2009: The Year In Photos
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A pregnant woman begs for change on September 14 in front of a store advertisement in Kyiv, Ukraine, one of the countries suffering the effects of the world economic crisis.
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A father and daughter celebrate National Day in Beijing on October 1 amid massive events marking 60 years of communist rule in China.
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A statue of former U.S. President Bill Clinton is lifted into place in Pristina, Kosovo, on October 12.
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U.S. Marines are engulfed in a dust storm as they await helicopter transport from their forward operating base in Farah Province, in southern Afghanistan, on October 12.
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U.S. actor Andy Garcia plays Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili in a film shot in Tbilisi about the 2008 Georgian-Russian war.
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An Iraqi man weeps after twin car bombings at the Justice and Labor ministries in Baghdad on October 25 killed at least 90 people.
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A Pakistani youth mourns as shops burn at a market following a deadly car bomb blast in Peshawar on October 28.
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A boy in Chita, Russia, wears a mask as protection against swine flu.
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Russian soldiers dressed in World War II uniforms rehearse a military parade on November 5, ahead of a reenactment of the Soviet Army's battle with invading fascist troops in Moscow on November 7, 1941.
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A memorial in Fort Hood, Texas, commemorates the 13 service members who died when a U.S. Army psychiatrist went on a shooting rampage at the military base on November 5.
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The Brandenburg Gate in Berlin is surrounded by giant dominoes that were toppled on November 8 to commemorate the fall of the Berlin Wall 20 years earlier.
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A man kisses the hand of the late Serbian Orthodox Patriarch Pavle during a memorial service in Belgrade on November 15.
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Czechs watch a fireworks display symbolizing the fall of the Iron Curtain in Prague on November 17, the anniversary of the 1989 protests that sparked the peaceful Velvet Revolution.
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Pilgrims gather at Mount Arafat, southeast of the Saudi city of Mecca, on November 26 as some 2.5 million Muslims took part in the annual hajj.
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Workers inspect a damaged train car in Russia's Novgorod region on November 28 after a bomb derailed the Nevsky Express train, killing at least 30 passengers.
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U.S. President Barack Obama shows his Nobel Peace Prize at a ceremony in Oslo on December 10.
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An injured Iranian opposition supporter flashes a victory sign during clashes with security forces in Tehran on December 27. At least eight protesters were killed in the clashes.