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Entre une guerre civile qui s'enlise plus que jamais en Syrie, des groupes islamistes éparpillés à travers le Sahara, des catastrophes naturelles à répétition et des records sportifs pulvérisés, l'année 2013 aura réservé son lot de de joies, de peurs, de découragements.
Une actualité riche en émotions que les photographes du monde entier ont su saisir, immergés au cœur de l'action. Ils nous permettent aujourd'hui de retracer l'année en quelque 160 photos. À voir et à revoir.
2013, la rétrospective AFP
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NETHERLANDS, Amsterdam : King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands arrives with his wife Queen Maxima for his inauguration ceremony on April 30, 2013 at Nieuwe Kerk (New Church) in Amsterdam. (credit:AFP PHOTO / PATRIK STOLLARZ)
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UNITED KINGDOM, London : Chelsea\'s Spanish striker Fernando Torres (L) tussles with Tottenham Hotspur\'s Belgian defender Jan Vertonghen (R) after a tackle during the English Premier League football match between Tottenham Hotspur and Chelsea at White Hart Lane in London on September 28, 2013. AFP PHOTO/ IAN KINGTON
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Romania, Eforie Sud : A Roma family of turkish origin sits under an improvised shelter to protect from heavy rain in Eforie Sud, Romania, on September 30, 2013 before an annoucement by the Mayor on their case. Romanian authorities evicted around 100 Roma from a town near the Black Sea coast without providing them with alternative housing, prompting criticism from Amnesty International. The Roma families spent three days in a nearby field despite the cold weather until the mayor decided on September 30, 2013 to host them in an old school.\nAFP PHOTO / MUGUR VARZARIU
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ITALY, Rome : Former Prime Minister and leader of Forza Italia, Silvio Berlusconi gestures on October 2, 2013 at the Senate in Rome before today\'s Prime Minister Enrico Letta\'s confidence vote at the Parliament. Enrico Letta warned lawmakers ahead of a crucial vote of confidence today that the country ran a \"fatal\" risk as Silvio Berlusconi tries to topple his government. \"Italy runs a risk that could be a fatal risk. Seizing this moment or not depends on us, on a yes or a no,\" Letta said in his address. (credit:AFP PHOTO / FILIPPO MONTEFORTE)
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UNITED KINGDOM, Weston-Super-Mare : Riders reach the crest of a dune during the opening lap of the main race of the 2013 RHL Weston beach race in Weston-Super-Mare, southwest England, on October 13, 2013. Beach racing is an offshoot of enduro and motocross racing. Riders on solo motorcycles and quad bikes compete on a course marked out on a beach, with man-made jumps and sand dunes being constructed to make the course tougher. Riders race along the beach and across a series of sand dunes in a three-hour endurance race. AFP PHOTO / ADRIAN DENNIS
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INDIA, MUMBAI : An Indian instructor (2R) shows a self defence technique to a school girl during a self-defence classes at a school in Mumbai on January 4, 2013. After nearly three weeks of lurid reporting on a horrifying gang-rape in New Delhi, women in the Indian capital say they are more anxious than ever, leading to a surge in interest in self-defence classes. (credit:AFP PHOTO/ PUNIT PARANJPE)
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INDIA, Buxa Tiger Reserve : An Indian forestry worker walks past the body of a tusker elephant after it was struck by a train at the Buxa Tiger Reserve, some 12 kms from Alipurduar on March 5, 2013. The adult tusker was killed by the speeding Guwahati-bound Somporkkranti Express inside the Buxa Tiger Reserve in West Bengal. (credit:AFP PHOTO)
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MYANMAR, Meiktila : Residents walk past buildings burning in riot-hit Meiktila, central Myanmar on March 21, 2013. At least 10 people have been killed in riots in central Myanmar, an MP said on March 21, prompting international concern at the country\'s worst communal unrest since a wave of Buddhist-Muslim clashes last year. (credit:AFP PHOTO/ Soe Than WIN)
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INDIA, JIRANIA : Fatima Khatun 25, kisses the head of her eighteen month old daughter, Roona Begum, suffering from Hydrocephalus, in which cerebrospinal fluid builds up in the brain, at their hut in Jirania village on the outskirts of Agartala, the capital of northeastern state of Tripura on April 13, 2013. Her father, Abdul Rahman, 18, who lives in a mud hut with his family, told AFP he prays for \"a miracle\" that will save his only child. Doctors told him to go to a specialist hospital in a big city such as Kolkata in eastern India to get medical help but Rahman, who earns 150 rupees ($2.75) a day working in the brick plant, said he does not have the money to take her. (credit:AFP PHOTO/ STR)
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BANGLADESH, SAVAR : Cranes operated by Bangladeshi Army personnel are pictured at the scene following the April 24 collapse of an eight-storey building in Savar, on the outskirts of Dhaka, on April 29, 2013. Bangladeshi textile bosses pleaded April 29 with Western clothing giants to keep doing business with them after nearly 400 people died in a factory collapse as hopes of finding more survivors faded. Organisers of the mammoth rescue effort ordered in cranes on Monday to clear the ruins of what was once an eight-storey factory compound before it caved in five days ago while some 3,000 textile workers were on shift. (credit:AFP PHOTO/STR)
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BANGLADESH, SAVAR : Relatives react after identifying the body of a loved one killed in last week\'s building collapse in Savar, on the outskirts of Dhaka, on May 3, 2013. The death toll from last week\'s collapse of a garment factory complex in Bangladesh passed 500 Friday as the country\'s prime minister said Western retailers had to share some of the blame for the tragedy. (credit:AFP PHOTO/Munir uz ZAMAN)
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BANGLADESH, SAVAR : Bangladeshi rescuers retrieve garment worker Reshma from the rubble of a collapsed building in Savar on May 10, 2013, seventeen days after the eight-storey building collapsed. The death toll from last month\'s collapse of a garment factory complex in Bangladesh rose past 1,000 as piles of bodies were found in the ruins of a stairwell where victims had sought shelter. (credit:AFP PHOTO/STR)
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PAKISTAN, Peshawar : Pakistani men carry an injured blast victim at the site of a bomb explosion in the busy Kissa Khwani market in Peshawar on September 29, 2013. A bomb explosion killed at least 31 people in Pakistan\'s northwestern city of Peshawar, officials said -- the third deadly strike to hit the city in the last week. (credit:AFP PHOTO / HASHAM AHMED)
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INDIA, Allahabad : An Indian street child plays in a dry river bed after flood waters receded in Allahabad on October 25, 2013. (credit: AFP PHOTO/ SANJAY KANOJIA)
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INDIA, NEW DELHI : Red Bull driver Sebatian Vettel of Germany celebrates winning the Formula One Indian Grand Prix 2013 at the Buddh International circuit in Greater Noida, on the outskirts of New Delhi on October 27, 2013. \n (credit:AFP PHOTO/ Praka...)
