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2009 Year in Review

    A police officer attends a training course in San Luis, Colombia, Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2009. Troops from ten different countries are taking part in a 19-week international course with Colombia's National Police's elite assault forces in narcotic interdiction.

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    The coffin of Warrant Officer Class 1 Darren Chant, 40, Regimental Sergeant Major of 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards, is carried from The Guards Chapel, Wellington Barracks, in central London.

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    1,004 South Korean volunteers wearing Santa Claus costumes pose in a campaign to raise money for a charity donation in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2009. Christmas is one of the biggest holidays in South Korea where over half of the population of 48 million are Christians.

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    A man smokes opium in the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Nov. 30, 2009.

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    Filipino activists wear colorful masks during a rally against the economic liberalization policies pushed by the World Trade Organization at the Mendiola bridge, Manila, Philippines, on Monday November 30, 2009. Global trade talks will start anew with the 7th WTO Ministerial Meeting on November 30 to December 3, 2009 in Geneva, Switzerland.

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    Children walk past a campaign mural that read in Spanish "Evo, President Again" in La Paz, Monday, Nov. 30, 2009. Bolivia will hold general elections on Dec. 6.

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    A demonstrator burns a mask of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair outside the Iraq Inquiry, at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, Westminster, London.

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    Gondolas are moored to posts as waves cause a high tide to reach a peak of 131 centimeters (4.29 feet), submerging the Venice lagoon, Italy, on Monday, Nov. 30, 2009

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    Presumed former concentration camp guard John Demjanjuk, arrives at the court room for his trial in Munich, southern Germany, Monday, Nov. 30, 2009.

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    Rachel Uchitel gets into a car in front of her home in New York, Sunday, Nov. 29, 2009.

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