Syrian refugee
child as they walk with Syrian refugees, after
the refugees had crossed the border from
Syria, near the town of Ruwaished, 240 km (149
miles) east of Amman December
5, 2013. REUTERS/Muhammad Hamed
December 31, 2013
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127. Dec.
5
,2013
A woman carrying religious pictures points at Interior Ministry
personnel during a rally to support EU integration in Kiev
December 5, 2013.
REUTERS/Vasily Fedosenko
December 31, 2013
127

128. Dec.
5
,2013
Multi-coloured nets used to harvest olives are spread
out under olive trees near the village of
Castagniers, north of Nice, December 5, 2013. The
olive groves from the Alpes Maritimes
communes, which represent 4,500 hectares (11,119
acres), produce around 241 tons of olive oil annually.
The harvest period starts in the coastal areas in
November and ends in March or April.
REUTERS/Eric Gaillard
December 31, 2013
128

129. Dec.
5
,2013
Smoke rises from the Defence Ministry's compound after an attack, in Sanaa
December 5, 2013. The Yemeni Defence Ministry said on Thursday an attack
on its compound had targeted a hospital inside the complex and the situation
was now under control. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah
December 31, 2013
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130. Dec.
5
,2013
Bodies of people killed in fighting are gathered
under a mattress at a mosque in Bangui, Central
African Republic, December
5, 2013. REUTERS/Emmanuel Braun
December 31, 2013
130

131. Dec.
5
,2013
Dec. 5, 2013. Children walk next to a French military
convoy along a road in the Central African Republic.
December 31, 2013
131

132. Dec.
5
,2013
December 31, 2013
Dec. 5, 2013. Wounded people
both christians and muslims at the
community hospital in Bangui. Aid
workers and medical staff treated
about 100 people and about 50
bodies were brought to the
hospital morgue.
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133. Dec.
5
,2013
December 31, 2013
Mao Asada of Japan reacts after performing during women's
short programme at the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating
Final in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan December 5, 2013.
REUTERS/Issei Kato (JAPAN - Tags: SPORT FIGURE
SKATING)
133

134. Dec.
5
,2013
Dec. 5, 2013. A young man screams in pain as he lies in a
pool of blood on the floor of Bangui's
hospital, Bangui, Central African Republic following a daylong gun battle between Seleka soldiers and Christian
militias.
December 31, 2013
134

135. 5
Dec.
,2013
Dec. 5, 2013. Afghan refugee children lie on a pile of straw gathered
for the livestock, while playing in a poor neighborhood on the
outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan.
December 31, 2013
135

136. Dec.
5
,2013
A Pakistani security man prays while others stand guard
during a protest by cricketer-turned politician Imran Khan,
leader of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party and his
supporters,against U.S. drone strikes in Pakistani areas, in
Islamabad, Pakistan, Thursday, Dec. 5, 2013. (AP
Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
December 31, 2013
136

137. Dec.
5
,2013
Nakameguro in Tokyo is one of the most famous
places where to admire the blossoming of cherry
trees in the middle of the city.
December 31, 2013
137

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5
,2013
kash-harvest-india
December 31, 2013
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139. Dec.
5
,2013
Himalaya
December 31, 2013
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141. Dec.
6,2013
Dec. 6, 2013. People release balloons into the air in front of
the Eiffel Tower to support four French journalists who are
held hostage in Syria, in Paris.
December 31, 2013
141

142. Dec.
6
,2013
Schoolchildren hold candles and portraits of former
South African President Nelson Mandela during a
prayer ceremony at a school in the southern Indian
city of Chennai, December 6, 2013.
REUTERS/Babu
December 31, 2013
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143. Dec.
6
,2013
December 31, 2013
A woman leaves flowers at a statue of
South Africa's former president Nelson
Mandela at South Bank in London
December 6, 2013. South African antiapartheid hero Mandela died peacefully
at home in Johannesburg at the age of
95 on Thursday after months fighting a
lung infection, leaving his nation and the
world in mourning for a man revered as
a moral giant. REUTERS/Suzanne
Plunkett
143

144. Dec.
6
,2013
December 31, 2013
A girl holds a South African national flag as
people mourn the death of former President
Nelson Mandela outside Cape Town City
Hall, where Mandela made his first speech after
his release from his 27-year
incarceration, December 6, 2013.
REUTERS/Mike Hutchings
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145. Dec.
6
,2013
December 31, 2013
This picture shows a framed image of former South African
president Nelson Mandela as people pay tributes following
his death, in Johannesburg on December 6, 2013. Nelson
Mandela, the revered icon of South Africa's anti-apartheid
struggle and a towering figure of 20th century politics, died
on December 5 aged 95. AFP PHOTO / ALEXANDER JOE
(Photo credit should read ALEXANDER JOE/AFP/Getty
Images)
145

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6
,2013
PRETORIA, SOUTH AFRICA - DECEMBER 6
(SOUTH AFRICA OUT): Anthony Wiboh
from Ghana dances at the Union Buildings
on December 6, 2013 in Pretoria, South
Africa. The Father of the Nation, Nelson
Mandela, Tata Madiba, passed away quietly
on the evening of December 5, 2013 at his
home in Houghton with family. (Photo by
Alet Pretorius/Foto24/Gallo Images/Getty
Images)
December 31, 2013
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147. Dec.
6
,2013
Dec. 6, 2013. Flowers are placed at the foot of a statue of former
South African President Nelson Mandela at the South African embassy
in Washington. The iconic anti-apartheid leader died on December 5
at the age of 95.
December 31, 2013
147

148. Dec.
6
,2013
Flowers left in tribute to former South African president Nelson
Mandela hang on the construction fencing in front of a statue of
Mandela at the South African Embassy before daybreak in
Washington Friday, Dec. 6, 2013. Mandela passed way Thursday
night at age 95 after a long illness. (AP Photo/J. David Ake)
December 31, 2013
148

