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Images of the Year 2012
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/12/rnps40.jpgColorado shooting suspect James Eagan Holmes makes his first court appearance in Aurora, Colorado in this file photo taken in July 23. Accused Colorado gunman James Holmes was accused of shooting dead 12 moviegoers. Photograph: RJ Sangosti/Pool/Files/Reuters
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Images of the Year 2012
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/12/rnps39.jpgA policeman strikes AFP photojournalist Patricia Melo during the Portuguese general strike in Lisbon in March. Photograph: Hugo Correia/Reuters
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Images of the Year 2012
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/12/rnps38.jpgA fan of Dynamo Kiev makes a right-wing salute during a local soccer match at the Olympic stadium in Kiev in March. Photograph: Anatolii Stepanov/Reuters
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Images of the Year 2012
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/12/rnps37.jpgAnders Behring Breivik makes a right-wing gesture as he arrives for his terrorism and murder trial in a courtroom in Oslo. Breivik (33) has admitted setting off a car bomb that killed eight people at government headquarters in Oslo last July, then massacring 69 in a shooting spree at an island summer camp for Labour Party youths. Photograph: Heiko Junge/Pool/Reuters
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Images of the Year 2012
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/12/rnps36.jpgAn explosion and smoke are seen after Israeli air strikes in Gaza City in November. Photograph: Yasser Gdeeh/Reuters
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Images of the Year 2012
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/12/rnps35.jpgTightrope walker Nik Wallenda walks the high wire from the US side to the Canadian side over the Horseshoe Falls in Niagara Falls in June. Photograph: Mark Blinch/Reuters
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Images of the Year 2012
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/12/rnps27.jpgRussian servicemen, dressed in historical uniform, take part in a military parade rehearsal in Red Square, with St. Basil's Cathedral seen in the background, in Moscow in November. The parade marks the anniversary of a historical parade in 1941 when Soviet soldiers marched through Red Square towards the front lines at World War Two. Photograph: Sergei Karpukhin/Reuters
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http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/12/rnps30.jpgUS model Lydia Hearst poses during the opening ceremony of the 20th Life Ball in Vienna in May. Life Ball is Europe's largest annual Aids charity event and takes place in Vienna's City Hall. Photograph: Lisi Niesner/Reuters
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http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/12/rnps28.jpgMembers of the Movement of Landless Rural Workers (MST), who are protesting for change in the process of land reform, hold a flag up by burning tires on a highway in Brasilia, in November. Photograph: Ueslei Marcelino/Reuters
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Images of the Year 2012
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/12/rnps26.jpgIsraeli border police officers use pepper spray as they detain an injured Palestinian protester during clashes on Land Day after Friday prayers outside Damascus Gate in Jerusalem's Old City in March. Israeli security forces fired rubber bullets, tear gas and stun grenades to break up groups of Palestinians as annual Land Day rallies turned violent. Police said they had made five arrests at Damascus Gate. Land Day commemorates the killing by security forces of six Arabs in 1976 during protests against government plans to confiscate land in northern Israel's Galilee region. Photograph: Ammar Awad/Reuters
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Images of the Year 2012
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/12/rnps41.jpgNadezhda Tolokonnikova (left), Yekaterina Samutsevich (top) and Maria Alyokhina (right), members of female punk band Pussy Riot, look out from the defendent's cell in a courtroom in Moscow in July. The three young women were accused of hooliganism in Moscow's Christ the Saviour Cathedral, where they protested against the church's support for Vladimir Putin. Photograph: Maxim Shemetov/Reuters
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http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/12/rnps25.jpgPaul Hernandez poses for a photograph in his front yard as a worker removes the collapsed remains of a portion of his home destroyed when Hurricane Sandy struck in New Dorp Beach, Staten Island, in November. Mr Hernandez said he and other residents were angry at New York city officials for not doing more to protect their neighbourhood from the ocean and the prospect of flooding. Photograph: Mike Segar/Reuters
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Images of the Year 2012
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/12/rnps24.jpgA home that was damaged by Hurricane Sandy, is seen in Union Beach, New Jersey in November. At least 121 people perished in the storm, which caused an estimated $50 billion in property damage and economic losses and ranks as one of the most destructive natural disasters to hit the US Northeast. Photograph: Eric Thayer/Reuters