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BANGLADESH, Dhaka : A Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) soldier gestures following the announcement of his death penalty at the special court in Dhaka on November 5, 2013. A Bangladeshi court sentenced at least 150 soldiers to death and jailed hundreds more November 5 over a 2009 military mutiny that left scores of top officers massacred. (credit:AFP PHOTO/ Munir uz ZAMAN)
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UNITED STATES, Washington : Sasha (L) and Malia Obama, daughters of US President Barack Obama, take a photo of themselves during the Presidential Inaugural Parade on January 21, 2013 in Washington, DC. (credit:AFP PHOTO/JOE KLAMAR)
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NORWAY, VIKERSUND : Norway\'s Anders Bardal jumps during the official training session of the FIS Ski Flying World Cup in Vikersund, Norway on January 25, 2013, while a full moon rises over the mountain. (credit:AFP PHOTO/ DANIEL SANNUM LAUTEN)
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UNITED STATES, Hollywood : Best Actress winner Jennifer Lawrence falls onstage at the 85th Annual Academy Awards on February 24, 2013 in Hollywood, California. (credit:AFP PHOTO/Robyn BECK)
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UNITED KINGDOM, London : Former British energy minister Chris Huhne (R) comes into contact with a photographers lens as he arrives at Southwark Crown Court in London, on March 11, 2013. Huhne and his ex-wife Vicky Pryce are due to be sentenced later Monday for perverting the course of justice over speeding points a decade ago. (credit:AFP PHOTO / JUSTIN TALLIS)
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CITE DU VATICAN, Vatican City : Cardinals attend a mass at the St Peter\'s basilica before the start of the conclave on March 12, 2013 at the Vatican. Cardinals moved into the Vatican today as the suspense mounted ahead of a secret papal election with no clear frontrunner to steer the Catholic world through troubled waters after Benedict XVI\'s historic resignation.The 115 cardinal electors who pick the next leader of 1.2 billion Catholics in a conclave in the Sistine Chapel will live inside the Vatican walls completely cut off from the outside world until they have made their choice. (credit:AFP PHOTO / GABRIEL BOUYS)
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SWEDEN, Östersund : The Aurora Borealis bright up the sky at twilight on March 17, 2013 between the towns of Are and Ostersund, Sweden. (credit:AFP PHOTO/JONATHAN NACKSTRAND)
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CITE DU VATICAN, Vatican City : Pope Francis waves to the crowd from the papamobile during his inauguration mass at St Peter\'s square on March 19, 2013 at the Vatican. World leaders flew in for Pope Francis\'s inauguration mass in St Peter\'s Square on Tuesday where Latin America\'s first pontiff will receive the formal symbols of papal power. (credit:AFP PHOTO / FILIPPO MONTEFORTE)
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Instructions spécialesRESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT \"AFP PHOTO / OSSERVATORE ROMANO\" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTSITALY, CASTEL GANDOLFO : This handout picture released by the Vatican press office on March 23, 2013 shows \"pope emeritus\" Benedict XVI (R) greeting Pope Francis upon his arrival at the heliport in Castel Gandolfo. Pope Francis prepared to go face to face with his predecessor Benedict XVI on Saturday in a historic meeting between two men with very different styles but important core similarities. (credit:AFP PHOTO / OSSERVATORE ROMANO)
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UNITED KINGDOM, London : People gather during a \'party\' to celebrate the death of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in London, on April 8, 2013. Margaret Thatcher, the \"Iron Lady\" who shaped a generation of British politics, died following a stroke on Monday at the age of 87, her spokesman said. (credit:AFP PHOTO / CARL COURT)
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GERMANY, Munich : Bayern Munich\'s defender Jerome Boateng (R) pours beer on Bayern Munich\'s French midfielder Franck Ribery while celebrating their champion title, after winning 3:0 the German first division Bundesliga football match between Bayern Munich and FC Augsburg in Munich, southern Germany, on May 11, 2013. Munich were confirmed German league champions back on April 6, when they won the Bundesliga with a record six games left to play (credit:AFP PHOTO / CHRISTOF STACHE)
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FRANCE, Cannes : French actress Lea Seydoux (L) kisses on May 23, 2013 fellow actress Adele Exarchopoulos as they arrive for the screening of the film \"Blue is the Warmest Colour\" (La Vie d\'Adele - Chapitre 1 & 2) presented in Competition at the 66th edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes. Cannes, one of the world\'s top film festivals, opened on May 15 and will climax on May 26 with awards selected by a jury headed this year by Hollywood legend Steven Spielberg. (credit:AFP PHOTO / VALERY HACHE)
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MONACO, Monaco : Women sunbath as Ferrari\'s Brazilian driver Felipe Massa drives past during the third practice session at the Circuit de Monaco in Monte Carlo on May 25, 2013 ahead of the Monaco Formula One Grand Prix. (credit:AFP PHOTO / ALEXANDER KLEIN)
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GERMANY, Passau : Rescue workers pass on a boat the overflooded old city of Passau, southern Germany, on June 3, 2013. Due to heavy and ongoing rainfalls, parts of the southern state of Bavaria were flooded. (credit:AFP PHOTO / CHRISTOF STACHE)
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GERMANY, Deggendorf : An aerial view shows summer houses flooded by water from the River Danube near the Bavarian village Deggendorf, southern Germany, on June 6, 2013. Germany pushed on with frantic efforts to secure saturated river dykes with sandbags on June 6, 2013, bracing for a surge of the worst floods in over a decade that have claimed 12 lives and forced mass evacuations across central Europe. (credit:AFP PHOTO/CHRISTOF STACHE)
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FRANCE, Paris : Spain\'s Rafael Nadal celebrates as he wins the 2013 French tennis Open final against Spain\'s David Ferrer at the Roland Garros stadium in Paris on June 9, 2013. (credit:AFP PHOTO / ALEXIS REAU)
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Portugal, NAZARE : Brazilian big wave surfer Carlos Burle rides a wave in Nazare, central Portugal, on October 28, 2013. AFP PHOTO/ FRANCISCO LEONG
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Real Madrid\'s Portuguese forward Cristiano Ronaldo gestures as he celebrates after scoring a penalty kick during the Spanish league football match Real Madrid CF vs Sevilla FC at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium in Madrid o...
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UNITED KINGDOM, London : Serbia\'s Novak Djokovic celebrates winning a game on the way to winning the first set against Spain\'s Rafael Nadal during the singles final on the eighth day of the ATP World Tour Finals tennis tournament in London on November 11, 2013. AFP PHOTO / GLYN KIRK (credit:AFP PHOTO / GLYN KIRK)
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DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE\'S REPUBLIC OF KOREA, Pyongyang : This photo taken on February 28, 2013 and released by North Korea\'s official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on March 1, 2013 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un (front L) and former NBA star Dennis Rodman (front R) speaking at a basketball game in Pyongyang. Flamboyant former NBA star Dennis Rodman has become the most high-profile American to meet the new leader of North Korea, vowing eternal friendship with Kim Jong-Un at a basketball game in Pyongyang. (credit:AFP PHOTO / KCNA )
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CHINA, WUHAN : Football superstar David Beckham (R) falls down after illustrating how to take a free kick during a visit to the Zall Football Club in Wuhan, central China\'s Wuhan province on March 23, 2013. Beckham raised the prospect of one last stop on his global football journey on March 20, refusing to rule out playing in China after his contract with Paris Saint-Germain ends. \n (credit:CHINA OUT AFP PHOTO)
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Yaan : This photo taken on April 21, 2013 shows people running during aftershocks to avoid falling rocks on their way to the city of Ya\'an, southwest China\'s Sichuan province. Clogged roads, debris and landslides impeded rescuers as they battled to find survivors of a powerful earthquake in mountainous southwest China that has left at least 188 dead. (credit:CHINA OUT AFP PHOTO)
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CHINA, DUNHUANG : A photo taken on May 12, 2013 shows a general view of the Yueyaquan Crescent Lake in Dunhuang, in China\'s northwestern Gansu province. Formerly a silk route hub and centre for trade between China and the West, Dunhuang relies heavily on tourism and features a number of historic sites dating back to the Han Dynasty. The city has an arid climate and is surrounded by sand dunes, a result of increasing desertification. (credit:AFP PHOTO / Ed Jones)
