Images from Week 3-4 of December 2013

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Palestinian children play in the snow in front of the Dome of the
Rock at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the old city of
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The Western Wall and the Dome of the Rock, some of the holiest sites for Jews
and Muslims, are covered in snow in Jerusalem, Friday, Dec. 13, 2013. Early
snow has surprised many Israelis and Palestinians as a blustery storm, dubbed
Alexa, brought gusty winds, torrential rains and heavy snowfall to parts of the
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Workers construct stands for the 2014 Winter Olympics spectators in Krasnaya Polyana near the Russian Black Sea resort
of Sochi, on December 14, 2013. Sochi will host the 2014 Winter Olympics that start on February 7, 2014 . AFP PHOTO /
MIKHAIL MORDASOV
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QUNU, SOUTH AFRICA - DECEMBER 14: Xhosa youths walk over a hillside overlooking the home town of former South
African President Nelson Mandela before his funeral cortege arrives at his family's home on December 14, 2013 in
Qunu, South Africa. Mandela's body will remain in his home town of Qunu, Eastern Cape, overnight and be buried
Sunday. Mr. Mandela passed away on the evening of December 5, 2013 at his home in Houghton at the age of 95.
Mandela became South Africa's first black president in 1994 after spending 27 years in jail for his activism against
apartheid in a racially-divided South Africa. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)
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Dec. 14, 2013. A Christmas decoration lies
on display near the former site of Sandy
Hook Elementary in Newtown, Ct.

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Dec. 14, 2013. Birds fly over the border fence covered in snow near the
Northern Israeli village of Majdal Shams, Golan Heights, on the IsraeliSyrian border.

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A mortar fired by Free Syrian Army fighters
explodes, injuring fighters nearby, in Aleppo
December 15, 2013. REUTERS/Mahmoud Hebbo
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Palestinians ride a boat through floodwaters in the Al Sheikh Redwan area that was flooded in Gaza City, 15
December 2013. Thousands of people remained without electricity on Sunday, after a three-day snowstorm hit the
Middle East - one of the heaviest ever seen in Israel and the Palestinian territories. The Israeli electricity company
was still repairing lines damaged by snow or fallen branches. More than 35,000 Israeli families had been without
power for up to three days, police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said, mostly in and around Jerusalem and in
northern Israel. Tens of thousands of Palestinian homes throughout the West Bank were also cut off. (Mohammed
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Dec. 15, 2013. A woman looks on as South African former
president Nelson Mandela's coffin is carried to his burial site
during his state funeral in Qunu, South Africa.

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A photograph of the giant screen at the Beijing Aerospace Control Center shows photo of China's Chang'e 3 probe, taken by the country's first lunar rover,
Yutu, during the mutual-photograph process, in Beijing December 15, 2013. China aims to launch its next unmanned lunar probe in 2017, with the key aim
of collecting and bringing back lunar samples, an official said on Monday, after the country's first probe landed successfully on the moon over the
weekend. Photographers were permitted to take photos of the video screen inside the control center. Picture taken December 15, 2013. REUTERS/Stringer
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Dec. 15, 2013. Syrian refugees walk outside their tents
at a refugee camp in the eastern Lebanese border town
of Arsal, Lebanon.

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Bouquets of flowers lay a beach in Meco, near Sesimbra,
after a college student was killed and five others missing
when this group of people was large waves swept away on a
beach in Portugal, on 15 December.
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Dec. 16, 2013. Ukrainian protestors continue their antigovernment demonstrations in Kiev's Independence
Square.

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Dec. 16, 2013. A giant panda plays in
the snow at a zoo in Kunming, Yunnan
province, China.

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Smoke rises as rescue efforts go
underway on the site of an unfinished
32-storey building which caught fire in
Guangzhou, Guangdong province,
China, December 16,
2013. REUTERS/Alex Lee

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Volunteers prepare to form a large flag of
Bangladesh as the nation celebrates
National Victory Day at the National
Parade ground in Dhaka December 16,
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A Kashmiri Muslim woman carrying vegetables on her
head walks in a field covered with frozen dew on a
cold winter morning in Srinagar, December 16,
2013.REUTERS/Danish Ismail

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A train surfing at the famous venue Anchor Point in
Taghazout Beach, southern Morocco.

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A statue is silhouetted against the
sky in a moonlit night in Hanover,
central Germany, on December
16, 2013.

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Miss Bea Rose Santiago's International
Philippines waving audience after being
crowned Miss International 2013 in Tokyo,
Japan.

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Frenchman Julien Millot rope
performances go on previous
cable Paradiski 380m high
mountain Mont Blanc, La Plagne,
in December 2013.

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Reitham Allerheiligen church tower in the mountains and Lake Tegernsee region silhouetted against sunset sky in Warngau, Germany.

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A makeshift stall beside building a Super
Typhoon Haiyan ship washed ashore last
month, Tacloban City, central
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A man helps a wounded Syria after an air
raid in the Maadi neighborhood of the
city of Aleppo.
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Sculptor Partanen of Finland Juuso a statue near the other sculptures based on the comic book
character Snow and Ice Festival in Brussels, Belgium.

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The sister in Bagram, north of the town lies in the Afghan
capital Kabul, picking flax for cooking and heating.

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United Nations soldiers stand guard while civilians to take refuge
in the area of the UN Mission in South Sudan adjacent to Juba
international airport. Some sporadic gunfire rang out in the capital
Juba during the night when the army "wipe out remnants" group
of soldiers accused of plotting a coup.

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Bodies of passengers lie beside a bus after it fell
off an elevated expressway and crashed into a
van below in Taguig city, south of Manila
December 16, 2013.REUTERS/Romeo Ranoco

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Kashmiri Muslim women carry plastic baskets
filled with cow dung on a cold winter morning in
Srinagar December 16, 2013. REUTERS/Danish
Ismail
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Pornchai Kaokew of Thailand fights for
the ball with Mohd Hanafiah Dolah (3) of
Malaysia during their Men's Regu Final
sepak takraw match at the 27th SEA
Games in Naypyitaw December 16,
2013. REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun

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Dec. 16, 2013. A Palestinian clown dressed as a tiger plays in snow
on a snow covered hill in the West Bank city of Nablus.

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Dec. 16, 2013. Bosnian people walking on the
street during heavy smog in northern Bosnian town
of Tuzla, 140 kms. north of Sarajevo.

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Women carry a floral tribute at an event to mark the
anniversary of the brutal gang rape of a student on a bus in
Delhi, outside the Indian High Commission in central
London, December 16, 2013. REUTERS/Andrew Winning

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Pakistani Christian boys decorate a Christmas
tree on the roof of their house in Islamabad
December 16, 2013. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra
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Palestinians warm themselves by a fire near
their houses that are flooded with rainwater,
in the northern Gaza Strip December 16,
2013.REUTERS/Mohammed Salem

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Palestinian civil defence volunteers paddle a
boat to evacuate people from their houses
that are flooded with rainwater as a poster
depicting Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin
Hamad is seen on a building, in the northern
Gaza Strip December 16,
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A relative waits as naval policemen continue their search for five missing persons at Meco
beach, near Sesimbra December 16, 2013. Rescuers continued their search for five missing
youth at Meco beach after seven friends aged 21 to 25 were swept away by a wave last
Sunday, authorities reported. Of the friends, one survived, another was found dead, and
four girls and a boy remain missing. REUTERS/Rafael Marchante
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Visitors stand around a bronze statue of the late former
South African President Nelson Mandela hours after it was
unveiled as part of Day of Reconciliation celebrations at the
Union Buildings in Pretoria December 16,
2013.
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A National Security Agency (NSA) data
gathering facility is seen in Bluffdale, about
25 miles (40 km) south of Salt Lake City,
Utah, December 16, 2013. REUTERS/Jim
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Undated. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un gives field guidance to
the August 25 Fisheries Station under KPA 313 Unit, in this undated
photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency
(KCNA) in Pyongyang on December 16, 2013.
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Dec. 16, 2013. North Koreans lay flowers at the base of statues of the late
leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il at Mansu Hill in Pyongyang, North
Korea.
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Dec. 16, 2013. Lava flows from the Mount Etna volcano on
the southern Italian island of Sicily near Catania.

