News photos, March 15
Date: 3/15/2012 Album ID: 1433684
Photos by Wire Services
The Boudica statue stands in the foreground as fog shrouds the clock tower which houses the 'Big Ben' bell of the Palace of Westminster in London, Thursday, March 15, 2012. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
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Annie Blagojevich, daughter of former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, watches as her father is surrounded by the media in front of their home Wednesday, March 14, 2012 in Chicago. The 55-year-old Democrat is due to report to a prison in Colorado on Thursday to begin serving a 14-year sentence, making him the second Illinois governor in a row to go to prison for corruption. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)
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Demonstrators take cover from water sprayed by a police water canon during the year's first student protest in Santiago, Chile, Thursday March 15, 2012.  High school students are protesting for further educational reforms, saying their demands were not met after seven months of protesting in 2011. (AP Photo/Roberto Candia)
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Iranian female Ninjutsu athletes practice in their sports club in Karaj, 21 miles (35 kilometers) west of the capital Tehran, Iran, Thursday, March 15, 2012. About 10,000 athletes train in Ninjutsu in Iran, while 3,500 of them are women. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
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Bahraini anti-government protesters run through tear gas thrown by riot police during clashes Thursday, March 15, 2012, in the eastern town of Sitra, Bahrain. The clashes erupted during protests marking the one-year anniversary of a major crackdown on Sitra, an area that has seen some of the strongest anti-government unrest. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali)
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Women from the northern Turkish province of Kastamonu perform folkloric dances during a festival in Ankara, Turkey, Thursday, March 15, 2012. Some thousands of people visit the festival every day to enjoy food, music and folk dances of the Kastamonu people. (AP Photo/Selcan Hacaoglu)
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An ethnic Hungarian man wears a historic hussar outfit during celebrations of the anniversary of the 1848 revolution against the Hapsburgs, one of the most important royal houses of Europe, in Targu Secuiesc, Romania, Thursday, March 15, 2012. Thousands of ethnic Hungarians gathered in towns across Romania's Transylvanian region to celebrate the Hungarian holiday. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
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An ethnic Hungarian man stands near his horse during celebrations of the anniversary of the 1848 revolution against the Hapsburgs, one of the most important royal houses of Europe, in Targu Secuiesc, Romania, Thursday, March 15, 2012. Thousands of ethnic Hungarians gathered in towns across Romania's Transylvanian region to celebrate the Hungarian holiday. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
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Farmer Fernando Luna walks on his dry crop in Robres village, Huesca, Spain, Tuesday March 13, 2012. Spain is suffering the driest winter in more than 70 years, adding yet another woe for an economically distressed country that can scarcely afford it. Thousands of jobs and many millions of euros could be in jeopardy.  (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
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Republican presidential candidate, Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas leaves after a rally at the University of Missouri, Thursday, March 15, 2012, in Columbia, Mo. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
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A Filipino boy carries a small flag as he walks in between police and protesters during a nationwide protest against the almost-weekly rising prices of oil and other oil products in suburban Quezon City, north of Manila, Philippines on Thursday March 15, 2012. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)
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Visitors walk past a church and remains of an ancient village which are usually covered by water are seen inside the reservoir of Mediano, in Huesca, Spain, Tuesday March 13, 2012. One reservoir built in the 1950s, submerging a village called Mediano and its 16th century church, is so low on water that the ruins of buildings which are usually under water are now uncovered. Spain is suffering the driest winter in more than 70 years, adding yet another woe for an economically distressed country that can scarcely afford it. Thousands of jobs and many millions of euros could be in jeopardy.  (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
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The iCub robot tries to catch a ball during the Innorobo European summit, an event dedicated to the service robotics industry, in Lyon, central France, Thursday, March 15, 2012. The iCub robot, created by the Italian Institute of Technology, is used for research into human cognition and artificial intelligence. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani)
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A woman walks with the Robot Suit HAL during the Innorobo European summit, an event dedicated to the robotics industry, in Lyon, central France, Thursday, March 15, 2012. The Robot Suit HAL, created by Cyberdyne in Japan, is a cyborg-type robot which can expand and improve physical capability. HAL is expected to be applied in various fields such as rehabilitation support and physical training support in the medical field, support for disabled people, heavy labour support at factories, and rescue support at disaster sites. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani)
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Pro-regime protesters with colors of the Syrian flag painted on their faces chant slogans during a rally supporting President Bashar Assad in Damascus, Syria, Thursday, March 15, 2012. Thousands poured into the streets of the Syrian capital Thursday in a show of support for the regime as soldiers tightened their siege in opposition areas on the one-year anniversary of the country's uprising. (AP Photo/Bassem Tellawi)
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Students from Prince George's County Community College uses uses their PDA's as President Barack Obama speaks about energy, Thursday, March, 15, 2012, in Largo, Md. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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Flowers,  placed by relatives of victims. photographed  at the accident site Thursday March 15, 2012, where a tourist bus from Belgium crashed in a tunnel of the motorway A9, in Sierre, western Switzerland. Twenty-eight people, including 22 children, returning to Belgium from a skiing holiday died in a bus accident on Tuesday.  (AP Photo/KeystoneOlivier Maire)
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A newly arrived Syrian refugee, fleeing violence in his country, reacts as he get closer to friends waiting at the border in Reyhanli, Turkey, Thursday, March 15, 2012.  An official says more than 1,000 Syrians have crossed into Turkey over the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of Syrian refugees in Turkey to at least 14,700.(AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)
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Relatives of victims of a bus crash leave the hotel des Vignes, where families of the victims are staying, Thursday, March 15, 2012, in Uvrier, western Switzerland the day after a tourist bus from Belgium crashed in a tunnel of the motorway A9, Thursday. Twenty-eight people, including 22 children, returning to Belgium from a skiing holiday died in a bus accident in Sierre in the Swiss canton of Valais, Swiss police said Wednesday. (AP Photo/Keystone, Laurent Gillieron)
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A firefighter battles a blaze from a ladder that shot thick, black smoke into the sky over the downtown area Thursday, March 15, 2012, in Atlanta. Atlanta Fire Capt. Jolyon Bundridge said a restaurant was on fire. Bundridge was not aware of any injuries in the Thursday morning fire. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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