A cloud of sand suspended in the air passes over the Mediterranean coastal city of Netanya in the center of Israel.
Day in Photos, March 4, 2013

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A cloud of sand suspended in the air passes over the Mediterranean coastal city of Netanya in the center of Israel.

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Chinese security personnel march outside the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. In a rare move, China on Monday declined to reveal its defense budget request for 2013.

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Thousands of personalized cardboard characters are seen outside Britain's Houses of Parliament in central London during a photocall organized by the Fairtrade Foundation, calling on British PM David Cameron to put smallholder farmers around the world at the heart of its trade policy ahead of the G8 Summit in June. The cardboard characters are generated by those who have signed an online petition.

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Masaai women line up at dawn to vote in a general election in Kumpa, Kenya. Kenyans went to the polls to begin casting votes in a nationwide election seen as the country's most important - and complicated - in its 50-year history.