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Dec. 16, 2013. Labor Minister Ursula von der Leyen,
Christian Social Union (CSU) Bundestag faction leader
Gerda Hasselfeld, leader of the Christian Democratic
Union (CDU) and Chancellor Angel Merkel, Thomas
Oppermann of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) CDU
parliamentary faction leader Volker Kauder, CDU
secretary general Hermann Groehe, Federal Chancellery
Minister Ronald Pofalla, SPD Chairman Sigmar Gabriel
and SPD parliamentary faction leader Frank-Walter
Steinmeier (clockwise from top) talk informally after the
coalition government agreement signing ceremony in
Berlin.

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Dec. 16, 2013. Members of Palestinian civil defense paddle a boat to
evacuate people from their houses that are flooded with rainwater,
in the northern Gaza Strip.

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A firefighting crew crosses Highway 1
while deploying to contain a wild fire in
Big Sur, California, December 16,
2013. REUTERS/Michael Fiala

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A woman watches as a newly married
couple poses for their photo shoot in
Duomo's square in downtown Milan,
December 16, 2013. REUTERS/Stefano
Rellandini
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A pro-European integration protester
stands on a barricade during a rally in
Independence Square in Kiev, December 16,
2013. REUTERS/Marko Djurica
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A Pro-European integration protester builds a new
barricade in Independence Square in Kiev,
December 16, 2013. REUTERS/Alexander
Demianchuk
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African American Santa Claus Langston Patterson (L) ,
77, poses with four-month-old Raelyn Price and her
grandmother Gloria Boissiere looks on, at Baldwin Hills
Crenshaw Plaza mall in Los Angeles, California,
December 16, 2013. Patterson has worked as Santa
since 2004 at the mall, which is one of the few in the
country with a black Santa Claus. REUTERS/Lucy
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Demonstrators place a wooden cross at the grave of activist Marisela
Escobedo to mark the anniversary of her death at a cementery in
Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, December 16, 2013. Escobedo was shot in the
head on the night of December 16, 2010 by unknown gunmen while
she staged a vigil in front of the governor's office in the state capital of
Chihuahua demanding progress in the case where her teenage
daughter Rubi's body was found mutilated in a garbage bin in
2009. REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez

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worker is reflected in the mirrored sculpture "Cloud
Gate," also commonly known as "The Bean," as he
sprinkles de-icing salt around the bean-shaped sculpture
in Chicago, Illinois, December 16, 2013. Picture taken with
a fish-eye lens. REUTERS/Jim Young
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North Korean girls carry firewood on their backs as they
walk on the banks of Yalu River, some 100 kilometers (62
miles) from the North Korean town of Sinuiju, opposite the
Chinese border city of Dandong, December 16, 2013. U.S.
Secretary of State John Kerry described North Korea's Kim
Jong Un as reckless and insecure after the execution of the
leader's powerful uncle, and said Kim's actions
underscored a need for a unified stand against
Pyongyang's nuclear program. REUTERS/Jacky Chen

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An aerial view of Mexico city at night from an airplane,
December 16, 2013. REUTERS/Jorge Silva

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Julia Roberts and Meryl Streep pose at the premiere of
"August: Osage County" in Los Angeles, December 16,
2013. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni

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Thick fog in Lahore, the provincial capital of
Punjab province, Pakistan, 17 December 2013.
At least 11 people were killed and 67 injured
overnight in Punjab province due to transport
accidents related to fog. (Omer
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Dec. 17, 2013. A tree smolders in an area that burned down to
Highway 1 during a wild fire in Big Sur, Calif.

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Dec. 17, 2013. One of the Crossrail tunnels under
construction below the streets of Whitechapel, east
London, which has proved to be one of the most
challenging and impressive sites in the whole Crossrail
project, and will be part of the 38 station route from
Maidenhead Royal Berkshire in the west to Shenfield in
Essex in the east.

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Dec. 17, 2013. Kites in the shape of Santa Claus glide in
the wind as part of a kite exhibition next to the Eiffel
Tower in Paris.
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Dec. 17, 2013. North Koreans bow beneath portraits of
the late leaders Kim Jong Il and Kim Il Sung in
Pyongyang.
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Syrian refugees look through a window
inside a refugee centre as they wait for a
distribution of humanitarian aid by
volunteers of the Bulgarian Red Cross in
Sofia, Bulgaria, December 17,
2013. REUTERS/Stoyan Nenov
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Syrian refugee children look through a window
inside a refugee centre as they wait for a
distribution of humanitarian aid by volunteers of
the Bulgarian Red Cross in Sofia December 17,
2013. REUTERS/Stoyan Nenov

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Palestinian women present their ration cards as
they wait to receive food supplies from a United
Nations food distribution center in Gaza City
December 17, 2013.REUTERS/Suhaib Salem

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Penguins dressed in Santa Claus and Christmas
tree in a Christmas promotional event at an
amusement park in Yongin, south of Seoul,
South Korea.
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Athletes Fong Kay Yian competition,
Singapore's three-meter diving
boards out of 27 women in the SEA
Games in Naypyidaw, Myanmar.

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Coach in Santa Claus costumes perform with
bottlenose dolphins (right) and a fake Cetus
(left) in a concert at the Aqua Stadium
aquarium in Tokyo, Japan.

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A man jogging along Lake Michigan as temperatures down
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A manual labor smokers India on his car on
a foggy morning in New Delhi, on December
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Around 100 camels carrying away boxes of tea on a
highway in the event the current re ancient tea trade
from China to Europe in Changsha City, Hunan
Province.
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Members of far-right organizations Casapound masked brought before the
Italian flag to protest the precarious economic situation and government
protests in downtown Rome.

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A Sikh devotee takes a dip in fog covered pond on the premises of
the Golden temple on a foggy day in the northern Indian city of
Amritsar, India, December 17, 2013.REUTERS/Munish Sharma
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A typhoon survivor decorates a Christmas tree amidst
the rubble of destroyed houses in Tacloban city in
central Philippines, December 17, 2013. REUTERS/Erik
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A woman pulls a cart loaded with plastic bottles
through falling snow in lower Manhattan in New York
City, December 17, 2013. REUTERS/Mike Segar
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Ezequiel Gauna cools down in a fountain in
downtown in Buenos Aires, Argentina,
Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2013. Power outages are
plaguing Buenos Aires as temperatures
soar above 95 degrees and everyone tries
to turn on their air conditioners at once.
According the government it has added
10,000 megawatts to the grid in the last
decade, but the country's demand is
outpacing the system's capacity. (Rodrigo
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A Palestinian man holding his son up in the air is reflected at
sunset into flood waters as he walks along the seafront in Gaza
City, on December 17, 2013, as the enclave slowly recovers
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A horse walks in the snow at the base of Mount
Hermon in the Golan Heights near the Israel-Syria
border December 17, 2013. REUTERS/Nir Elias
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Aisha 11, carries coal to be used for cooking and
heating from a brick-making factory in Jalalabad,
Afghanistan, December 17, 2013. REUTERS/Parwiz

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Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich gives a wink to his
Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin during a signing
ceremony after a meeting of the Russian-Ukrainian Interstate
Commission at the Kremlin in Moscow, December 17,
2013. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin

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French President Francois Hollande shakes hands with Quebec's
Premier Pauline Marois as she leaves the Elysee Palace in Paris,
December 17, 2013. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer

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Dec. 17, 2013. A sulfur miner carries a goats head in a white
bag as he climbs to bury the head in the crater as part of an
annual offering ceremony on the Ijen volcano in Yogyakarta,
Indonesia.
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Dec. 17, 2013. The full moon rises behind the
Monument of Ukraine independence during a
Pro-European Union rally in the Independence
Square in Kiev, Ukraine.