149. Dec.
6,2013
Dec. 06, 2013. A view of the famous 'Morant's Curve' offering a
beautiful view of the frozen Bow River and the Canadian Pacific
Railway at Banff National park near Lake Louise, Canada.
December 31, 2013
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151. Dec.
7
,2013
Kevin Ludwig and Christine Beck practice acroyoga during the
"True Grit!" beach burn in Monterey, California, December 7,
2013. The Monterey burn, which includes music, dance, art and
self expression, is an official regional event of Burning Man that is
held annually in the Black Rock Desert of
Nevada. REUTERS/Michael Fiala
December 31, 2013
151

152. Dec.
7,2013
A couple looks at a painting titled "Self Portrait" by artist Vincent van
Gogh displayed at the Detroit Institute of Arts in Detroit, Michigan
December 7, 2013. Some of the art collection owned by the city of
Detroit is in jeopardy of being auctioned off due to the city's current
financial situation. Detroit is eligible for the biggest municipal
bankruptcy in U.S. history because the city is broke and negotiations
with its thousands of creditors were unfeasible, a federal judge said on
Tuesday in a wide-ranging ruling that also said the city could cut retiree
pensions. REUTERS/Joshua Lott
December 31, 2013
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7
,2013
December 31, 2013
People displaced by fighting between rival militias take shelter
under an old broken airplane at the airport in Bangui, Central
African Republic, December 7, 2013. French soldiers were
cheered by residents on Saturday as they began patrolling
densely populated neighborhoods of Central African Republic's
capital, Bangui, which has been rocked by waves of killings
between Muslim and Christian communities. REUTERS/Herve
Serefio
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,2013
December 31, 2013
Contestant Jennifer Grout performs on stage during the Season 3 finale of "Arabs Got Talent" in Zouk Mosbeh area, north of Beirut
December 7, 2013. Grout, an American singer with no Arab heritage nearly took the top prize in the "Arabs Got Talent" television show this
weekend, breaking into the top three alongside a Palestinian artist and a Syrian dance troupe. Grout, a 23-year-old from
Massachusetts, fell just short in the end, but her renditions of classical Arabic songs had stunned some audiences - especially given that
she only speaks a little Arabic. REUTERS/Mohammed Azakir
154

155. Dec.
7,2013
Dec. 7, 2013. A model wearing a surgical
mask as she parades a collection of gold
jewelry at a park in Nanjing, east China's
Jiangsu province.
December 31, 2013
155

156. Dec.
7,2013
Dec. 7, 2013. Palestinians look out a window of a building damaged
by an Israeli air strikes in the past during a rally marking the 46th
anniversary of the founding of the Popular Front for the Liberation of
Palestine (PFLP), in Gaza City.
December 31, 2013
156

157. Dec.
7,2013
Dec. 7, 2013. Egyptian women supporters of
ousted President Mohammed Morsi stand
inside the defendants' cage in a courtroom in
Alexandria, Egypt.
December 31, 2013
157

158. Dec.
7,2013
Dec. 7, 2013. Models pose at a barricade as they take
part in a photo shoot for an art project, at Independence
Square in Kiev.
December 31, 2013
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159. Dec.
7,2013
Dec. 7 2013. Internally displaced people gather in the
Don Bosco Center outside Bangui, Central African
Republic.
December 31, 2013
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7,2013
Dec. 7, 2013. A man burn tree branches on a field to
make room for a new orchard next to Pielesti village,
Romania.
December 31, 2013
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7,2013
Dec. 7, 2013. South African
Christians say prayers on a hilltop
overlooking Johannesburg.
December 31, 2013
161

162. Dec.
7,2013
Dec. 7, 2013. Supporters stand in front of a
giant Palestinian flag as they take part in a
rally marking the 46th anniversary of the
founding of the Popular Front for the
Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), in Gaza City.
December 31, 2013
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163. Dec.
7,2013
Dec. 7, 2013. People from
Bouar welcome French
militaries arriving from
Cameroon, Central African
Republic.
December 31, 2013
163

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7,2013
Dec. 7, 2013. Athletes compete during the men's 4x7,5km relay at
the IBU Biathlon World Cup in Hochfilzen.
December 31, 2013
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7,2013
Dec. 7, 2013. Livestock huddle as they feed in an open
field covered in ice near Corinth, Texas.
December 31, 2013
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8
,2013
A man crawls in front of Nelson Mandela
supporters as they rally through the streets of
the Soweto area of Johannesburg on
December 8, 2013. With hymns and eulogies,
South Africans of all colours and creeds
remembered Mandela in a day of prayers on
Sunday, holding him up as a symbol of
freedom, forgiveness and hope for the nation
and the world. Mandela died on Thursday at
the age of 95. REUTERS/Adrees Latif
December 31, 2013
167

168. Dec.
8
,2013
People from the Children of Mary Sodality wait before a
service for former South African President Nelson
Mandela, at the Regina Mundi Church in Soweto
December 8, 2013. South African anti-apartheid hero
Mandela died aged 95 at his Johannesburg home on
December 5 after a prolonged lung
infection. REUTERS/Kevin Coombs
December 31, 2013
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8,2013
Dec. 8, 2013. Children ask for biscuits at a base
camp held by French militaries in Bossembele.
December 31, 2013
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,2013
December 31, 2013
A Palestinian woman, hoping to cross into Egypt, carries her son as he looks out of a bus
window while waiting at the Rafah crossing between Egypt and the southern Gaza Strip
December 8, 2013. Egyptian authorities partially opened the Rafah crossing, Gaza's main
window to the world, on Sunday for three days, border officials said. Since July, the
authorities have kept the crossing largely closed, only opening it partially for
humanitarian purposes. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa
170

