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A street vendor offering paper trumpets for New Year’s Eve celebrations took it easy in Jakarta, Indonesia.
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A street vendor offering paper trumpets for New Year’s Eve celebrations took it easy in Jakarta, Indonesia.
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An anti-government protester in Sama, Yemen, used a blindfold and gag to make his point against what demonstrators have said is the torture of protesters by the police.
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Listening to Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich at a campaign event in Des Moines, four days before the Iowa caucus.
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Druids, pagans and revellers cheer as the sun rises at Stonehenge on December 22, 2011 in Wiltshire, England. The unseasonable warm weather encouraged a larger than normal crowd to gather at the famous historic stone circle to celebrate the sunrise closest to the Winter Solstice, the shortest day of the year.
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Petty Officer 2nd Class Marissa Gaeta, left, kisses her girlfriend of two years, Petty Officer 3rd Class Citlalic Snell at Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek in Virginia Beach, Va., Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2011 after Gaeta’s ship returned from 80 days at sea. It ís a time-honored tradition at Navy homecomings - one lucky sailor is chosen to be first off the ship for the long-awaited kiss with a loved one. On Wednesday, for the first time, the happily reunited couple was gay.
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People dodged sprays of water as they entered a taxi Friday in the financial district of Montevideo, Uruguay, where workers throw water at each other to celebrate the last working day of the year.
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Confetti covered the New Year’s Eve Wishing Wall at the Times Square Information Center in New York City Friday. All the pieces of paper, bearing wishes for 2012 from around the world, will rain down on revellers during the New Year’s Eve party in Times Square.
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Garrett Jackson, an aide to GOP presidential hopeful and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, steadied a chair for the candidate at a campaign stop Thursday at Music Man Square in Mason City, Iowa.
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Women wept Friday at the grave of a victim of an air raid in the Turkish village of Gulyazi, near the Iraqi border. Kurds buried 35 victims of the Wednesday airstrike, as Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan promised an in-depth investigation.
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Parveen Asallam, 7 years old, stood at the entrance of her family’s home in a slum in Islamabad, Pakistan, Thursday.
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Hajrudin Pupovic leaned over the edge of the fountains at the Sept. 11 memorial in New York City on Friday as he cleaned the panels containing names of the victims of the 2001 terrorist attacks. More than a million people have visited since it opened Sept. 12.
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Anti-government protesters shouted slogans while standing in front of laser beams pointed by riot police in the village of Diraz, Bahrain, Thursday. Hundreds of anti-government protesters took to the streets demanding the downfall of the regime.
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Travelers lined up Wednesday to buy train tickets in Changsha, China, as the country’s railway stations began to sell tickets for travel during the country’s 2012 Spring Festival, which starts Jan. 8.
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Indian paramilitary soldiers performed neck exercises after rehearsals for the upcoming Republic Day parade in New Delhi, India, Wednesday.
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A Greek Orthodox monk cleaned the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem. Christianity’s holiest churches deteriorated into a brawl between rival clergy Wednesday, as dozens of monks battled each other with brooms until police intervened.
