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  2014-12-17

  Representatives of Australia's Muslim community pray Tuesday (December 16th) after leaving flowers at a makeshift memorial outside a central Sydney cafe where an Iranian-born gunman had taken 17 people hostage. The standoff ended Monday with the deaths of the gunman and two hostages. [William West/AFP]
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  2014-12-16

  A search and rescue team on Monday (December 15th) works the site of a landslide in Jemblung village, Banjarnegara district, Central Java Province. For a third day, rescuers dug through mud with shovels and bare hands, as they searched for people missing from Friday's landslide that killed at least 51 people. [Dida Nuswantara/AFP]
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  2014-12-13

  This Friday (December 12th) photo illustration shows copies of The Jakarta Post. The newspaper's chief editor has been named a suspect for the July 3rd publication of a cartoon attempting to criticise the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), perceived as blasphemous to Islam. [Adek Berry/AFP]
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  2014-12-12

  An Iraqi man mourns December 5th over the coffin of a relative killed in a bomb attack in Sadr City, near Baghdad. Extremists worldwide killed 5,042 people in November, according to a newly released joint report by the BBC World Service and International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR). ISIS carried out nearly half (308) of the 664 attacks and was responsible for the deaths of 2,206 people, the report found. [Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP]
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  2014-12-11

  Staff at Reusoh Hospital in Narathiwat Province attend to Sub Lt. Adul Chanasen, one of three people with facial shrapnel wounds from a roadside bombing in Riang sub-district on Wednesday (December 10th). Insurgents are suspected of carrying out the morning attack. [Rapee Mama/Khabar]
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  2014-12-10

  A family on a motorbike passes an uprooted coconut tree in Sulat town, Eastern Samar Province, Philippines, on Tuesday (December 9th). The government drew praise for life-saving preparations ahead of Typhoon Hagupit sweeping through the region, contributing to a low death toll. [Ted Aljibe/AFP]
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  2014-12-09

  A family tries to salvage recyclable materials from the roof of their destroyed house in Dolores town, in the central Philippine province of Samar, on Monday (December 8th). Typhoon Hagupit hit the Philippines on Saturday, killing at least 23 people and destroying homes on remote islands. [Vincent Go/AFP]
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  2014-12-06

  Sons of Ministry of Defence personnel arrive to take part in a mass circumcision ceremony at the Khalid al-Wahid mosque in Kuala Lumpur on Friday (December 5th). About 112 children participated in the ministry-organised event. [Manan Vatsyayana/AFP]
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  2014-12-05

  Thai police and military officers collect evidence in Rangae District of Narathiwat Province, where Jameenoh Sanee, 52, was shot dead by two unknown assailants on a motorbike around dawn on Thursday (December 4th).  [Rapee Mama/Khabar]
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  2014-12-04

  Residents crowd a grocery store entrance in Tacloban, Philippines on Wednesday (December 3rd), ahead of Typhoon Hagupit's landfall. The storm is expected to hit the region, still recovering from Super Typhoon Haiyan, on Saturday. [Marlon Tano/AFP]