171. Dec.
8
,2013
A People's Liberation Army (PLA) officer looks at his mobile
phone as he speaks with two Hui'an maiden tourist guides in
Hui'an county, Fujian province December 8, 2013. Hui'an
maidens, or Hui'an women, are a group of female residents
in Hui'an county of southeastern China's Fujian province.
Most of them are Han Chinese, and they are well known for
their distinctive costumes and clothing. REUTERS/Stringer
December 31, 2013
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8
,2013
A man holds a sledgehammer as he smashes a statue of
Soviet state founder Vladimir Lenin, which was toppled
by protesters during a rally organized by supporters of
EU integration in Kiev, December 8, 2013. Crowds
toppled a statue of Soviet state founder Vladimir Lenin
in the Ukrainian capital and attacked it with hammers
on Sunday in the latest mass protests against President
Viktor Yanukovich and his plans for closer ties with
Russia. REUTERS/Maxim Zmeyev
December 31, 2013
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,2013
: Protesters practise tactics to defend themselves from possible
police scuffles during a rally held by supporters of EU integration
in central Kiev, December 8, 2013. Pro-Europe protesters flocked
to Kiev's Independence Square on Sunday for a rally that
organisers were hoping would swell to 1 million people, piling
pressure on Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich to turn back
from seeking closer ties to Russia. REUTERS/Vasily Fedosenko
December 31, 2013
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8
,2013
A man climbs an ice wall on the Presena glacier, northern Italy
December 8, 2013. REUTERS/Alessandro Garofalo
December 31, 2013
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175. Dec.
8
,2013
A French military sniper readies his rifle in Bangui
December 8, 2013. France is deploying 1,600 troops to its
former colony after the U.N. Security Council on Thursday
authorized it to use force to help African peacekeepers
struggling to restore order. REUTERS/Herve Serefio
December 31, 2013
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176. Dec.
8
,2013
A woman cries as she kneels next to a sea of
flowers outside the house where Nelson
Mandela died in Johannesburg, December
8, 2013. South African anti-apartheid hero
Mandela died aged 95 at his Johannesburg
home on December 5 after a prolonged lung
infection. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach
December 31, 2013
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177. Dec.
8
,2013
December 31, 2013
An anti-government protester applies make-up
as she wakes up after taking part in an ongoing
demonstration outside Government House in
Bangkok December 8, 2013. Anti-government
protesters have been on the streets for weeks,
clashing with police and vowing to oust Thai
Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra and
eradicate the influence of her self-exiled brother
Thaksin in a final push on
Monday. REUTERS/Dylan Martinez
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178. Dec.
8
,2013
December 31, 2013
A man skis past an igloo polling station for the primary elections to choose
the Democratic Party's leader, which is the highest polling station in Italy at
2,585m (8480 ft) above sea level on the Presena glacier, northern Italy
December 8, 2013. REUTERS/Alessandro Garofalo
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179. Dec.
8
,2013
A Free Syrian Army fighter rests on tyres in Duma,
Damascus, December 8, 2013. REUTERS/Bassam
Khabieh
December 31, 2013
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180. Dec.
8
,2013
A projection of the face of former South African President Nelson
Mandela and his clan name Madiba is projected onto the face of
Table Mountain in Cape Town, South Africa December 8, 2013.
South African anti-apartheid hero Mandela died aged 95 at his
Johannesburg home on December 5 after a prolonged lung
infection. REUTERS/Mark Wessels
December 31, 2013
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181. Dec.
8,2013
Dec. 8, 2013. Buildings are shrouded in
smog in Lianyungang, China.
December 31, 2013
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182. Dec.
8,2013
Dec. 8, 2013. A Palestinian woman, hoping to cross into Egypt, carries
her son as he looks out of a bus window while waiting at the Rafah
crossing between Egypt and the southern Gaza Strip.
December 31, 2013
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183. Dec.
8,2013
Dec. 8, 2013. Parishioners attend
church services at Regina Mundo
Catholic Church as South Africans
observe a national day of prayer
for Nelson Mandela in Soweto,
South Africa.
December 31, 2013
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184. Dec.
8,2013
Dec. 8, 2013. A Christian worshipper prays on a hill
overlooking the city of Johannesburg, South Africa.
December 31, 2013
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186. Dec.
9,2013
December 31, 2013
Dec. 9, 2013. People run away from a
gunfire during a disarmament
operation by French soldiers in
Bangui, Central African Republic.
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187. Dec.
9,2013
Dec. 9, 2013. Ultra Orthodox Jewish men and Rabbis gather
during a demonstration to support Ultra-Orthodox Jews who
were detained for refusing to report to a military recruitment
center in front of the Israeli military prison 6 near Haifa, Israel.
December 31, 2013
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188. Dec.
9
,2013
Greenpeace activists dig into the yard of Romania's Parliament, to protest
against a Canadian company's plan to set up Europe's biggest open-cast
gold mine in Romania, in Bucharest December 9, 2013. A special Romanian
parliament commission overwhelmingly rejected a draft bill that would
have allowed Canada's Gabriel Resources to set up Europe's biggest opencast gold mine in the small Carpathian town of Rosia Montana last month.
However, parliament plans to revise a mining law that could open way for
the project.REUTERS/Bogdan Cristel
December 31, 2013
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189. Dec.
9
,2013
December 31, 2013
Firefighter douse water at a burning truck loaded with gasoline after it
collided at Bintaro district in Jakarta, December 9, 2013. A crowded
commuter train crashed into a fuel tanker on the outskirts of the
Indonesian capital on Monday, killing at least 10 people in a huge
explosion and injuring scores. REUTERS/Beawiharta
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190. Dec.
9
,2013
A Tibetan exile is detained by
police during a protest over
China's rule over Tibet, outside
the Chinese embassy in New Delhi
December
9, 2013. REUTERS/Anindito
Mukherjee
December 31, 2013
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191. Dec.
9,2013
Dec. 9, 2013. Tibetan exiles are taken in to detention by Indian
policewomen during a protest against the alleged human
rights abuses of Tibetans by the Chinese government outside
the Chinese embassy on the eve of World Human Rights Day
in New Delhi.
December 31, 2013
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192. Dec.
9
,2013
December 31, 2013
A prototype "parcelcopter" of German postal and logistics group Deutsche
Post DHL flies in front of the company's headquarters in Bonn December 9,
2013. DHL on Monday showed its prototype "parcelcopter," which is a
modified microdrone that costs 40,000 euros ($54,900) and can carry
packages up to 1.2 kg (2.65 pounds). REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay
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193. Dec.