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Images of the Year 2012
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/12/rnps22.jpgNakoula Basseley Nakoula (centre) is escorted out of his home by Los Angeles County Sheriff's officers in Cerritos, California, in September. Mr Nakoula, a California man convicted of bank fraud has been escorted to an interview with federal officers probing possible probation violations stemming from the making of an anti-Islam video that triggered violent protests in the Muslim world. The obscure 13-minute English-language video, which was filmed in California and circulated on the Internet under several titles including "Innocence of Muslims," portrays Prophet Mohammad engaged in crude and offensive behavior. Photograph: Bret Hartman/Reuters
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Images of the Year 2012
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/12/rnps21.jpgIsrael's prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu points to a red line he has drawn on the graphic of a bomb as he addresses the 67th United Nations general assembly at the UN headquarters in New York, in September. Photograph: Lucas Jackson/Reuters
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Images of the Year 2012
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/12/rnps20.jpgWomen beat men with torn clothes during Huranga at the Dauji temple near the northern Indian city of Mathura in March. Huranga is a game played between men and women a day after Holi, the festival of colours, during which men drench women with liquid colours and women tear off the clothes of the men. Photograph: Adnan Abidi/Reuters
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http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/12/rnps19.jpgA man confronts hooded protesters who were vandalising a bank facility during a protest against spending cuts in public education in Barcelona in February. Photograph: Albert Gea/Reuters
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Images of the Year 2012
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/12/rnps18.jpgAn activist of Ukrainian group Femen stands in a flat as she prepares for an action at the presidential election in Moscow in March. Vladimir Putin sought a convincing victory in Russia's presidential election to strengthen his hand in dealing with the biggest opposition protests since he rose to power 12 years ago. Critics question the legitimacy of a vote they say is skewed to help the former KGB spy return to the Kremlin after four years as prime minister, and are threatening to step up protests that began after a disputed parliamentary poll in December. Photograph: Denis Sinyakov/Reuters
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Images of the Year 2012
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/12/rnps17.jpgMadhya Pradesh in February. India has failed to reduce its high prevalence of child malnutrition despite its economy doubling between 1990 and 2005 to become Asia's third largest. A government-supported survey last month said 42 per cent of children under five are underweight - almost double that of sub-Saharan Africa - compared to 43 per cent five years ago. The statistic - which means 3,000 children dying daily due to illnesses related to poor diets - forced prime minister Manmohan Singh to admit last month that malnutrition was "a national shame" and was putting the health of the nation in jeopardy. Photograph: Adnan Abidi/Reuters
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Images of the Year 2012
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/12/rnps16.jpgA wrestler rubs his hands with mud to prevent slipping due to sweat, during a traditional mud wrestling (Kushti) bout at the Akhaara centre in Kolhapur, about 400 kms (250 miles) south of Mumbai, in February. Fewer people are taking up Kushti, according to the sport's coaches, as young athletes turn instead to mat wrestling to gain access to top international sports competitions. Photograph: Danish Siddiqui/Reuters
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http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/12/rnps15.jpgAn employee of the Workers Housing Organisation cries as she threatens to jump from the office where she worked because her wage has been cut and she and her husband were threatened with layoffs, in Athens, in February. Workers Housing Organisation is a state owned company that is on the list of state entities that may be shut down to cut costs under the terms of the new €130-billion bailout agreement with the European Union and International Monetary Fund. Photograph: Panayiotis Tzamaros/Reuters
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http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/12/rnps14.jpgSinger Adele holds her six Grammy Awards at the 54th annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, California in February. Soul singer Adele triumphed in her return to music's stage, scooping up six Grammys and winning every category in which she was nominated including album of the year for 21 and best record with Rolling In the Deep. Photograph: Lucy Nicholson/Reuters
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Images of the Year 2012
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/12/rnps46.jpgMembers of Russian female punk group Pussy Riot who are still at large speak to Reuters journalists during an August interview in Moscow. Photograph: William Webster/Reuters