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Dec. 17, 2013. Syrians search for
survivors amidst the rubble
following an airstrike in the Shaar
neighborhood of Alepp
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Mourners cry as they hold onto the coffin of
their relative, who was killed in an attack in the
town of Yusfiya, during a funeral in Najaf, 160
km (100 miles) south of Baghdad, December 17,
2013. Two parked cars laden with explosives and
a roadside bomb went off near a funeral tent
killing at least 24 Shi'ite Muslim pilgrims on
Monday near Baghdad.REUTERS/Alaa Al-Marjani

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A journalist, wearing slippers to protect the glass floor, stands in the 'Step into the Void'
installation during a press visit at the Aiguille du Midi mountain peak above Chamonix, in
the French Alps, December 17, 2013. The Chamonix Skywalk is a five-sided glass structure
installed on the top terrace of the Aiguille du Midi, where visitors can step out from the
terrace, giving them the impression of standing in the void. REUTERS/Robert Pratta
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Legendary Brazilian soccer player Pele tries to
leave an elevator as the doors close after he spoke
to journalists during an exhibition on the country's
past World Cup participations entitled "Brazil, a
country, a world" at the Ulysses Guimaraes
Convention Center in Brasilia, December 17,
2013. REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino

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A woman stands with an umbrella during snowfall
at Central Park in New York, December 17,
2013. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton
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Free Syrian army members remove a
body from rubbles from damage
caused by what activists said was an
airstrike with explosive barrels by
forces loyal to President Bashar alAssad in Al-Shaar area in Aleppo,
December 17,
2013. REUTERS/Molhem Barakat

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Residents carry an injured man that survived shelling after
what activists said was an air strike from forces loyal to
Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in Takeek Al-Bab area of
Aleppo, December 17, 2013. REUTERS/Saad AboBrahim
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A wildfire burns down to Highway 1 in Big Sur,
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An Afghan policeman walks near burning NATO supply
trucks after what police officials say was an attack by
militants in the Torkham area near the Pakistani-Afghan
border in Jalalabad Province, December 18, 2013. The
attack killed one police officer and wounded three
others, according to the police. REUTERS/Parwiz
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Vendors arrange vegetables at their stalls at a wholesale market in
Mumbai, December 18, 2013. REUTERS/Mansi Thapliyal
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performs at a park after the city's first snow this winter in
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Penguins wear Santa Claus costumes during a promotional
event for Christmas at an amusement park in Yongin, south of
Seoul, December 18, 2013. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji

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A member of the "Skipper" yacht club dressed as Santa Claus, sails his trimaran to
mark the ending of the sailboat season during heavy snowfall at an air temperature
of above minus 8 degrees Celsius (17.6 Fahrenheit) on the Yenisei River, outside
Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, December 18, 2013. REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin
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Workers stand at a coal dump site while waiting for
customers in Kabul, December 18,
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The scene of the family house in Polkowice Duszenko,
southwest Poland, with lights Christmas decorations. Since
1999, Duszenko family always decorated homes and their
gardens before Christmas, on December 18, 2013.

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Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron is shown
around a house that was raided earlier in the day
by Immigration officers, in Southall, west London
December 18, 2013.REUTERS/David Bebber/Pool

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A man gestures as he calls for help at a site hit by what
activists said was an air strike from forces loyal to Syria's
President Bashar al-Assad in Tareek Al-Bab area of Aleppo,
December 18, 2013. REUTERS/Saad Abobrahim

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Dec. 18, 2013. A priest walks near columns
inside the Church of Nativity, revered as the site
of Jesus' birth, ahead of Christmas in the West
Bank town of Bethlehem.

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Dec. 18, 2013. People arrive to seek refuge in
the UNMISS compound in Juba, South Sudan.

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Dec. 18, 2013. A woman stands in a corridor of a building in
the Christian camp for internally displaced people (IDP) in
Bossangoa, Central African Republic.

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South Sudan's President Salva Kiir
wipes his face during a news
conference in Juba, December 18,
2013. Kiir said on Wednesday he was
ready for dialogue with his rival who
he has accused of trying to force him
out of power through fighting that has
killed up to 500 people and brought
the two-year-old nation close to civil
war. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic

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French President Francois Hollande speaks with German
Chancellor Angela Merkel as she arrives at the Elysee Palace
in Paris December 18, 2013. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer

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Olympic torch of the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics is
brought to Moscow, Russia, on December 18, 2013.

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People watching a Christmas tree friendly environment in
the Basilica de San Francisco Square in La Paz, Bolivia. The
14-meter high tree made from 50,000 plastic bottles.

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U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke
responds to reporters during his final planned
news conference before his retirement, at the
Federal Reserve Bank headquarters in
Washington, December 18,
2013. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

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A dog riding in a car passes a fire burning
near the access road to Pfeiffer Ridge in Big
Sur, California, December 18,
2013. REUTERS/Michael Fiala

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Customers puff on e-cigarettes at the Henley Vaporium in New
York, December 18, 2013. At the Henley Vaporium, one of a growing
number of e-cigarette lounges sprouting up in New York and other
U.S. cities, patrons can indulge in their choice of more than 90
flavors of nicotine-infused vapor, ranging from bacon to bubble
gum. REUTERS/Mike Segar

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Staff of the German carrier DHL parcel
lifted off at a transfer station at the
company's Gross Schwass near Rostock.
Before Christmas, approximately 12,000
parcels per day are processed at the
center, twice the normal number, date of
December 18, 2013.
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January 5, 2014

Women from "Caravana de Madres Centroamericanas" (Caravan of Central
American Mothers) displays photos of missing migrants and a Salvadorian flag
as they ride a raft to cross to Guatemala from the Suchiate river in the border
of Ciudad Hidalgo, Chiapas, south of Mexico, December 18,
2013. REUTERS/Jorge Dan Lopez

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A Palestinian woman presents her identification as she waits to
receive food supplies from a United Nations food distribution
centre in Gaza City, December 19, 2013. Almost a million people
are expected to need food aid in the Gaza Strip next year, a U.N.
agency said on Wednesday as it appealed for $95 million from
donors. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem
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Typhoon survivors sleep on treadmill at a sports
stadium turned into an evacuation centre in
Tacloban city in central Philippines December 19,
2013. REUTERS/Erik De Castro

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Dec. 19, 2013 A view looking up from
the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol before
a tour of the dome in Washington
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U.S. Marines assist Sudanese Ibrahim Osman, one of two
Sudanese detainees released from the Guantanomo facility
in Cuba, as he disembarks from an U.S. Air Force plane in
Khartoum Airport, early December 19,
2013. REUTERS/Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah
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A North Korean employee works in a factory of a South Korean company at
the Joint Industrial Park in Kaesong industrial zone, a few miles inside North
Korea from the heavily fortified border, December 19, 2013. REUTERS/Kim
Hong-Ji
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An internally displaced man holds his son inside a United Nations Missions in Sudan
compound in Juba, South Sudan, December 19, 2013. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic

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A child cries as her mother (not pictured) works to earn
money by carrying bricks at a brick factory in Lalitpur,
Nepal, December 20, 2013. REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar

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A flock of migrating cranes is seen at the Hula Lake Ornithology and
Nature Park in northern Israel, December 20, 2013. REUTERS/Nir Elias

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The tunnel was lit to celebrate Christmas and
the new year coming in Gapyeong City, South
Korea.
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Bangladesh police holding batons stormed
to an operation to prevent this person went
to the Pakistan Embassy in Dhaka.
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Teens evacuated because of the
war stood beside the barbed
wire fence in an area of the UN
Mission in Juba.
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Some protesters favor with the European Union flag
Ukraine and European Union flags on Independence
Square in Kyiv, Ukraine.
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The police prevented a group of students protested
outside the U.S. consulate in Mumbai. Information
Minister of India on Friday assailed U.S. and claim it
apologized for the arrest and the way she treated
Devyani Khobragade, deputy consul general of India in
New York.
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Children who nomadic Gujjar delegation in India
herded sheep through thick fog on the outskirts
of Jammu, India.

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A manual labor jobs India janitor at Sangam, the confluence of three
rivers Ganga, Yamuna and mythical Saraswati river, before the Magh
Mela festival in Allahabad every year.

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An employee working at the vote counting at polling
stations Antananarivo in Madagascar when the people
elect a new president in a vote of two to end the political
crisis and the economy caused by a coup here four year.
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The old cannon at the entrance to the Queen's
Palace in Madagascar. The place is located on
the famous and prominent hilltop Analamanga
sky city.

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Male students walk to school in the morning fog in Jammu,
India. Dense fog has directed disrupt rail traffic and air in
northern India in recent days.