9
,2013
A man wears a face mask while walking on the Bund in front of the
financial district of Pudong during a hazy day in downtown Shanghai
December 9, 2013. Air quality in cities is of increasing concern to
China's stability-obsessed leaders, anxious to douse potential unrest
as more affluent citizens turn against a growth-at-all-costs economic
model that has polluted much of the country's air, water and
soil. REUTERS/Aly Song
December 31, 2013
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194. Dec.
9,2013
Dec. 9, 2013. A French soldier speaks to suspected Christian
militia member Sincere Banyodi, 32, who lays wounded by
machete blows in the Kokoro neighborhood of Bangui, Central
African Republic.
December 31, 2013
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195. Dec.
9,2013
Dec. 9, 2013. Ultra-Orthodox Jews gather during a protest against
their military conscription outside a military prison in Atlit, Israel.
December 31, 2013
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196. Dec.
9,2013
Dec. 9, 2013. Nomadic shepherds from Rajasthan
herd their sheep at a camp on the outskirts of
New Delhi.
December 31, 2013
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197. Dec.
9
,2013
Interior Ministry personnel block a street during a gathering of supporters of
EU integration in Kiev, December 9, 2013. Ukrainian President Viktor
Yanukovich backed a call for talks with the opposition on Monday to end weeks
of protests in Kiev, but tension was high with pro-Europe demonstrators
barricading their protest camp in preparation for police
intervention. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko
December 31, 2013
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198. Dec.
9
,2013
A man carries a wounded girl
who survived what activists say
was an air strike by forces loyal
to Syrian President Bashar alAssad in Aleppo's al-Ansari alSharqi
neighborhood, December
9, 2013. REUTERS/Ammar
Abdullah
December 31, 2013
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199. Dec.
9
,2013
Anti-government protesters unveil a large Thai
flag as they descend on Government House in
Bangkok December 9, 2013. Thai Prime Minister
Yingluck Shinawatra dissolved parliament on
Monday and called a snap election, but antigovernment protest leaders pressed ahead with
mass demonstrations seeking to install an
unelected body to run the
country. REUTERS/Dylan Martinez
December 31, 2013
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200. Dec.
9
,2013
A Syrian woman looks out of the
window of a container at a refugee
camp in Harmanli, 280km (174 miles)
east of Sofia December 9, 2013.
Bulgaria is currently hosting some
8,800 asylum seekers and refugees,
around two-thirds of them being
Syrians, according to the UNHCR.
Bulgaria, the European Union's
poorest country, on average receives
only around 1,000 asylum seekers
and refugees a year. REUTERS/Pierre
Marsaut
December 31, 2013
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201. Dec.
9,2013
A protester who painted his back participates in an anti-corruption day protest in
Makassar, South Sulawesi province December 9, 2013. Hundreds of students held a mass
rally in Makassar to mark anti-corruption day, according to local reports. REUTERS/Yusuf
Ahmad
December 31, 2013
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202. Dec.
9,2013
Búp bê Katsina Shalako
hiếm và cổ (khoảng
năm 1880-1890) từ bộ
lạc thổ dân Zuni ở bang
New Mexico, Mỹ, được
trưng bày tại nhà đấu
giá Drouot ở
Paris, Pháp, trước khi
được rao bán.
December 31, 2013
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203. Dec.
9,2013
Dec. 9, 2013. Mobs of Christians attack
suspected Seleka members near the airport
in Bangui, Central African Republic.
December 31, 2013
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204. Dec.
9,2013
Dec. 9, 2013. Police special forces in front of the
Presidential Administration building, Kiev, Ukraine.
December 31, 2013
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205. Dec.
9,2013
A flock of pigeons flies with a prototype "parcelcopter" of
German postal and logistics group Deutsche Post DHL
in Bonn December 9, 2013. DHL on Monday showed its
prototype "parcelcopter," which is a modified microdrone
that costs 40,000 euros ($54,900) and can carry
packages up to 1.2 kg (2.65
pounds). REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay
December 31, 2013
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206. Dec.
9,2013
Security forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad are
seen during a field exercise at an undisclosed location, in this
handout photograph distributed by Syria's national news
agency SANA on December 9, 2013. REUTERS/SANA/Handout
via Reuters
December 31, 2013
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207. Dec.
9,2013
December 31, 2013
People walk into a makeshift chapel at Independence Square in Kiev
December 9, 2013. Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich, facing mass
street protests over his U-turn in policy away from Europe towards
Russia, on Monday backed a call for talks involving the opposition to work
out a compromise, his website said. REUTERS/Vasily Fedosenko
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208. Dec.
9,2013
Children look on as riot police go to block a street
near the presidential administration building during a
gathering of supporters of EU integration in Kiev,
December 9, 2013. Hundreds of protesters blocked
several main streets in the center of Ukrainian capital
Kiev on Monday, eyewitnesses said, responding to
calls from opposition leaders to defend their
demonstration from possible police
intervention. REUTERS/Mykhailo Petiakh
December 31, 2013
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209. Dec.
9,2013
A street vendor offers buttons with pictures of Nelson Mandela outside the
house where Mandela resided in when he lived in the township of Soweto
December 9, 2013. South African anti-apartheid hero Mandela died peacefully
at home at the age of 95 on Thursday after months fighting a lung
infection, leaving his nation and the world in mourning for a man revered as a
December 31, 2013
moral giant. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach
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210. Dec.
9,2013
December 31, 2013
Dec. 9, 2013. Anti-government
protesters march with a large Thai
national flag during a rally in Bangkok.
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211. Dec.
9,2013
Dec. 9, 2013. A Christian man chases a suspected Seleka
officer in civilian clothes with a knife near the airport in
Bangui, Central African Republic.
December 31, 2013
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212. Dec.
9,2013
Honor Guard Yemen Porter coffin of a victim killed in a suicide car
bombing and an attack by heavily armed gunmen, in a funeral at the
Defense Ministry compound in the capital, Sana ' a. Among the victims
there were seven foreigners including two Germans, two from
Vietnam, two Filipinos and an Indian.
December 31, 2013
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213. Dec.
9,2013
Mounted Israeli police officers disperse a protest by ultra-Orthodox
Jews outside a military prison near the northern city of
Haifa, December 9, 2013. Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said
some 1,000 people took part in the protest on Monday against the
jailing of Jewish seminary students who failed to comply with a
recruitment notice. REUTERS/Nir Elias
December 31, 2013
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214. Dec.
