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Archive for December, 2007

Cyprus adopts euro

Posted by jodietonita on December 31, 2007

cypriot woman with euro
Photo: Stefanos Kouratzis/AFP/Getty Images

A Cypriot woman holds up the new local euro coin outside the Finance Ministry in central Nicosia earlier in December. The Mediterranean island of less than one million people will adopt the single european currency on Tuesday, less than four years after it joined the 27-member bloc.

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Bhutan votes

Posted by jodietonita on December 31, 2007

bhutan voters
Photo: Diptendu Dutta/AFP/Getty Images

A Bhutanese woman poses with her voter identity card as she queues with fellow citizens to cast their votes in the general election at Pashaka polling station in Jaigaon on Monday. The Himalayan outpost of Bhutan is staging its first parliamentary polls this week as the kingdom steers away from royal rule, but officials worry that many voters will stay away.

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Election in dispute

Posted by jodietonita on December 31, 2007

Kenya riots post election
Photo: Joseph Okanga/Reuters

Opposition supporters protest on a Kenyan main road in the Bamburi area of the coastal city of Mombasa on Monday as President Mwai Kibaki began a second term after a disputed election result.

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Streets burn

Posted by jodietonita on December 29, 2007

Street burn in Rawalpindi
Photo: Farooq Naeem/AFP/GETTY IMAGES

An activist of Pakistan’s assassinated former premier Benazir Bhutto’s Pakistan People’s Party runs by burning tyres during a protest, in Rawalpindi.

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Mourning Bhutto

Posted by jodietonita on December 29, 2007

mourning
Photo: Krishnendu Halder/ REUTERS

People hold candles during a prayer meeting held to mourn the assassination of Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, in Hyderabad.

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Longevity

Posted by jodietonita on December 29, 2007

Cuban car
Photo: Dado Galdieri / AP

A Cuban girl waits for her family car to be fixed in Old Havana.

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Eid al-Ghadeer

Posted by jodietonita on December 29, 2007

Eid al-Ghadeer
Photo: Alaa Al-Marjani/AP

An Iraqi Shiite attends evening prayers for Eid al-Ghadeer at the Imam Ali shrine in Najaf, south of Baghdad.

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We remember

Posted by jodietonita on December 27, 2007

tsunami thailand
Photo: Chaiwat Subprasom/Reuters

A villager cries during on the three year anniversary of the Indian Ocean tsunami in Khao Lak, Thailand.

tsunami india
Photo: AFP/Getty Images

An Indian girl who lost relatives in the December, 2004, tsunami lights candles around a sand statue representing a victim, on the Marina Beach in Chennai.

lanterns
Photo: Chaiwat Subprasom/Reuters

Steve Warren floats a paper lanterns over the Andaman Sea in remembrance of the Indian Ocean tsunami victims in Khao Lak, Thailand.

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Mickey in Iraq

Posted by jodietonita on December 24, 2007

Mickey in Iraq
Photo: AFP/Getty Images

Mickey Mouse entertains Iraqi children attending Britain-based association Human Relief Foundation’s charity meeting at the al-Yarmuk social club in western Baghdad.

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Rising sea levels

Posted by jodietonita on December 24, 2007

Rising sea levels
Photo: Reuters

Children play in a flooded street after rising sea levels in Penjaringan subdistrict, North Jakarta.

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