Posted by jodietonita on December 31, 2007

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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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Posted by jodietonita on December 31, 2007

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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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Posted by jodietonita on December 31, 2007

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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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Posted by jodietonita on December 29, 2007

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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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Posted by jodietonita on December 29, 2007

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People hold candles during a prayer meeting held to mourn the assassination of Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, in Hyderabad.
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Posted by jodietonita on December 29, 2007

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A Cuban girl waits for her family car to be fixed in Old Havana.
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Posted by jodietonita on December 29, 2007

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An Iraqi Shiite attends evening prayers for Eid al-Ghadeer at the Imam Ali shrine in Najaf, south of Baghdad.
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Posted by jodietonita on December 27, 2007

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

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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.

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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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Posted by jodietonita on December 24, 2007

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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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Posted by jodietonita on December 24, 2007

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