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News in pictures on 27/03, 28/03, 29/03/2010

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Libyan camel riders holding flags of Arab countries gather to perform at Sirte airport as part of a welcome ceremony during the arrival of Arab leaders to attend the upcoming Arab League summit in Sirte, Libya. -- PHOTO: AP



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South Korean Marines stand guard to search possible survivors from a sunken naval ship 'Cheonan' as rubber boats for saving sailors are placed along the seashore on Baengnyeongdo, an island near the border with North Korea on Saturday. A South Korean naval ship sank near the disputed maritime border with North Korea and about 46 people were missing, but officials played down suggestions that it may have been attacked by the North. -- PHOTO: REUTERS



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Fans in fancy dress watch the Fiji and Portugal match on the second day of the Hong Kong Sevens rugby tournament on Saturday. Organisers hope the world-renowned Hong Kong Sevens, where packed crowds of 40,000 roar on 24 teams over three days of rugby, will reinforce interest in the sport ahead of its Olympic debut in Brazil in 2016. -- PHOTO: AFP



 

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A woman makes paper flowers as she sits among palm fronds along the sidewalk on Saturday in Manila, Philippines. In this predominantly Catholic country, Filipinos buy palm fronds to celebrate Palm Sunday or the entry of Jesus Christ into Jerusalem which signals the begining of the observance of Holy Week. -- PHOTO: AP



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A crash involving Australia's Belinda Goss, at foreground centre , Russia's Evgeniya Romanyuta, at left, Italy's Giorgia Bronzini partially seen leg, and Shelly Evans of the US, during the Women's Scratch Race at the World Track Cycling Championship, in the Ballerup Arena, Copenhagen, Denmark, on Friday. The race was won by Pascale Jeuland of France. -- PHOTO: AP



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Residents shift their belongings on a pallet as they wade through a flood waters in Kerawang on Friday. Residents fled from their homes after floods caused by a river that burst its banks submerging houses. -- PHOTO: AFP




 

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Myanmar's soldiers carry their weapons as they march during the Armed Forces Day parade in Myanmar's capital Naypyidaw on Saturday. Myanmar's top generals attend the annual Armed Forces Day parade on Saturday for the final time as the country's leaders as the military prepares to hand over power to an elected civilian government. -- PHOTO: REUTERS



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With drawing ink decorated Easter eggs are displayed during the yearly Ester market at the museum of ethnology in Hamburg, northern Germany on March 26, 2010. Some 40 exhibitors present their Easter art at the 26th North German Easter Market, taking place from Thursday to Sunday. -- PHOTO: AFP



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An Indian campaigner dressed as a female condom is watched by the audience at an awareness camp for sex workers in Hyderabad on Saturday, held to acheive better prevention of Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STD) among sex workers. Integrated Rural Development Services (IRDS) in association with The Andhra Pradesh state Aids Control Society (APSACS) are implementing targeted interventions among sex workers in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh with an overall goal to halt and reverse the spread of the HIV/AIDS epedemic by 2012. -- PHOTO: AFP



 

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Young woman perform on traditional music instruments known as 'saroon' (centre) and 'gambang' (left) at an inaugural session of the new Malay nationalist group Perkasa in Kuala Lumpur on Saturday. The bonang is made of a set of small knobbed gongs which are placed horizontally on a rack in two rows. -- PHOTO: AFP



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In this photo taken on Friday, a villager carries piles of water out from a mountain cave in Longlin county in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. Emergency wells were being drilled and cloud-seeding operations carried out in southern China, where the worst drought in decades has left millions of people without water and caused more than 1,000 schools to close, officials said on Thursday. -- PHOTO: AP



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People stand around hot air balloons during the first Indonesian Hot Air Balloon Adventure in Sentul, Bogor, West Java on Saturday. Only foreign participants took part in the first hot air balloon parade in the country. -- PHOTO: REUTERS



 

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Schoolgirls walk in front a Ferris wheel at the Villa El Salvador district of Lima, on Friday. -- PHOTO: REUTERS



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A street vendor waits for customers in Guatemala City, on Friday. -- PHOTO: AP



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A soldier stands guard as a rose is placed on a barrier by a supporter of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra during a rally in Bangkok on Saturday. -- PHOTO: REUTERS




 

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Buddhist monks pray with supporters of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra during a rally in Bangkok on Saturday. -- PHOTO: REUTERS



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One of 31 life-size statues of Antony Gormley's public art exhibition Event Horizon is seen overlooking Madison Square Park on Friday in New York City. Through August 15, all of the body forms, made of iron and fiberglass, will populate the surroundings and rooftops of historic Madison Square Park and the Flatiron District. -- PHOTO: AFP



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A student wearing a mask takes part in the annual 'Huelga de Dolores', a 112 year-old tradition where university students make fun of government leaders through the streets of Guatemala City on Friday. -- PHOTO: REUTERS




 

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The shadow of penitents is reflected in the eye of a child penitent, during a children procession prior the Holy Week at Our Lady of the Rosary school in Seville, on Friday. -- PHOTO: AFP



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A picture taken on Friday shows a detail of a sculpture made of clocks at the Saint-Lazare train station in Paris. Daylight Saving Time will begin at 2am on Sunday. -- PHOTO: AFP




