Nov. 12 Photo Brief: Cricket match in Sri Lanka, Afghan officials burn alcohol and drugs, honoring Imam Hussain
New Zealand faces Sri Lanka in a cricket match, Afghan officials burn a cache of alcohol and drugs, Kashmiri Shiite Muslims commemorate the martyrdom of Imam Hussain, and more in today’s daily brief.
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- Bahraini Shiite Muslims prepare to take part in a ceremony marking Ashura, which commemorates the seventh century slaying of Imam Hussein, the grandson of Prophet Mohammed, in the village of Al Daih, west of Manama. (MOHAMMED AL-SHAIKH / AFP/Getty Images)
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- The last flame burns on a rainbow decoration burned during an annual march of far-right protesters, which coincides with Poland’s national Independence Day in Warsaw. (JANEK SKARZYNSKI / AFP/Getty Images)
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- A hot air balloon and a seagull fly over Turin on November 11, 2013. (GIUSEPPE CACACE / AFP/Getty Images)
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- An ailing man is evacuated by Indonesian military personnel as villagers flee their homes to a shelter, at the Guru Kinayan village in Karo. More than 5,000 people have fled their homes since a volcano in western Indonesia erupted early this month, an official said. (KHARISMA TARIGAN / AFP/Getty Images)
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- A Chinese para-military officer patrols Tiananmen Square in front of the Great Hall of the People (background) after the Communist Party Central Committee’s concluded its secretive Third Plenum in Beijing. (MARK RALSTON / AFP/Getty Images)
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- Afghan government officials and policemen watch as a cache of alcohol and drugs burn in Kabul. More than 2,000 kilograms of opium, 400 kilos of heroine, about 1,200 kilos of morphine were burned during the ceremony. (FARSHAD USYAN / AFP/Getty Images)
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- A the sun sets over a house damaged by Typhoon Haiyan outside the airport in Tacloban, on the eastern island of Leyte, after Super Typhoon Haiyan swept over the Philippines. (PHILIPPE LOPEZ / AFP/Getty Images)
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- A boy looks at the debris of destroyed houses in Tacloban, on the eastern island of Leyte, after Super Typhoon Haiyan, the most powerful storm in the world this year, hit the Philippines. (NOEL CELIS / AFP/Getty Images)
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- Kashmiri Shiite Muslims look on as unseen devotees take part in ritual self-flagellation during a religious procession held on the seventh day of Muharram to commemorate the martyrdom of Imam Hussain, the grandson of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad, in Srinagar. (TAUSEEF MUSTAFA / AFP/Getty Images)
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- New Zealand cricketer Andrew Ellis makes an unsuccessful attempt to run out Sri Lankan batsman Tillakaratne Dilshan during the second One Day International (ODI) cricket match. (LAKRUWAN WANNIARACHCHI / AFP/Getty Images)
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- Delhi Fire Service personnel extinguish a fire in New Delhi. Slum huts were gutted in a fire which broke out in the evening near Delhi’s Ghazipur mandi. (PRAKASH SINGH / AFP/Getty Images)
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- Serbia’s Novak Djokovic kisses the Brad Drewett Trophy after beating Spain’s Rafael Nadal in the singles final on the eighth day of the ATP World Tour Finals tennis tournament in London. (GLYN KIRK / AFP/Getty Images)
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- A rebel fighter points his weapon as he stands amidst rubble and debris during clashes with Syrian government forces in the northeastern city of Deir Ezzor. Syria’s main opposition grouping said Monday it was willing to attend peace talks on the condition that President Bashar al-Assad transfer power and be excluded from any transition process. (AHMAD ABOUD / AFP/Getty Images)
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- Rebel fighters hold a position in a damaged building during clashes with Syrian government forces in the northeastern city of Deir Ezzor. Syria’s main opposition grouping said Monday it was willing to attend peace talks on the condition that President Bashar al-Assad transfer power and be excluded from any transition process. (AHMAD ABOUD / AFP/Getty Images)
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- A rebel fighter holds a position in a damaged building during clashes with Syrian government forces in the northeastern city of Deir Ezzor. Syria’s main opposition grouping said Monday it was willing to attend peace talks on the condition that President Bashar al-Assad transfer power and be excluded from any transition process. (AHMAD ABOUD / AFP/Getty Images)
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