9,2013
A baby trying to pump water from a hand pump
cylinder in the town destroyed by the storm
Tolosa, Leyte province, central Philippines.
December 31, 2013
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215. Dec.
9,2013
A lifesized doll, adorned with a Santa hat, is seen above the
doorway of a restaurant along a street at Tokyo's Shinjuku
shopping and business district December 9, 2013. Japanese
business confidence improved in the three months to
December and is predicted to continue rising, a Reuters poll
showed on Monday, adding to evidence of a steady recovery in
the world's third-largest economy. REUTERS/Toru Hanai
December 31, 2013
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216. Dec.
9,2013
Dec. 9, 2013. People stand near a burning truck loaded with gasoline
after it collided at Bintaro district in Jakarta, Indonesia.
December 31, 2013
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217. Dec.
9,2013
December 31, 2013
Children with respiratory diseases receive treatment at a hospital in
Hangzhou, Zhejiang province December 9, 2013. Patients with respiratory
diseases have largely increased after days of smoggy weather in the
city, according to local media. A coal-dependent manufacturing base has
made China the world's biggest contributor to climate change, while high
and rising local air-pollution levels have sparked widespread complains
from the public nationwide. REUTERS/China Daily
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218. Dec.
9,2013
Children play outside their homes at dusk as they watch a service held in tribute of former South African President Nelson Mandela at the
O.R. Tambo Hall, next to the homes provided by Gift for the Givers for people who lost their homes in a township fire, in
Khayelitsha, outside Cape Town, December 9, 2013. Mandela passed away peacefully at his home in Johannesburg on December 5, 2013
from a recurring lung infection. REUTERS/Mark Wessels
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220. Dec.
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December 31, 2013
A giant inflatable pair of lungs is seen in front of the European Parliament in
Strasbourg, December 10, 2013. The European Environmental Bureau, a federation of
environmental citizens' organisations based in all 27 European Union's Member States,
placed the lungs in front of the European Parliament on Tuesday, asking for the
European Commission to release its air package against air pollution before the end of
the 2013 European Year of air. REUTERS/Vincent Kessler
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221. Dec.
10,2013
December 31, 2013
People make their way during the arrival of a snowstorm in Jersey City, New Jersey, December 10, 2013. Fresh winter snow moved into the U.S.
mid-Atlantic region on Tuesday, shutting schools and offices in the nation's capital and elsewhere as the mid-section of the country remained in
the grip of Arctic air that showed no signs of easing. From 2 to 8 inches of snow was forecast to fall from northern Virginia, across
Maryland, Pennsylvania, Delaware and into southern New England, Brian Korty, meteorologist with the National Weather Service (NWS) said in a
forecast. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz
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222. Dec.
10,2013
December 31, 2013
People cheer as President Barack Obama speaks at the First
National Bank (FNB) Stadium, also known as Soccer City, during
the national memorial service for Nelson Mandela in
Johannesburg December 10, 2013. REUTERS/Yves Herman
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223. Dec.
10,2013
December 31, 2013
Crowds visit the Lincoln Memorial after the federal government closed for the day due
to snow and ice in Washington December 10, 2013. Fresh winter snow moved into the
U.S. mid-Atlantic region on Tuesday, shutting schools and offices in the nation's capital
and elsewhere as the mid-section of the country remained in the grip of Arctic air that
showed no signs of easing. REUTERS/James Lawler Duggan
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224. Dec.
10,2013
December 31, 2013
Christians loot a mosque in Bangui December 10, 2013. The French army
said it has restored some stability in the capital of Central African Republic
after battling gunmen on Monday in an operation to disarm rival Muslim
and Christian fighters responsible for killing hundreds since last
week. REUTERS/Emmanuel Braun
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225. Dec.
10,2013
A Christian youth squats inside a burnt out car in Bangui
December 10, 2013. French troops in Central African Republic
manned checkpoints in the capital Bangui on Monday and
searched for weapons in an operation to disarm rival Muslim
and Christian fighters responsible for hundreds of killings since
last week. REUTERS/Emmanuel Braun
December 31, 2013
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226. Dec.
10,2013
A tattooed man joins anti-government protesters during a rally at the
Democracy monument in Bangkok December 10, 2013. Thai Prime Minister
Yingluck Shinawatra pleaded on Tuesday for anti-government demonstrators to
clear the streets and support a snap election, but defiant protest leaders called
for her to step down within 24 hours. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj
December 31, 2013
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227. Dec.
10,2013
Former South African President Nelson Mandela's widow
Graca Machel (C) arrives at the First National Bank (FNB)
Stadium, also known as Soccer City, ahead of the national
memorial service for Mandela in Johannesburg December
10, 2013. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko
December 31, 2013
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228. Dec.
10,2013
Heavyweight boxing champion and UDAR (Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for
Reform) party leader Vitaly Klitschko (3nd R) and other supporters of EU
integration block a street as they rally outside the presidential administration
building in Kiev December 10, 2013. Thousands of Ukrainian protesters
huddled by braziers in their tented camp in the snowbound capital Kiev into
Tuesday morning, in defiance of riot police who took up positions throughout
the capital as a deadline to clear the streets expired. REUTERS/ Andriy
Skakodub/Pool
December 31, 2013
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229. Dec.
10,2013
December 31, 2013
Members of the welcoming ceremony band play as
British Royal Navy destroyer HMS Daring arrives at a
port area of Huangpu River in Shanghai December
10, 2013. The HMS Daring has returned from the
Philippines after delivering aid after Typhoon Haiyan
hit the region. REUTERS/Carlos Barria
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230. Dec.
10,2013
December 31, 2013
An opponent of President Daniel Ortega's government fires a homemade mortar towards the National Assembly Building during a
protest in Managua December 10, 2013. Nicaragua's national assembly on Tuesday approved a constitutional change to remove
presidential term limits, which could allow incumbent Daniel Ortega to stay in power for years and raises concerns about
democracy in the country. Approval of the plan put forward last month by Ortega's ruling Sandinista National Liberation Front
must now be ratified by the assembly next year before it can take effect. That ratifying vote is likely in January or February. The
230
banner reads: "Ortega, enough already". REUTERS/Oswaldo Rivas

