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Anti-government protesters urging the release of human rights activist Abdulhadi al-Khawaja, take part in a rally in the village of Bani-Jamra, west of Manama March 11, 2012.
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Spanish Edgar Torronteras performs at the freestyle motocross jumping demonstration during the FIM Indoor Trial World Motorcycling Championship in Palma de Mallorca.
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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton addresses a Security Council meeting at UN headquarters. The bloody conflict in Syria is likely to dominate public and private talks Monday as key ministers meet at the United Nations on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and challenges from the Arab Spring.
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A squad of Chinese special police show off their skills rappeling from a building in Hefei, east China's Anhui province. China will spend $111.6 billion on its police forces in 2012, the government said as it focuses on quelling rising social unrest ahead of a 10-year leadership change.
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Boats are anchored to block the traffic on the banks of the River Buriganga in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Police have stepped up security in Bangladesh capital after the main Bangladesh Nationalist Party and its key Islamist ally Jammat-e-Islami called for an anti-government protest demanding an independent caretaker government oversee elections.
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Argentine Falklands War veterans walk among the tombstones to pay homage to Argentine soldiers who died during the conflict at Darwin cemetery, in the Falkland Islands. Diplomatic tensions between Argentina and Britain have been rising in the runup to the 30th anniversary of the war they fought over the islands.
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Workers move a giant Tyrannosaurus Rex model into position at Chester Zoo in England. The robotic model is one of 19 replica dinosaurs that form the Dinosaurs Bite Back exhibition that opens at the zoo on April 1.
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Bolivia's President Evo Morales holds a coca leaf as he speaks and shows other products made with a coca leaves during the 55th session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs at the United Nations' headquarters in Vienna. Morales defended Bolivians' right to chew coca leaves, the main ingredient of cocaine, on Monday, saying it was a tradition going back thousands of years and the world's No. 3 cocaine producer was working to fight drug trafficking. The coca leaf was declared an illegal narcotic in the 1961 UN Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, along with cocaine, heroin, opium, morphine and a host of chemical drugs.
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Thai security personnel survey the site of a motorcycle bomb at a roadside in southern Thailand's Pattani province, south of Bangkok. Two soldiers were wounded by a bomb explosion while providing security for teachers in Pattani's Sai Buri district.
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Thousands of people gather for a rally of the country's main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) of former prime minister Khaleda Zia in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Thousands of people supported Bangladesh's main opposition party's call for a general strike for March 29 to press demands for impartial oversight of elections set for 2014.
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Israeli police officers try to clear people from the site where a rocket fired by Palestinian militants in Gaza landed in the southern city of Ashdod March 12, 2012. Israel launched more air strikes in the Gaza Strip and Palestinians kept up rocket fire against southern Israel on Monday in a fourth day of hostilities in which 23 Palestinians have been killed.
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A Volkswagen "Beetle" (L) and an "UP!" are pictured in a delivery tower at the company's headquarter in Wolfsburg, Germany, March 12, 2012
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Activists of Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) linked to India's main opposition Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) shout slogans as they are stopped by police during a protest against corruption in New Delhi March 12, 2012.
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Spain's Economy Minister Luis de Guindos (L) is greeted by Luxembourg's Prime Minister and Eurogroup chairman Jean-Claude Juncker (R) at a Eurogroup meeting in Brussels March 12, 2012.
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A supporter holds a poster of East Timor's President Jose Ramos-Horta during Horta's campaign for the upcoming presidential election at a stadium in Ermera district March 12, 2012. East Timor's presidential election, scheduled for March 17, 2012, will be the country's third presidential election.
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A U.S. soldier keeps watch as Taliban militants, part of a group of a hundred Afghan Talibans, hand over their weapons as they take part in the Afghan government's reconciliation and reintegration program in Laghman province March 12, 2012
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A member of security personnel looks through a pair of binoculars as supporters of the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and its alliance gather in front of their party office during a rally in Dhaka March 12, 2012. The main opposition BNP and its alliance called the grand rally to demand the return of a caretaker government.
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Residents grieve outside a morgue while waiting to claim the body of their relative who was killed by gunmen duing an attack on goldsmiths shops in northern Baghdad March 12, 2012.
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Children walk past livestock that died from foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) placed by farmers outside a veterinary centre during a protest in Ibsheway el-Malaq village in Gharbia governorate, Egypt, March 12, 2012. Farmers on Monday protested against the government for not taking effective action to combat the outbreak of FMD in Egypt and demanded for compensation for their affected livestock. The farmers added that consumers are abstaining from purchasing beef and mutton, causing prices of fish and chicken to rise.
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Relatives arrive at the site of a ferry accident on the river Meghna in Munshiganj district, some 50 km (31 miles) south of Dhaka March 13, 2012. A ferry carrying more than 250 passengers sank in a south Bangladesh river on Tuesday after colliding with a barge, and at least 150 people are still missing, police and witnesses said
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A woman mourns with her daughter for her husband, missing after a ferry was struck by a barge and capsized in Munshiganj district, some 50 km (31 miles) south of Dhaka March 13, 2012
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Specialist Jeremy Hudson hugs his wife as his ten-year-old daughter Averie holds a welcome home sign on March 12 as he and other soldiers from the 530th Engineer Company arrive at Fort Stewart in Georgia
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Most of the fantastic auroral views we've been getting over the past month have been from the north side of the world — but the southern lights are getting their day in the sun as well, thanks largely to the International Space Station
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Rangers train a dog at Virunga Park. The Democratic Republic of Congo's famed Virunga National Park has deployed bloodhounds to track down elephant poachers, a park official said Monday."The first operation of the specially-trained bloodhounds was launched after a succession of elephant-poaching incidents," LuAnne Cadd, the park's public relations officer, told AFP.