 

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Mar 28, 2010

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A Buddhist monk stands next to a line of riot police officers as he joins an anti-government protest outside a military barrack where Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva is staying and working in Bangkok, Thailand. Mr Abhisit has agreed to hold face-to-face talks with protesters demanding new elections to 'restore peace and minimise the chance of violence'. -- PHOTO: AP



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A Buddhist monk stands next to a line of riot police officers as he joins an anti-government protest outside a military barrack where Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva is staying and working in Bangkok, Thailand. Mr Abhisit has agreed to hold face-to-face talks with protesters demanding new elections to 'restore peace and minimise the chance of violence'. -- PHOTO: AP



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A steam locomotive passes under fully bloomed cherry blossoms at Hitoyoshi city in Kumamoto prefecture, Japan's southern island of Kyushu. The JR Kyushu operates the steam locomotive every weekend as a tourist attraction. -- PHOTO: AFP




 

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Red Bull Formula One driver Sebastian Vettel of Germany (bottom right) leads the field at the start of the Australian F1 Grand Prix in Melbourne. -- PHOTO: REUTERS



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Hot air balloons take off during the last day of the first Indonesian Hot Air Balloon Adventure in Sentul on the outskirts of Jakarta, Indonesia. Eighteen balloons from various countries like France, Belgium, Netherland, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines and Thailand took part in the event. -- PHOTO: AP



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A Sri Lankan Tamil Hindu devotee looks up as he rolls on the ground outside a Hindu temple in Colombo, as part of a religious ritual to commemorate the annual Lakshmi festival. -- PHOTO: AFP




 

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Candle lights are seen during the Earth Hour, in Paris. Many millions of people worldwide are turning off lights and electrical appliances for one hour on Saturday night, in a mass gesture to highlight environmental concerns and to call for a binding pact to cut greenhouse gas emissions. -- PHOTO: AP



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Fire acrobats perform during an event marking Earth Hour in front of Ivan Vazov National Theatre in Sofia. -- PHOTO: REUTERS



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A fire breather performs during Earth Hour in Yogyakarta. Around 125 countries joined the great Earth Hour switch-off just months after disappointing UN climate talks in Copenhagen. -- PHOTO: AFP



 

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Candles are arranged into a shape of a heart during Earth Hour in Kuala Lumpur. -- PHOTO: REUTERS



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A dancer in traditional attire performs during Kerala Tourism road show, in Calcutta, India. -- PHOTO: AP



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People walk past burning garbage in Cite Soleil, Port-au-Prince. -- PHOTO: AP




 

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A woman decorates Easter eggs in a Sorbian wax technique at the Dresden Easter fair in Dresden, eastern Germany. -- PHOTO: AFP



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Artists take part in a procession to mark World Theatre Day in Amman, Jordan. The occasion is celebrated locally by a week-long programme that features theatre performances and music concerts. -- PHOTO: AP



 

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Visitors stand next to a tree decorated with thousands of Easter eggs in the garden of Christa and Volker Kraft in Saalfeld, Germany. The Kraft family have decorated their tree for Easter for more than forty years. -- PHOTO: AP



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Hooded penitents from the 'La Paz' brotherhood take part in a procession in Seville, Spain. Hundreds of processions take place throughout Spain during the Easter Holy Week. -- PHOTO: AP



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Christian worshippers and pilgrims holding crucifixes made of olive branches, walk down the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem during the traditional Palm Sunday procession. The ceremony is a landmark in the Roman Catholic calendar, marking the triumphant return of Christ to Jerusalem the week before his death, when a cheering crowd greeted him waving palm leaves. Palm Sunday marks the start of the most solemn week in the Christian calendar. -- PHOTO: AFP



 

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Ultra-Orthodox Jews gather to get water from an ancient mountain spring on the outskirts of Jerusalem during the maim shelanu (rested water) ceremony in preparation for the Pesah (Passover) holiday. The water is used in baking the unleavened bread, known in Hebrew as Matzoh, which religious Jews throughout the world eat during the eight-day holiday. -- PHOTO: AFP



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A martial arts artist practices during an early morning session at the Bund, on the banks of the Huangpu River, following its reopening after a massive renovation for the upcoming Shanghai World Expo 2010. The Shanghai World Expo is due to start on May 1, 2010. -- PHOTO: REUTERS



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Actors of the German street theatre company Titanick perform during the play 'FireBirds' at the Democracy Square in San Jose during the closing of the International Arts Festival (FIA) being held in the Costa Rican capital. -- PHOTO: AFP



 

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Japanese macaques eat cherry blossom at Tokyo's Ueno zoo. The zoo incorperated a cherry tree into the macaques habitat as the sprouts and flowers are their favorite foods. Japan's meteorological agency announced that cherry trees bloomed in Tokyo area, six days earlier than previous years. -- PHOTO: AFP



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Spring breakers look at a man dressed in a Spiderman costume during a party at a bar in Cancun. Mexico is expecting a dip in tourist numbers this Easter week after a surge in drug violence prompted some US universities to warn spring breakers to avoid Mexico this year. -- PHOTO: REUTERS




 
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