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January 5, 2014

The protesters wearing masks with German
Chancellor Angela Merkel (left) and European
Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso in
a rally to oppose the tighten in the first day of
the Summit of EU leaders in Brussels, Belgium.

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Protesters in favor of European integration put into the
"purification" (words that participatory management of the
components communist governments in Eastern Europe in
the years 1989 to 1991) at the Independence Square in Kiev
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Juba residents sheltering at the UN base.
African diplomats on Friday urged peace in
South Sudan during fierce fighting spread
across the country the world's youngest.
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A boy playing the accordion at the ceremony in honor of music for singers, composers Diomedes Diaz in the main
square of Valledupar, Cesar states in the north of Colombia, on December 25, 2013. Diomedes Diaz, one of the
vallenato musician with accordion greatest of Colombia, died on December 22, 2013 at the age of 56 years old.

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A pedestrian ducks under a frozen tree on S. Clair Ave. in Toronto after an ice
storm caused havoc and cut power to much of the city on Sunday, Dec. 22,
2013. (Aaron Vincent Elkaim/AP Photo/The Canadian Press) #
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Tree branches are cased in ice following an
ice storm in Toronto December 22, 2013.
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An American Robin searches for food on a frozen tree in Augusta,
Maine, Sunday, Dec. 22, 2013. More than a quarter inch of ice
coated tree branches and wires in the Augusta and Gardiner areas
at noon. Eric Schwibs, a meteorologist with the National Weather
Service in Gray, said those areas could end up with about a half
inch of ice accumulating by storm’s. (Andy Molloy/AP/Kennebec
Journal) #
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A layer of ice coats the leaf of a Japanese maple tree after an ice storm
in Toronto December 22, 2013. (Chris Helgren/Reuters) #
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A woman has her hair blown by the wind
during a snowstorm in Quebec City
December 22, 2013. (Mathieu
Belanger/Reuters)
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January 5, 2014

A power company worker seeks resumption Toronto
power outskirts Scarborough after a snow and ice
storm in Ontario, Canada. More than 30,000 residents
live in the loss of power since the storm struck on
December 22, local media reported.

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A pedestrian walking on the sidewalk
in a snow storm in Quebec City,
Canada, on December 22, 2013.

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Christmas decorations on the colorful 6th
Street in Manhattan, New York, on December
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A panic after a raid by forces loyal to Syrian President
Bashar Al-Assad at al-Marja area of the city of Aleppo.
More than 300 people have been killed in air strikes a
week in this city and nearby towns, a monitoring
group said.
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Christmas lights decorate the streets of
Colombo, Sri Lanka.

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A teacher who teaches Afghan girls
read the Quran at a seminary in
Kabul, Afghanistan

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January 5, 2014

Children learn skating rink Square in
Seoul, South Korea.

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People cross the bridge outside the palace to
celebrate the 80th birthday of Japanese Emperor
Akihito at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo.

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Anti-government protesters march in the streets of Bangkok. Thai
baht fell to its lowest level in nearly four years as a political crisis
more difficult to solve.
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A woman can pick up items at a recycling landfill on
the banks of Bagmati River in Kathmandu, Nepal.

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A man walks near Jaffa old city outside Jerusalem.

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A woman and a child standing in glass
cages overlooking the French Alps on
the high point of 3842 feet in
Chamonix. This glass is open to the
public after three years of
construction, is made of three layers
of glass and can withstand winds up to
200 km/hour.
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French troops attempting to control his supporters please
disarm the factions are fighting, near the airport in
Bangui, the Central African Republic. France has urged the
European partners to aid to pacified the religious violence
in the country's former colonies.
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A mountainous nation in Thailand playing traditional
musical ensemble made of bamboo as the sun set in
the village of Khun Klang, Chiang Mai Province,
Thailand. Photo by Matthew Richards/Thailand

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January 5, 2014

Eve Grayson, a Reindeer herder of the Cairgorm
Reindeer Herd, feeds the deer on December 23, 2013
in Aviemore, Scotland. Reindeer were introduced to
Scotland in 1952 by Swedish Sami Reindeer herder,
Mikel Utsi. Starting with just a few reindeer, the herd
has now grown in numbers over the years and is
currently at about 130 by controlling the breeding.
(Jeff J. Mitchell/Getty Images)

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A woman struggles with her umbrella as rising water levels from the
River Ouse bring floodwaters into riverside roads in York, England, as
heavy rain and strong winds sweep across many parts of Britain,
Monday Dec. 23, 2013. (John Giles/AP) #

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Workers close off the side of a cafe-restaurant to protect customers from heavy
winds on December 23, 2013 in Cancale, northwestern France. Fourteen regions
in the northwest of France have been placed under alert as a strong storm named
"Dirk" was set to pass. (Charly Triballeauch/AFP/Getty Images)
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A pedestrian struggles to hold on to his umbrella along Oxford Street in
London, Britain, 23 December 2013. Stormy weather with high winds and
torrential rains are expected to cause major travel disruptions one day
before Christmas Eve. (Andy Rain/EPA) #

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An event in Zagreb drop lanterns, Croatia, on December 23,
2013. This event is part of ArtOmat before Christmas Fair.
Participants drop about 1,000 lanterns symbolize sending
wishes into the universe.
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Christmas after a typhoon

Children, who are victims of super typhoon Haiyan, decorate their improvised
Christmas tree with empty cans and bottles at the ravaged town of Tanuan,
Leyte province, central Philippines, December 19, 2013.
REUTERS/Romeo Ranoco

Darren Fabella, 6, lights candles for his departed friend, a victim of the onslaught of
super typhoon Haiyan a month ago, who was buried in a vacant lot on Christmas Eve in
front of a Catholic church in San Joaquin town in Palo, Leyte province central Philippines,
DecemberJanuary 5, 2014
24, 2013.

Victims of super Typhoon Haiyan decorate their improvised Christmas tree with different
appliances, plastic plates and toys which they salvaged at the ravaged town of Anibong,
Tacloban city, central Philippines, December 24, 2013.

Survivors of Super Typhoon Haiyan receive gift packages from International
Container Terminal Services (ICTS) officials dressed in Santa Clause costumes
during a gift giving activity inside a astrodome at Tacloban city, central Philippines,
December 20, 2013.
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Christmas after a typhoon

Victims of super Typhoon Haiyan decorate their improvised Christmas tree with empty cans
and bottles at the ravaged town of Anibong, Tacloban city, central Philippines, December 24,
2013.

A Christmas lantern hangs in the ravaged town of Magallanes, Tacloban city, central
Philippines December 19, 2013.
January 5, 2014

Children, who are victims of super typhoon Haiyan, stand beside an improvised Christmas tree
decorated with empty cans and bottles at the ravaged town of Tanuan, Leyte province, central
Philippines December 19, 2013.

Children eat their free meals during Christmas celebrations at the town of Bislig, Tanauan in
Leyte province, central Philippines December 24, 2013.
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China celebrates Mao

A man takes a self-portrait with his mobile phone in front of a large statue of China's late
Chairman Mao Zedong at an art exhibition celebrating the 120th anniversary in Beijing,
December 24, 2013.
REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon

Boats carrying a giant image of late Chinese Chairman Mao Zedong and Chinese national flags
get ready to lead the winter swimmers ahead of a swimming exercise in the Yangtze River on a
hazy day in Wuhan, Hubei province, December 26, 2013. A total of 120 people took part in the
swimming exercise in Wuhan on Thursday, local media reported. The Chinese characters on
the board read, "Chinese dream, crossing the Yangtze River." REUTERS

Han Zhong, a re-enactment actor playing the part of late Chinese Chairman Mao Zedong,
performs in a play entitled "Mao Zedong and His Eldest Son", staged to commemorate Mao's
January 5, in Beijing, December 13, 2013.
120th birth anniversary, 2014
REUTERS/Jason Lee

Members of the audience raise their hands as performers sing a song at the end of a
commemorative performance in Changsha, Hunan province, December 23, 2013.
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Astronaut Mike Hopkins,
spacecraft engineer of
Expedition 38,
participated in the
second set to take place
in outer space on
December 24, 2013.
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January 5, 2014

The picture shows the Russian ship MV Akademik Shokalskiy
trapped in Antarctic sea ice. The 74 ships trapped in ice since
December 24, the Dumont D'Urville base of France about 100
nautical miles east of the. (Photo: Andrew Peacock /
www.footloosefotograph)

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January 5, 2014

Ruben Torres He wears a Santa Claus costume waving from a fishing boat
on the day before Christmas, along the coast of Valparaiso city, about 121
km northwest of the capital Santiago, Chile.

