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Holi and fashion shows apart, the world also saw its share of protests in a few countries

Mar 19, 2012, 06:23 IST1 min
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Men wait in front of a bakery to buy bread during winter in Al Qusayr, Syria
Image by Goran Tomasevic / Reuters
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A man daubed in coloured powder lies on the ground as he celebrates "Lathmar Holi" at Nandgaon village in Uttar Pradesh
Image by Adnan Abidi / Reuters
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A protester in Santiago, Chile, is detained by riot police while protesting for fuel subsidies and special regional minimum salaries
Image by Victor Ruiz Caballero / Reuters
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An anti-government protester during a protest to demand that relatives of Yemen's former president Ali Abdullah Saleh be dismissed from senior posts in the army and police in Sanaa
Image by Khaled Abdullah Ali Al Mahdi / Reuters
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The Krasna Horka castle is seen on fire in the village of Krasnohorske Podhradie near Roznava, eastern Slovakia
Image by Reuters
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A Buddhist monk takes a bath inside a monastery in Yangon, Myanmar
Image by Reuters
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Israeli soldiers (l) stand guard as a man dressed as a clown juggles during a parade for the Jewish holiday of Purim in the West Bank city of Hebron
Image by Reuters
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US President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron watch a basketball match at the University of Dayton Arena in Ohio
Image by Larry Downing / Reuters
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A couple rides near a road submerged in flood waters in Wagga Wagga, Australia
Image by Daniel Munoz / Reuters

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