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CHINA, Jinhua : This frame grab taken from AFPTV footage received on May 28, 2013 shows rescue workers breaking away bits of a pipe to remove a newborn baby boy stuck inside in the city of Jinhua, in the eastern province of Zhejiang. The newborn baby boy was rescued from a sewage pipe in a Chinese apartment building after being flushed down a toilet, state media said, provoking online outrage on May 28. (credit:CHINA OUT AFP PHOTO / AFPTV)
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CHINA, HONG KONG : This still frame grab recorded on June 6, 2013 and released to AFP on June 10, 2013 shows Edward Snowden, who has been working at the National Security Agency for the past four years, speaking during an interview with The Guardian newspaper at an undisclosed location in Hong Kong. The 29-year-old government contractor revealed himself as the source behind bombshell leaks of US monitoring of Internet users and phone records, as US intelligence pressed for a criminal probe. Snowden, who has been working at the National Security Agency for the past four years, admitted his role in a video interview posted on the website of The Guardian, the first newspaper to publish the leaked information. (credit:TOPSHOTS / AFP PHOTO / THE GUARDIAN)
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AUSTRALIA, Mount Victoria : A volunteer firefighter holds onto his helmet in the strong winds as he surveys the damage in the Mt. York fire area near Mt. Victoria in the Blue Mountains, roughly 150 kms west of Sydney, on October 23, 2013. As the crisis entered its seventh day, at least 65 fires were raging across the state of New South Wales with 18 of them uncontained and warnings again issued for people to leave their homes or be extra vigilant. (credit:AFP PHOTO/William WEST)
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PHILIPPINES, TACLOBAN : Residents walk past destroyed houses and dead bodies littered along a road in Tacloban, on the eastern island of Leyte on November 10, 2013 after Super Typhoon Haiyan swept over the Philippines. The typhoon that destroyed entire towns across the Philippines is believed to have killed more than 10,000 people, authorities said on November 10, which would make it the country\'s deadliest recorded natural disaster. (credit:AFP PHOTO/TED ALJIBE)
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PHILIPPINES, TACLOBAN : People walk amongst debris next to a ship washed ashore in the aftermath of Super Typhoon Haiyan at Anibong in Tacloban, eastern island of Leyte on November 11, 2013. Hundreds of Philippine soldiers and police poured into a city devastated by Super Typhoon Haiyan on November 11 to try to contain looting that threatens an emergency relief effort. (credit:AFP PHOTO / NOEL CELIS)
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PHILIPPINES, TACLOBAN : A surivor walks among the debris of houses destroyed by Super Typhoon Haiyan in Tacloban in the eastern Philippine island of Leyte on November 11, 2013. The United States, Australia and the United Nations mobilised emergency aid to the Philippines as the scale of the devastation unleashed by Super Typhoon Haiyan emerged on November 11. (credit:AFP PHOTO / NOEL CELIS)
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PHILIPPINES, Tolosa/Tacloban : Survivors of Super Typhoon Haiyan march during a religious procession in Tolosa on the eastern Philippine island of Leyte on November 18, 2013 over one week after Super Typhoon Haiyan devastated the area. The United Nations estimates that 13 million people were affected by Super Typhoon Haiyan with around 1.9 million losing their homes. AFP PHOTO / Philippe Lopez
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VENEZUELA, Caracas : Supporters of the late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez cry in front of the Military Hospital --where he had been hospitalized-- a day after his death in March 6, 2013, in Caracas. Venezuela was plunged into uncertainty Wednesday after the death of President Hugo Chavez, who dominated the oil-rich country for 14 years and came to embody a resurgent Latin American left. (credit:AFP PHOTO/Leo RAMIREZ)
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VENEZUELA, Catia La Mar : Venezuela\'s acting President Nicolas Maduro holds a picture of the late president Hugo Chavez during a campaign rally in Catia la mar, state of Vargas on April 9, 2013. Venezuelans will elect new president next April 14 and the final stretch of Venezuela\'s race to replace Hugo Chavez coincides with a delicate anniversary for the opposition: 11 years since a brief coup against the late leftist leader. (credit:AFP PHOTO/Luis Acosta)
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BRAZIL, Rio de Janeiro : A full moon sets behind the Christ the Redeemer statue on top of Corcovado hill in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on May 25, 2013. Pope Francis will visit to Rio de Janeiro during the World Youth Day event on July 23 to 28. (credit:AFP PHOTO/Yasuyoshi CHIBA)
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EL SALVADOR, San Salvador : Veterinarians operate on a Galapagos green turtle (Chelonia mydas agassisi) to extract a fishhook from its esophagus in San Salvador, El Salvador on October 18, 2013. Surgery to take the fishhook out will be done by Dr. Abel Ciudad Real, a volunteer of the Zoological Foundation of El Salvador, who also operated another Galapagos green turtle with a head injure. Both turtles were rescued by volunteers at La Costa del Sol beach, 70 km. south of San Salvador after spawning. The Galapagos green turtle in an endangered species. (credit:AFP PHOTO/ Jose CABEZAS)
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SYRIA, ALEPPO : GRAPHIC CONTENT\nMen search for their relatives amongst the bodies of Syrian civilians executed and dumped in the Quweiq river, in the grounds of the courtyard of the Yarmouk School, in the Bustan al-Qasr district of Aleppo on January 30, 2013. Syria\'s opposition charged that \"global inaction\" was giving Bashar al-Assad\'s regime a license to kill, a day after dozens of young men were found shot execution-style in the city of Aleppo. (credit:AFP PHOTO/JM LOPEZ)
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SYRIA, ALEPPO : A rebel fighter throws a homemade grenade towards Syrian government forces through a window at a flat in the Salaheddine neighbourhood of Aleppo on February 16, 2013. More than 300 people were abducted by armed groups in northwestern Syria over two days in an unprecedented string of sectarian kidnappings, a watchdog and residents said. (credit:AFP PHOTO/BULENT KILIC)
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EGYPT, Cairo : Egyptian Actvists and youth perform the Internet craze, the \"Harlem Shake\" in front of the Muslim Brotherhood headquarters in Cairo on February 28, 2013. (credit:AFP PHOTO/GIANLUIGI GUERCIA)
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SYRIA, ALEPPO : A Syrian rebel aims his weapon during clashes with government forces in the streets near Aleppo international airport in northern Syria on March 4, 2013. Syria is locked in a nearly two-year-old conflict in which the United Nations estimates that more than 70,000 people have been killed. (credit:AFP PHOTO/STEPHEN J. BOITANO)
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TUNISIA, Tunis : Tunisian cigarette vendor Adel Khadri sits on the ground after immolating himself in an act of desperation on a street in Tunis on March 12, 2013 hours before lawmakers were to vote on a new government to pull Tunisia out of political crisis. Officials said Khadri hails from an extremely poor family in Jendouba in northwestern Tunisia and had arrived in the capital a few months ago to look for work. \n (credit:AFP PHOTO/ZINE TAP)
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SYRIA, ALEPPO : A Syrian rebel aims his weapon as he takes position behind a makeshift barricade during clashes with regime forces in the Salaheddine district of Aleppo in northern Syria on March 16, 2013. As Syria\'s devastating conflict enters its third year, Britain and France are struggling to persuade their EU partners to ease the bloc\'s embargo and allow arms shipments to the rebels. (credit:AFP PHOTO/JM LOPEZ)
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CYPRUS, Nicosia : Cypriots show their palms reading \"No\" during a protest against an EU bailout deal outside the parliament in Nicosia on March 18, 2013. Cyprus\'s parliament has postponed until March 19 a session to vote on the bailout deal that slaps a levy on all Cypriot bank savings, as negotiators scrambled to soften the blow for small deposit holders. (credit:AFP PHOTO/PATRICK BAZ)
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KUWAIT, KUWAIT CITY : Undertakers arrive to remove three executed men just west of the capital Kuwait City on April 1,2013. Authorities in Kuwait hanged three convicted murderers, a Pakistani, a Saudi and a stateless Arab, in the first executions in the Gulf state since May 2007, the ministry of justice said. (credit:AFP PHOTO/YASSER AL-ZAYYAT)