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Landscape gutted after a car bomb
shook the city of Mansura, north of
the Egyptian capital Cairo.
Destructive bombing a police
building in Mansura, killing at least
14 people.

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January 5, 2014

A monk demonstrators before City Hall in central Phnom
Penh, Cambodia. About 100 people lived Boeung Kak
lakeside, including monks, gathered government demanding
more compensation for the forced relocation of their homes
to make way for a construction project of private property ,
according to the protesters.

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Nigerian pilgrims waiting inside the Cathedral
Christmas, location is worshiped as birth place of
Jesus, in the West Bank city of Bethlehem

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A Kurdish student demonstrators threw firecrackers at
riot police in central Turkish city of Istanbul in a
demonstration against the government, service marks
2 years of military aircraft of the Turkish air strike
plates Kurdish forces, killing 34 people.
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A bear roast pork outside a shop in Quezon city, north of Manila, Philippines.
Roasted pork is a traditional dish at dinner the night before Christmas, known as
"Noche Buena," in countries where the majority of the Catholic population.

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People go through the woods ice at Earl Bales Park after
ice storm in Toronto, Canada, 24-12-2013
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January 5, 2014

45 year anniversary photo 'Earthrise' - the first
photo of Earth from the moon look blue was
taken by the crew of Apollo 8 on December 24,
1968.

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Britain's Princess Catherine, Duchess of
Cambridge, receives flowers from people
congratulating leaving Mass on Christmas morning
at the chapel in Norfolk, eastern England.
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Brilliant decorative lights to welcome
Christmas and New Year in Vienna
divinity Gapyeong City, South Korea.

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A man prepares to cut the cake 61 meters long while kids
cheer in Christmas in the northern Indian city of
Chandigarh.
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South Sudan army soldiers stand next to a destroyed motorcycle near Bor Airport, 108 miles
northwest from capital Juba, December 25, 2013.
REUTERS/James Akena

A man from Dinka tribe holds his AK 47 rifle in front of cows in a Dinka cattle herders
camp near Rumbek, capital of the Lakes State in central South Sudan, December 14,
2013.
January 5, 2014
REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic

Civil war looms in South Sudan

A general view of a camp for displaced people set up in a United Nations compound in Bor, 108
miles northwest from capital Juba, December 25, 2013.
REUTERS/James Akena

A displaced family from South Sudan's Nuer tribe, who fled their home in fear of ethnic killing
by the Dinka-led government, erects a makeshift shelter inside the United Nations Mission in
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A Christmas Cup participants jumped into
the water at Port Vell Marcelona, Spain
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Women in Orthodox Synagogue to pray in church on
Christmas morning in Aman, Jordan.

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Gate Cloud Gate in Millennium Park snow in
Chicago, Illinois, USA, where tourists flock to
take pictures, on December 25, 2013.

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Jerusalem Patriarch statue of Jesus carrying the
Christmas midnight Mass at the Church of St..
Catherine in the town of Bethlehem in the West Bank.
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The workers make the ice sculptures
of giant horses before ice and snow
festival in China's western Xinjiang.

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Front house collapsed because of
flooding after storms in Quimperle,
western France.
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The Indonesian Christian worshipers attend
prayers spend Christmas in Surabaya, while
police warned that Islamic extremist
elements could strike at Christmas and New
Year.
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The stevedore laborers from Bangladesh
anthrax a boat in the final days of the
blockade lasted 4 days call initiated by the
opposition.

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Remembering the tsunami

Women pray after lighting candles during a prayer ceremony for the victims of the 2004
tsunami on the ninth anniversary of the disaster, at Marina beach in Chennai, India,
December 26, 2013. Hundreds of memorial events were held across Asia in memory of the
towering waves that crashed ashore with little warning on December 26, 2004, killing at least
226,000 people in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, Thailand and nine other countries. More than
half the victims were Indonesians; with Sri Lanka and India next worst hit.
REUTERS/Babu

Children pray near a mass grave for victims, who died when their train was swept from its
tracks by the 2004 tsunami, during a memorial in Peraliya, about 56 miles south of
Colombo, Sri Lanka, December 26, 2013.
January 5, 2014
REUTERS/Dinuka Liyanawatte

People pour milk into the Bay of Bengal as a gesture of respect to the victims of the 2004
tsunami during the ninth anniversary of the disaster, at Marina beach in Chennai, India,
December 26, 2013.
REUTERS/Babu
A father and his daughter look towards the sea during the 9th anniversary of the 2004 Asian
tsunami in Peraliya, about 56 miles south of Colombo, Sri Lanka, December 26, 2013.
REUTERS/Dinuka Liyanawatte

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A Free Syrian Army fighter jumps from a
high window during what activists said
were clashes with pro-government
forces, beside Hanano barracks in
Aleppo's Bab al-Hadid district,
December 26,
2013. REUTERS/Abdalrhman Ismail
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Students Israeli Air Force launched caps in
celebration of graduation ceremony at
Hatzerim air base in southern Israel.
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An Afghan refugee babies
standing near her home in the
outskirts of Herat.

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January 5, 2014

Security forces and firefighters Lebanon field test of car
bombings rocked the center of Beirut. Massive explosion
killed former Finance Minister Mohamed Chatah and adviser
to former Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri, killing at
least five people were killed and dozens injured.

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January 5, 2014

A Lebanese woman cries during the funeral of former
minister Mohammed Chatah be celebrated at Martyrs
Square in Beirut. He Chatah was assassinated Thursday
December 27, 2013, in a car bomb attack.

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Russian soldiers stand in line waiting last visited
Mikhail Kalashnikov. He is the inventor assault rifle
AK-47 weapons that guerrilla popular worldwide
use. His funeral was held in Mytishchi outside
Moscow.
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The legacy of Kalashnikov

Mikhail Kalashnikov, the designer of the assault rifle that has killed more people than any
other firearm in the world, died at age 94, Russian officials said. The inventor said pride in his
iconic invention was mixed with the pain of seeing it used by criminals and child soldiers.
Kalashnikov holds an AK-47 automatic rifle during the opening of an exhibition showing his
gun, February 20, 1997. REUTERS

Afghan women carry Soviet AK-47s during a parade of village defense forces in 1988.
REUTERS/Richard Ellis

A soldier takes cover during a battle between the army, backed up by armed civilians, and proCeausescu supporters, around the government headquarters in downtown Bucharest,
December 24, 1989. More than 1,000 Romanians were killed across Romania during clashes
between demonstrators and Ceausescu's security forces, in what amounted to eastern
Europe's most violent anti-communist revolution. The country's communist dictator Nicolae
January 5, and
Ceausescu was toppled2014shot on Christmas Day, 1989.
REUTERS/Charles Platiau

An Italian policeman inspects a container after customs officers seized more than 8,000
Kalashnikovs and other weapons on a ship at the Southern Italian port of Gioia Tauro, April
20, 2004. The arms, worth about six milllion euros, were discovered aboard a ship arriving
from Romania on its way to the United States.
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A South Korean demonstrators protest visit to
the Yasukuni Shrine by Japanese Prime Minister
Shinzo Abe with banners on fire, in front of the
Japanese Embassy in Seoul.

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January 5, 2014

Supporters of former Prime Minister
Benazir Bhutto gathering celebrating six
years after she was assassinated at a rally
in Lahore, Pakistan.

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A stock trader celebrate before the electronic board
in the last trading day of the year at the Philippine
Stock Exchange in the financial district, Makati,
south of Manila. The number of transactions rose to
a record high of 7,403.65 points.
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A man walks past a wall of graffiti artists
to promote peace, on a sidewalk in
Karachi, Pakistan.

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January 5, 2014

Workers and cranes building an ice castle before
Snow and Ice Festival Harbin 30th in
Heilongjiang Province, China.

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January 5, 2014

Supporters Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan's Turkey shout slogans
during a rally to welcome him to the Ataturk Airport in Istanbul. A
Turkish court has blocked an attempt by the government to force the
police to know about the activity level on investigating corruption in
his government of Erdogan.

