In 2013, Egypt witnessed its second revolution in two years, Syria was wracked by violence, and civil unrest shook Turkey and Ukraine. But for citizens around the world, the year also brought celebrations, sporting victories, and unforgettable moments from daily life. These are some of the photographs that tell the stories of the year.
2013: The Year In Photos
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A vehicle carries a coffin with the remains of late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez through the streets of Caracas on March 6. Chavez died on March 5 at the age of 58.
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Tons of dead fish float in the Rodrigo de Freitas lagoon in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on March 13.
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The Aurora Borealis, or northern lights, illuminate the sky over the Swedish towns of Are and Ostersund on March 17.
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The Wadi Al-Salaam (Valley of Peace) cemetery in Najaf, seen here on April 1, is reputed to be the largest cemetery in the world.
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Armenian police detain a supporter of opposition leader Raffi Hovannisian during a protest in Yerevan following the inauguration of Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian for a second term on April 9.
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Belarusian girls attend an honor guard ceremony, which is part of the state patriotic education program and preparations for the upcoming Victory Day celebrations, on Victory Square in Minsk on April 11.
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A man pushes a bicycle behind a herd of livestock in the ethnic Kazakh Balikun county of China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region on April 18.
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Muslim women stand in a cemetery before a mass funeral in the town of Vlasenica in Bosnia-Herzegovina. The remains of 11 Bosnian Muslims, killed by Serb forces during the country's 1992-1995 war, were exhumed from mass graves and reburied at the cemetery on April 20.
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Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, a member of the Pussy Riot activist group, gestures during a court hearing in the town of Zubova Polyana on April 26. Tolokonnikova served a part of a two-year sentence on charges of hooliganism and was released in December.
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People carry candles in the Ukrainian city of Slavutych on April 26 at a memorial dedicated to firefighters and workers who died as a result of the 1986 Chornobyl nuclear disaster.
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A member of Iraq's first female weightlifting team hoists a barbell at a gym in Baghdad's Sadr City neighborhood on April 28 while training for the Asian Championships in Qatar.
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An aerial view of the Akhmad Kadyrov Mosque and the redeveloped center of Grozny, the capital of the Russian republic of Chechnya
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The final piece of a spire, decorated with an American flag, is lifted to the top of One World Trade Center in New York on May 2 as the flagship building nears completion.
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Supporters of Nawaz Sharif of the Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) celebrate their party's victory in Lahore on May 12, a day after the country's general elections secured Sharif a third non-consecutive term as prime minister.
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Iranians Mahjobeh Omrani (right) and Neda Shahsavari play against a U.S. team during a qualifying round at the World Team Table Tennis Championships in Paris on May 14.
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A crowd attacks a minibus carrying gay rights activists who had staged a rally marking the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia in Tbilisi, Georgia, on May 17.
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Moldovan singer Aliona Moon performs during the finals of the Eurovision Song Contest in Malmo, Sweden, on May 18.
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American flags are displayed on Boston Common in Massachusetts during Memorial Day on May 23.
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Children run from the site of an explosion in Kabul on May 24.
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An Orthodox priest performs a blessing in front of a Soyuz spacecraft on the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on May 27 before a mission to the International Space Station.
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Antigovernment protesters clash with riot police near the prime minister's office in Istanbul, Turkey, on June 2. Demonstrations on Istanbul's Taksim Square that began as a protest against local development plans in May rapidly spread after a violent police crackdown.
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Georgian honor guards carry the coffins of soldiers killed in Afghanistan at an airport near the capital, Tbilisi, on June 9.
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A supporter of Vice President Mohammad Reza Aref, a reformist presidential candidate, is surrounded by campaign materials after a rally in Tehran on June 10, ahead of the June 14 election that gave moderate candidate Hassan Rohani the presidency.
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A protester runs from a petrol bomb explosion during a clash with Turkish riot police on Istanbul's Taksim Square on June 11 amid ongoing antigovernment demonstrations.
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Leaders of the G8 countries pose for a photograph at a summit in Lough Erne, Northern Ireland, on June 18.