Three electronic warfare aircrafts, EA-6B ‘Prowler’, are parked on the flight deck of US aircraft carrier USS George Washington during the ‘Keen Sword’, a US-Japan military exercise at the Pacific Ocean.
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A boy follows a German Bundeswehr army soldier with the 2nd Paratroop Company 373 as he patrols during a mission in the city of Iman Sahib, north of Kunduz.
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Overhead view of the Nobel prize ceremony at the Concert Hall in Stockholm, Sweden. Laureates are seated in front to the left and the royal family in front to the right.
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Female relatives of Cuban political prisoners known as the “Ladies in White” march through the streets marking International Human Rights Day in Havana, Cuba.
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Chinese workers make their way along the construction site of a tunnel system connecting new housing and commercial areas in Hefei, east China’s Anhui province. China’s exports and imports rose faster than expected to record highs in November, showing the world’s second-largest economy was in robust condition.
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U.S. Navy Deck crew members take a rest on the USS George Washington aircraft carrier during “Keen Sword” U.S.-Japan joint military exercise over the Pacific Ocean.
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A girl takes pictures as she visits the Gallery of Russian Ice Sculpture in Moscow, Russia.
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Hundreds of newly unloaded, wet, and bloody shark fins drying in the afternoon sun in a quiet street near Kennedy Town docks, Hong Kong. It is difficult and dangerous to gather images like this in countries such as South Africa and Costa Rica, where shark fin drying compounds are highly-fortified with breeze-block walls, barbed wire and security cameras. This is because global shark fin traders, and the Chinese organized crime syndicate partners who operate them, are extremely wary of theft and negative publicity. However in Hong Kong, where crime rates are low and attitudes towards shark finning are more accommodating, shark fin drying is brazenly done in public.
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Jeff Papillon of Vernon, Conn., carries his Douglas fir Christmas tree over his head after cutting it down with his family at the Dzen Tree Farm in South Windsor, Conn.
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Tourists jump to be photographed in Karnak Temple in Luxor, southern Egypt. The Karnak temple complex dates from before 2000 B.C. and is dedicated mainly to Amon Ra. It is the largest temple in the world.
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A man affiliated with the group Iran180 sits in a giant puppet outfit made to look like Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad before the start of a small street theater performance near the United Nations in New York. The performance, in which the likeness of the Iranian President is arrested, was meant to draw attention to Iran’s alleged human rights abuses as way to mark International Human Rights Day.
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Los Angeles Kings’ Dustin Brown checks Calgary Flames’ Mark Giordano, left, to the ice during the second period of their NHL hockey game in Los Angeles, CA.
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An empty chair representing Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo is seen between Nobel committee members during a ceremony honoring Liu at city hall in Oslo, Norway. Liu, a democracy activist, is serving an 11-year prison sentence in China on subversion charges brought after he co-authored a bold call for sweeping changes to Beijing’s one-party communist political system.
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Chinese children get a feel what their mothers experienced during pregnancy, at a sex education class in Beijing. Chinese health and education experts are changing China’s sex education strategy from focusing on teaching married couples birth control, as unmarried young also need to be targeted because parents are too reluctant to teach their children about sex, while more than 13 million abortions are undertaken at registered clinics every year.
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Balkar men, dressed in national clothes, sit during a heavy snowfall as they take part in a protest rally in central Moscow. Six Balkar activists from Russia’s North Caucasus republic of Kabardino-Balkaria have held more than a five-month long rally by the Kremlin wall to protest against the policies of authorities in their native region, which, in their opinion, infringe upon their people’s rights.
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A man walks up a snow-covered hill in the Olympic park in Munich, Germany, as the sun shines with temperatures of -2 degrees.
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US skater Kristiene Gong competes in the Junior Ladies Free Skating category during the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final 2010/2011 in Beijing, China.
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Greenpeace activists form the word “hope?”with their bodies, next to a giant life saver, during a demonstration near the site of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Cancun, Mexico.
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