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Day in photos: March 8, 2013

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A worker examines one of four custom clocks -- destined for installation in Kansas City, Mo. -- at the Electric Time Company factory in Medfield, Mass.

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Dutch first baseman Curt Smith goes spikes-up to catch a foul ball by Cuba' Jose Abreu in the eighth inning of their World Baseball Classic game at the Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Japan.

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Venezuelan soldiers push back barriers penning supporters waiting to pay last respects to late Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez outside the Military Academy in Caracas.

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Syrian refugees run from a gas explosion at the Al Zaatari refugee camp in Mafraq, Jordan.

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A boy and a Bulldog await their turn on the second day of the Crufts Dog Show in Birmingham, England.

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Responders are silhouetted as a fire engulfs a shanty town in the eastern Indian city of Bhubaneswar. About 300 homes were gutted.

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A house on the Plum Island seacoast in Newbury, Mass., sits partially collapsed into the churning surf at high tide as a slow-moving Nor'easter continued to batter the East Coast.

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Chen Chang-yen of the Taiwan Guoguang Opera Company gets made up before a performance of "Flowing Sleeves and Rouge" amid the Taiwan International Festival of the Arts at the National Theatre.

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Polish skiier Szczepan Karpiel launches off a ledge during qualifications for the men's slopestyle final at the FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships in Voss, Norway.

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A man strolls along the water in snow-covered Brooklyn, NY, in the shadow of the Manhattan Bridge.

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Activists made up to appear as statues perform at an International Women's Day rally -- decrying violence against women -- in front of the Supreme Court in Guatemala City.

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A Palestinian protester carries a young boy away from clashes with israeli security forces in Kafr Qaddum.