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Australian player Chris Rogers (right) was Stuart
Broad of England players hit first cricket test
match in Melbourne.

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January 5, 2014

Dec. 27, 2013. Kashmiri Muslim women pray
inside the shrine of Sufi saint Hazrat Sheikh
Hamza Makhdoom, commonly known as SultanUl-Arifeen, on the eve of the saint's Urs, in
Srinagar, India.

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Dec. 27, 2013. Dead bodies are
seen in the Qalamoun
mountains, north of
Damascus, in this handout
photograph distributed by
Syria's national news agency
SANA. Syria's army ambushed
Islamist fighters in the
Qalamoun mountains north of
the capital Damascus, leaving
as many as 60 people dead,
the Syrian Observatory for
HumanJanuary 5, 2014
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Dec. 27, 2013. Egyptian pro-democracy protestors
and police clash during a demonstration against
Muslim Brotherhood's 'terrorist label' in the Alf
Maskan district of Cairo, Egypt.

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Dec. 27, 2013. Friends and relatives of
Yanguere Richard, 21, carry his remains to
the burial grounds in Bangui. Richard was
killed in the inter-religious fighting in
Bangui, Central African Republic.

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Dec. 27, 2013. Palestinian demonstrators protest near the
Israeli border fence with Gaza as Israeli army shoots tear
gas.

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27,2013

Civilians, soldiers and policemen gather at the site of an explosion in downtown Beirut, December 27,
2013. Former Lebanese Minister Mohamad Chatah, who opposed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad,
was killed in a massive bomb blast that targeted his car in Beirut, security sources said. The attack
killed five other people, injured at least 70, and threw Lebanon, which has been drawn into
neighboring Syria's conflict, into further turmoil after a series of sectarian bombings aimed at Shi'ites
and Sunnis over the past year.
REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir

January 5, 2014

Civil Defense personnel extinguish fires on
cars at the site of an explosion in Beirut,
December 27, 2013.
REUTERS/Steve Crisp

People look as a body lying next to a burning car after an explosion in downtown Beirut,
December 27, 2013.
REUTERS/Jamal Saidi

A view of a crater that was caused by
an explosion in Beirut, December 27,
2013.
REUTERS/ Jamal Saidi

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28,2013

Supporters of Awami League, the ruling party in
Bangladesh, hitting a legislator who supported
opposition parties - the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, in a
demonstration of opposition activists in Dhaka. Clashes
between security forces and opposition activists in the
capital, killing at least one person dead,while thousands
of police were deployed in the streets to stop
demonstrations headlining Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina
requested cancellation of the upcoming elections.
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The diners included photographing the same pie
pie Xi Jinping, China's president ate at the
restaurant Qing-Feng in Beijing. He was suddenly
in a restaurant in Beijing on December 28, 2013,
purchase food and fun conversation with surprise
guests
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January 5, 2014

A boy stands next to a camel in the desert of
Ghat, during the 19th Ghat Festival of Culture
and Tourism, in Ghat, in the Libyan desert
about 1,360km (845 miles) south of Tripoli
December 28, 2013. In the annual event,
Tuareg tribes from the region and tourists
meet to celebrate Tuareg traditional culture,
folklore and heritage. Picture taken December
28, 2013. REUTERS/Esam Omran Al-Fetori
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January 5, 2014

Dec. 28, 2013. An Indian woman watches with folded hands as
hospital staff and volunteers carry charred bodies of passengers
near the site of a train accident at Kothacheruvu, about 155
kilometers (96 miles) north of Bangalore, India.

221

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28,2013

January 5, 2014

Dec. 28, 2013. A man walks in a ward of
mainly soldiers with gunshot wounds
inside the Juba Military Hospital in Juba,
South Sudan.

222

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28,2013

Dec. 28, 2013. Nepalese mahouts guide their elephants
across the Rapati river at Sauraha in Chitwan, some 150 km
southwest of Kathmandu, during the Chitwan Elephant
Festival.
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29,2013

The MV Akademik Shokalskiy is pictured stranded in ice in Antarctica, December 29, 2013. Fog
and heavy snow mean the 74 passengers on the Russian ship stranded in Antarctica for over a
week are likely to ring in the New Year trapped in the ice, as a rescue helicopter on a nearby
Chinese ship waits for the weather to clear. The helicopter on board the Snow Dragon will be
used after an Australian icebreaker failed to reach the trapped Akademik Shokalskiy, the
Australian Maritime Safety Authority said. The Russian ship left New Zealand on November 28
on a privately funded expedition to commemorate the 100th anniversary of an Antarctic
journey led by famed Australian explorer Douglas Mawson.
REUTERS/Andrew 5, 2014
January Peacock

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29,2013

A thin coat of snow covers the deck of the trapped ship MV
Akademik Shokalskiy in East Antarctica, December 29, 2013.
REUTERS/Andrew Peacock

Barbara Tucker, a passenger aboard the trapped ship MV
Akademik Shokalskiy, looks at an Adelie penguin walking
by on the ice off East Antarctica December 29, 2013, some
100 nautical miles east of French Antarctic station Dumont
D'Urville and about 1,500 nautical miles south of Hobart,
Tasmania.

Stuck in Antarctica

Professor Chris Turney, leader of the Australasian
Antarctic Expedition, is pictured talking to
international media from the top deck of the
stranded MV Akademik Shokalskiy in Antarctica,
December 30, 2013.
January 5, 2014

The Xue Long (Snow Dragon) Chinese icebreaker sits in the ice pack unable to get through
to the MV Akademik Shokalskiy in East Antarctica, December 28, 2013. 226

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29,2013

One of Spider-Man costume rehearsal
program launched confetti in Times Square in
New York to celebrate the New Year, 12/29/13

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29,2013

A Tibetan monk gestures for the camera while monks
and nuns listening to His Holiness the Dalai Lama's
Lamrim commentary theory at Sera monastery in
Bylakuppe, Bangalore, India.

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29,2013

January 5, 2014

Two participants in the relay Tartyshnaya Marina (left) and Musa Galyamov
raised the Olympic torch at a ceremony in the central city of Yoshkar-Ola,
Russia (Photo provided by Olympictorch2014.com)

229

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29,2013

Members of the "Krepysh"
family winter swimming club pour
icy water onto each other on the
banks of the Yenisei River, in
Russia's Siberian city of
Krasnoyarsk, December 29,
2013. REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin

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29,2013

Dec. 29, 2013. A member of the church shakes a
censer during a mass honoring the family in Madrid,
Spain.
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231

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29,2013

Dec. 29, 2013. Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) supported
lawyers are hit by a police water cannon in front of the main gate
of the Supreme Court during the March For Democracy protest
rally in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

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29,2013

Suicide blasts in Russia
Investigators work at
the site of an
explosion at the
entrance of a train
station in Volgograd,
December 29, 2013.
REUTERS/Sergei
Karpov
Investigators work at the site of an explosion at the entrance of a train station in Volgograd,
December 29, 2013. A female suicide bomber blew herself up in the entrance hall of a Russian
train station, killing at least 14 people.
REUTERS/Sergei Karpov
The main entrance of the train station where a bomber detonated explosives is pictured in
Volgograd, December 29, 2013.

Russian police detain a participant in a rally against acts of terrorism in Volgograd,
December 30, 2013.
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234

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30,2013

Investigators work at the site of a blast
on a trolleybus in Volgograd, Russia,
December 30, 2013. REUTERS/Stringer
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30,2013


Police stand guard at the site of a blast on a trolley bus in Volgograd, December 30, 2013.
Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered law enforcement agencies to increase security in
the southern city of Volgograd and nationwide after two deadly bombings in Volgograd, the
Kremlin said.

January 5, 2014

Members of the emergency services
work at the site of a bomb blast on a
trolley bus in Volgograd, December
30, 2013.

Members of the emergency services work at the
site of a bomb blast on a trolley bus in Volgograd,
December 30, 2013.

