Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi (C) waves to the crowd as she leaves National League for Democracy (NLD) headquarters after addressing journalists and supporters in Yangon. Suu Kyi hailed a “new era” for Myanmar and called for a show of political unity after her party claimed a major victory in landmark by-elections.
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A German soldier keeps watch during a patrol near Taloqan, the capital of Takhar province. Germany is the third biggest supplier of troops to the 130,000-strong NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) after the US and Britain.
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Men and women dressed in burqas from the group ‘Faceless’ call for the banning of the conservative Muslim apparel throughout Australia during a rally in Sydney. The group says the complete covering of a woman’s face leads to cultural isolation within multi-cultural Australia and can be used by criminals to conceal their identity.
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Model Tatiana Ri wearing a Gaowei + Xinzhan creation strikes a pose during a spring photo shoot by Michael GUICHARD and stylist Raquel Crispim at Allee des Sygnes in Paris, France.
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A Bahraini anti-government protester throws a stone toward approaching riot police during clashes Monday, in Salmabad, Bahrain. Also on Monday, lawyers of a Bahraini human rights activist who is on a hunger strike and attorneys for 20 other opposition figures appealed their convictions on anti-state charges.
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Russian Emergency ministry rescue workers search the site of the ATR-72 plane crash outside Tyumen, a major regional center in Siberia, Russi. A passenger plane crashed in Siberia shortly after take-off on Monday morning, killing 31 of the 43 people aboard, Russian emergency officials said, with 12 survivors were hospitalized in serious condition. The ATR-72, a French-Italian-made twin-engine turboprop, operated by UTair was flying from Tyumen to the oil town of Surgut with 39 passengers and four crew.
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A woman looks at a creation by British artist Damien Hirst entitled ‘The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living 1991’ during the opening of his solo exhibition showcasing work spanning over two decades at the Tate Modern in central London.
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Free Syrian Army fighters train in a neighborhood of Damascus, Syria. Government and opposition forces clashed across Syria Monday as international envoy Kofi Annan prepared to brief the U.N. Security Council on the progress of his mission to ease the Syrian crisis.
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A Penitent goes to his church, during Holy Week in Seville. Christians around the world mark the Holy Week of Easter in celebration of the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ. The clothes and hats worn depict the people from Nazareth.
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Bangladeshi commuters transit the Buriganga River by boat in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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A double-decker London commuter bus exploded on fire at a bus stop in Brockely, South London. Fire fighters tried to bring the fire under control whilst a tire exploded across the street setting another car on fire.
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JetBlue pilot Clayton Frederick Osbon, (R) is escorted to a waiting vehicle by FBI agents as he is released from The Pavilion at Northwest Texas Hospital, in Amarillo. Osbon was taken directly to the Federal Court Building in Amarillo, Texas.
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Indian tourists walk through a field of tulips in full bloom in the foothills of Zabarvan mountain range in Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian Kashmir. Since its inception, the Tulip Garden has managed to attract foreign and domestic tourists, who visit Kashmir valley in spring to see the bloom, which lasts for around two months. The garden was open for the public last week and is now in full bloom attracting scores of visitors on daily basis.
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Two US Navy Blue Angels jets are seen from Liberty State Park in Jersey City, N.J. as they execute a survey flight over the Statue of Liberty. The two F/A-18 Hornet Fighter Jets, flew practice runs to familiarize and evaluate a potential flight course for the upcoming US Navy War of 1812 commemoration during this year’s Fleet Week celebration in May.
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A firefighter tries to control a church fire in Meiningen, Germany.
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Pakistani workers make prints onto fabric at a factory in Lahore, Pakistan. The country is the world’s fourth-largest producer of cloth and the industry accounts for 60 percent of export revenue.
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Penitents from Cristo de la Buena Muerte brotherhood participate in a procession in Zamora, Spain. Hundreds of processions take place throughout Spain during the Easter Holy Week.
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Eilidh Gunn enjoys sledging in Aviemore, Scotland. Winter returned to Scotland which, in some parts, has seen temperatures drop by more than 20 degrees Celcius.
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Indian jewelry industry workers raise their hands during a protest urging the government to roll back a spate of taxes introduced on jewelry products including higher excise duties in Ahmadabad, India.
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Kentucky players celebrate at the end of the NCAA Final Four tournament college basketball championship game against Kansas in New Orleans. Kentucky won 67-59.
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Pakistani youth are silhouetted against sunset as they fish at Rawal Lake on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan.
