Sept 23, world in pics
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This handout photo released by environmental action group Greenpeace shows a shark being hauled onto the Taiwanese longliner 'Li Chyun No. 2' in the central Pacific ocean. Greenpeace is calling for a 50 % reduction of the Taiwanese fishing fleet in the Western and Central Pacific.
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Updated on Sept 24, 2011 03:30 pm IST
Japan's H-2A rocket lifts off from the launchiung pad at the Tanegashima space centre in Kagoshima prefecture, Japan's southern island of Kyushu.
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The coffin of Afghan former president Burhanuddin Rabbani who was killed three days ago, is carried by a guard of honor at the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan.
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Fighters for Libya's new National Transtional Council (NTC) regime wait at the frontline in the city of Sirte, one of ousted strongman Moamer Kadhafi's last hold-outs.
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People celebrate in Lusaka early, after Opposition Leader Michal Sata was declared winner of Zambia's President election by the Chief Justice Ernest Sakala.
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A currency dealer reacts as he looks at screens at a dealing room of a bank in Seoul.
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An Afghan security contractor checks teenagers entering US military's Combat Outpost (COP) Pirtle King in Ghaziabad district in Kunar province, eastern Afghanistan. Afghan teenagers go to the camp daily to do odd jobs.
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Staff gesture during the opening ceremony of a new Apple store in Shanghai.
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Robot Evolta pedals a bicyle during a family triathlon event in Oiso, west of Tokyo.
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