A bus, destroyed in an earlier explosion, is towed away in Volgograd, December 30, 2013. A
bomb ripped apart a bus in Volgograd, killing at least 14 people in the second deadly attack
blamed on suicide bombers in the southern Russian city in 24 hours and raising fears of
Islamist attacks on the Winter Olympics.
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30,2013

Students stand to forming words
- Happy 2014 - to welcome the
coming new year at a high
school in the town of Ma
Anshan, Anhui Province, China.

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237

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30,2013

The diver dressed as penguins performed between
the fish in the aquarium in Coex Aquarium Happy
New Year program and winter vacation in Seoul,
South Korea
January 5, 2014

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January 5, 2014

A reveler writes "2014" with sparklers in front of the Eiffel
Tower in Paris, December 30, 2013. (Benoit Tessier/Reuters)

239

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30,2013

January 5, 2014

A man dressed as a Viking takes part in the
torchlight procession as it makes its way
through Edinburgh for the start of the
Hogmanay celebrations on December 30, in
Scotland. Around 80,000 people are
expected in the city for the traditional New
Year celebrations, which run over three
days. Tickets have been bought for the event
by people from over sixty different
countries. (Jeff J. Mitchell/Getty Images) #

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30,2013

January 5, 2014

A man watches over turkeys in the village of Baldushk, 16 km from the capital Tirana, Albania on
December 30, 2013. According to residents, the price of turkeys, the main dish in the New Year
dinner, has risen over the years to around 55 euros, becoming more expensive for many Albanian
families. (Arben Celi/Reuters) #

241

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30,2013

Israeli President Shimon Peres, center, is surrounded
by Christian clergy as he hosts a New Year reception
for Israel's heads of Christian denominations at his
residence in Jerusalem, Israel, 30. (Abir Sultan/EPA) #

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30,2013

A worker takes a break while arranging "wishing spheres"
along Marina Bay in Singapore, December 30, 2013.
People penned their wishes for the New Year onto the
spheres before placing them into the river. (Low
Youjin/Reuters) #
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243

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30,2013

Children standing outside the shelter
in Kabul, Afghanistan in a cold snowy
day.
January 5, 2014

244

Dec.

30,2013

Inhabitants of Kashmir move belongings to safer
places after their home in Dhobi Ghat, on the
outskirts of Srinagar, India, burnt down.

January 5, 2014

245

Dec.

30,2013

Lava erupted from the crater of Etna on
the island of Sicily, southern Italy

January 5, 2014

246

Dec.

30,2013

The members of the commercial Association of Sao
Paulo dropped thousands of the bubble carries the
colours of Brazil to celebrate the year-end party in
downtown Sao Paulo, Brazil.
January 5, 2014

247

Dec.

30,2013

The image is not the dugout loaded with
Ben to near the town of Malakal, South
Sudan.
January 5, 2014

248

Dec.

30,2013

A boy sits in a bucket as he plays while waiting for his mother
to fetch water from a nearby hand pump to bathe him, outside
a makeshift hut in the southern Indian city of Chennai,
December 30, 2013. REUTERS/Babu

January 5, 2014

249

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30,2013

Dancers from Romania's northeastern region of Moldova perform the "bear" dance, a
ritual for good luck in the New Year, during a traditional parade in Comanesti, 300 km
northeast of Bucharest, December 30, 2013. In pre-Christian rural traditions dancers
used to tour from house to house in villages while singing and dancing to ward off
evil.REUTERS/Bogdan Cristel
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250

Dec.

30,2013

A dancer from Romania's northeastern
region of Moldova performs the "bear"
dance, a ritual for good luck in the New
Year, during a traditional parade in
Comanesti, 300 km northeast of
Bucharest December 30, 2013. In preChristian rural traditions dancers used to
tour from house to house in villages
while singing and dancing to ward off
evil. (Bogdan Criste/Reuters) #
January 5, 2014

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30,2013

A view from above the 25th floor of 1 Times Square during the 2014 New Year's Eve Philips Ball Test
at One Times Square on December 30, 2013 in New York City. (Astrid Stawiarz/Getty Images) #
January 5, 2014

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30,2013

The ball that will drop at midnight is reflected in a building during a test in
Times Square in New York, December 30, 2013. (Carlo Allegri/Reuters) #
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30,2013

January 5, 2014

Visitors of the New Year's event of the 'Pyroland'
fireworks company watch the rehearsal for the big New
Year's pyrotechnics show in Lauenbrueck, Germany,
December 30, 2013. (Ingo Wagner/EPA) #

254

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30,2013

Shamans holding posters of U.S. President
Barack Obama and North Korean leader Kim
Jong Un, perform a ritual of predictions for
the new year at Agua Dulce beach in Lima
December 30, 2013. The ritual is an end-ofthe-year tradition and the shamans used the
chance to ask for world . (Enrique CastroMendivil/Reuters) #

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30,2013

Private guards display their pistols after police officers wrapped the nozzles with tapes in a nationwide campaign to stop gun owners, police and military from firing their guns to welcome
the New Year Monday, Dec. 30, 2013 at suburban Quezon city, northeast of Manila, Philippines. Traditionally Filipinos welcome the New Year by exploding firecrackers and making the
loudest noise possible, including indiscriminate firing of their guns, which sometimes result in injuries and deaths. (Bullit Marquez/AP) #
January 5, 2014
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30,2013

January 5, 2014

Dec. 30, 2013. Relatives of Palestinian prisoner Rami
Barbakh, who has been held by Israel since 1994,
celebrate ahead of his expected release in Khan
Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip.

257

Dec.

30,2013

January 5, 2014

Thousands of biodegradable balloons are released by members of the
city's commercial association at Patio do Colegio, the site of the city's
foundation in 1554, on December 30, 2013 in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
(Nelson Almeida/AFP/Getty) #

258

Dec.

30,2013

Myanmar boys wearing school uniforms run
as they play near a place decorated for the
country's public New Year countdown
celebration in Yangon, Myanmar, 30
December 2013. This is only the second
official New Year public countdown
celebrated in Yangon. (LYNN BO BO/EPA) #

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30,2013

Crews work to install pyrotechnic
shots for the upcoming T-Mobile New
Year’s at the fireworks display Monday,
Dec. 30, 2013, at the top of the Space
Needle in Seattle, Wash. The show
lasts eight minutes and will be set to a
musical score of contemporary pop,
rock and hip-hop. (Jordan
Stead/Seattlepi.com/AP) #

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January 5, 2014

Indian school children light candles forming the
date '2014' at a school in Agartala on December 30,
2013, one day ahead of New Year's celebrations.
(Arindam Dey/AFP/Getty Images) #

261

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30,2013

Dec. 30, 2013. An Indian daily wage
laborer wrapped in a blanket warms
himself near a fire (unseen) on a cold
morning in Amritsar, India.

January 5, 2014

262

Dec.

30,2013

Dec. 30, 2013. A massive fireball
from an exploding train car rises
into the air just west of
Casselton, North Dakota.

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30,2013

Dec. 30, 2013. Maria Jesus Navarro, 48, holds her
grandchildren as they warm up next to an electric heater in
the suburbs of Madrid, Spain, as the family waits to be
evicted from the home they have lived in for the past ten
years.
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30,2013

Dec. 30, 2013. A pro-European
demonstrator holds a mirror which
reflects a group of riot police officers
standing guard in Kiev, Ukraine.

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January 5, 2014

The sun sets on the minarets and the Great
Pyramids of Giza (R) in Old Cairo December 31,
2013. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh

267

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31,2013

Men walk under an umbrella during snowfall on a cold
winter morning in Srinagar December 31, 2013.
Temperatures in Srinagar, which received the season's
second snowfall on Tuesday, dipped to -1.4 degrees
Celsius (29.5 degrees Fahrenheit), according to India's
metrological department website. REUTERS/Danish
Ismail
January 5, 2014

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31,2013

A woman is soaked at Montevideo financial
district, December 31, 2013. To mark the last
working day of the year, workers throw water at
people and discard old
calendars. REUTERS/Andres Stapff
January 5, 2014

269

Dec.

