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Day in Photos: March 27, 2012

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A passenger jet flies over a commercial building as it prepares to land at Berlin's Tegel airport. After over 60 years in operation, Tegel is expected to close in June 2012, as Berlin's new airport, the Berlin Brandenburg International airport becomes operational.

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A man walking beside the site of a heavy fire engulfing the Myanmar International Terminals Thilawa at a deep sea port located some 25 km south of Yangon. The cause of the fire is unknown.

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Marissa Shadler kisses boyfriend Cory Dutkiewicz goodbye as he prepares to deploy on The USS New York, an amphibious transport dock ship, from Naval Station Norfolk in Norfolk, Va. This is the first deployment of the ship, parts of which were built with steel from the World Trade Center. The New York is part of the Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group and will operate in the Mediterranean Sea and Arabian Gulf.

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Hundreds of pall bearers, all wearing black clothes and traditional woven ta'ovala mats around their waists, carry the royal standard draped casket of King George Tupou V on a black and gold catafalque from the Royal Palace at the start of the king's funeral procession through the capital Nuku'alofa, Tonga.

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Student protesters stand as a casing fired by the police explodes during protests against the government's plans to hike the fuel price, in Jakarta. Thousands of Indonesians protested nationwide amid tight security to reject the government's plan to hike the subsidized fuel price in line with rising global oil prices.

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An honor guard prepares for the welcoming ceremony of Ireland's Prime Minister Enda Kenny at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. Kenny is on a three day visit to Beijing.

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Mara Salvatrucha gang members attend a mass celebrated by Archbishop Luigi Pezzuto, Apostolic Nuncio to El Salvador, and head army and police chaplain Monsignor Fabio Colindres at a prison in Ciudad Barrios, El Salvador. According to Dionisio Aristides Umanzor, known as El Sirra, leader of the Mara Salvatrucha gang, leaders of the Mara Salvatrucha and the Mara 18, El Salvador's two largest street gangs, have reached a truce, reducing the country's homicide rate, one of the highest in the world.

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A labourer works at a shipyard in Yueqing City, Zhejiang Province . China's industrial firms made total profits of 606 billion yuan ($96 billion) in the first two months of 2012, down 5.2 percent from the same period last year.

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Pro-military Malian youth gather in support of the Army coup d'etat in the capital Bamako. The United States said on Monday it would suspend some aid to Mali after last week's coup, estimating $60-70 million may be affected, but stressed it would maintain food and humanitarian assistance. Five days after an overnight coup, the West African state is in limbo with the whereabouts of President Amadou Toumani Toure uncertain, the putsch leaders disowned by neighbours and world powers, and Malians confused over their country's fate.

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A model presents a creation by designer Hu Sheguang during the China Fashion Week in Beijing, China.

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Iraqi national Raihan Ashour Oraibi Alfatlawi sits behind false passports he had possessed as he is presented to the media at Thai Immigration headquarter in Bangkok, Thailand. Thai police arrested Alfatlawi and a Thai woman on Tuesday, while Australian police announced the arrest of four men in Sydney and Melbourne in a multination operation against human trafficking networks.

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Japanese challenger Yota Sato, (R) lands a right to Thai defending champion Suriyan Sor Rungvisai during the fourth round of their 12-round WBC super flyweight boxing title bout at the Korakuen Hall in Tokyo Tuesday, March 27, 2012. Sato won the crown with a unanimous decision.

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A Swimmer runs into the water at dawn at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia.

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The waxing crescent moon is seen in the night sky above the San Gabriel Valley, east of downtown Los Angeles, Calif. Sometimes called a young moon, a waxing crescent moon is always seen in the west after sunset, and unlike a lunar eclipse which is the only time the Earth's shadow can fall on the moon, the shadow on a waxing crescent moon is the moon's own shadow.

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President Barack Obama covers the microphone as he arrives at the plenary session of the Nuclear Security Summit at the Coex Center in Seoul, South Korea.