The grave of former South African President Nelson Mandela is covered with flowers after his state funeral yesterday in Qunu, South Africa.
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Women sweep the base of statues of the late leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il in Pyongyang. North Koreans are arriving to pay their respects on the eve of the second anniversary of the death of Kim Jong Il.
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A camera’s lens and slow shutter speed blur the Denver City/County Building’s holiday lights that were lit yesterday in downtown Denver.
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Syrian refugees walk around their camp in Arsal, Lebanon. Tens of thousands of impoverished Syrians who fled their civil war live in tents, shacks and unfinished buildings across Lebanon. They face a miserable winter as aid organizations scramble to meet their growing needs.
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Indians participate in a candle light vigil on the first anniversary of the brutal rape and murder of a young student in New Delhi, India. The victim, a 23-year-old physiotherapy student, became a rallying cry for tens of thousands protesting women’s treatment in sexual violence cases.
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Andreas Matt of Austria, right, performs on his way to win the final of the men’s ski cross World Cup event in the French Alps yesterday.
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A Christian woman walks by an unfinished basilica in Bangui, Central African Republic where she and over 10,000 others have found refuge. More than 600 people have been killed since sectarian violence broke out last week.
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French President Francois Hollande inspects the troops at a military ceremony in Paris honoring two soldiers killed last week in Bangui, Central African Republic. France is leading an operation to bring peace in the chaotic Central African Republic, its former colony.
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A Yemeni girl receives a polio vaccination during a polio immunization campaign in Sanaa, Yemen. A three day anti-Polio immunization campaign to vaccinate more than four million children under the age of five started Monday.
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A woman sits at the shuttered entrance of an Athens bank in Greece. The graffiti reads “Victory for the Struggle at Universities and Polytechnics.” Athens University has closed since staff went on strike over personnel cuts imposed as part of Greece’s bailout agreements.
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Kashmiri Muslim girls learn martial arts in an indoor stadium in Srinagar, Kashmir, India. As the number of crimes against women rises in the region, girls of all ages have taken up martial arts and other self-defense courses to thwart attackers.
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Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) started a series of daily protests yesterday in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, urging the government to hold a re-election after allegations of massive fraud in the July election.
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This image of China’s Chang’e-3 moon lander was taken by its Jade Rabbit moon rover. Chinese scientists declared their Chang’e-3 lunar probe mission a success after their rover and lander transmitted pictures of each other back to earth.
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Firemen try to put out a fire that consumed a 25-floor uninhabited building in Guangzhou, China. The fire started on Sunday evening and was not under control until Monday morning.
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Visitors go to the Voortrekker monument in Pretoria, South Africa. December 16th is South Africa’s Day of Reconciliation, which started in 1994 with the end of apartheid to foster reconciliation and national unity.
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An anti-government protester sleeps near the Democracy Monument in Bangkok, Thailand. The anti-government protests are in their second month and, though the number of demonstrators has gone down, the crisis is far from over.
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