31,2013

The U.S. flag is reflected in the window of a police car
as a police man stands guard in Times Square ahead of
New Year's Eve celebrations in New York, December
31, 2013. Security has been stepped up in the area
around where the celebrations will take
place. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri
January 5, 2014

270

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31,2013

A woman places flowers at the site of an explosion
on a trolleybus in Volgograd December 31, 2013.
Two more people wounded by suicide bombings in
the Russian city of Volgograd have died, increasing
the death toll in the attacks to 33, Interfax news
agency reported on Tuesday, citing the country's
emergencies ministry. REUTERS/Sergei Karpov
January 5, 2014

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31,2013

Dec. 31, 2013. A woman places flowers at the
site of an explosion on a trolleybus that climed
the lives of 33 people, in Volgograd, Russia.

January 5, 2014

272

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31,2013

January 5, 2014

Democratic Republic of Congo military
personnel (FARDC) patrol against the
Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) and the
National Army for the Liberation of
Uganda (NALU) rebels near Beni in NorthKivu province, December 31, 2013. The
Democratic Republic of Congo is
struggling to emerge from decades of
violence and instability, particularly in its
east, in which millions of people have
died, mostly from hunger and disease. A
21,000-strong United Nations
peacekeeping mission (MONUSCO) is
stationed in the country. REUTERS/Kenny
Katombe

273

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31,2013

Participants carrying burning barrels of tar on their heads parade through
Allendale, northern England December 31, 2013. Dating back to 1858, 45
barrel carriers called Guisers parade through the town balancing whiskey
barrels weighing 35 pounds filled with burning tar on their heads. The
barrels are used to light a bonfire at midnight in the town center while
spectators and participants shout "Be damned to he who throws
last". REUTERS/Nigel Roddis
January 5, 2014

274

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31,2013

Former Pakistani president Pervez
Musharraf is seen during a prerecorded video statement played
for his supporters and members of
the media in Islamabad December
31, 2013. Musharraf is due to
appear before the special court on
January 1, 2014. REUTERS/Mian
Khursheed

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31,2013

January 5, 2014

A Free Syrian Army fighter throws a Molotov cocktail
during what activists said were clashes with forces loyal
to Syria's president Bashar Al-Assad in Jeb Chalabi
neighborhood, West Aleppo December 31,
2013. REUTERS/Ammar Abdullah

276

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31,2013

January 5, 2014

Various marijuana strains are prepared for sale at the Botanacare
marijuana store ahead of their grand opening on New Year's day in
Northglenn, Colorado December 31, 2013. The world's first statelicensed marijuana retailers, catering to Colorado's newly legal
recreational market for pot, are stocking their shelves ahead of
their January 1, 2014, grand opening that supporters and
detractors alike see as a turning point in America's drug
culture. REUTERS/Rick Wilking
277

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31,2013

Outgoing mayor Michael Bloomberg waits for a
train on the subway platform at 42nd St. after he
left City Hall for last time as Mayor of New York, on
New Year's Eve in New York, December 31, 2013.
Bloomberg rode the subway home to his Upper
East Side home. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri
January 5, 2014

278

Dec.

31,2013

Freed Palestinian prisoner Rami Barbakh, who was held
by Israel for 20 years, adjusts his kufiya, or headscarf,
after his release, at his house in Khan Younis, in the
southern Gaza Strip December 31, 2013. Israel freed 26
Palestinian prisoners on Tuesday, days before U.S.
Secretary of State John Kerry was due back in the
Middle East to press the two sides to agree a
framework peace deal. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu
Mustafa
January 5, 2014

279

Dec.

31,2013

A man walks along an alley at the
ancient city of Bhaktapur near Nepal's
capital Kathmandu December 31,
2013. REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar

January 5, 2014

280

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31,2013

A Free Syrian Army fighter holds his
weapon in Jeb Chalabi neighborhood,
West Aleppo December 31,
2013. REUTERS/Ammar Abdullah
January 5, 2014

281

Dec.

31,2013

Freed hostage Georges Vandenbeusch,
a French Catholic priest, disembarks
from a military plane as he arrives in
Yaounde December 31, 2013.
Vandenbeusch, who was kidnapped in
northern Cameroon last month and
released on Monday, said he had spent
the weeks pacing his tent prison, torn
by a mixture of boredom and
anger. REUTERS/Darzee Kalend
January 5, 2014

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31,2013

January 5, 2014

Dec. 31, 2013. Indian Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader
Anurag Thakur (C) tries to cross a police barricade during
a protest outside Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi's
residence in New Delhi, India.

283

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31,2013

January 5, 2014

Dec. 31, 2013. Miley Cyrus leaves the stage after
her performance in New York's Times Square
during New Year's Eve celebrations.

284

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31,2013

Dec. 31, 2013. A Kashmiri family crosses Dal Lake in a Shikara
(gondola) in Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian Kashmir.

January 5, 2014

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31,2013

Dec. 31, 2013. A shrine attendant cleans up after a ritual to bid farewell
to 2013 and prepare for the new year at the Meiji Shrine in Tokyo.

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31,2013

January 5, 2014

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un sits on a ski lift during a visit
to a newly built ski resort in the Masik Pass region, in this
undated picture published in the North Korean newspaper
Rodong Sinmun, and released by Yonhap on Dec. 31, 2013.

287

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31,2013

A woman reacts while standing near flowers placed at the site of an explosion on a trolley
bus in Volgograd, December 31, 2013. Two more people wounded by suicide bombings in
the Russian city of Volgograd have died, increasing the death toll in the attacks to 33,
Interfax news agency reported, citing the country's emergencies ministry.

A relative mourns during a funeral of a victim of an explosion in Volgograd, December 31,
2013.
REUTERS/Vasily Fedosenko

January 5, 2014


Members of the Honor Guard walk near the Motherland Calls statue in Volgograd, December
31, 2013. Police detained dozens of people in sweeps through Volgograd after two deadly
attacks in less than 24 hours that raised security fears ahead of the Winter Olympics.
Pallbearers carry the coffin during a funeral of a victim of an explosion in Volgograd, December 31,
2013.
REUTERS/Vasily Fedosenko

288

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31,2013

Soldiers walk near the Motherland
Calls statue in Volgograd December
31, 2013. Police detained dozens of
people on Tuesday in sweeps
through the Russian city of
Volgograd after two deadly attacks
in less than 24 hours that raised
security fears ahead of the Winter
Olympics. REUTERS/Sergei Karpov

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Frozen art
A horse ice sculpture display is seen at the holiday lights display "ZooLights" at the Lincoln
Park Zoo in Chicago, December 17, 2013.
REUTERS/Jim Young

Workers polish a giant snow sculpture ahead of the 30th Harbin Ice and Snow Festival in
Harbin, China, December 28, 2013.
REUTERS/Sheng Li

Ice sculptures depicting characters from the Belgian series "Blake and
Mortimer" are seen at the Brussels Ice Magic Festival, December 21, 2013.
REUTERS/Eric Vidal
January 5, 2014

Workers and scaffolding are seen next to newly built ice sculptures illuminated by
colored lights ahead of the 30th Harbin Ice and Snow Festival in Harbin, China,
December 26, 2013.
290
REUTERS/Sheng Li

Frozen art

A worker polishes an ice sculpture ahead of the 30th Harbin Ice and Snow Festival in
Harbin, China, December 27, 2013.
REUTERS/Sheng Li

A worker stabs an iron pike into the frozen Songhua River as he takes giant ice
cubes to make sculptures for the upcoming 30th Harbin Ice and Snow Festival in
Harbin, China, December 27, 2013. Each ice cube weighs about 551 lbs.
REUTERS/Sheng Li

Sculptor Juuso Partanen of Finland carves a sculpture of a tree at the Brussels
Ice Magic Festival, December 17, 2013.
REUTERS/Francois Lenoir

January 5, 2014

Visitors walk past a giant snow sculpture ahead of the 30th Harbin Ice and Snow Festival
in Harbin, China, December 28, 2013.
291
REUTERS/Sheng Li

Dec.

30,2013

January 5, 2014

The Builder of the castle of snow in a park
in Changchun, Jilin province, China.
292

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31,2013

Children pose for pictures with their paper-cut works of the
Chinese character "horse", ahead of the Year of the Horse in
Chinese zodiac, at a primary school in Jiujiang, Jiangxi province,
December 31, 2013. REUTERS/China Daily
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Dec. 31, 2013. Lights and lasers illuminate
the Great Wall of China to celebrate the new
year at the Badaling section of the Great
Wall in Beijing, China.

THE END
week 3 -4
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