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International students demonstrate outside the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change conference in Bangkok.

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Matt Lozowski, centre, of Milford, Conn., jumps over the finish line in high heels after finishing the Walk a Mile in Her Shoes benefit for a rape crisis centre.

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From left to right, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, Cuban Vice-President Carlos Lage, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, Bolivian President Evo Morales and Haitian President Rene Preval prepare for the official photograph during their Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas meeting in Tintorero, Venezuela.

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Demonstrators from Gualeguaychu, Argentina, block the international bridge to Uruguay during a protest against the construction of a pulp mill on the Uruguayan side of the river by Finnish company Botnia.

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Estonian police cordoned off a street in Tallinn after more than 1,000 people protested against plans to move a Soviet war memorial. The mannequin was reportedly stolen from a nearby shop by looters.

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Police spray teargas at demonstrators protesting against NATO and the war in Afghanistan near a meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Oslo, Norway.

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Relatives of people killed by gangs call for justice during a demonstration in front of the Haitian Prime Minister’s office in Port-au-Prince.

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A man is detained by police in the outskirts of Kano, Nigeria, during protests of weekend elections by opposition supporters.

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An Iraqi girl acts embarrassed after giving flowers to a U.S. soldier in Mosul, Iraq.

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Young children carry water to their homes in Baruwa, Lagos. Many communities complain that their wells have become polluted by leaking underground oil pipelines.