231. Dec.
10,2013
Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra faces the media
during a news conference after a cabinet meeting at The
Army Club in Bangkok December 10, 2013. Yingluck
pleaded on Tuesday for anti-government demonstrators
to clear the streets and support a snap election, but
defiant protest leaders called for her to step down within
24 hours.REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha
December 31, 2013
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232. Dec.
10,2013
President Barack Obama greets Cuban President Raul Castro (C)
before giving his speech, as Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff
looks on, at the memorial service for late South African President
Nelson Mandela at the First National Bank soccer stadium, also
known Soccer City, in Johannesburg December 10, 2013. Obama
shook the hand of Castro at a memorial for Mandela on Tuesday,
a rare gesture between the leaders of two nations at loggerheads
for more than half a 31, 2013 REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach
December century.
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10,2013
President Barack Obama addresses the crowd during a
memorial service for Nelson Mandela at FNB Stadium in
Johannesburg December 10, 2013. REUTERS/Kevin
Lamarque
December 31, 2013
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234. Dec.
10,2013
December 31, 2013
Anti-government protesters attend a rally at
the Democracy monument in Bangkok
December 10, 2013. Thai Prime Minister
Yingluck Shinawatra pleaded on Tuesday for
anti-government demonstrators to clear the
streets and support a snap election, but
defiant protest leaders called for her to step
down within 24 hours. REUTERS/Damir
Sagolj
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235. Dec.
10,2013
December 31, 2013
Chickens escape from the rain and cold near the ancestral home of former South
African President Nelson Mandela in Qunu, December 10, 2013. South African
anti-apartheid hero Mandela died aged 95 at his Johannesburg home on
December 5 after a prolonged lung infection. REUTERS/Rogan Ward
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236. Dec.
10,2013
Workers stand on a vehicle as they pass by flags on their way to work in Naypyitaw
December 10, 2013. Myanmar will host the 27th Southeast Asian (SEA) Games
from December 11 to 22. REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun
December 31, 2013
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237. Dec.
10,2013
A Christian man passes by a burning pile at a mosque in Fouh district
in Bangui December 10, 2013. The French army said it has restored
some stability in the capital of Central African Republic after battling
gunmen on Monday in an operation to disarm rival Muslim and
Christian fighters responsible for killing hundreds since last
week. REUTERS/Emmanuel Braun
December 31, 2013
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238. Dec.
10,2013
A woman lights fire to heat water for soaking clothes at a
laundry in Mumbai, India, December
10, 2013. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui
December 31, 2013
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239. Dec.
10,2013
Dec. 10, 2013. President Barrack Obama gestures
as he speaks on stage during the memorial service
for former South African president Nelson
Mandela at the FNB Stadium in Soweto, near
Johannesburg, South Africa.
December 31, 2013
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240. Dec.
10,2013
December 31, 2013
Dec. 10, 2013. South African Archbishop and Honorary
Elders Desmond Tutu (C) attends the memorial service of
South African former president Nelson Mandela at the FNB
Stadium (Soccer City) in Johannesburg.
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241. Dec.
10,2013
Dec. 10, 2013. Attendees
look down into a stadium
entrance at the state
memorial service for
former South African
President Nelson
Mandela in the Soweto
township of
Johannesburg.
December 31, 2013
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242. Dec.
10,2013
Dec. 10, 2013. Pakistani Christian children hold placards bearing the image
of late South African president Nelson Mandela as they take part in a rally
to pay tribute Mandela in Islamabad.
December 31, 2013
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243. Dec.
10,2013
A Syrian refugee boy stands outside his tent in a refugee camp
for Syrians flee civil war left the country in the Bekaa Valley in
December 31, heavy
eastern Lebanon during a 2013 snow storm hit the area.
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244. Dec.
10,2013
December 31, 2013
India's President Pranab Mukherjee speaks at the podium as a sign language
interpreter (R) punches the air beside him during a memorial service for late
South African President Nelson Mandela at the FNB soccer stadium in
Johannesburg December 10, 2013. The fake sign language interpreter took to
the stage during Tuesday's memorial for anti-apartheid leader Nelson
Mandela, gesticulating gibberish before a global audience of millions and
outraging deaf people across the world. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach
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245. Dec.
10,2013
Dec. 10, 2013. U.S. President Barack Obama (R)
and British Prime Minister David Cameron pose for
a picture with Denmark's Prime Minister Helle
Thorning Schmidt (C) next to U.S. First Lady
Michelle Obama (R) during the memorial service of
South African former president Nelson Mandela at
the FNB Stadium (Soccer City) in Johannesburg.
December 31, 2013
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246. Dec.
10,2013
December 31, 2013
Square covered with snow in
Istanbul, Turkey. Heavy snowfall over the
city of disrupting air traffic and roads.
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247. Dec.
10,2013
A man fills drums with water to heat it for soaking clothes at
a laundry in Mumbai, December 10, 2013. REUTERS/Danish
Siddiqui
December 31, 2013
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248. Dec.
10,2013
Women talk to bus driver Edilson (not pictured),
45, also known as "Fumassa", inside an urban
bus decorated with Christmas motives in Santo
Andre, outskirts of Sao Paulo December 10,
2013. Fumassa dresses as Santa Claus every year
while driving his bus. REUTERS/Nacho Doce
December 31, 2013
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249. Dec.
10,2013
French troops stand at the airport runway in Bangui December
10, 2013. President Francois Hollande flew into Central African
Republic hours after two French soldiers were killed in fighting and
praised his troops for tackling "horrendous violence" against women
and children and helping avert a slide into civil war. Picture taken
December 10, 2013.REUTERS/Emmanuel Braun
December 31, 2013
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250. Dec.
10,2013
Winter swimmers (R) try to pull an elderly man (L) out of icy waters after he was
trapped in a partially frozen lake at a park in Changchun, Jilin province, China, December
10, 2013. REUTERS/Stringer
December 31, 2013
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251. Dec.
10,2013
Dec. 10, 2013. Drug users gather beneath an overpass in an area
known as 'Cracolandia', or Crackland, in the Antares shantytown
in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
December 31, 2013
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252. Dec.
10,2013
Dec. 10, 2013. Bus driver Edilson, 45, also known as
"Fumassa", poses as he wears a Santa Claus outfit
inside an urban bus decorated with Christmas motives
in Santo Andre, outskirts of Sao Paulo, Brazil.
December 31, 2013
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253. Dec.
10,2013
Dec. 10, 2013. Protesters chained together block the
entrance of an immigrant detention center in
Elizabeth, New Jersey.
December 31, 2013
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254. Dec.
10,2013
Dec. 10, 2013. Construction
continues of the Arena Amazonia
stadium venue for the 2014 FIFA
World Cup Brazil in Manaus, Brazil.
December 31, 2013
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256. Dec.
11,2013
December 31, 2013
A bride poses for a photograph on Westminster Bridge as the fog
clears in central London December 11, 2013. REUTERS/Olivia Harris
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257. Dec.
11,2013
Dec. 11, 2013. An aquarium staff member dressed in a
Santa Claus costume embraces a Zebra shark as he swims
with fish inside the Sunshine International Aquarium in
Tokyo.
December 31, 2013
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258. Dec.
11,2013
Dec. 11, 2013. The boys of Winchester Cathedral Choir enjoy
a misty morning skate on the cathedral's ice rink which will
be open until January 5th, in England.
December 31, 2013
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259. Dec.
11,2013
December 31, 2013
Dec. 11, 2013. Police and supporters of EU
integration clash in one of the city
streets, Kiev, Ukraine.
259

