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RFE/RL's Photos Of The Day
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OCTOBER 20, 2012 -- Two Syrian rebels take sniper positions at the heavily contested neighborhood of Karmal Jabl in central Aleppo. (AFP/Javier Manzano)
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OCTOBER 19, 2012 -- This handout picture received from the Queen Elizabeth Hospital/University Hospitals in Birmingham, England, shows Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai lying in her bed after receiving treatment at the hospital. Malala was shot in the head by the Pakistani Taliban for her efforts to promote girls' education in Pakistan. She was transferred to the U.K. for treatment on October 15. (AFP)
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OCTOBER 19, 2012 -- Afghan boys play on the skeleton of an old truck on a hilltop overlooking Kabul. (Reuters/Mohammad Ismail)
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OCTOBER 19, 2012 -- A civil defense member helps a wounded man at the site of a car bombing in central Beirut. (Reuters/Hasan Shaaban)
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OCTOBER 18, 2012 -- An unemployed woman gathers cabbage in the field of a private farm near the Belarusian village of Radashkovichi. (Reuters/Vasily Fedosenko)
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OCTOBER 18, 2012 -- U.S. soldiers perform physical training in the predawn hours at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. (AFP/Michelle Shephard)
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OCTOBER 18, 2012 -- Wallachian Roma mourn their late king, Jan Lipa, before a holy mass in Ostrava, Czech Republic, on October 18. Hundreds of Romas from all over Europe gathered in the Moravian city to attend the funeral of Lipa, who died on October 15 at the age of 72. (Reuters/Petr Josek)
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OCTOBER 17, 2012 -- A visitor looks at an exhibition titled "Soviet Suprem 2012" by artist Gilles Barbier during the International Contemporary Art Fair at the Grand Palais in Paris. (Reuters/Jacky Naegelen)
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OCTOBER 17, 2012 -- A shoe is seen glued to a statue of late Syrian President Hafez al-Assad, at the museum of Maaret al-Numan in Syria's northwestern Idlib Province. (AFP/Bulent Kilic)
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OCTOBER 16, 2012 -- A man walks next to a sand sculpture of Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai created by sand artist Sudarshan Patnaik on a beach in Puri in the eastern Indian state of Odisha. Yousafzai was shot in the head by the Taliban for advocating education for girls. British doctors treating her say she has every chance of making a "good recovery." (Reuters)
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OCTOBER 15, 2012 -- A man works at a traditional factory that extracts and prepares pine nuts for sale on the outskirts of Jalalabad, Afghanistan.
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OCTOBER 15, 2012 -- The last statue of Vladimir Lenin is taken down in the Mongolian capital, Ulan Bator, after Mayor Bat-Uul Erdene denounced the communist leader as a "murderer." For decades, Lenin was worshipped by Mongolian schoolchildren as Teacher Lenin. (AFP/Byambasuren Byamba-Ochir)
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OCTOBER 15, 2012 -- A deactivated missile is displayed at a site with Soviet-made Cold War relics at La Cabana fortress in Havana, Cuba. The Cuban Missile Crisis, one of the Cold War's gravest superpower confrontations, kicked off in earnest on October 14, 1962. (Reuters/Desmond Boylan)
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OCTOBER 15, 2012 -- Members of the Free Syrian Army use a catapult to launch a homemade bomb during clashes with pro-government soldiers in the city of Aleppo. (Reuters/Asmaa Waguih)
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OCTOBER 15, 2012 -- A fresco is seen through autumn leaves in a park in St. Petersburg. (Reuters/Aleksandr Demianchuk)
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OCTOBER 14, 2012 -- Austrian Felix Baumgartner broke the sound barrier in making the highest skydive in history. He reached 1,342 kilometers per hour during his jump over New Mexico. Baumgartner landed safely after jumping from a balloon at 39,000 meters.
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OCTOBER 14, 2012 -- A 3-year-old boy who lost his leg in a suicide attack in Kandahar walks with the aid of a stroller at the International Red Cross Center in Kabul. (AFP/Jawad Jalili)
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OCTOBER 12, 2012 -- A pigeon leaves trails on snow-covered ground outside the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk. (Reuters/Ilya Naymushin)
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OCTOBER 11, 2012 -- Milk teeth are seen in a detail of artist Gina Czarnecki's sculpture "Palaces," made of resin and children's milk teeth, at the The Wasted Works exhibition at the Science and Industry Museum in Manchester, England. The exhibition explores the taboos in society around waste body parts and how milk teeth, liposuction fat, and hip joints left over after operations could be used for stem-cell regeneration. (Reuters/Phil Noble)
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OCTOBER 10, 2012 -- A Pakistani girl holds a photograph of 14-year-old Malala Yousafzai, who was shot and seriously injured by the Taliban, at a rally in Karachi. (AFP/Rizwan Tabassum)
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OCTOBER 10, 2012 -- A man works on a pine-nut farm in Afghanistan's Jalalabad Province. (Reuters/Parwiz)
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OCTOBER 9, 2012 -- A flock of geese swim in a branch of the Yangtze River in China's Anhui Province. (Reuters)
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OCTOBER 9, 2012 -- Buddist monks chant during the Pchum Ben festival -- the festival of the dead -- at a pagoda in Phnom Penh. Pchum Ben is a popular holiday in Cambodia and consists of 15 days of prayers for the deceased, visits to temples, and the bringing of food to monks. (AFP/Tang Chhin Sothy)
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OCTOBER 9, 2012 -- Indian Sikh devotees pay their respects at the illuminated Sikh Shrine Golden Temple for the anniversary of the Sikh guru Ramdass in Amritsar. Ramdass was born in Lahore, Pakistan, in 1574 and is known as the Chauthi Patshahi, or the fourth guru, as well as the guru who established the city of Amritsar. (AFP/Narinder Nanu)
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OCTOBER 8, 2012 -- Greek Finance Minister Ioannis Stournaras (left) faces International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde before a Eurogroup Council meeting in Luxembourg. (AFP/John Thys)