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Buying Umbrella For Suu Kyi?
YANGON, Myanmar — Myanmar’s Buddhist monks buy an umbrella depicting pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi at a souvenir shop outside the headquarters of the National League for Democracy party in Yangon, Myanmar, Monday, April 23, 2012. Suu Kyi’s opposition party refused to take its new seats in parliament Monday…
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Spring Snow On Blossoming Tulips
OTTAWA, Canada — Tulips in blossom are seen blanketed in snow in Ottawa, Canada, April 23, 2012. A spring snow hit certain areas in eastern and northern Canada on Monday. <Xinhua/Zhang Dacheng> news@theasian.asia
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Leaves Of May Apple Stretch To Cover Sky
MORELAND HILLS, Ohio. — A May Apple grows in Moreland Hills, Ohio, on Earth Day, Sunday, April 22, 2012. <AP/Newsis> news@theasian.asia
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A Down Syndrom Boy And Butterfly
HOUSTON — James Grace, 6, looks at a butterfly during the Changing Minds Foundation’s “Butterfly Flutter By” event Sunday, April 22, 2012, in Houston. The foundation released 1,000 live butterflies as part of the event designed to raise awareness of available treatment and research of Down syndrome, a condition that…
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Young Victim of Chernobyl Being Entertained by Clown
MINSK, Belarus — A professional actor who plays as a clown accompanies a child at a scientific research medical center on children’s tumor and blood disease on the outskirts of Minsk, capital of Belarus, on April 19, 2012. Local actors and actresses come to the medical center every week to…
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A Show Of Protest By Pro-Life Group
MEXICO CITY — The Angel of Independence monument steps are lined with black boxes imprinted with white crosses representing coffins, placed there by members of the pro-life group Comit Nacional Pro-Vida, in an anti-abortion demonstration to protest the capital’s law that allows the termination of a pregnancy within the first…
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Like A Strider On The Water
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Looking like a tiny water bug on a big pond a lone rower paddles his shell down a glassy St. Johns River as the early morning sunlight catches the ripples he creates on the surface of the water on Friday April 20, 2012, near Jacksonville, Fla. <AP/Newsis>…
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Frantic Rescue Efforts At Collapsed Factory
JALANDAR, India — Rescuers work at the site of a factory that collapsed in Jalandhar, India, Wednesday, April 18, 2012. Workers continued searching for more people buried Sunday night when the three-story blanket factory buckled while nightshift workers were inside. Estimates for how many may still be trapped have ranged…
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Sand Castle To Mark London Olympic D-100
LONDON — Photo taken on April 16, 2012 shows a giant sand castle on Weymouth beach to mark the 100-day countdown of the 2012 London Olympic Games. Weymouth and Portland will host the Olympic and Paralympic sailing at the 2012 London Olympic and Paralympic Games. <Xinhua> news@theasian.asia
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Miserable Reality Of African Children
MAO, Chad — UNICEF estimates that 127,000 children under 5 in Chad’s Sahel belt will require lifesaving treatment for severe acute malnutrition this year, with an estimated 1 million expected throughout the wider Sahel region of West and Central Africa in the countries of Niger, Nigeria, Mali, Chad, Burkina Faso,…
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