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UNITED ARAB EMIRATES, Abu Dhabi : An Emirati visitor looks at \"Venus and Nymphs Bathing\", a painting by French artist Louis Jean-Francois Lagrenee, that is part of 130 artworks featured at the first large-scale presentation of the permanent collection of Abu Dhabi\'s planned Louvre Museum, at a venue on the Saddiyat Island where the museum will be built off the Emirati capital, on April 21, 2013. The Louvre Abu Dhabi, which opened it\'s first permanent collection to the public on April 21, is the largest of France\'s overseas cultural project, Filippetti told (credit:AFP.AFP PHOTO/KARIM SAHIB)
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SYRIA, Western Dumayna : AFP EXCLUSIVE\nSyrian troops take control of the village of Western Dumayna, some seven kilometers north of the rebel-held city of Qusayr, on May 13, 2013. Syrian troops captured three villages in the strategic Qusayr area of Homs province, allowing them to cut supply lines to rebels inside Qusayr town, a military officer told AFP. (credit:AFP PHOTO/JOSEPH EID)
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BETUNIA : A Palestinian sets fire to a tyre during clashes between hundreds of Palestinians and Israeli soldiers outside the Ofer prison after a march marking the 65th Nakba day or \"Day of Catastrophe\" on May 15, 2013 in Betunia near the West Bank city of Ramallah. BETUNIA : A Palestinian sets fire to a tyre during clashes between hundreds of Palestinians and Israeli soldiers outside the Ofer prison after a march marking the 65th Nakba day or \"Day of Catastrophe\" on May 15, 2013 in Betunia near the West Bank city of Ramallah. (credit:BETUNIA : A Palestinian sets fire to a tyre during clashes between hundreds of Palestinians and Israeli soldiers outside the Ofer prison after a march marking the 65th Nakba day or \"Day of Catastroph)
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JERUSALEM : Tens of thousands of Ultra-Orthodox Jews of the Belz Hasidic Dynasty watch the wedding ceremony of Rabbi Shalom Rokach, the Grandson of the Belz Rabbi to Hana Batya Pener, in Jerusalem in the early hours of May 22, 2013. Some 25,000 Ultra-Orthodox Jews participated in one of the biggest weddings in the past few years. (credit:AFP PHOTO/MENAHEM KAHANA)
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BAHRAIN, Karzakkan : A Bahraini girl is carried by her mother during the funeral of Sayed Omran Sayed Hameed, on May 28, 2013, in the village of Karzakkan, south of Manama. Hameed, 26, died at hospital after developing respiratory complications and his relatives claim that his death is due to the inhalation of poisonous tear gas that riot police used during a protest in May 2013. (credit:AFP PHOTO/MOHAMMED AL-SHAIKH)
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IRAN, Tehran : Iranian president Hassan Rouhani waves to supporters as his motorcade leaves Tehran\'s Mehrabad Airport upon his arrival from New York, on September 28, 2013. Some 60 hardline Islamists chanted \"Death to America\" and \"Death to Israel\" but they were outnumbered by 200 to 300 supporters of the president who shouted: \"Thank you Rouhani.\" AFP PHOTO/ATTA KENARE
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SYRIA, ALEPPO : Opposition fighters open fire taking cover from behind a car during fightings in the Salaheddin district of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on October 9, 2013. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported fierce fighting in Damascus province between rebels and troops backed by pro-regime militias and fighters from Lebanon\'s Shiite Muslim movement Hezbollah. (credit:AFP PHOTO MAHMUD AL-HALABI)
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SYRIA, Ras al-Ain : The silhouette of an armed fighter of the Committees for the Protection of the Kurdish People (YPG) is seen as runs to take position along the front line on October 16, 2013 in the Syrian town of Ras al-Ain, close to the Turkish border. At least 41 fighters have been killed in violent clashes pitting Kurds against jihadists and Islamist rebels in northeastern Syria, a monitoring group said on October 16, 2013. (credit:AFP PHOTO FABIO BUCCIARELLI)
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RUSSIAN FEDERATION, Saransk : French actor Gerard Depardieu, who has threatened to quit his homeland to avoid higher taxes, shows off his new Russian passport on January 6, 2013 at Mordovia airport in Saransk where he has been offered residence in this central Russia region known for Stalin-era Gulag labour camps. The former Oscar nominee travelled to snow-covered Mordovia a day after he met with strongman President Vladimir Putin at his sumptuous Black Sea villa in the resort town of Sochi for friendly banter over a meal. (credit:AFP PHOTO / CAROLINE LARSON)
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INDIA, Allahabad : Sadhus or holy men walk in a procession towards the Sangham or the confluence of the the Yamuna and Ganges rivers to bathe before sunrise during the Kumbh Mela in Allahabad on January 14, 2013. Hundreds of thousands of Hindu pilgrims led by naked, ash-covered holy men streamed into the sacred river Ganges on Monday at the start of the world\'s biggest religious festival. The Kumbh Mela in the Indian town of Allahabad will see up to 100 million worshippers gather over the next 55 days to take a ritual bath in the holy waters, believed to cleanse sins and bestow blessings. Before daybreak on Monday, a day chosen by astrologers as auspicious, hundreds of gurus, some brandishing swords and tridents, ran into the swirling and freezing waters for the first bath, signalling the start of events. (credit:AFP PHOTO/SANJAY KANOJIA)
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FRANCE, Megève : Mushers compete, on January 18 2013 in Megeve, during the departure of a stage of the Grande Odyssee sledding race. (credit:AFP PHOTO / JEFF PACHOUD)
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BULGARIA, Sofia : This video grab broadcast by Bulgarian television channel BTV shows a man (R) pointing a pistol at leader of the Turkish minority Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF) party Ahmed Dogan during his speech at a national party conference in Sofia on January 19, 2013. Dogan was addressing the delegates at the conference when the man rushed up to the podium and put a pistol to his head. The attacker however failed to produce a shot and was quickly disarmed by the delegates, witnesses told state BNR radio. (credit:AFP PHOTO /BTV)
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MALI, Gao : Malian soldiers transport in a pickup truck a dozen suspected Islamist rebels on February 8, 2013 after arresting them north of Gao. A suicide bomber blew himself up on February 8 near a group of Malian soldiers in the northern city of Gao, where Islamist rebels driven from the town have resorted to guerilla attacks The act marked the first suicide attack in the embattled west African nation since the start of a French-led offensive to oust the Islamists from Mali\'s north, where they had controlled key towns for 10 months. A billboard (L) left by unidentified Islamists reads: \"There\'s not God but God and Mohammed is his prophet\". (credit:AFP PHOTO / PASCAL GUYOT)
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CITE DU VATICAN, Vatican City : A lightning strikes St Peter\'s dome at the Vatican on February 11, 2013. Pope Benedict XVI announced today he will resign as leader of the world\'s 1.1 billion Catholics on February 28 because his age prevented him from carrying out his duties -- an unprecedented move in the modern history of the Catholic Church. \n (credit:AFP PHOTO / FILIPPO MONTEFORTE)
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SOUTH AFRICA, Pretoria : South African Olympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius appears on February 20, 2013 at the Magistrate Court in Pretoria. Pistorius battled to secure bail as he appeared on charges of murdering his model girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on February 14, Valentine\'s Day. South African prosecutors will argue that Pistorius is guilty of premeditated murder in Steenkamp\'s death, a charge which could carry a life sentence. (credit:AFP PHOTO / STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN)
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MALI, Gao : Malian soldiers fight while clashes erupted in the city of Gao on February 21, 2013 and an apparent car bomb struck near a camp housing French troops as Malian and foreign forces struggled to secure Mali\'s volatile north against Islamist rebels. (credit:AFP PHOTO / FREDERIC LAFARGUE)
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The body of an Islamist fighter is pictured in the court on February 22, 2013 in central Gao. Five people, including two suicide bombers, died Friday in car bombings in northern Mali, a day after fierce urban battles between French-led forces and Islamists left up to 20 extremists dead, officials said. France sent troops to Mali on January 11 to help the Malian army oust Islamist militants who last year captured the desert north of the country. (credit:AFP PHOTO /JOEL SAGET)
