A look at the best news photos from around the world.
12 dhjetor, 2014
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A security person stands guard near a sculpture depicting victims at the Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall, in eastern China's Jiangsu province. The hall is sealed off ahead of a ceremony to mark China's first National Memorial Day remembering the 1937 massacre of civilians by Japanese forces in Nanjing.
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Shi'ite Muslim pilgrims gather as they commemorate Arbain in Kerbala, southwest of Baghdad. Hundreds of thousands of black-clad pilgrims from across Iraq streamed into the city a day before the culmination of Saturday's Arbain, which marks the end of 40 days of mourning for Imam Hussein, a grandson of the Prophet Mohammed.
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People take pictures of miniature paper umbrellas, symbols of the pro-democracy movement, in the area occupied by protesters at Causeway Bay shopping district, in Hong Kong. Police arrested nearly 250 activists on Thursday and cleared most of the main protest site near the Central business district, marking an end to more than two months of street demonstrations.
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People dressed as Father Frost, the equivalent of Santa Claus, and Snow Maiden wait to take part in the contest "Yolka-fest-2014" (Fir-festival-2014) in Minsk, Belarus.