A school pupil kicks a ball during a sports lesson at a school in Mogadishu, Somalia.
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People gather at the Lake Merritt Pergola during a vigil for the victims of the fatal warehouse fire in Oakland, California.
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German Chancellor and leader of the conservative Christian Democratic Union party CDU Angela Merkel receives flowers after she was re-elected as chairwoman at the CDU party convention in Essen, Germany.
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Iraqi army fires towards Islamic State militant positions in Mosul from the village of Adhbah, south of Mosul Iraq.
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Fireworks explode next to riot police during clashes following an anniversary rally marking the 2008 police shooting of 15-year-old student, Alexandros Grigoropoulos, in Athens, Greece.
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Giant panda Mei Huan stands at Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in Chengdu, Sichuan Province of China. American born female giant panda twins Mei Lun and Mei Huan make their world debut at the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in China. The twins were born at Atlanta Zoo on July 15, 2013 by giant panda Lun Lun.
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A dog owner tells her Pembrokeshire Welsh Corgi to ‘stay’ as four Corgi dogs pose next to wax work models of the British Royal family wearing colorful Christmas themed jumpers for a charity Christmas Jumper Day campaign at Madame Tussauds wax works in London. The members of the royal family are from the left, Prince Charles Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, Prince Phillip, Queen Elizabeth II, Kate, Duchess of Cambridge, Prince William, and Prince Harry.The Queen is well known for her love of this particular breed of dogs.
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Supporters of India’s popular politician and former film actress Jayaram Jayalalithaa react as they watch the casket carrying her body pass in a funeral procession in Chennai, India. Jayalalithaa, chief minister of Tamil Nadu state, died overnight following a heart attack a day earlier.
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A Iraqi soldier of the 9th division is seen within a Humvee in Shyma district in Mosul, Iraq. Iraqi forces, backed by the U.S.-led international coalition, launched a campaign in October to retake Mosul, the country’s second largest city and IS’s last major urban bastion in Iraq.
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People walk along the Neva River at sunset in St.Petersburg, Russia. The temperature in St.Petersburg is -9C ( 15.8 °F).
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Suspected Islamic State (IS) and Taliban militants are brought before media during a press conference in Jalalabad. Afghan National Directorate Security (NDS) forces arrested three suspected Islamic State (IS) fighters and eight Taliban insurgents during an operation in different part of Jalalabad city, officials said.
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Activists from the Lebanese NGO Abaad (Dimensions), a resource centre for gender equality, dressed as brides and wearing injury patches hold a protest in downtown Beirut against article 522 in the Lebanese penal code. The article shields rapists from prosecution on the condition that they marry their victim, a phenomenon that is still practiced in the country, especially among conservative families whose chief aim is to preserve the family’s so-called “honor.”
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A man punches a banner bearing a picture of former child soldier-turned-warlord Dominic Ongwen before the screening of the start of his ICC (International Criminal Court) trial in Lukodi, Uganda. Ongwen pleaded not guilty on December 6 to crimes committed by the LRA rebel group in northern Uganda during a reign of terror spanning three decades. The first former child soldier to be tried at the ICC, Ongwen, 41, earlier denied 70 war crimes and crimes against humanity charges as he also became the first former child soldier to be tried by the ICC for his role in the notorious rebel group led by the elusive Joseph Kony.
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Cast members of Aladdin being performed at the Panoptican theatre hold a media call in Glasgow, Scotland. The pantomime is being staged to raise funds for the Glasgow Britannia Panopticon which is due to celebrate its one hundred and sixtieth birthday next year, and is the worlds oldest surviving music hall.
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