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MALI, - : A Puma helicopter lands near legionnaires of the French army\'s 2nd Foreign Parachute Regiment in the Adrar of the Ifoghas mountains on March 17, 2013. A French corporal was killed tracking down jihadist fighters in their northern Mali mountain bastions, bringing to five the number of French deaths since Paris launched a military offensive in the country two months ago. Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said on March 17, 2013 the 24-year-old soldier was killed and three of his comrades wounded when their vehicle was struck by a roadside bomb blast in the Ifoghas mountains, without saying when it happened. (credit:AFP PHOTO / KENZO TRIBOUILLARD)
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SOMALIA, Mogadishu : A Somali woman reacts on March 18, 2013 near the site of a car bomb in central Mogadishu. At least eight people were killed on March 18 by a car bomb in central Mogadishu in one of the bloodiest attacks in the war-ravaged capital in recent months, police said. (credit:AFP PHOTO/Mohamed Abdiwahab)
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FRANCE, Paris : Woman throws bras on March 25, 2013 at the esplanade des droits de l\'homme, in front of the Eiffel tower in Paris, during a happening called by \"Pink Bra Bazzar, a French organization fighting against and sensitizing on breast cancer. (credit:AFP PHOTO / PIERRE VERDY)
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FRANCE, Paris : Riot police spray teargas on demonstrators during clashes on the Champs-Elysees avenue in Paris, on March 24, 2013, as thousands of people demonstrated against France\'s gay marriage law in an attempt to block legislation that will allow homosexual couples to marry and adopt children. (credit: AFP PHOTO / THOMAS SAMSON)
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CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC, Bangui : Rebels of the Seleka coalition arrest a man wearing military fatigues, claiming to also belong to the Seleka movement, suspected of looting a house in a popular neighbourood of Bangui on March 26, 2013. The African Union on March 25 suspended the Central African Republic and ordered sanctions against the rebel leaders who captured the capital Bangui over the weekend, a senior AU official said. (credit:AFP PHOTO / SIA KAMBOU)
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RUSSIAN FEDERATION, Moscow : Unknown anti-gay activist hits Russia\'s gay and LGBT rights activist Nikolai Alexeyev (C) during unauthorized gay rights activists rally in cental Moscow on May 25, 2013. Moscow city authorities on May 15 turned down demands for a gay rights rally, but Alexeyev said he would fight a ban in court. (credit:AFP PHOTO/ANDREY SVITAILO)
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FRANCE, Montpellier : Vincent Autin (R) and Bruno Boileau kiss on a balcony in front of the crowd after their marriage, France\'s first official gay marriage, in the city hall in Montpellier on May 29, 2013. France is the 14th country to legalise same-sex marriage, an issue that has also divided opinion in many other nations. The definitive vote in the French parliament came on April 23 when the law was passed legalising both homosexual marriages and adoptions by gay couples. (credit:AFP PHOTO POOL / GERARD JULIEN)
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FRENCH POLYNESIA, Teahupoo Reef : US Garrett McNamara (L) and US Mark Healey (R) compete during a free session of surf tow in, in the southern Pacific ocean island of Tahiti, French Polynesia, on June 1, 2013 in Teahupoo. AFP PHOTO GREGORY BOISS
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TURKEY, Istanbul : Turkish riot police officer fires tear gas during clashes with protestors between Taksim and Besiktas in Istanbul on June 3, 2013 during a demonstration against the demolition of the park. Turkish police on June 1 began pulling out of Istanbul\'s iconic Taksim Square, after a second day of violent clashes between protesters and police over a controversial development project. Thousands of demonstrators flooded the site as police lifted the barricades around the park and began withdrawing from the square. What started as an outcry against a local development project has snowballed into widespread anger against what critics say is the government\'s increasingly conservative and authoritarian agenda. (credit:AFP PHOTO/BULENT KILIC)
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TURKEY, Istanbul : A demonstrator\'s clothes are set on fire during clashes with riot police in Taksim square on June 11, 2013. Riot police stormed Istanbul\'s protest square on june 11, firing tear gas and rubber bullets at firework-hurling demonstrators in a fresh escalation of unrest after Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he would meet with protest leaders. (credit:AFP PHOTO / OREN ZIV)
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GREECE, Athens : The leader of ultra-right wing Golden Dawn party Nikos Michaloliakos is escorted by masked police officers to the prosecutor from the police headquarters in Athens on September 28, 2013. Greek police on Saturday swooped on the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party, arresting its leadership and hunting for dozens of members across the country in a crackdown sparked by the murder of a leftist musician. The arrests came a day after Golden Dawn threatened to pull its lawmakers out of parliament, a move that could spark a political crisis in the recession-hit country. AFP PHOTO / Angelos Tzortzinis
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FRANCE, Nice : Flashes of lightning strike above the \"Baie des Anges\", on October 4, 2013, in Nice, southeastern France. (credit:AFP PHOTO / VALERY HACHE)
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ITALY, Lampedusa : Coffin of victims are seen in an hangar of Lampedusa airport on October 5, 2013 after a boat with migrants sank killing more than hundred people. Italy mourned today the 300 African asylum-seekers feared dead in the worst ever Mediterranean refugee disaster, as the government appealed for Europe to stem the influx of migrants. Italian emergency services hoped to resume the search for bodies on October 5, 2013 despite rough seas after the accident, in which 111 African asylum-seekers are confirmed dead and around 200 more are still missing. (credit:AFP PHOTO / ALBERTO PIZZOLI)
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TURKEY, Istanbul : U.S. golfer Tiger Woods hits a ball as he poses during an event to promote the upcoming Turkish Airlines Open golf tournament, on the Bosphorus Bridge that links the city\'s European and Asian sides, in Istanbul, on November 5, 2013. Woods is in Turkey to attend the tournament, which will take place in Antalya, southern Turkey, between November 7 to 10. (credit:AFP PHOTO / BULENT KILIC)
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CITE DU VATICAN, Vatican City : Pope Francis salutes the crowd as he arrives for his general audience in St Peter\'s square at the Vatican on November 6, 2013. (credit:AFP PHOTO / VINCENZO PINTO)
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GREECE, Athens : Demonstrators march on November 6, 2013 under the rain in Athens during a 24-hour general strike. A general strike hit Greece on November 6, paralyzing public services and disrupting transport as EU-IMF auditors worked to finalize the recession-hit country\'s next budget, looking to eliminate a fiscal shortfall that could bring more unpopular cuts. (credit:AFP PHOTO / ARIS MESSINIS)
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UNITED STATES, AUSTIN : This photo received on January 15, 2013, courtesy of OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network, shows Oprah Winfrey’s exclusive interview with Lance Armstrong. “Oprah and Lance Armstrong: The Worldwide Exclusive,” has expanded to air as a two-night event on OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network. The special episode of “Oprah’s Next Chapter” will air January 17, 2013 from 9-10:30 p.m. ET/PT and January 18, 2013 at 9 pm ET/PT. The interview will be simultaneously streamed LIVE worldwide both nights on Oprah.com. Armstrong will address the alleged doping scandal, years of accusations of cheating and charges of lying about the use of performance-enhancing drugs throughout his storied cycling career. Winfrey speaks with Armstrong in the only interview since the seven-time Tour de France winner was stripped of his titles and dropped from millions of dollars in endorsement deals after the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency released an extensive report accusing the renowned cyclist of doping throughout his career. Armstrong was given a lifetime ban on competing professionally. Late last year, Armstrong resigned as chairman of the foundation he created, Livestrong, which has raised hundreds of millions of dollars in the fight against cancer. (credit:AFP PHOTO /HARPO STUDIOS, INC/GEORGE BURNS)
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UNITED STATES, DECATUR : US President Barack Obama plays a learning game while visiting children at College Heights Early Childhood Learning Center February 14, 2013 in Decatur, Georgia. Obama is in Georgia to promote economic and educational initiatives he spoke about in this week\'s State of the Union. (credit:AFP PHOTO/Brendan SMIALOWSKI)