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A picture released by Virunga National Park shows rangers and their dog looking at the large bloated carcass of an adult elephant laying in the bushes by a river in the Ishasha Valley. The Park said "it was clearly an ivory poaching incident, the tusks had been hacked out of the elephant's face." The UN watchdog into the illegal wildlife trade last week voiced "grave concern" at a spike in African elephant poaching after nearly 450 of the animals were killed in Cameroon. "This spike in elephant poaching is of grave concern not only to Cameroon, a member state to CITES, but to all 38 range states of the African elephant," John Scanlon, the head of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), said. The UN agency said it will contact the ministers responsible for forests and wildlife from Cameroon, Chad, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Sudan to offer anti-poaching
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Workers carry US beef laden with ractopamine, a controversial additive used to promote lean meat, at a furnace in downtown Taipei on Monday. More than six tonnes of such beef imported by a local company that contained the drug allowed in the US but banned in Taiwan was destroyed. The move came as Taiwanese government is mulling a plan to lift a ban on ractopamine-treated US beef to facilitate stalled trade talks with the US, a key trading partner and arms supplier of the politically isolated island.
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Peter Kaiser drives his team into the checkpoint in Unalakleet, Alaska, during the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on Sunday
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Free Syrian Army fighters plant a roadside bomb to destroy a Syrian Army tank during a day of fierce fighting with the government forces in Idlib, north Syria on Sunday
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Free Syrian Army fighters cry after learning at least four comrades died during clashes with the government forces in Idlib.
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Free Syrian Army fighters are seen amid smoke from tank shelling in Idlib. At least four rebels were killed and several were injured
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Investigators look over the scene of a fatal school bus crash on the southeast side of Indianapolis, Monday, March 12. The driver and one student were killed and two other critically injured.
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Phone hacking: Rebekah Brooks arrested in Weeting probe
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Former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks has been arrested as part of the police inquiry into allegations of phone hacking.
Five other people were detained, including Mrs Brooks' husband, the racehorse trainer Charlie Brooks.
The arrests took place in Oxfordshire, London, Hampshire and Hertfordshire.
Police said one woman and five men were held on suspicion of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice, as part of the Operation Weeting hacking probe.
News International has confirmed that its head of security, Mark Hanna, is among the six people being held.
Former News of the World and Sun editor Mrs Brooks was arrested at her home in Oxfordshire. Her husband was also detained and they are now being held at separate police stations.
Officers are searching addresses connected to the arrests
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A burnt sandal is a reminder of the arson attack that killed an iman in Brussels on Monday evening
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Afghans protest at the killing of 16 civilians by a US soldier over the weekend
Scuffle after North Korea rejects UN rights report
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A scuffle has broken out at the United Nations after a North Korean envoy rejected a report critical of the country's human rights.
Pyongyang said the report by special rapporteur on human rights Marzuki Darusman was "fabricated by hostile elements".
As the North Korean delegate So Se-pyong left the meeting of about 500 delegates, a scuffle broke out.
One man was detained and later released by security officials.
The report said that human rights conditions in North Korea ''continued to deteriorate'' from September 2011 to January 2012.
The North Korean representative said Pyongyang ''roundly rejects this useless interpretation'' and reportedly called on the council not to renew the mandate of the special rapporteur, the AFP news agency reports.
A ''group of visiting South Korean lawmakers'' approached him, reported Yonhap news agency, and ''a brief physical clash occurred between the two sides'' as the North's diplomat tried to leave.
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Ofakim, Israel: Rina Assayag pulls a mattress over herself and her husband, Mordechai, for protection during a rocket alarm
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Gaza City, Gaza: An Islamic Jihad militant who was killed in an Israeli air strike is transported into the morgue of al-Shifa hospital
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Spala, Poland: People exit the cryotherapy room at the Olympic sports centre
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New Delhi, India: Men help a commuter board a train
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Bhopal, India: A stray dog smeared with coloured powder walks in a lane on the last day of Holi festival celebrations
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Florence, Italy: Researchers work on the Battle of Angiari project, a search for the lost Leonardo da Vinci fresco
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Marseille, France: A man listens to a speech during the opening ceremony of the sixth World Water forum at Parc Chanot
Guatemala Dos Erres massacre soldier given 6,060 years
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A court in Guatemala has sentenced a former soldier to 6,060 years in prison for his role in the massacre of 201 people during the civil war.
Pedro Pimentel Rios, 55, was extradited from the US last year.
He is the fifth former soldier to be convicted for the killings in the village of Dos Erres in 1982.
The sentence is largely symbolic as the maximum actual term is 50 years but it comes amid renewed moves to try those implicated in civil war atrocities
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[I]"DAMASCUS, (SANA) - Syria's Permanent Representative at the United Nations Bashar al-Jaafari on Tuesday sent a message to the UN Secretary-General and Heads of the UN General Assembly and UN Security Council on the hostile stances made by the Head of the Assembly, Qatar's Ambassador Nasser Bin Abdulaziz Al-Nassr.
In the message, al-Jafari said that the statements of al-Nassr don't accord with the role of the Assembly's presidency, which should comply with the UN Charter and be neutral and objective.
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[I]"MOSCOW, (SANA)- Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, on Tuesday stressed the necessity of getting the Syrian opposition that has been completely rejecting dialogue and includes armed groups using armed violence to be convinced that it has no choice but that of dialogue, and that this issue is in the power of the UN envoy Kofi Annan and his team.
"It is incomprehensible how to speak to the largely non-harmonious and inconsistent opposition groups that are using arms in various Syrian cities, especially when there are those who can speak to the leadership in Syria," said Lavrov in a statement reported by Russia Today website.
The Russian Foreign Minister expressed hope that Annan will be able to present preliminary assessments on paper about the situation in Syria in the near future.