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Climate change, Everyday Ramallah, Snowy Bird (9 images)

16 November

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The coal fueled Fiddlers Ferry power station emits vapour into the night sky in Warrington, United Kingdom. As world leaders prepare to gather for the Copenhagen Climate Summit in December, the resolve of the industrial nations seems to be weakening with President Obama stating that it would be impossible to reach a binding deal at the summit. Climate campaigners are concerned that this disappointing announcement is a backward step ahead of the summit. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

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Halima Aden, left, and Rhadija Aden, sit next to their home in Garissa, eastern Kenya. Halima and Rhadija both have lost sons to the recruitment and the town's deputy mayor says hundreds of young men have disappeared in the past two months. Thousands of people, including children, are being secretly recruited and trained inside Kenya to battle Islamic insurgents in neighboring Somalia, according to deserters, local officials, families of recruits and diplomats. Most recruits are Somalis living in crowded refugee camps and Kenyan nationals who are ethnic Somalis living nearby. (AP Photo/Riccardo Gangale)

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A Slate-Colored Junco finds shelter in an evergreen tree as snow begins to fall in Lawrence, Kan. The area is under a winter weather advisory. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)

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A Palestinian girl stands in an alley of Al-Amari refugee camp in the West Bank city of Ramallah. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

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Italian team Azzurra competes in Nice southeastern France during a sailing match racing competition "The Louis Vuitton Trophy". Louis Vuitton and the World Sailing Teams Association are organising a match racing competition in Nice from Nov. 7 to 22, 2009. (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau)

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The turbine sails of the Scout Moor Wind Farm in the South Pennines dominate the skyline in Rochdale, United Kingdom. As world leaders prepare to gather for the Copenhagen Climate Summit in December, the resolve of the industrial nations seems to be weakening with President Obama stating that it would be impossible to reach a binding deal at the summit. Climate campaigners are concerned that this disappointing announcement is a backward step ahead of the summit. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

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Activists protest in front of the DC office of Goldman Sachs in Washington, DC. The protest was held to "demand an end to the Too Big To Fail doctrine, request that their projected $23 billion in bonuses and compensation go to foreclosure prevention programs, and call on Congress to take immediate action on reform." (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

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An Afghan municipality worker cleans off election posters of the presidential and provincial council candidates in Kabul, Afghanistan. Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai's inauguration is set for Nov. 19. He won his presidential re-election campaign by default earlier this month, after his main challenger Abdullah Abdullah pulled out of a runoff vote. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)

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Indian Army soldiers patrol near the international border fencing, after a landmine explosion at Ballad post in Samba, nearly 45 kilometers (28 miles) southwest of Jammu, India. Fierce gunbattles and a roadside bomb killed three Indian soldiers and two suspected Islamic insurgents early Monday in the troubled Himalayan Kashmir region. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)

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