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 coffin holding the body of Ibragim Todashev, a suspect who was shot dead by U.S. security forces investigating the Boston Marathon bombings, stands at his home in Grozny, Chechnya, on June 20. Todashev was an acquaintance of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, another suspect who was killed in a shootout with police after the bombings.
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A column of military vehicles rolls in front of the Flame Towers in the Azerbaijani capital Baku during a rehearsal of a military parade on June 21.
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A man who was fixing explosives wires runs from the blaze as authorities destroyed 50 tons of seized drugs in Tehran on June 26, the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking.
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Chinese astronauts salute after landing safely in China's Inner Mongolia region on board a Shenzhou-10 spacecraft on June 26.
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A stuntman performs at the opening ceremony of a yacht club at a Caspian Sea resort in western Turkmenistan on June 29. Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov is seeking to turn the resort area into a major tourist attraction.
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A bull leaps over participants during the second running of the bulls during the San Fermin festival in Pamplona, Spain, on July 8.
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Two supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood face off with soldiers across a barbed wire fence in Cairo, Egypt, on July 8, amid continuing civil unrest five days after the military ousted former President Muhammad Morsi.
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Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny embraces his wife Yulia after he was freed by the Kirov regional court on a suspended sentence on July 19. Navalny was convicted for financial crimes, charges he says are politically motivated.
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Russia's team competes in a preliminary round of a world championship in synchronized swimming in Barcelona, Spain, on July 21.
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Pope Francis greets crowds of believers from his "popemobile" in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on July 22.
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Vehicles travel on a precarious road near the site of a landslide after a 6.6 magnitude earthquake struck China's Gansu Province on July 23, killing scores of people.
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A photo released by the Syrian opposition's Shaam News Network shows the Khaled bin Walid mosque, a Sunni pilgrimage site in the city of Homs, said to have been damaged by army shelling on July 22.
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A woman shields her face from the camera on August 5 at a provisional tent camp for illegal migrants who were detained during sweeping police raids on Moscow markets.
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Volunteers take a break during a rehearsal for the opening ceremony of an international athletics championship in Moscow on August 7.
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An aerial view of a flooded village in the Amur Region in Russia's Far East on August 14. The floods were considered Russia's worst in 120 years.
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A woman carries a tray of sweets prepared for the Eid al-Fitr holiday in Baghdad’s Sadr City neighborhood on August 8.
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Women in the Iranian capital, Tehran, pray on the first day of Eid al-Fitr, marked by Shi'ite Muslims on August 9.
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Viewers at a campground in Hagen-Vorhalle, Germany, watch a televised election debate between Chancellor Angela Merkel and challenger Peer Steinbrueck of the German Social Democratic Party on September 1.
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Kazakh horsemen ride at the Asian Kokpar championship in Astana on September 12. Kokpar, also known as buzkashi, is a traditional Central Asian sport played between two teams of horsemen competing to throw a goat carcass into a scoring circle.
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Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh hugs her son Nima at her home in Tehran on September 18 after her early release from prison. Sotoudeh was serving a six-year sentence on a number of charges, including acting against Iran's national security.
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People gather near destroyed tankers of a NATO supply convoy on September 16 after an attack a day earlier in Hub, near Karachi, Pakistan.
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The shipwrecked cruise ship Costa Concordia is returned to an upright position after a salvage operation near Italy's Giglio Island on September 17. The ship had capsized in January 2012, killing dozens of people.
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People take cover behind a counter at the Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya, as gunmen storm the complex on September 21. More than 60 people died in the attack by militants of the Somalia-based Al-Shabab group, which is linked to Al-Qaeda.
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A dancer prepares for a nightly cabaret show at Mayak, one of two gay clubs in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, on September 23. As Sochi prepares to host the 2014 Winter Olympics, the Russian government's crackdown on gay life has drawn international attention.
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Pakistani Christians mourn on September 24 for a grandmother and her two grandchildren who were killed in twin suicide bombings that targeted the All Saints Church in Peshawar.