Selection of some of the most eye-catching photos of 2013
Best Photos of the Year
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Indian salt worker Walbai Ayyubbhai, 70, carries a rake at a salt pan on the eve of International Women's Day in the Santalpur region of Little Rann of Kutch, some 240 kms from Ahmedabad, March 7, 2013.
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Chilean riot policemen protect themselves with shields during clashes with students who demand the government of Chilean President Sebastian Pinera to improve the public education system, in Santiago, March 7, 2013.
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A man stands in front of a mosque as it burns in Meikhtila, March 21, 2013. The central Burma town declared a curfew for a second night after sectarian clashes between Buddhists and Muslims killed 10 people, including a Buddhist monk, and injured at least 20, authorities said.
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Turkish forensic officers prepare to remove a vehicle in front of the US consulate in Istanbul. Police detained one man after he threatened to detonate a bomb he said he was carrying. Bomb experts discovered he was not carrying a bomb.