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Manuel Revillon, 46, puts finishing touches on an image of Jesus Christ displayed along a main street of Makati city, metro Manila in preparation for Holy Week. Revillon and his friends made the 10-foot image of Jesus Christ from paper, sacks and tree branches.
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A taxi driver cleans the windshield of his taxi in front of Romania’s Palace of the Parliament during a protest in Bucharest.
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A student from the Yermolov Cadet School inspects the district as he takes part in a training march near the southern Russian city of Stavropol. The Yermolov state school in Stavropol, which was founded 10 years ago and has open admittance for any child, follows a traditional Russian middle school syllabus as well as extra lessons on military education and physical training for its pupils.
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Construction in progress at the site of the “Supertrees Grove” at the Gardens by the Bay attraction in Singapore, set to open to the public on the 29th June 2012. These structures will serve as vertical gardens housing a variety of bromeliads, ferns and tropical climbing plants.
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A sadhu or Indian Hindu holy man takes a bath in the Ganges River in Allahabad, India. Allahabad, on the confluence of the Ganges, Yamuna and the mythical Saraswathi river is one of Hinduism’s important centers.
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Somali fisherman off-load a swordfish as a young boy carries a baby shark on his head to take to market in Mogadishu, Somalia. The seaside capital of Mogadishu is full of life for the first time in 20 years after African Union and Somali troops pushed Islamist militants out of the city last year.
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Two trucks lie on their sides on a bridge at Toyama city, western Japan. A typhoon-like spring storm brought strong gusts and heavy rains to Japan, causing traffic chaos, with meteorologists urging the public to stay indoors if possible.
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Sally Fitzgibbons, of Australia, competes in the opening round of the Rip Curl Pro surfing event at Bells Beach in Torquay, Australia.
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Grounded cargo ship MV Carrier is battered by waves as it lays against sea defences after hitting rocks near a jetty in Llanddulas, Wales. Emergency services have closed the nearby A55 trunk road after the vessel grounded in bad weather last night. Salvage and anti pollution experts are assessing the scene.
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A U.S. soldier checks the body of a comrade at the scene of a suicide attack in Maimanah, the capital of Faryab province north of Kabul, Afghanistan. A suicide bomber blew himself up, killing at least 10 people, including three NATO service members.
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An employee of a department store displays the “K24 Captain Jack Sparrow” statue in Tokyo. The department store sells the 26cm-high and 1,800 gram pure gold statue until April 10 for $435,000 to commemorate the 110th anniversary of Walt Disney’s birth.
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French members of the French National Police Intervention Group (GIPN) arrest a suspected radical Islamists group member in the French southern city of Marseille, as part of down raids in several French cities. French police swooped on suspected radical Islamists in pre-dawn raids for the second time in less than a week today, arresting 10 people, a source close to the investigation said.
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Chinese families gather during the annual “Qingming” festival or Tomb Sweeping Day at a cemetery in Jinjiang, southeast China’s Fujian province. During “Qingming” Chinese traditionally tend the graves of their departed loved ones and often burn paper money, model houses, cars, mobile phones and other goods as offerings to honor them and keep them comfortable in the afterlife.
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Pope Benedict XVI waves to the faithful gathered in St. Peter square at the Vatican as he arrives for his weekly general audience.
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Kenyan rescue workers carry the body of a man a victim of a massive boulder that crashed onto houses in the Mathare slum of Nairobi, killing at least six people and trapping many underground after a night of heavy rains. The Red Cross said more than 40 houses were destroyed in the sprawling slums in the north of the capital when huge boulders came crashing onto them.
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Tiger Woods tees off on the 14th hole during a practice round for the Masters golf tournament in Augusta, Ga.
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A North Korean man clears snow from a path next to a monument at the site of the Samjiyon Grand Monument in Samjiyon, North Korea.
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Penitents walk to their church during the Holy Week in Seville. Christians around the world mark the Holy Week of Easter in celebration of the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
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The bow section of the stricken container ship Rena remains above water about 14 nautical miles from Tauranga on the east coast of New Zealand’s North Island. The remains of the ship are stuck on a rock reef six months after it ran aground, in what authorities say is one of the nation’s worst environmental disasters.
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U.S. President Barack Obama, alongside members of Congress and Vice President Joe Biden (L), applauds after signing the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act in the Eisenhower Executive Office building near the White House in Washington. The act ensures that members of Congress are subject to the same insider trading laws as other Americans.
