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A mine worker holds a stick as government officials address them at the Lonmin mine near Rustenburg, South Africa, Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2012. Miners Workers trickled in Tuesday at the Lonmin platinum mine where 44-people have died in a wildcat strike, as South Africa urged the company to suspend an ultimatum to return to work.
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Indian Muslims take part in Eid al-Fitr prayers at Jama Masjid in New Delhi, India, Monday, Aug. 20, 2012. Muslims around the world are celebrating Eid al-Fitr, marking the end of Ramadan, the Muslim calendar's ninth and holiest month during which followers are required to abstain from food and drink from dawn to dusk.
A French army soldier of the 1er Regiment d'Helicopteres de Combat (1st Combat Helicopter Battalion) pushes a Viviane Gazelle helicopter at the French Helicopter Battalion "Mousquetaire" at the Kabul International airport in Kabul on August 17, 2012. France is the fifth largest contributor to NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), which is due to pull out the vast majority of its 130,000 troops by the end of 2014. (AFP/Getty Images/Alexander Klein)
Striking miners hold weapons as they wait to be addressed by former African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) President Julius Malema outside a South African mine in Rustenburg, 100 km northwest of Johannesburg on August 18, 2012. The bloody protest by South African miners that ended in a hail of police gunfire and 34 deaths this week could also wound the ruling ANC and its main labour ally, laying bare workers' anger over enduring inequalities in Africa's biggest economy. Thursday's shooting, bringing back memories of apartheid-era violence, underlined that after 18 years in power the African National Congress and its union partner have not been able to heal the fissures of income disparity, poverty and joblessness scarring the country. (Reuters/Siphiwe Sibeko)
The Muslim holy month of Ramadan comes to an end on Saturday evening. We gathered up the most striking photos of the prayers, fasting, food and celebrations from around the world.
A Palestinian man reads the Koran outside a mosque in the West Bank city of Jenin on the first day of the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan on July 20, 2012. (AFP/Getty Images/Saif Dahlah)
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Feminist punk group Pussy Riot members, from left, Yekaterina Samutsevich, Maria Alekhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova sit in a glass cage at a court room in Moscow, Russia on Friday, Aug 17, 2012. The women, two of whom have young children, were convicted of “hooliganism” Friday for their anti-Putin performance in a Moscow cathedral. Judge Marina Syrova sentenced them to two years in jail, a year less than the prosecution asked for.
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Republican vice presidential candidate U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) speaks at a campaign event at Walsh University on August 16, 2012 in North Canton, Ohio. Ryan is campaigning in the battleground state of Ohio after being named as the vice presidential candidate last week by Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney.
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Men search for survivors near a copy of the Koran stained with blood after a recent Syrian Air force air strike in Azaz, some 47 km (29 miles) north of Aleppo, August 15, 2012.
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A Syrian rebel with a bandaged eye walks past closed shops in the Bab Nasr district of Aleppo on August 14, 2012. The old city of Aleppo has become a maze of passageways, some of which are dangerous to cross, whilst others see free movement of civilians.
Thousands upon thousands of photos from the London Olympics poured in over the wires over the last two and a half weeks. It was enough to make your eyes go permanently fuzzy, but it's truly been a pleasure to spend all day sorting through the images that capture the highs, lows and in-betweens of these athletes' journeys. Photographers have said the Olympics are their hardest assignment, but also the most rewarding — I think it's also accurate for those on the desk to say the same.
Artists wave Union Jack flags as they perform during the closing ceremony of the 2012 London Olympic Games at the Olympic stadium in London on August 12, 2012. (AFP/Getty Images/Gabriel Bouys)
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