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West Asia
A Palestinian refugee girl eats bread in poverty-stricken Gaza Strip
Palestinian Palestinian refugee children play in front of their family house in a poverty-stricken quarter in northern Gaza Strip town Beit Lahiya on April 28, 2013. Reports said that an increasing number of Gazan families are falling further into poverty, with unemployment rates at over 30 percent according to 2012…
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Central Asia
Turkmenian President demonstrates his equestrian skills
Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov demonstrates his equestrian skills in Ashkhabad, Turkmenistan, April 27, 2013. <Xinhua/Lu Jingli>
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South Asia
India celebrates 100 years of filmmaking
New Delhi – Four top Indian filmmakers have come together to make “Bombay Talkies,” a film that celebrates 100 years of Indian cinema. The film hits theaters Friday. India’s first full-length feature film, “Raja Harishchandra” or “King Harishchandra,” was released in 1913. That film was produced and directed…
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East Asia
A N. Korean boy looks at wallposter full of bellicose rhetorics
A boy looks at a poster reading “Severe punishment to the U.S. and their followers” in the central district of Pyongyang, North Korea, on Thursday, May 2, 2013. <AP Photo/Jon Chol Jin>
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South East Asia
Visitors pose for photo during Trick Art Exhibition in Jakarta
A visitor poses for a photo in front of a three-dimensional painting during the Trick Art Exhibition held at a shopping mall in Jakarta, Indonesia, April 29, 2013. A total of 72 creative works from South Korea and Indonesia were displayed at the exhibition. Two visitors pose for a photo…
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South Asia
The Indian free school founder teaches slum children under bridge
Underprivileged boys take down notes from a blackboard painted on a concrete wall at a free school run under a mass transit bridge in New Delhi, India on Dec. 11, 2012. Rajesh Kumar Sharma, the founder of a free school for slum children, teaches a class at a free school…
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East Asia
South African couple purchase pottery at 113th Canton Fair
South African couple Tony Smily and Sally Smily purchase pottery at the 113th China Import and Export Fair, or Canton Fair, in Guangzhou, capital of south China’s Guangdong Province, April 24, 2013. Nearly 25,000 companies, including 562 from 38 countries or regions are attending the fair, China’s largest, attracting over…
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South Asia
Elderly Indian widows pray on bank of Ganga river
An elderly Indian widow cleans rice sitting in the front of her small living quarters in an Ashram, on the bank of Holy river Ganges in Varanasi, India , Sunday, April 28, 2013. In India, being a widow remains one of the worst stigmas. When her husband dies, the widow…
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South Asia
Bangladesh’s garment industry hit by building collapse
EU considers action as Pope condemns condition of workers as ‘slave labour’ The European Union is considering trade action against Bangladesh, which has preferential access to EU markets for its garments, to pressure Dhaka to improve safety standards after a building collapse killed more than 400 factory workers. Pope Francis…
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East Asia
Chinese FM Yi meets with ASEAN Secretary-General Le Luong Minh
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi (R) meets with ASEAN Secretary-General Le Luong Minh in Jarkata, Indonesia, May 2, 2013. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi (L) shakes hands with his Indonesian counterpart Marty Natalegawa prior to their meeting in Jarkata, Indonesia, May 2, 2013. <Xinhua/Jiang Fan>
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