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Students gather and reunite with their parents at a fast food joint across from Arapahoe High School, after a student opened fire in the school in Centennial, Colorado December 13, 2013. The student seeking to confront one of his teachers opened fire at the Colorado high school on Friday, wounding at least two classmates before apparently taking his own life, law enforcement officials said.EVAN SEMON/Reuters

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Youths attempt to control a fire by pouring colored water after vehicles were torched and vandalized by Bangladesh's Jamaat-e-Islami party activists during clashes with police in Dhaka December 13, 2013. At least four people were killed in Bangladesh on Friday when supporters of Islamist leader Abdul Quader Mollah, a senior figure in Jamaat-e-Islami, vented their fury at his execution for war crimes committed during the 1971 war of independence from Pakistan.ANDREW BIRAJ/Reuters

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A woman sits near a barricade at the Khreschatyk main street where pro-European integration protesters hold a rally in central Kiev December 13, 2013.GLEB GARANICH/Reuters

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A Palestinian man walks in his house that is flooded with rainwater on a stormy day in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip December 13, 2013. A severe winter deluge enveloping much of the Eastern Mediterranean added to the woes of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip on Thursday.IBRAHEEM ABU MUSTAFA/Reuters

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A boy walks between villagers holding torches during the Divina Pastora procession, as part of a festival to honour the Virgin of Los Rondeles, in the southern Spanish village of Casarabonela late December 12, 2013. Villagers celebrate the festival on the eve of St. Lucia's Day and hold torches during the procession to represent light and vision.JON NAZCA/Reuters

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Saudi men walk as their footprints are seen after a snowstorm in Alkan village, west of Saudi Arabia December 13, 2013.STRINGER/Reuters

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A lit candle is seen through the bars of former South African President Nelson Mandela's prison cell in B Section of Robben Island Maximum Security Prison off the coast of Cape Town, as part of a night vigil to honour Manela December 13, 2013.STRINGER/Reuters

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Muslim men organized in militias with machetes rough up a Christian man while checking him for weapons in the Miskine neighbourhood of Bangui, Central African Republic, Friday Dec. 13, 2013.Jerome Delay/The Associated Press

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