260. Dec.
11,2013
Students holding fireworks performing in SEA Games
opening ceremony in Naypyitaw 27. Myanmar hosted the
SEA Games for the first time in over 40 years.
December 31, 2013
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261. Dec.
11,2013
Britain's Prince William and his wife Catherine, the
Duchess of Cambridge, wear 3D glasses before a
screening of "David Attenborough's Natural History
Museum Alive 3D" at the Natural History Museum
in London December 11, 2013. REUTERS/Suzanne
Plunkett
December 31, 2013
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262. Dec.
11,2013
A Free Syrian Army fighter throws snow at his fellow
fighter in Khan Tuman, Aleppo December
11, 2013. REUTERS/Ammar Abdullah
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Fernando Llorente (R) of Juventus
challenges Gokhan Zan of Galatasaray
during their Champions League soccer
match in Istanbul December
11, 2013. REUTERS/Murad Sezer
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Palestinian girls look out from their family's house
during heavy rains on a stormy day in Shati refugee
camp in Gaza City December 11,
2013. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem
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Pope Francis waves as he arrives to conduct his weekly general audience at
St. Peter's Square at the Vatican December 11, 2013. REUTERS/Giampiero
Sposito
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Homeowner Gary Gless looks at cracks in cement in his backyard in Los Angeles, California December 11, 2013. The United States has a long history of keeping industrial
activity out of middle and upper-middle-class residential neighborhoods. But that is starting to change with the spread of new technology for oil and gas drilling, such as
horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking." Freeport-McMoRan, part of Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc, said that, for the past three years, its surveys
of the oilfield and surrounding communities have found no connection between its activities and "localized claims of property damage." It said it would continue to
evaluate the issue. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni
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A man walks past debris from damaged buildings covered with
snow in the besieged area in Homs December
11, 2013. REUTERS/Yazan Homsy
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December 31, 2013
School children walk past anti-government protesters lying on the ground
at Democracy Monument in Bangkok December 11, 2013. The redshirted supporters of Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra said on
Wednesday they could take to the streets to protect the government
from protesters who have forced her to call a snap election, setting the
scene for a possible confrontation. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha
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A soldier guards a closed road as military outriders escort the funeral
cortege carrying the coffin of former South African President Nelson
Mandela close to the Union Buildings in Pretoria, where he will lie in
state, December 11, 2013. Thousands of people lined the streets as a
procession of police motorcycles lead the black hearse carrying
Mandela's coffin, which was draped in the South African
flag. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach
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Dec. 11, 2013. A young woman
holds her baby in an elementary
school of the Muslim district of
Bangui, Central African Republic.
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Dec. 11, 2013. Pope Francis arrives at Saint Peter's Square
for the weekly General Audience in Vatican City, Rome, Italy.
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A television reporter interviews a naked protester wearing a sign reading
"This is How Social Services Cuts, Poverty and Unemployment Leaves Us"
in Bilbao December 11, 2013. REUTERS/Vincent West
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Participants wearing horse and zebra head masks line up as part of an artistic performance
ahead of the Year of the Horse in Chinese zodiac in Chongqing Municipality, December 10,
2013. The performance aims to bring good luck to everyone for the upcoming year,
according to local media. REUTERS/Stringer
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Graca Machel, the widow of former South African
President Nelson Mandela, pays her respects at his coffin
as he lies in state at the Union Buildings in Pretoria
December 11, 2013. REUTERS/Marco Longari/Pool
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A man shields himself with an umbrella against
the wind and rain as he walks across a field near
the home of late former South African President
Nelson Mandela in Qunu, December
11, 2013. REUTERS/Siegfried Modola
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A woman displays a fake tattoo depicting the portrait of former South African
President Nelson Mandela in Pretoria December 11, 2013. Thousands of
people queued on Wednesday to say goodbye to Mandela, whose body is lying
in state at the Union Buildings in Pretoria. REUTERS/Yves Herman
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A woman cries after viewing the coffin of former South African President Nelson
Mandela as he lies in state at the Union Buildings in Pretoria December 11,
2013.REUTERS/Marco Longari/Pool
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December 31, 2013
Pro-European integration protesters scuffle with riot police at Independence
Square in Kiev December 11, 2013. Ukrainian riot police reoccupied part of the
square in central Kiev on Wednesday where protesters have been demonstrating
against the government's decision to pull out of negotiations on a trade pact with
the European Union and rebuild economic ties with Russia. REUTERS/Vasily
Fedosenko
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Pro-European integration protesters standing behind barricades
confront a line of riot police approaching at Independence Square in
Kiev December 11, 2013. Scores of Ukrainian riot police withdrew on
