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Day in photos: March 26, 2013

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An official from the Dominican Republic’s attorney general’s office watches as seized packets of cocaine are burned in Santo Domingo. The government torched nearly a ton of cocaine snagged from an international smuggling ring. Reuters
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Children spray coloured foam at each other during Holi celebrations in an alleyway near the Bankey Bihari temple in Vrindavan, India. Reuters
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Penitents of the brotherhood of ‘Good Dead Christ’ take part in a procession in Zamora, Spain, in celebration of the Easter Holy Week. AP
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Casiano Quezada, son of $360M Powerball lottery winner Pedro Quezada, speaks to a crowd of media at work at his deli in Passaic, NJ. Tim Farrell
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North Korean troops practice a military landing during exercises on the communist country’s east coast. AFP/Getty Images
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A line of workers from the Dukovany nuclear power plant don radiation suits during a nuclear accident exercise in Dukovany, Czech Republic. AFP/Getty Images
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Artists work on Hollywood-themed sand sculptures on the beach at Weston-super-Mare, UK, ahead of the seaside town’s annual Sand Sculpture Festival. ZUMA Press
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The Soyuz rocket is lifted onto its launch pad at the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The Soyuz will carry US astronaut Chris Cassidy along with Russian cosmonauts Pavel Vinogradov and Alexander Misurkin to the International Space Station this week. Reuters
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Broken glass litters the street at the site of a Taliban suicide attack in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, that killed at least five policemen. Reuters
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Joe Biden cheers on President Obama during the signing ceremony for a bill designating the First State National Monument in Delaware and a handful of other now-protected sites. AFP/Getty Images
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South Carolina guard Tiffany Mitchell (from top), forward Ashley Bruner, center, and Kansas guard Angel Goodrich, battle for the posession during their second-round NCAA tournament game in Boulder, Colo. AP