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Three hundred people a day arrive at the Atma camp for displaced persons in northern Syria, adding to the 20,000 already there. There's no heat, water or electricity in the flimsy tents, which allow water in during rainstorms.
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Pope Benedict XVI attends a ceremony to mark the 900th birthday of the Knights of Malta, one of the most peculiar organizations in the world at St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican on February 9, 2013. Pope Benedict XVI announced during a mass Monday, February 11, 2013, that he plans to step down on February 28.
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A group of anti-sexual harassment volunteers and supporters gather in downtown Cairo, February 12, 2013, to help raise awareness and educate the public about the on-going issue in the city.
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The Syrian army turned the national hospital at Azaz in northern Syria into a military base to attack the town last June but lost the town to rebels the following month. Rebels restored the hospital and the army then bombed it from the air in January.
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A supporter of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez cries as she waits for his funeral procession to pass in Caracas, Venezuela, on Wednesday, March 6, 2013. Escorted by his family, friends and government members, the procession makes its way to the Military Academy for a final tribute that will last through Friday.
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Flares are set off as emotions and excitement take over Saturday, March 9, 2013, outside Cairo, Egypt's Ultras Al-Ahly football club over the Egyptian court's verdict in the Port Said trial, which confirmed the death sentences of 21 people stemming from a 2012 soccer riot. The ruling also acquitted seven police officers of their alleged roles in the incident.
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Pope Francis waves to the crowd from the "papamobile" during his inauguration mass at St Peter's square on March 19, 2013 at the Vatican. World leaders flew in for the inauguration mass for Pope Francis in St Peter's Square on Tuesday where Latin America's first pontiff received the formal symbols of papal power.
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A man in Raqqa, Syria, walks by a list of names of those killed in Raqqa in Syria's two-year-old rebellion, Thursday, March 21, 2013. Raqqa was taken by rebels in early March, and to date, local leaders say they have documented more than 2,300 deaths here.
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