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Israeli border policemen hold back a Jewish youth to prevent him from reaching a building occupied by Jewish settlers in the West Bank city of Hebron. Israeli police evicted Jewish settlers on Wednesday from the building they said they had bought from a Palestinian in the heart of Hebron, a frequent flashpoint in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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Qatari youth perform a traditional dance in a wedding ceremony in Doha. Throughout the Middle East, Africa and parts of South Asia, marriage between family members has been widely practised for thousands of years, but at a recent public debate on intermarriage in Doha, much of the discussion focused on the tensions between cultural practices and the science cautioning against consanguineous marriage – defined as marriage between second cousins or closer.
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Volker Kraft decorates a tree with 10,000 Easter eggs in the garden of the retired couple Christa and Volker Kraft in Saalfeld, Germany. The Kraft family has been decorating their tree for Easter for more than forty years. Kraft’s apple sapling sported just 18 eggs when he first decorated it for Easter in 1965. The number increased year by year; and by last year, the sturdy tree was festooned with 9,800 eggs, artfully decorated with everything from sequins to sea shells. This time, Kraft has reached 10,000 – and he says he’s stopping there.
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Pakistani girl Naginah Sadiq, 5, arranges bricks where she and her family are working in a brick factory on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan. Naginah earns 250 Rupees ($2 .77 cents) per day according to her father.
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Shane Perkins of Australia celebrates with three year old Aidan after winning the Men’s Team Sprint Final with teammate Scott Sunderland and Matthew Glaetzer during Day 1 of the 2012 UCI Track Cycling World Championships at Hisense Arena in Melbourne, Australia.
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Dominique Strauss-Kahn speaks to Ukrainian students in Kiev . Former IMF chairman Dominique Strauss-Kahn, currently embroiled in sex scandals was giving a lecture on the future of the global economy and its implications on Europe and Ukraine.
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Young Afghan miners take a rest at a coal mine in Samangan province, north of Kabul. Afghanistan is believed to have mineral reserves worth as much as $3 trillion which could theoretically generate billions of dollars in tax revenue for the troubled country.
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Spanish legionnaires carry a statue of the Christ of Mena inside a church during a ceremony before they take part in Mena brotherhood procession during the Holy Week in Malaga, southern Spain. Hundreds of Easter processions take place round-the-clock during the Holy Week in Spain, drawing thousands of visitors.
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Visitors take pictures in Gucun Park as people flock to see the cherry blossoms in Shanghai. Thousands of visitors are expected in the park during the one-month cherry blossom season.
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A photo provided by the California Department of Corrections shows 77-year-old serial killer Charles Manson. Manson will have an April 11, 2012 parole hearing in California.
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Kremlin guards march near the Tomb of Unknown soldier, beside Moscow’s Kremlin. Moscow was hit by a heavy snow storm and strong wind Thursday morning.
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A model displays a creation by a group of Kyrgyz designers ‘NAH’ during a Fashion Week in Bishkek.
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Palestinian security forces show their skills in front of school students during a drill in the West Bank city of Jenin.
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A man pulls his load of whicker chairs on a cart in a street in Shanghai. China’s manufacturing activity rose to the highest level in a year in March official data showed but analysts tempered enthusiasm, saying the world’s second largest economy was still slowing.
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A Bangladeshi youth rafts piles of bamboos along a waterway in Dhaka. The bamboo industry has now started to export to European and Asian markets producing non -traditional food items from areas in the Chittagong Hills. Some 45 percent of Bangladesh’s population are employed in the agriculture industry – many in the production of cereals including wheat and maize.
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A crowd of people gather to catch a glimpse of a golden snapper fish at Ghat fish market in Bangladesh. The snapper caught by fishermen in the Bay of Bengal has been sold at US$40,000 because of its rare golden color.
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Pope Benedict XVI washes the feet of a priest as he leads the Holy Thursday mass at the basilica of Saint John Lateran in Rome, Italy.
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The moon is seen with the St. Peter and St. Paul Cathedral in the foreground in downtown St. Petersburg, Russia.
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Australia’s Anna Meares races to a world record in the women’s sprint qualifying at the Track Cycling World Championships in Melbourne, Australia. Meares set the new record of 10.782 seconds during flying 200m’s event.
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Catholics carry a statue of Jesus Nazareno during a procession known as “Jesus Nazareno of the tapes” during Holy Week in Cot de Cartago. According Jorge Masis, a priest of the church, this procession, where people tie ribbons to the statue to symbolize promises they make to Jesus during Holy Week, is a tradition that dates back 50 years ago.
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A man walks through solar panels at a solar power plant under construction in Aksu, China. U.S. solar panel manufacturers are still optimistic of winning substantial duties on solar panel imports from China, despite an initial U.S. government ruling that many found surprisingly low.
