Dec. 26 Daily Brief: Fighting in the Central African Republic, Israeli air force cadets graduate, 2004 tsunami in Sri Lanka
English Premiere League soccer matches, fighting in the Central African Republic, Israeli cadets perform in the sky after graduation and more in today’s daily breif .
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- An Israeli demonstrator with an Israeli flag wrapped around himself takes part in a protest against the upcoming release of Palestinian prisoners, near the Ministry of Defence in Tel Aviv December 26, 2013. Israel is meant to release Palestinian prisoners at the beginning of next week in the third stage of a deal brokered by the United States in July that brought a resumption of peace talks. (REUTERS/Ammar Awad)
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- A firefighter battles a Christmas night brush fire in Simi Valley, California late December 25, 2013. Strong winds helped the brush fire burn along Santa Susana Pass Rd, just west of Rocky Peak, south of the 118 freeway. The cause of the fire is still under investigation, according to local media. (REUTERS/Gene Blevins)
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- Turkey’s outgoing Economy Minister Zafer Caglayan waves as he arrives at a handover ceremony in Ankara December 26, 2013. Turkey’s opposition accused scandal-hit Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday of trying to rule via a secretive “deep state”, after a cabinet reshuffle that would tighten controls on police already beleaguered by government-ordered purges. (REUTERS/Umit Bektas)
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- Riot policemen hit a pick up truck belonging to anti-government protesters during a clashes outside the Thai-Japan youth stadium in central Bangkok December 26, 2013. Thai police fired teargas at anti-government protesters in the capital Bangkok on Thursday after demonstrators tried to disrupt planning for a February election, the first such incident in nearly two weeks. (REUTERS)
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- A South Sudan army soldier sweats as he holds his weapon during a flight from the capital Juba to Bor town, 180 km (108 miles) northwest from capital, December 25, 2013. South Sudan President Salva Kiir said on Tuesday government troops have take control of the Jonglei state capital Bor, a key town which rebels loyal to former Vice President Riek Machar seized last week. Picture taken December 25, 2013. (REUTERS/James Akena)
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- A father and his daughter look towards the sea during the 9th anniversary of the 2004 Asian tsunami in Peraliya, about 90 km (56 miles) south of Colombo December 26, 2013. Hundreds of memorial events were held across Asia in memory of the towering waves that crashed ashore with little warning on December 26, 2004, killing around 230,000 people in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, Thailand and nine other countries. More than half the victims were Indonesians; with Sri Lanka and India next worst hit. (REUTERS/Dinuka Liyanawatte)
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- A boy hangs strips of white polythene, the colour being a symbolism for death in Buddhism, near a mass grave for victims, who died when their train was swept from its tracks by the 2004 tsunami, during a memorial in Peraliya, about 90 km (56 miles) south of Colombo December 26, 2013. Hundreds of memorial events were held across Asia in memory of the towering waves that crashed ashore with little warning on December 26, 2004, killing around 230,000 people in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, Thailand and nine other countries. More than half the victims were Indonesians; with Sri Lanka and India next worst hit. (REUTERS/Dinuka Liyanawatte)
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- Oscar (L) of Chelsea and Ashley Williams of Swansea fall after jumping for the ball during their English Premier League soccer match at Stamford Bridge, London, December 26, 2013. (REUTERS/Andrew Winning)
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- Tottenham Hotspur’s Danny Rose (R) challenges West Bromwich Albion’s Morgan Amalfitano during their English Premier League soccer match at White Hart Lane in London, December 26, 2013. (REUTERS/Darren Staples)
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- A hat that blew onto the field, is blown off the head of Australia’s Chris Rogers after he put it on during the first day of the fourth Ashes cricket test against England, at the Melbourne cricket ground December 26, 2013. (REUTERS/David Gray)
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- T-6 Texan II planes fly in formation during an air force pilots’ graduation ceremony at Hatzerim air base in southern Israel December 26, 2013. (REUTERS/Nir Elias)
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- French soldiers conduct a daytime patrol in a neighbourhood in Bangui, where shooting continued overnight in the capital, December 26, 2013. (REUTERS/Andreea Campeanu)
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- A woman recovers in a hospital in Central African Republic’s capital Bangui December 26, 2013. Red Cross workers said on Thursday they have recovered 44 bodies from the streets of Central African Republic’s capital Bangui after fierce inter-religious fighting in the last two days in which six Chadian peacekeepers were also killed. A representative of medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres at Bangui’s main hospital said it had received more than 50 people with gunshot or machete wounds since Wednesday night from the fighting which raged for hours across Bangui. (REUTERS/Andreea Campeanu)
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- A man looks out of a window on a public transport bus in which a Christmas tree and decorations are reflected at the financial centre on Sao Paulo’s Avenida Paulista December 26, 2013. (REUTERS/Nacho Doce)
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