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REWIND: The best PHOTOS in the last 48 hours

Last updated on: December 22, 2010 08:31 IST
We bring you a presentation of the best photos in the last 72 hours from around the world

A car is seen stuck in a ditch along a snow covered road at Fechain near Cambrai, after heavy snow fell in Northern France 

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REWIND: The best PHOTOS in the last 48 hours

Last updated on: December 22, 2010 08:31 IST
A woman tries to hear her relative, who is being held in a police bus for demonstrating, near a detention centre in Minsk. At least seven election candidates and hundreds of opposition demonstrators were held late Monday after police cracked down on a protest against the re-election of Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko. 

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Last updated on: December 22, 2010 08:31 IST
A woman looks out of her house in the flooded municipality of Riosucio in Choco province. Colombia is facing what the government calls its worst natural disaster as bad weather, flooding and rains have killed more than 280 people, driven nearly 2 million more from their homes, and damaged roadways, crops and livestock. 

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Last updated on: December 22, 2010 08:31 IST
Paramilitary policemen march during a daily training session in the Forbidden City, in Beijing

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Last updated on: December 22, 2010 08:31 IST
A member of the clergy walks in the Church of the Nativity, the site revered as the birthplace of Jesus, in the West Bank town of Bethlehem, ahead of Christmas

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Last updated on: December 22, 2010 08:31 IST
A protester wears tape over his mouth during a demonstration against a new media law in downtown Budapest. The new law empowers a recently created new authority, the Media Council, to issue fines for printed, electronic and online media if it determines that coverage is unbalanced, infringes upon human dignity, offends common morals, or fails to cover events of public interest. Fines may reach 200 million forints for nationwide television channels, 25 million forints for nationwide daily newspapers and Internet news portals, and 10 million forints for weekly and monthly publications.

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Last updated on: December 22, 2010 08:31 IST
Airline travellers wait at Frankfurt's airport. Many flights were either rescheduled or cancelled following heavy snowfall that has resulted in airport closures across Europe.

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Last updated on: December 22, 2010 08:31 IST
An elderly man monitors share prices on a television screen during a trading session inside the Karachi Stock Exchange

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Last updated on: December 22, 2010 08:31 IST
An actor of the Belarus Free Theatre participates in a performance "The Zone of Silence" in Minsk, Belarus. With its close-to-the-edge repertoire and refusal to be censored by a government for which free expression is anathema, the theatre company has been driven underground, and abroad, since its inception in 2005. 

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Last updated on: December 22, 2010 08:31 IST
The Moon is engulfed in the Earth's shadow during the peak of a rare winter solstice total lunar eclipse as viewed through a telescope from Palm Beach Gardens, US

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