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Date: 12/19/2011 Album ID: 1382097
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News photos from around the world, Dec. 19, 2011.
Rupert, a 7-month-old Dachshund, licks the face of volunteer Patrick Ashton, dressed as Santa Claus, during a fundraising event for the Montgomery County Animal Shelter at a Petsmart location on Sunday, Dec. 18, 2011, in Shenandoah, Texas. Pet owners brought their animals for a chance to pose for a photograph with Santa Claus with half the proceeds of photo sales going to support the shelter. (AP Photo/Conroe Courier, Eric S. Swist)
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Police officers fill the streets and an elevated Long Island Railroad station as the funeral procession for New York Police Department Officer Peter Figoski passes by in Babylon, N.Y., Monday, Dec. 19, 2011. Thousands of officers from police departments around New York state gathered Monday to remember Figoski, who was shot to death during a botched robbery in Brooklyn on Dec. 12. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
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CLARIFIES STATEMENT ON TODDLERS DISAPPEARANCE - Wardens search a field for a missing toddler, Monday, Dec. 19, 2011, in Waterville, Maine. Over the weekend, police appealed for the public's help in finding missing 20-month-old Ayla Reynold after her father called police Saturday morning to report that his daughter was not in her bed and couldn't be found. Ayla was last seen Friday night. The Maine Warden Service, the FBI and Maine State Police are assisting Waterville police in the search. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
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Jerome Isaac, sits in a police car after being led out of the 77th Precinct in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Sunday, Dec. 18, 2011, following his arrest in the death of a woman set afire in an elevator. Isaac told police he set 73-year-old Deloris Gillespie on fire because he was angry that she owed him $2,000, authorities said Sunday. (AP Photo/Robert Mecea)
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A flock of flamingoes dot a wet land at Khadir Island in Kutch district, about 410 kilometers (256 miles) northwest of Ahmadabad, India, Monday, Dec. 19, 2011. Every year tens of thousands of flamingoes arrive to breed in the marshes of the Rann of Kutch region of Gujarat state. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)
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South Korean army soldiers patrol along the barbed-wire fence near the demilitarized zone in Paju, South Korea, before sunset Monday, Dec. 19, 2011. Kim Jong Il, North Korea's mercurial and enigmatic leader, has died. He was 69. (AP Photo/Yonhap, Lee Myung-shik) KOREA OUT
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Hundreds of North Koreans gather to mourn the death of their leader Kim Jong Il in front of a giant statue of his father Kim Il Sung in Pyongyang, North Korea, Monday, Dec. 19, 2011. North Korea's news agency reported Monday that he had died at 8:30 a.m. Saturday after having a heart attack on a train, adding that he had been treated for cardiac and cerebrovascular diseases for a long time. He was 69. (AP Photo/APTN)
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North Korean women cry after learning death of their leader Kim Jong Il on Monday, Dec. 19, 2011 in Pyongyang, North Korea. Kim died on Saturday, Dec. 17, North Korean state media announced Monday. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA, FRANCE, HONG KONG, JAPAN AND SOUTH KOREA
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Reporters try to get comment through an interphone of the head office of the pro-Pyongyang General Association of Korean Residents in Japan, or Chongryon, after a report of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il's obituary in Tokyo, Japan, Monday, Dec. 19, 2011. (AP Photo/Shuji Kajiyama)
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An Egyptian book restoration official arranges burnt pages of the original ancient copy identified as Le Description de L'Egypt, (The Description of Egypt,) written by scientists who came with Napoleon Bonaparte's expedition to Egypt in the late 18th century, which were saved from the research center in Cairo, Egypt, Monday, Dec. 19, 2011. The building was almost completely gutted by a fire which broke out during the height of the clashes on Saturday, when troops on its roof and on other nearby rooftops hurled rocks down on protesters below. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)
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A mother reads to her child who is suffering from leukemia in the Chisinau Oncology Institute in Chisinau, Moldova, Monday, Dec. 19, 2011. Activities with their parents are arranged for the children in between treatments to help them cope as well as they can with the illness and deprivation that takes up so much of their lives. Moldova, a former Soviet Republic, is the poorest country in Europe. (AP Photo/John McConnico)
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Residents retrieve their household items from their house which landed on a concrete fence of a mansion Monday, Dec. 19, 2011 in Iligan city, southern Philippines. Tropical storm Washi blew away Monday after devastating the southern Philippines with flash floods that killed hundreds of people as they slept and turned two coastal cities into a muddy wasteland filled with overturned cars and uprooted trees. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)
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Residents retrieve a car which was washed away in Friday's flash flooding in Iligan city in southern Philippines Monday Dec. 19, 2011. With funeral parlors overwhelmed, authorities in a flood-stricken southern Philippine city organized the first mass burial of unidentified victims who were swept to their deaths in one of the worst calamities to strike the region in decades. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)
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The site of the new headquarters of the European Central Bank (ECB) called Skytower during construction works in Frankfurt, Germany, Monday, Dec. 19, 2011. The ECB is scheduled to move into the new building in the eastern part of Frankfurt in 2014. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
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An asylum seeker who survived the sinking ship rests at a hotel where they are detained in Blitar, East Java, Indonesia, Monday, Dec. 19, 2011. Hundreds of asylum seekers are missing and feared dead after their overcrowded ship sank off Indonesia's main island of Java. So far only 33 people have been plucked alive from the choppy waters. (AP Photo/Gembong Nusantara)
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A Palestinian prisoner is greeted by an unidentified relative after his release at the Rafah border crossing in southern Gaza Strip, Sunday, Dec. 18, 2011. Israel released hundreds of Palestinian prisoners late Sunday, the second and final phase of a swap with Gaza Hamas militants that brought home an Israeli soldier after five years in captivity. (AP Photo/ Eyad Baba)
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A boy stands in a water fountain as he holds up the Syrian national flag during a rally in Damascus, Syria, Monday, Dec. 19, 2011. Syria signed an Arab League initiative Monday that will allow Arab observers into the country as part of peace deal that aims to end the nation's increasingly bloody 9-month-old crisis, Syria's foreign minister said. (AP Photo/Muzaffar Salman)
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Anti-communist fighters, who took part in events that led to the toppling of communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu in 1989, take shelter from the rain in a phone cabin during a protest in Bucharest, Romania, Monday, Dec. 19, 2011, back dropped by a photograph of German Chancellor Angela Merkel carrying a quote from her message to Romanian authorities that reads Reform the justice system and you will have investments and access to the Schengen space. Hundreds of former fighters joined a protest against a government decision to cut subsidies granted to those who had a significant role, were wounded or lost family members in the anti-communist uprising 22 years ago.(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
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A damaged panel of the bronze central door of St. Mary Major basilica is seen in Rome, Monday, Dec. 19, 2011. Vandals have made a fist-sized hole in the bronze central door of one of Rome's main basilicas, St. Mary Major. The damage, seemingly made by a small-tipped hammer or rock, was discovered Tuesday morning on a panel of the door depicting the angel Gabriel appearing to Mary. The basilica, which dates from the 5th century, is one of four in Rome that are under the direct jurisdiction of the Vatican. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
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An Indian ragpicker walks along the railway tracks in thick fog in New Delhi, India, Monday, Dec. 19, 2011. In the months of December and January, northern India experiences cooler temperatures which often results in fog, causing disruptions to air, ground, and rail transport. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)
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