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News in pictures on Friday 26.03.2010

Lu Bu

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Mar 26, 2010

News in pictures on Friday

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Villagers carry their belongings on a makeshift raft to cross a flooded area in Karawang, West Java, Indonesia on Friday, March 26, 2010. Floods inundated villages after an overflowing river bursted its banks, forcing residents to evacuate. -- PHOTO: AP



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The little mermaid, a statue made of bronze, is removed from the shore in Copenhagen on March 25, 2010 as it begins its journey to China. The city's emblematic landmark, the Little Mermaid, will travel to the Shanghai World Expo. In the background, the banner by the Danish tabloid magazine 'Ekstra Bladet' reads "From all of us to all of you: here is the Little Mermaid's substitute". -- PHOTO: AFP



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"Sur une sc�ne de Strasbourg, 300 crevettes d�cortiquent nos tranches de vie". Artists from the Hotel Modern Company from Rotterdam perform on stage during the rehearsal of Shrimp Tale, on March 25, 2010 at the Maillon theatre in Strasbourg, eastern France. -- PHOTO: REUTERS




 

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Singer Gloria Estefan holds aloft a photograph of Cuba's Las Damas de Blanco as she, along with her husband, Emilio Estefan (L), and others march in support of them on March 25, 2010 in Miami, Florida. In Cuba last week the Las Damas de Blanco, Ladies in White, who are peaceful dissidents, were attacked by government security forces in Havana. -- PHOTO: AFP



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Former Philippine first lady Imelda Marcos, who is running for a congressional seat, whispers a few words at the glass coffin holding the remains of her husband, late dictator Ferdinand Marcos, who remains unburied since he's death in 1989. She was on the first day of her campaign at the town of Batac, Ilocos norte province, north of Manila, on March 26, 2010. The Philippine election shifted gear on Friday as campaigning for Congressional seats starts, with interest centred on the president's move to run for the lower house and the risks from a new automated voting system. -- PHOTO: REUTERS



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Paintings are exibited for sale at the Petion-Ville area of Port-au-Prince in Haiti. The capital is a graveyard of fallen cathedrals, libraries and places of cultural interest. Invaluable private art collections were also decimated by the quake. Despite the extent of the loss, the word culture is strangely absent from the draft Post Disaster Needs Assessment (PDNA) drawn up by the government in conjunction with the international community. -- PHOTO: AFP




 

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South Korean veterans (L) hold a framed portrait of Korean independence fighter An Jung-Geun during a rally marking the 100th anniversary of the death of An outside the Japanese embassy in Seoul on March 26, 2010. An, an activist against the Japanese colonial rulers at the turn of the 20th century, was executed in 1910 for assassinating Korea's first Japanese governor-general Ito Hirobumi in China's northeastern city of Harbin the year before. -- PHOTO: AFP



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Indian workers locally known as "Dhobiwallahs" wash clothes at Dhobhi Ghat in Hyderabad on March 26, 2010. Dhobiwallahs are the human 'washing machines' of India, however the traditional community of workers washing clothes by hand is slowly disappearing with a combination of middle class families purchasing washing machines to use in their homes and a reluctance of the current descendants of dhobiwallahs to enter the procession. -- PHOTO: AFP



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In this photo taken Thursday, March 25, 2010, a Chinese farmer scoops up muddy water from a narrow stream on a dry river bed in Luliang county in southwest China's Yunnan province. 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. -- PHOTO: AP




 

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Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey clowns get their shoes shined at Eddie's Shoe Repair in Grand Central Terminal in New York, before opening night of the circus' FUNundrum at Madison Square Garden. The FUNundrum celebrates the 200th anniversary of the birth of the legendary P.T. Barnum. -- PHOTO: AFP



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Acrobats from Argentina's Aereal dance company perform at the XII Ibero American Theatre Festival in Bogota. -- PHOTO: REUTERS



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The Schooner, 'Amistad' (Friendship), flies the US flag and the Cuban flag as it approaches Havana Harbour. The Schooner is a replica of the 19th century slave revolt Cuban slave ship that carried Africans and became an icon of the abolitionist movement. -- PHOTO: REUTERS




 

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Participants display placards during 'March for Mustangs' rally near the White House in Washington, DC. Dozens of animal lovers joined the demonstration organised by the Cloud Foundation to call for the protection of America's wild horses and to protest the Department of Interior plan for the removal and destruction of wild herds. -- PHOTO: AFP



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A smelter works with raw iron on a blast furnace at Germany's second-largest steel firm Salzgitter in Salzgitter, northern Germany. -- PHOTO: AFP



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People stand among 22,000 lit candles on the central square in Tallinn during a rally commemorating the 61st anniversary of the deportation of 20,000 Estonians to Siberia by the former USSR. -- PHOTO: AFP




 

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A 2,800-year-old infant mummy, Baby Bluebonnet, is shown at the 'Secrets of the Silk Road: Mystery Mummies from China', exhibit at the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana, Calif. -- PHOTO: AP



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Doves released by the Ladies in White, a group made up of family members of imprisoned dissidents, fly away during a protest march in Havana. -- PHOTO: REUTERS



 
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