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Images of the Year 2012
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/12/rnps13.jpgGreeks struggle as they wait to receive free onions and other vegetables offered by farmers in Syntagma Square in January. Farmers from the Thebes and Viotia district north of Athens handed out tones of agricultural products to protest media reports that waste from local industries has polluted their crops with hexavalent chromium, making it dangerous for consumption. Photograph:Yannis Behrakis/Reuters
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Images of the Year 2012
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/12/rnps12.jpgThe luxury cruise ship Costa Concordia is shown run aground off the coast of Giglio in this DigitalGlobe handout satellite photo obtained by Reuters in January. Photograph: DigitalGlobe/Handout/Reuters
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http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/12/rnps11.jpgAn elderly man hugs a boy in the Andalusian capital of Seville in January. Photograph: Marcelo del Pozo/Reuters
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Images of the Year 2012
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/12/rnps10.jpgPalestinians look through a hospital window at the body of a man (not pictured) killed by an Israeli strike in Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip in January. An Israeli xaircraft and tank strike killed at least one Palestinian close to the border fence in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip on Wednesday, medics said. Photograph: Mohammed Salem/Reuters
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Images of the Year 2012
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/12/rnps9.jpgWilliam Mulhall poses for a photograph in his old curiosity shop in the small seaside village of Ardglass in Co Down in January. Despite the tiny population the shop stays open 24 hours a day, 365 days of the year, to cater for the fishermen who work round the clock. Mr Mulhall, who is an acclaimed local artist, paints in his shop which doubles as his studio. Photograph: Cathal McNaughton/Reuters
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Images of the Year 2012
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/12/rnps8.jpgAn instructor from the Tianjiao Special Guard/Security Consultant Ltd. Co, smashes a bottle over a female recruit's head during a training session for China's first female bodyguards in Beijing in January. According to the company, the training session consists of 20 women, mostly college graduates, who will undergo 8-10 months of training to develop sufficient skills to become security guards. The company will then offer the best trainee a chance to attend the International Security Academy in Israel. Photograph: David Gray/Reuters
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Images of the Year 2012
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/12/rnps7.jpgJamaica's Usain Bolt celebrates winning the men's 200m final during the London 2012 Olympic Games at the Olympic Stadium in August. Photograph: Lucy Nicholson/Reuters
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Images of the Year 2012
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/12/rnps6.jpgAn anti-government protester wearing an ‘abaya’ walks in front of riot police as she arrives to participate in an anti-government protest in Manama, Bahrain, in January. Hundreds of protesters from the newly formed opposition group Awakening of Fateh Youth Movement, made up mainly of Sunni Muslims, marched towards the main highway where they were stopped by riot police. Photograph: Hamad I Mohammed/Reuters
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http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/12/rnps5.jpgInternally displaced people are seen in Pibor, South Sudan, in January. The World Food Programme (WFP) started distributing food to 60,000 internally displaced people in South Sudan, according to the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS). Photograph: Isaac Billy/UNMISS/Reuters
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http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/12/rnps4.jpgPeople travel on an outdoor public escalator at Commune 13 in Medellin in January. A huge 384 metres (1,260 ft) long outdoor escalator, divided into six sections, has been erected in one of the poorest districts of Colombia's second largest city to help the 12,000 residents there get around. Photograph: Fredy Builes/Reuters
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Images of the Year 2012
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/12/rnps3.jpgA Free Syrian Army fighter takes cover during clashes with Syrian Army in the Salaheddine neighbourhood of central Aleppo in August. Photograph: Goran Tomasevic/Reuters
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http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/12/rnps2.jpgA keeper looks inside the mouth of a South American sea lion at 'Tiergarten Schoenbrunn' Zoo in Vienna, in January. Photograph: Lisi Niesner/Reuters
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http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/12/rnps1.jpgFormer Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak lies on a gurney bed while leaving the courtroom at the police academy, during his January trial, in Cairo. Photograph: Stringer/Reuters
