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Oded Balilty, The Associated Press. A Jewish settler struggles with an Israeli security officer during clashes that erupted as authorities evacuated the West Bank settlement outpost of Amona, east of the Palestinian town of Ramallah.

Jan Grarup, Denmark. Displaced people wait for food distribution near the village of Habile, in Chad in November. Attacks by the Janjaweed, an Arab militia said to be backed by the Sudanese government, spread from the Darfur region of Sudan across the border to Chad. Janjaweed on horseback burnt the villages of black African farmers on both sides of the border, killing and raping inhabitants in a pattern of ethnic violence that has displaced hundreds of thousands.

Arturo Rodríguez (30), Spain. Tourists, security forces, and Red Cross workers attend to African migrants who have landed on La Tejita beach on Tenerife, in the Canary Islands, Spain. Tens of thousands of migrants arrived in 2006, in small wooden boats with up to 150 people on board. They faced a sea journey of some 1,000 kilometers, and many arrived starving, dehydrated, or died on the way. Some migrants are repatriated, others are sent to mainland Spain, but many end up in limbo, unable to gain work papers yet unwilling to go home.

Akintunde Akinleye, Nigeria, Reuters.A man rinses soot from his face at the scene of a petrol pipeline explosion in Lagos, Nigeria, on December 26. At least 260 people were killed after a punctured pipeline caught fire. Thieves had tapped
it to fill tankers with petrol for resale, and hundreds of people had gone to the scene to scoop up leaking fuel in plastic containers. Pipeline vandalism and fuel theft are common in Nigeria, the world's eighth largest exporter of oil, where most people live in poverty.

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