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UNITED STATES, ANDREWS AIR FORCE BASE : US President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama arrive to board Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland on April 18, 2013. Obama heads to Boston to mourn victims of the deadly marathon attacks, as investigators study images of a suspect who may have planted the bombs. No arrests have been made in connection with Monday\'s twin bombings near the finish line of the race, which sent metal fragments and nails into a crowd of thousands of runners and spectators, killing three people and wounding 180. (credit:AFP PHOTO/Jewel Samad)
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UNITED STATES, CLEVELAND : Ariel Castro is arraigned at Cleveland Municipal Court for the kidnapping of three women May 9, 2013 in Cleveland, Ohio. Unemployed American bus driver Ariel Castro appeared in court Thursday to faces charges that he kidnapped and raped three young women and held them in his home for a decade.The 52-year-old from Cleveland, Ohio did not enter a plea and stood with his head bowed while the court set a large bond of two million dollars per case, effectively ensuring that he will remain in detention. (credit:AFP PHOTO/Emmanuel Dunand)
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UNITED STATES, Moore : Lightning strikes during a thunder storm as tornado survivors search for salvagable stuffs at their devastated home on May 23, 2013, in Moore, Oklahoma. Severe thunderstorms barreled through this Oklahoma City suburb at dawn Thursday, complicating clean-up efforts three days after a powerful tornado killed 24 people and destroyed 2,400 homes. More rain was forecast to fall on Moore, soaking the disaster zone where residents had just the day before, under clear blue skies, started picking through the rubble of their destroyed houses to recover personal effects. (credit:AFP PHOTO/Jewel Samad)
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TURKEY, Istanbul : Protestors clash with riot police between Taksim and Besiktas in Istanbul, on June 1, 2013, during a demonstration against the demolition of the park. Turkish police on June 1 began pulling out of Istanbul\'s iconic Taksim Square, after a second day of violent clashes between protesters and police over a controversial development project. Thousands of demonstrators flooded the site as police lifted the barricades around the park and began withdrawing from the square. What started as an outcry against a local development project has snowballed into widespread anger against what critics say is the government\'s increasingly conservative and authoritarian agenda. (credit: AFP PHOTO/GURCAN OZTURK)
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TURKEY, Istanbul : A masked protestor flashes a V-sign during the clashes near Taksim in Istanbul on June 3, 2013 during a demonstration against the demolition of the park. Turkish police on June 1 began pulling out of Istanbul\'s iconic Taksim Square, after a second day of violent clashes between protesters and police over a controversial development project. Thousands of demonstrators flooded the site as police lifted the barricades around the park and began withdrawing from the square. What started as an outcry against a local development project has snowballed into widespread anger against what critics say is the government\'s increasingly conservative and authoritarian agenda. (credit:AFP PHOTO / OZAN KOSE)
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UNITED STATES, RANCHO MIRAGE : US President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping head for their bilateral meeting at the Annenberg Retreat at Sunnylands in Rancho Mirage, California, on June 7, 2013. Ditching the crushing formality of US-China summits, Xi and Obama met in Rancho Mirage, California, a playground of past presidents and the powerful. Allegations of Chinese cyber hacking and espionage, North Korea\'s nuclear defiance and constant trade niggles between the world\'s two single largest economies and possible future superpower rivals will dominate the talks. (credit:AFP PHOTO/Jewel Samad)
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UNITED STATES, Washington : A protester covers his mouth with a dollar bill as he joins others in a demonstration in front of the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on October 1, 2013 urging congress to pass the budget bill. US President Obama slammed Republicans for shutting down the government as part of an \"ideological crusade\" designed to kill his signature health care law. The US government shut down on October 1, 2013 for the first time in 17 years after a gridlocked Congress failed to reach a federal budget deal amid bitter brinkmanship. Some 800,000 federal workers have been furloughed in a move reminiscent of two previous shutdowns -- for six days in November 1995 and 21 days from December that year into early 1996. (credit:AFP Photo / Jewel Samad)
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UNITED STATES, Washington : A US Capitol Police Officer walks past a statue of Gerald Ford, who was US president during the 1976 shutdown of the federal government, in the Rotunda while the building was closed to tours on Capitol Hill October 1, 2013 in Washington, DC. The group of healthcare reform supporters and politicians gathered to celebrate the implementation of the Affordable Care Act\'s online insurance markets which opened today. (credit:AFP PHOTO/Brendan SMIALOWSKI)
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KENYA, Nairobi : An image grab taken from AFP TV shows two children and a woman taking cover behind a bar inside a shopping mall following an attack by masked gunmen in Nairobi on September 21, 2013. Masked attackers stormed the packed upmarket shopping mall in Nairobi, spraying gunfire and killing at least 59 people and wounding 175 before holing themselves up in the complex. AFP PHOTO/AFPTV/NICHOLE SOBECKI
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ITALY, Isola del Giglio : This combination made on September 17, 2013 shows four photos of the Costa Concordia, after the cruise ship ran aground and keeled over off the Isola del Giglio taken on January 14, 2012 (TopL), beginning to emerge during the salvage operation on September 16, 2013 (TopR) and (BottomL) and after he was turned upright (BottomR) on September 17, 2013. \"The parbuckling operation has been completed. We have reached zero degrees (vertical),\" said Franco Gabrielli, the head of the civil protection agency which has overseen the project. AFP PHOTO/FILIPPO MONTEFORTE/ANDREAS SOLARO/VINCENZO PINTO
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ITALY, Isola del Giglio : A picture taken on September 17, 2013 shows the wreck of Italy\'s Costa Concordia cruise ship which begins to emerge from water near the harbour of Giglio Porto. Salvage operators in Italy lifted the Costa Concordia cruise ship upright from its watery grave off the island of Giglio on Tuesday in the biggest ever project of its kind. Thirty-two people died when the ship, with 4,200 passengers onboard, hit rocks and ran aground off the island of Giglio on January 2012. AFP PHOTO / VINCENZO PINTO
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BRAZIL, Rio de Janeiro : Catholic pilgrims attending World Youth Day (WYD) crowd Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro on July 28, 2013 after spending the night sleeping here following a prayer vigil headed by Pope Francis. The city\'s mayor said he expects up to three million people to pack the beach on Sunday for the final mass of the pope\'s week-long visit to the tropical city. (credit:AFP PHOTO / VANDERLEI ALMEIDA)
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INDIA, Allahabad : An Indian youth dangles from a power line before diving into the floodwaters of an overflowing Ganges river in Allahabad on August 6, 2013. The monsoon, which covers the subcontinent from June to September and usually brings flooding, accounts for about 80 percent of India\'s annual rainfall. (credit:AFP PHOTO/ SANJAY KANOJIA)
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PAKISTAN, Lahore : Pakistani people walk through a storm near the Ravi river in Lahore on September 15, 2013. Heavy rains and hailstorms lashed the capital, throwing traffic out of gear in many parts of the city as a result of water logging. AFP PHOTO/ Arif ALI
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SPAIN, Barcelona : Czech Michal Navratil dives for a joke as superman after of the men\'s high diving final competition at the FINA World Championships in Moll de la Fusta port in Barcelona on July 31, 2013. (credit:AFP PHOTO / JAVIER SORIANO)
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RUSSIAN FEDERATION, Moscow : Jamaica\'s Usain Bolt wins the 100 metres final at the 2013 IAAF World Championships at the Luzhniki stadium in Moscow on August 11, 2013 while a lightning strikes in the sky. Bolt timed a season\'s best 9.77 seconds, with American Justin Gatlin claiming silver in 9.85sec and Nesta Carter, also of Jamaica, taking bronze in 9.95sec. \n (credit:AFP PHOTO / OLIVIER MORIN)
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UNITED STATES, San Francisco : Emirates Team New Zealand (L) competes against Oracle Team USA during the 34th America\'s Cup on September 14, 2013 in San Francisco. (credit:AFP PHOTO/Don Emmert)