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An Egyptian whirling dervish dancer performs during the Egyptian cultural week in the Iraqi northern city of Arbil.
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Sakdawut Hamsiri, 30, holds a knife against his wife Thawee Naiyanit on a street in Bangkok, Thailand. The 6-hour knifepoint hostage ended when the police used a Taser gun to electroshock and take him to the police station. Police said the man was under the influence of drugs.
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A model displays a creation by a group of Kyrgyz designers ‘NAH’ during a Fashion Week in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.
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French boxer Salim Larbi cries after a final knock-out at the end of his World Boxing Organization (WBO) interim championship match against Czech boxer Lukas Konecny in Brno, Czech Republic. Lukas Konecny won the match. The winner of this encounter will now compete against Russian boxing champion Baysangurov for the championship belt.
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A United Airlines jet taking off from Newark Liberty International Airport flies in front of the moon.
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Golf fans with matching pants attend the first round of the 76th Masters golf tournament at the Augusta National Golf Club, Georgia.
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Dancers perform the Dance of the Death during a Holy Week procession in Verges, northeastern Spain. Dancers dress in body stockings with sckeletons painted on them and carry symbols to stir the people and prepare them for a good death.
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Driver Khalifa Al-Mutaiwei and German co-driver Andreas Schulz race past camels in their X-raid Mini All4 on the fifth and final 287km leg of the 2012 Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge in Dubai.
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Britain’s Victoria Pendleton, (R) crashes during her semifinal against Australia’s Anna Meares in the women’s sprint at the Track Cycling World Championships in Melbourne, Australia.
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Tibetan Buddhist monks make ceremonial offerings to the Dalai Lama at the Chime Gatsal Ling monastery in Dharmsala, India.
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11,541 red chairs are pictured along Titova street in Sarajevo as the city marks the 20th anniversary of the start of the Bosnian war. The anniversary finds the Balkan country still deeply divided, power shared between Serbs, Croats and Muslims in a single state ruled by ethnic quotas and united by the weakest of central governments.
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Tiger Woods hits out of the sand on the 17th hole during the the 1st round of the 76th Masters golf tournament at the Augusta National Golf Club on Augusta, Georgia.
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Russian soldiers limber up before practice their marching technique for the victory day parade on the Palace square in St. Petersburg. Russia celebrates victory over Nazi Germany in 1945 on May 9.
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Crew members of NEW LUCKY VII freighter are rescued by Japan’s maritime safety agency in the sea near Kagoshima Prefecture of Japan. Eleven of the 17 crew members on board a Hong Kong cargo ship which lost contact in waters off southern Japan two days ago were rescued by patrol vessels of Japanese Coast Guard. The cargo ship carrying timber was sailing from Papua New Guinea to China.
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Workers from the Athens central groceries market clash with police officers during a rally in front of the Bank of Greece in Athens. Hundreds of workers protested outside the labour ministry and the Bank of Greece on Friday saying they have lost part of their savings in the national debt swap deal that formed a crucial part of Greece’s bailout.
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An ultra-Orthodox Jew is seen through a heat mirage as he prays besides a fire burning leaven in the Mea Shearim neighborhood of Jerusalem, ahead of the Jewish holiday of Passover. Passover commemorates the flight of Jews from ancient Egypt, as described in the Exodus chapter of the Bible. According to the account, the Jews did not have time to prepare leavened bread before fleeing to the promised land.
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A North Korean soldier, working as a guide, walks through a forest that is said to be a former camp site where the late North Korean leader Kim Il Sung overnight while leading a battle against the Japanese at the foot of Mount Paektu, North Korea.
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A truck is partially buried in a sand pit at Country Construction in Murray, N.Y. Police in upstate New York used a helicopter to locate the stolen 26-foot box truck. Officials say the truck was stolen last week from a business in Wayne County. The truck and several other stolen items were recovered. The owners of the land face possession of stolen property charges.
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A man depicting Jesus holds a cross as he walks towards the Church of the Holy Sepulchre on Good Friday in Jerusalem’s Old City. Christian worshippers retraced the route Jesus took along Via Dolorosa to his crucifixion in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.
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Japanese fishing vessel, “Ryou-Un Maru”, shows significant signs of damage after U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Anancapa fired explosive ammunition into it, 180 miles west of the Southeast Alaskan coast . The U.S. Coast Guard opened fire on Thursday on a derelict Japanese fishing vessel washed out to sea by last year’s devastating tsunami in a bid to sink it and eliminate a threat to navigation.
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