Around the world -- Photos

Around the world -- Photos

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A street vendor tries to keep the crowd from stealing her goods in Port-au-Prince on January 24, 2010. Police in the Haitian capital counted their losses and gathered their forces today, preparing for a surge in crime they are certain will follow the devastating January 12 earthquake
 
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Pakistani flood survivors try to catch food bags from an army helicopter in Lal Pir on August 7, 2010. Pakistan raced to evacuate families threatened with fresh floods, as heavy rains worsened the disaster in its second week, with up to 15 million people already affected
 
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A woman cries over the dead body of her child wrapped in blankets amid the rubble of landslide devastation in Zhouqu on August 11, 2010 in northwest China's Gansu province. Hopes of finding survivors of China's worst mudslides in decades is fading as the death toll topped 700, with more than 1,000 people still missing under an avalanche of rock and sludge. More than 10,000 soldiers and rescuers combed through the mountains of mud that buried a remote area of the northwest province of Gansu at the weekend, but 72 hours after the disaster, the window of survival was quickly closing.
 
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In this Nov. 12, 2010 file photo, a girl suffering cholera symptoms receives treatment at the Doctors Without Borders temporary hospital in Port-au-Prince
 
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United Nations peacekeepers from Uruguay tend to pregnant Haitian woman who lost consciousness in a massive crowd during a rice distribution for earthquake-displaced Haitians in front of the National Palace January 25, 2010 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Life in Haiti is transitioning to a new normal nearly two weeks after a powerful earthquake delivered historic damage and death to Port-au-Prince.
 
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In this Feb. 9, 2010 file photo, a Palestinian rioter tries to grab a weapon from a plain-clothes Israeli police officer, right, during clashes in Shuafat refugee camp in east Jerusalem.
 
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In this Feb. 20, 2010 file photo, Indian police try to douse fire as a student, S. Yadaiah, set himself on fire during a protest for separate Telangana state in Hyderabad, India
 
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Pakistani local residents scramble to safety in a flood-hit area of Nowshera on July 29, 2010. Flash floods and building collapses brought on by heavy rains have killed 34 people in northwest Pakistan, officials said.
 
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An Israeli motorist runs down a masked Palestinian youth who was standing among a group of youngsters throwing stones at Israeli cars on October 8, 2010 in the mostly Arab east Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan.
 
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A woman walks past the ruins of collapsed buildings in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Friday, Jan. 15, 2010. Efforts to deliver desperately needed food, water and medical help to victims of Haiti?s earthquake intensified on Friday even as the voices of survivors buried underneath mountains of rubble began to fall silent.
 
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Cambodian police officials examine hundreds of shoes and other belongings on a bridge in Phnom Penh on November 23, 2010 the morning after hundreds were crushed to death during a stampede. Cambodia began the grim task on November 23 of identifying almost 350 people, many of them women, crushed to death in the bridge stampede when revellers panicked at a huge water festival in Phnom Penh
 
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Daniela Payvagi, a child from the Ache indigenous group, plays near a waterfall in Cerro Moroti, Paraguay, Saturday, April 17, 2010. According to Paraguay's National Commission for Truth and Justice, the Ache were hunted by white men until the 1970s, reducing the group's population to 1,500. According to the United Nations, April 19 marks the International Day of the American Indigenous People
 
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This July 31, 2010 file photo released by Genevieve de Manio Photography shows former President Bill Clinton walking his daughter Chelsea down the aisle for her wedding in Rhinebeck, N.Y
 
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The body of a woman who died from cholera sits on the ground next to a man receiving treatment in a local hospital in Limbe village, near Cap Haitien, Haiti, Thursday, Nov. 25, 2010. Haiti
 
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A Yemeni girl wearing a new dress as she stands in an alley of the old city, on the first day of the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha, or Feast of the Sacrifice, in Sanaa, Yemen, Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2010
 
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A man pulls the body of a woman who died of cholera in Cap Haitian, Haiti, Friday Nov. 19, 2010. Thousands of people have been hospitalized for cholera across Haiti with symptoms including serious diarrhea, vomiting and fever and at least 1,100 people have died.
 

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