Greg Murphy plays the Navy Hymn during a ceremony commemorating the 75th anniversary of the Dec. 7, 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, on board The Battleship New Jersey Museum and Memorial in Camden, N.J.
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Pearl Harbor survivor Robert Coles salutes active U.S. service members after the ceremonies honoring the 75th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor at Kilo Pier on Joint Base Pearl Harbor – Hickam in Honolulu, Hawaii.
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Members of Japan’s Self-Defence Force’s honour guard prepare for a ceremony for U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter at the Defense Ministry in Tokyo, Japan.
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A tanker travels through the Singapore Strait.
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A supporter of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa Jayaraman gets her head shaved near Jayalalithaa’s burial site in Chennai, India.
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A farmer checks the state of his rapeseed flowers in a field in Charsadda, Pakistan.
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Men ride a tricycle as they flee deeper into the remaining rebel-held areas of Aleppo, Syria.
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Pope Francis arrives for his weekly general audience, in the Pope Paul VI hall, at the Vatican.
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A security officer stand guard as supporters of Nana Akufo-Addo, presidential candidate of the opposition New Patriotic Party, chant slogans during the Presidential and parliamentary election, in Kibi, eastern Ghana. Ghanaians began lining up at polling stations before dawn on Wednesday to elect their next president as the West African nation hopes to reaffirm its reputation as a model of democracy on the continent.
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Election officials use mobile phones and lanterns to count ballot papers at the end of voting in a polling station in Accra, Ghana.
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Britain’s Prince Harry talks on the phone, during an ICAP Charity Trading Day in support of Sentebale – a charity supporting orphans and vulnerable children, with Amanda Hartnell, left and Dermot Doherty, in London
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Yousuf Odey, 10, who was wounded in the eye by Islamic State militants, is treated by doctors at a clinic in Zahra district in Mosul, Iraq. A senior Iraqi commander says special forces captured a new neighborhood from Islamic State militants in eastern Mosul, the latest gain in a massive government military operation now in its seventh week.
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Gray Cranes flocking at the Agamon Hula Lake in the Hula valley in northern Israel.
More than half a billion birds of some 400 different species pass through the Jordan Valley to Africa and go back to Europe during the year. Some 42,500 Gray Cranes stayed this winter in the Agamon Hula Lake instead of migrating to Africa, taking advantage of the safety of this artificial water source. Local farmers feed the birds with corn in a bid to prevent them from destroying their agricultural fields.
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A protester shouts slogans in front of a caricature of South Korea’s President Park Geun-Hye during a rally urging the impeachment of the president in Seoul. South Korea’s scandal-hit Park said on December 6 she would accept the result of a looming and possibly lengthy impeachment process, but defied pressure to resign immediately.
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A woman walks past a snow heap at Red Square, with St. Basil’s Cathedral seen in the background, as temperatures dropped to -13 degrees Celsius in Moscow today.
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A Kashmiri fisherman casts his net from his boat during dense fog on Dal Lake in Srinagar. The cold wave further tightened its grip in Jammu and Kashmir, with most places in the state recording sub-zero temperatures.
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