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By Nabil Rahman

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Men drive a car near a site hit by what activists said was an air strike by government forces in Aleppo's al-Ansari al-Sharqi neighborhood, April 2, 2014.

Spain

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Albert Gea/Reuters
People throw colored powder during the Holi festival in Barcelona, April 6, 2014. 

India

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Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters
A woman shows her ink-marked finger after casting her vote at Makum village in Tinsukia district in the northeastern Indian state of Assam, April 7, 2014.

India

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Mukesh Gupta/Reuters
A woman holding her child votes for the general election inside a polling station on the outskirts of Jammu. Around 815 million people have registered to vote in the world's biggest election - a number exceeding the population of Europe and a world record - and results of the mammoth exercise, which concludes on May 12, are due on May 16, April 10, 2014. 

Central African Republic

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Goran Tomasevic/Reuters
Members of the anti-balaka, a Christian militia, patrol outside the village of Zawa, April 8, 2014. 

Ukraine

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Pro-Russian activists clash with police at the regional administration building in Donetsk, Ukraine, April 6, 2014. 

Venezuela

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Christian Veron/Reuters
Anti-government protesters kiss during a protest against Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro's government in Caracas.

Two Venezuelans died from gunshot wounds during protests against Maduro, witnesses and local media said, pushing the death toll from almost two months of anti-government protests to 33, March 22, 2014. 

New Zealand

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Prince George, son of Britain's Prince William and his wife Catherine, the Duchess of Cambridge, looks at other babies during a Plunket nurse and parents group event at the Government House in Wellington, April 9, 2014.

New Zealand

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Anthony Devlin/Reuters
Britain's Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge watches her husband Prince William sit in the cockpit of a Sopwith Pup at the Omaka Aviation Heritage Centre near Blenheim, in New Zealand, April 10, 2014. 

Israel

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Ronen Zvulun/Reuters
Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men and youths stand next to a fire during a protest in Jerusalem's Mea Shearim neighborhood. Hundreds of ultra-Orthodox Jewish men protested on Thursday against the jailing of a Jewish seminary student who failed to comply with a recruitment order, April 10, 2014.

Cyprus

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Neil Hall/Reuters
An illuminated flag of the self-declared Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, which is recognized only by Turkey, is seen overlooking Nicosia. Greek and Turkish Cypriots have lived estranged for decades, March 12, 2014

United States

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With the Jefferson Memorial in the background, Steven Paska, 26, right, of Arlington, Va., kneels as he asks Jessica Deegan, 27, his girlfriend of two years, to marry him, near cherry blossom trees in peak bloom along the tidal basin in Washington, April 10, 2014. 

Palestine

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Palestinian Olympic runner Nader Al-Masri stretches near his house in Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip. Masri, who has participated in 40 international contests including the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, was denied a permit by Israeli authorities to travel to the occupied West Bank for the Palestine Marathon, April 10, 2014.

Brazil

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Brazilian attorney, Nelson Paviotti, parks one of his two Volkswagen Beetles painted with the colors of the national flag in Campinas, Sao Paulo state. 

Paviotti claims he has worn clothes of only those colors as he promised to do if Brazil won the 1994 World Cup, which it did. He has recently decorated his home specially for the 2014 World Cup that Brazil is hosting, April 9, 2014. 

United States

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Joost Luiten of the Netherlands hits from the sand trap on the seventh hole during the first round of the Masters golf tournament at the Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Ga., April 10, 2014.

South Africa

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Ihsaan Haffejee/Reuters
Olympic and Paralympic track star Oscar Pistorius walks past June Steenkamp (seated, front L), mother of Reeva Steenkamp, March 24, 2014

Central African Republic

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Goran Tomasevic/Reuters
A masked female member of the anti-balaka, a Christian militia, holds a machete as she sits in the village of Zawa, April 8, 2014. 

Spain

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Andrea Comas/Reuters
Former police inspector Juan Antonio Gonzalez Pacheco, known as "Billy the Kid," leaves Madrid's High Court in Madrid wearing a motorcycle helmet after appearing before a judge at an extradition hearing. Pacheco is wanted in Argentina for alleged torture during the Francisco Franco military regime, April 10, 2014

China

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She Ping, a 34-year-old beekeeper, is seen during an attempt to cover his body with bees, in Chongqing municipality.

 He used queen bees to successfully attract more than 460,000 bees, weighing over 99 lbs, within 40 minutes, local media reported, April 9, 2014.

Rwanda

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Preserved human skulls are seen on display at the Kigali Genocide Memorial Centre, as the country prepares to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the 1994 genocide in the Rwandan capital Kigali. An estimated 800,000 people were killed in 100 days during this genocide, April 5, 2014.

Ukraine

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Shamil Zhumatov/Reuters
An effigy depicting Ukrainian politician and presidential candidate Yulia Tymoshenko is hanged on a billboard in front of the offices of the SBU state security service in Luhansk, in eastern Ukraine, April 9, 2014.

United States

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Steve Marcus/Las Vegas Sun/Reuters
Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton looks towards the audience, after a shoe was thrown onstage, during her speech to members of the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries in Las Vegas, Nev., April 10, 2014

Uganda

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Edward Echwalu/Reuters
A Southern White Rhino named Bella eats with her one-day-old baby at Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary in Nakasongola, April 3, 2014. 

United States

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Kevin Lamarque/Reuters
U.S. President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama pay their respects for the slain soldiers at the conclusion of a memorial service at Fort Hood in Killeen Texas, April 9, 2014.

United States

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Kevin Lamarque/Reuters
U.S. President Barack Obama speaks at a Civil Rights Summit to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Civil Rights Act at the LBJ Presidential Library in Austin, Texas, April 10, 2014. 

France

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Christian Hartmann/Reuters
New French Police officers stand at attention during a ceremony at the Police Prefecture in Paris, April 9, 2014. 

United States

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Lucy Nicholson/Reuters
Director James Cameron is seen through a television camera as he is interviewed in Manhattan Beach, Calif., April 8, 2014.

Russia

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Alexander Demianchuk/Reuters
People take a tour in an "upside down home" in St. Petersburg. The exhibition charges less than $10 for a walk through its three rooms and two bathrooms through the apartment, April 10, 2014.

China

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Aly Song/Reuters
Models present creations by Fanny's F.UR during Shanghai Fashion Week, April 10, 2014.

Germany

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Burma pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi is welcomed by German President Joachim Gauck at Bellevue presidential palace in Berlin, April 10, 2014.

United States

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Miles Scott, dressed as Batkid, second from right, walks to the mound with San Francisco Giants pitcher Matt Cain to throw the ceremonial first pitch before a home opener baseball game between the Giants and the Arizona Diamondbacks in San Francisco, April 8, 2014. 
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