Wednesday morning from a protest camp after moving against
protesters overnight in the authorities' biggest attempt yet to disburse
weeks of protests against President Viktor
Yanukovich. REUTERS/Maxim Zmeyev
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A pro-European integration protester walks between a riot police line in Kiev
December 11, 2013. Ukrainian riot police reoccupied part of the square in
central Kiev on Wednesday where protesters have been demonstrating
against the government's decision to pull out of negotiations on a trade pact
with the European Union and rebuild economic ties with
Russia. REUTERS/Maxim Zmeyev
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Fireworks are released during the opening ceremony of the 27th SEA
Games in Naypyitaw December 11, 2013. Myanmar is hosting the games
for the first time in over 40 years. REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun
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December 31, 2013
Dec. 11, 2013. The Canary Wharf business district of east London taken from
the Metropolitan Police helicopter is seen during a foggy morning in this
photograph received via the Metropolitan Police in London.
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Dec. 11, 2013. Pope Francis attends the weekly general
audience on Saint Peter's Square at the
Vatican, Rome, Italy.
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Palestinian children look on the bright rainbow
after heavy rain building in Gaza City, Gaza.
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People from neighbouring villages watch a bullfight in Congjiang county,
Guizhou province, December 11, 2013. About 56 bulls from 56 nearby
villages participated in the traditional event which was aimed to improve
the relations between villages. REUTERS/China Daily
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December 31, 2013
Flamingoes standing under snowfall at
Zoo in Jerusalem.
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People sing during the "Nelson Mandela: A Life Celebrated" memorial service at Cape Town Stadium
December 11, 2013. REUTERS/Mark Wessels
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December 31, 2013
A forensic technician removes sand near a human
skull inside a cordoned-off area during an
exhumation at a hidden mass grave discovered in
Lourdes, about 45 km (28 miles) north of San
Salvador, December 11, 2013. Forensic technicians
have found the remains of at least 24 persons listed
as missing and some 44 bodies are thought to still
be buried in the mountain range of Lourdes,
according to local media. REUTERS/Ulises Rodriguez
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December 31, 2013
A baby boy the length of a palm is seen inside an incubator in this
posed picture taken at a hospital in Xi'an, Shaanxi province, December
11, 2013. According to local media, the mother gave birth to the 760g
baby after a pregnancy of only 25 weeks. The baby will be monitored
at the hospital for three to four months before being
discharged. REUTERS/China Daily
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People were lined up waiting for the bus
before going to the Union Building in
Pretoria, South Africa, where funeral
coffin of former South African President
Nelson Mandela in three days
December 31, 2013
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Dec. 12, 2013. The funeral procession with the hearse
carrying the body of Nelson Mandela drives towards the
Union Buildings in Pretoria, South Africa.
December 31, 2013
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Dec. 12, 2013. A Xhosa girl stands outside her home overlooking Qunu as
preparations continue ahead of the funeral of former South African
President Nelson Mandela in Qunu, South Africa.
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Dec. 12, 2013. Soldiers of the Presidential Guard Battalion stand
at attention as a fellow guard member is tended to after fainting
while waiting for the arrival of visiting French President Francois
Hollande at the Planalto presidential palace, in Brasilia, Brazil.
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December 31, 2013
Dec. 12, 2013. Santa Claus kites float in front of the
Eiffel Tower as part of Christmas holiday season
preparations in Paris, France.
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Dec. 12, 2013. A Palestinian Bedouin boy protects himself from
the rain after a storm damaged his family shack in Gaza City.
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Dec. 12, 2013. Young Syrian refugees build a
snowman following a storm in a makeshift
refugee camp in the Lebanese village of
Baaloul in the Bekaa Valley, Lebanon.
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Dec. 12, 2013. An anti-government demonstrator (L) points his finger
at a policeman as they talk through the gate of the Government
House in Bangkok, Thailand.
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Dec. 12, 2013. Policewomen are deployed to secure the compound
of the prime minister's office, known as the Government House, as
anti-government protesters gather behind its fence and gates in
Bangkok, Thailand.
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Democrat Party leader and former prime minister Abhisit Vejjajiva (C) gestures
as he arrives at Bangkok criminal court in Bangkok December 12, 2013. Abhisit
is indicted on murder charges over the 2010 military crackdown on protesters
that left over 90 people dead during the protracted
demonstrations. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha
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Dec. 12, 2013. A baby whose family fled the U.S.-led
war in Afghanistan rests in a cradle at a slum on the
outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan.
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Dec. 12, 2013. Youths attempt to control a fire by pouring colored water
after vehicles were torched and vandalized by Bangladesh's Jamaat-e-Islami
party activists during clashes with police in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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