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PHILIPPINES, Zamboanga : Philippine soldiers aim their rifles at enemy positions during a fire fight with Muslim rebels in Zamboanga City in southern island of Mindanao on September 12, 2013. Philippine forces were fighting Muslim rebels on two fronts on September 12, as troops launched an offensive to retake parts of a key southern city besieged by guerrillas opposed to peace talks with the government, officials said as about 200 elite military and police units punched into one of the gunmen\'s strongholds in Zamboanga where the fighting has forced about 13,000 to flee their homes. (credit:AFP PHOTO/TED ALJIBE)
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SYRIA, HOMS : Soldiers of the Syrian government forces patrol on a tank in a devastated street on July 31, 2013 in the district of al-Khalidiyah in the central Syrian city of Homs. The Syrian government announced the capture of Khalidiyah, a key rebel district in Homs, Syria\'s third city and a symbol of the revolt against President Bashar al-Assad. (credit:AFP PHOTO/JOSEPH EID)
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EGYPT, Cairo : An Egyptian woman tries to stop a military bulldozer from hurting a wounded youth during clashes that broke out as Egyptian security forces moved in to disperse supporters of Egypt\'s deposed president Mohamed Morsi in a huge protest camp near Rabaa al-Adawiya mosque in eastern Cairo on August 14, 2013. The operation began shortly after dawn when security forces surrounded the sprawling Rabaa al-Adawiya camp in east Cairo and a similar one at Al-Nahda square, in the centre of the capital, launching a long-threatened crackdown that left dozens dead. The fate of the young man is not certain, but at the time of taking these photos he was seriously injured having been shot by birdshot. \n (credit:AFP PHOTO /MOHAMMED ABDEL MONEIM)
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EGYPT, Cairo : An army officer tries to control the crowd as he escorts an Islamist man out of Cairo\'s Al-Fath mosque where Islamist supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi held up on August 17, 2013. The standoff at al-Fath mosque in central Ramses Square began on August 16, with security forces surrounding the building where Islamists were sheltering and trying to convince them to leave. (credit:AFP PHOTO / MOHAMED EL-SHAHED)
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SYRIA, DAMASCUS : GRAPHIC CONTENT\nA handout image released by the Syrian opposition\'s Shaam News Network shows bodies of children and adults laying on the ground as Syrian rebels claim they were killed in a toxic gas attack by pro-government forces in eastern Ghouta, on the outskirts of Damascus on August 21, 2013. The allegation of chemical weapons being used in the heavily-populated areas came on the second day of a mission to Syria by UN inspectors. It was promptly denied by the Syrian authorities. (credit:AFP PHOTO/HO/SHAAM NEWS NETWORK)
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KENYA, LEWA : A captured wild male black rhino named Sero at Lewa Wildlife looks out from its crate at Lewa conservancy on August 26, 2013. Eleven of Lewa\'s total 73 endangered black rhinos are being relocated to neighboring Borana conservancy to afford them more space. Borana currently has no rhino population and is hoping to help increase their numbers. The horn of each relocated rhino is cut and a tracking device is fitted to monitor its movements and to help combat poaching. Lewa has suffered severe poaching in the past. Illegally poached rhino horn is sold for large sums as an ingredient in some traditional Chinese medicine. (credit:AFP PHOTO/Carl de Souza)
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EGYPT, Cairo : Egyptian toppled president Hosni Mubarak and his two sons Alaa (R) and Gamal stand behind bars during their trial at the Police Academy on September 14, 2013 in Cairo. Mubarak appears in court for the second time since his release from Cairo\'s Tora prison and he faces an array of charges, including complicity in the deaths of some 850 people killed in the Arab Spring-inspired uprising against him, and corruption. (credit:AFP PHOTO / AHMED EL-MALKY)
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SYRIA, Saraqib : Amina, a Syrian woman who fled the fighting in Aleppo, is photographed inside an abandoned building with her five-month-old sick daughter, Asma, on the outskirts of Saraqib, southwest of Aleppo, on September 9, 2013. US President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin discussed the idea of placing Syrian chemical weapons under international control at last week\'s G20 summit in Saint Petersburg, Putin\'s spokesman said on September 10, 2013. I (credit:AFP PHOTO / GIOVANNI DIFFIDENT)
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SYRIA, DEIR EZZOR : A rebel fighter and a child cross a damaged bridge in Syria\'s eastern town of Deir Ezzor, on September 2, 2013. US President Barack Obama launched an intense lobbying effort on September 1 to sway skeptical lawmakers weighing whether to support a military strike against Syria. (credit:AFP PHOTO / ABO SHUJA)
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BRAZIL, Rio de Janeiro : Two Polish nuns look at people bathing as hundreds of thousands of young Catholic pilgrims attending World Youth Day (WYD) start gathering at Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro for a prayer vigil with Pope Francis, on July 27, 2013. In a speech to Brazil\'s political, religious and civil society leaders earlier, Pope Francis said a \"constructive dialogue\" was needed to confront the country\'s social turmoil, referring to the massive street protests that rocked Brazil last month to demand an end to corruption and better public services. (credit:AFP PHOTO / YASUYOSHI CHIBA)
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UNITED KINGDOM, London : Prince William and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge show their new-born baby boy to the world\'s media, standing on the steps outside the Lindo Wing of St Mary\'s Hospital in London on July 23, 2013. The baby was born on Monday afternoon weighing eight pounds six ounces (3.8 kilogrammes). The baby, titled His Royal Highness, Prince (name) of Cambridge, is directly in line to inherit the throne after Charles, Queen Elizabeth II\'s eldest son and heir, and his eldest son William. (credit:AFP PHOTO / LEON NEAL)
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SPAIN, Santiago de Compostela : SPAIN OUT\nA picture taken on July 24, 2013 shows an injured man sitting next to the body of a victim covered with a blanket following a train accident near the city of Santiago de Compostela. A train hurtled off the tracks on July 24 in northwest Spain killing at least 78 passengers and injuring more than 140, an official said today, the country\'s deadliest rail disaster in more than 40 years. (credit:AFP PHOTO / LA VOZ DE GALICIA / XOAN A. SOLER / MONICA FERREIROS)
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INDIA, Gandaman : Grief-stricken family members react over the bodies of their children who died after consuming a free mid day meal at a school at Gandaman in Saran District, India\'s Bihar state, on July 17, 2013. Twenty-two children have died after eating a free lunch feared to contain poisonous chemicals at an Indian primary school, officials said, as the tragedy sparked angry street protests. (credit:AFP PHOTO)
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INDIA, Dimapur : An Indian parrot hatchling is fed by hand in Dimapur on July 24, 2013, after being caught in a forest by a local hunter and offered for sale in the north-eastern Indian state of Nagaland. Wildlife of all types is frequently hunted either for consumption or for sale to residents. Despite a ban since 1990-91 on trade in all India bird species, hundreds of parrots are collected and traded annually in India. They are taken from the wild and smuggled within India and to other countries. The bulk of the trade is in three to four week old chicks. (credit:TOPSHOTS AFP PHOTO)
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SPAIN, Barcelona : In a picture taken with an underwater camera Mexico\'s Ivan Garcia and German Sanchez enter the water as they compete in the men\'s 10-metre synchro platform preliminary diving event in the FINA World Championships at the Piscina Municipal de Montjuic in Barcelona on July 21, 2013. (credit:AFP PHOTO / FRANCOIS XAVIER MARIT)
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CHINA, SUINING : This picture taken on July 27, 2013 shows people trying to cool off at a water park in Suining, southwest China\'s Sichuan province, as a heatwave hit several provinces in China. Much of China is in the grip of a summer heatwave, and the China Meteorological Association issued a high temperature warning for several eastern and central provinces, saying temperatures could reach 41 degrees Celsius (106 Fahrenheit) on July 31. (credit:CHINA OUT AFP PHOTO)
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JORDAN, ZAATARI REFUGEE CAMP : An aerial view shows the Zaatari refugee camp on July 18, 2013 near the Jordanian city of Mafraq, some 8 kilometers from the Jordanian-Syrian border. The northern Jordanian Zaatari refugee camp is home to 115,000 Syrians. (credit:AFP PHOTO/MANDEL NGAN/POOL)
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EGYPT, Cairo : A supporter of deposed Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi (C) is seen beaten by pro-government and army supporters during clashes that erupted at Tahrir Square and around the US Embassy in Cairo, on July 22, 2013. Dozens of people were injured in Cairo clashes as the family of Mohamed Morsi said they plan to sue Egypt\'s army chief for having \"kidnapped\" the ousted Islamist president. (credit:AFP PHOTO/FAYEZ NURELDINE)
