News Photos of the Day
Date: 2/23/2012 Album ID: 1420964
Photos by Associated Press
News photos from around the world, Feb. 23, 2012.
Pro-choice advocate Margaret Doyle from Richmond, Va., is removed by Capitol Police from the General Assembly Building in Richmond after HB1, the bill that states human life begins at conception, passed the Senate Education and Health committee on Thursday, Feb. 23, 2012. Eight Republicans voted for the measure, and the committee's seven Democrats opposed it after an hour-long hearing on the bill that is similar to one in Missouri. The vote now sends the bill to the full Senate where Democrats and Republicans hold 20 seats apiece. (AP Photo/Richmond Times-Dispatch, Bob Brown)
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Eliza Lamb, of Caroline County, holds a copy of an untrasound photo of her baby that she miscarried, as Del. Robert Marshall, R-Prince William, left, looks on during a meeting of the Senate Education and Health committee at the Capitol in Richmond, Va., Thursday, Feb. 23, 2012.  (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
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Investigators from the Washington State Patrol crime lab examine the area around the patrol car at the scene near Gorst, Wash. where a Washington State Patrolmen was shot and killed during a traffic stop Thursday morning, Feb. 23, 2012. (AP Photo/The News Tribune, Dean J. Koepfler)
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A Washington State Patrol trooper's body arrives at the Office of the Pierce County Medical Examiners Office, Thursday, Feb. 23, 2012 in Tacoma, Wash.   A Washington state trooper making a routine traffic stop was shot and killed early Thursday.  The trooper, a 16-year veteran of the Washington State Patrol, had stopped a pickup truck around 1 a.m. on Highway 16 about 20 miles west of Seattle across Puget Sound. He radioed the location and license plate number, said Trooper Russ Winger.  (AP Photo/The News Tribune, Janet Jensen)  SEATTLE TV OUT
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An Armin Jahr Elementary School student talks with a police officer in front of the school Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2012, in Bremerton, Wash. An 8-year-old girl was shot in the abdomen at the elementary school and one of her classmates was detained, authorities said. The injured third-grader was airlifted to Seattle's Harborview Medical Center. Authorities said a third-grade boy was being questioned and a firearm was found in a classroom. (AP Photo/Kitsap Sun, Larry Steagall)
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People gather on Main Street outside the Republican presidential debate to watch the debate on a large screen on Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2012 in Mesa, Ariz.  (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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People listen as President Barack Obama speaks at the University of Miami Field House in Coral Gables, Fla., Thursday, Feb. 23, 2012. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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In a long exposure photograph, skiers and snowboarders carrying lights head down the Leavenworth Ski Hill in Leavenworth, Wash. on Wednesday night, Feb. 22, 2012 during a public memorial for the three local skiers who died Sunday in an avalanche on Stevens Pass. Chris Rudolph and Jim Jack from Leavenworth and Johnny Brenan of nearby Peshastin were swept away and killed in the avalanche. (AP Photo/The Wenatchee World, Don Seabrook)
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Rescue crews respond to a truck that jackknifed on Hwy. 220 near Bessemer Bend on Thursday, Feb. 23, 2012, near Casper, Wyo. Winter weather affected driving conditions around much of the state on Thursday. (AP Photo/Dan Cepeda, Casper Star-Tribune)
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Palle-Jooseppi, a  male brown bear , wakes up after winter hibernation at Ranua Zoo in Ranua, Finland, in Lapland on Thursday Feb. 23, 2012.  After a short stroll he decided to continue a nap in a soft snow bank. (AP Photo / LEHTIKUVA / Kaisa Siren) FINLAND OUT  NO SALES
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A Kashmiri villager crosses a snow-covered footbridge near Gagangeri, some 80 Kilometers (50 miles) northeast of Srinagar, India, Thursday, Feb. 23, 2012. Heavy snowfall across Kashmir valley prompted authorities to issue an avalanche warning for most areas lying close to the mountains, according to a local news agency. (AP Photo/ Dar Yasin)
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Afghan policemen form a line outside American military base during an anti-U.S. demonstration in Mehterlam, Laghman province east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Feb. 23, 2012. Afghan police on Thursday fired shots in the air to disperse hundreds of protesters who tried to break into an American military base in the country's east to vent their anger over this week's Quran burnings incident. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)
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A Bolivian health worker wades through floodwaters as he fumigates a neighborhood in Cobija, northern Bolivia, Wednesday Feb. 22, 2012. Bolivia's government on Wednesday declared a state of emergency after weeks of bad weather caused severe flooding and mudslides, leaving at least nine people dead and almost 9,000 families homeless. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)
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A National Security Guards (NSG) soldier participates in a drill during the inauguration of an NSG Hub in Mumbai, India, Thursday Feb. 23, 2012. The Indian government has taken the initiative to set up regional hubs for the NSG, the elite commando force, at Mumbai, Hyderabad, Chennai and Kolkata after the terrorist attack on Mumbai in 2008. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)
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A supporter of Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez shouts I love you toward a poster of him at Bolivar Plaza where supporters of Chavez congregate in Caracas, Venezuela, Thursday Feb. 23, 2012. Chavez prepares to head to Cuba for surgery to remove a potentially cancerous tumor, while the nation's congress on Thursday unanimously approved permission for Chavez to leave, a formality required by the nation's constitution. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
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Indonesian inmates look out the window of a prison tower at the Kerobokan jail in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia, Thursday, Feb. 23, 2012. Indonesia started moving foreigners and a handful of other inmates from the overcrowded prison on Bali island Thursday after two days of rioting, officials said, as troops backed by water canons and armored vehicles surrounded the tense facility.  (AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati)
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In this Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2012 citizen journalism image provided by the Local Coordination Committees in Syria and accessed on Thursday, Feb. 23, 2012,   flames rise from a house from Syrian government shelling, at Baba Amr neighborhood in Homs province, Syria. A French photojournalist and a prominent American war correspondent working for a British newspaper were killed Wednesday as Syrian forces intensely shelled the opposition stronghold of Homs.  (AP Photo/Local Coordination Committees in Syria) THE ASSOCIATED PRESS IS UNABLE TO INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE AUTHENTICITY, CONTENT, LOCATION OR DATE OF THIS HANDOUT PHOTO
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A Pakistani woman wails as she searches for her missing son at the site of a bomb blast in Peshawar, Pakistan on Thursday, Feb 23, 2012. A powerful car bomb ripped through an outdoor minibus terminal in northwestern Pakistan on Thursday, killing and wounding people, including women and children, officials said.  (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)
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Riot policemen run after Bahraini anti-government protesters  in the western village of Malkiya, Bahrain, as police dispersed a rally showing support for the jailed hunger-striking activist Abdulhadi al-Khawaja Thursday, Feb. 23, 2012. On the wall behind him is an image of a local man who was killed last year during the pro-democracy uprising. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali)
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