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FRANCE, Brétigny-sur-Orge : Rescuers work at night on the site of a train accident on July 12, 2013 at the railway station of Bretigny-sur-Orge, near Paris. At least six people were killed and dozens injured on Friday after a speeding train derailed at a station in the southern suburbs of Paris, officials said. (credit:AFP PHOTO / LIONEL BONAVENTURE)
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DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO, Goma : Displaced Congolese flee on July 15, 2013 the area of Kanyarucinya through Munigi on the outskirts of Goma in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. At least 130 people were killed, including 10 soldiers, in the deadliest clashes in months between troops and rebels in the restive eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the government said on July 15. Fierce fighting broke out on July 14 outside the flashpoint city of Goma between the Congolese army and the M23 rebels, an armed group launched by Tutsi former soldiers who mutinied in April 2012. The clashes continued on July 15 between Congolese armed forces and M23 rebels, causing several thousands of people to flee. (credit:AFP PHOTO / PHIL MOORE)
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The bodies of two alleged M23 fighters are dumped out of the back of a pickup truck by Congolese Army soldiers in the village of Rusayo on July 16, 2013 during a press visit, some 13 kms from Goma in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. According to the army, one of the men was Ugandan and the other Rwandan, but they could not produce the identity cards that they claimed to have seen proving this. The army in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Tuesday pursued an offensive against rebels of the M23 movement to protect the North Kivu provincial capital of Goma. (credit:AFP PHOTO / PHIL MOORE)
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BELGIUM, Brussels : King Philippe of Belgium kisses the hand of his wife Queen Mathilde as they pose on the balcony of the Royal Palace in Brussels on July 21, 2013. Prince Philippe took the oath as Belgium\'s seventh king on July 21, shortly after Albert II abdicated, amid hopes he can live up to his father\'s work in keeping the fragile country united. (credit:AFP PHOTO / THIERRY CHARLIER)
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UNITED STATES, UNITED NATIONS : Pakistani student Malala Yousafzai (2nd R) is greeted by United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon (2nd L), Vuk Jeremic (R), President of the UN General Assembly, and Gordon Brown (L, back to camera), United Nations Special Envoy for Global Education July 12, 2013 at UN headquarters in New York during the UN Youth Assembly. Yousafzai became a public figure when she was shot by the Taliban while travelling to school last year in Pakistan -- targeted because of her committed campaigning for the right of all girls to an education. The UN has declared July 12 \"Malala Day\", which is also Yousafzai\'s birthday, and will host the UN Youth Assembly. (credit:AFP PHOTO/Stan HONDA)
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SPAIN, Pamplona : People standing on balconies look at participants as they run in front of Alcurrucen\'s bulls during the first bull run of the San Fermin Festival, on July 7, 2013, in Pamplona, northern Spain. The festival is a symbol of Spanish culture that attracts thousands of tourists to watch the bull runs despite heavy condemnation from animal rights groups. (credit:AFP PHOTO / PEDRO ARMESTRE)
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BRAZIL, Rio de Janeiro : A demonstrator wearing a Guy Fawkes mask holds a Brazilian national flag during clashes in downtown Rio de Janeiro on June 17, 2013, after a protest against higher public transportation fares and the use of public funds to finance international football tournaments. Protesters in several major cities are up in arms over hikes in mass transit prices -- from $1.5 to $1.6 -- as well as over the $15 billion earmarked for the two sports events amid calls for more health and education funding. (credit:AFP PHOTO / CHRISTOPHE SIMON)
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MEXICO, Puebla : Ash spew from Mexico\'s Popocatepetl volcano, some 55 km from Mexico City, as seen from San Mateo Ozolco, in the Mexican central state of Puebla, on July 4, 2013. (credit:AFP PHOTO/Pablo Spencer)
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IRAN, Tehran : An Iranian man who was fixing explosives wires run away after setting ablaze 50 tons of drugs seized in recent months in eastern Tehran on June 26, 2013 to mark the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking. (credit:AFP PHOTO/BEHROUZ MEHRI)
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SYRIA, DEIR EZZOR : Syrians walk down a destroyed street in the centre of Syria\'s northeastern city of Deir Ezzor on June 27, 2013. More than 100,000 people have been killed in Syria\'s uprising, a watchdog said, as a proposed Geneva peace conference looked set to be delayed, dimming hopes for an end to the bloodshed. (credit:AFP PHOTO / AHMAD ABOUD)
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EGYPT, Cairo : Egyptian people wave the national flag as army helicopters fly above Egypt\'s landmark Tahrir square on July 4, 2013. Egypt\'s Muslim Brotherhood, from which ousted president Mohamed Morsi hails, denounced a new \"police state\" after the arrest of Islamist leaders and the closure of satellite channels. (credit:AFP PHOTO/GIANLUIGI GUERCIA)
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EGYPT, Cairo : An Egyptian supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood holds the portraits of deposed president Mohamed Morsi during a rally outside Cairo\'s Rabaa al-Adawiya mosque late on July 7, 2013. Sixteen Islamist activists were shot dead during clashes with the police in the vicinity of the mosque early on July 8, a Muslim Brotherhood spokeman said. (credit:AFP PHOTO/MAHMOUD KHALED)
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TURKEY, Istanbul : People run away as Turkish riot policemen fire tear gas on Taksim square on June 11, 2013. Turkish police fired massive volleys of tear gas and jets of water to disperse thousands of anti-government demonstrators in Istanbul\'s Taksim Square on June 11, after earlier apparently retreating, an AFP reporter saw. The gas sent the crowd scrambling, raising tensions on a 12th day of violence after Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned he had \"no more tolerance\" for the mass demonstrations. (credit:AFP PHOTO / BULENT KILIC)
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FRANCE, Villelongue : Aerial picture taken on June 19, 2013 in Villelongue shows the flooded Gave de Pau river one day after unseasonal storms caused havoc across huge swaths of the country. (credit:AFP PHOTO LAURENT DARD)
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GREECE, Athens : A supermoon rises next to the ancient Greek temple of Poseidon at Cape Sounion, some 65 kilometers south of Athens, on June 23, 2013. (credit:AFP PHOTO / ARIS MESSINIS)
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SOUTH AFRICA, ROBBEN ISLAND : US President Barack Obama looks out the window from the cell where Nelson Mandela, an anti-apartheid legend, was once jailed on Robben Island, on June 30, 2013. Paying homage to the 94-year-old former South-African president, who is critically ill in hospital, Obama stared into the stark cell where Mandela spent two thirds of his 27 years in jail. (credit:AFP PHOTO/JIM WATSON)
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SOUTH AFRICA, Pretoria : A woman and a little girl hold a Nelson Mandel picture in front of the Medi Clinic Heart hospital in Pretoria on July 3, 2013. Emotional crowds gathered outside the hospital where Nelson Mandela lay in critical condition Wednesday, as relatives and clan elders made preparations for the revered former South African leader\'s final journey. Singing supporters amassed outside the Pretoria hospital where the 94-year-old anti-apartheid hero was fighting for his life. (credit:AFP PHOTO / Filippo MONTEFORTE)
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EGYPT, Cairo : Egyptian protesters calling for the ouster of President Mohamed Morsi gather in Cairo\'s landmark Tahrir Square on July 2, 2013 as laser lights (L) directed at the government building spell \"Game Over.\" (credit:AFP PHOTO / KHALED DESOUKI)
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FRANCE, Nice : A photo taken in Nice shows a tornado above Marina Baie des Anges on June 9, 2013. According to the national meteorological office this occurs on average once a year in Nice. (credit:AFP PHOTO / VALERY HACHE)
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FRANCE, Paris : A man kicks a topless activist of the Ukrainian feminist movement Femen as she raises her fist to protest against Islamists in front of the Great Mosque of Paris on April 3, 2013 in Paris. (credit:AFP PHOTO / FRED DUFOUR)
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