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Yemeni girls sitting with female antigovernment protesters display their hands during a demonstration demanding the resignation of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, in Sanaa,Yemen. The Arabic on the girls' hands reads (from right) 'Murderer, leave,' and 'kill, leave.' Muhammed Muheisen/AP
Indian tribal women from Assam State wait for their turn to perform at the Indigenous Peoples' Conclave in New Delhi. Hundreds of indigenous and tribal people from across India attended the conclave. Kevin Frayer/AP
A Belgian F-16 fighter jet lands after a mission in Libya at Araxos airport in Kato Ahaia, Greece. Belgium is currently taking part in 'Operation Odyssey Dawn.' Approximately 150 Belgian military personnel and several Belgian jets are involved in the operation to enforce a no-fly zone over Libya. Geert Vanden Wijngaert/AP
A Royal Bengal tiger cools off in the water at a zoo in Hyderabad, India. India's latest tiger census shows an increase in the numbers of the endangered big cat. The census counted at least 1,706 tigers in forests across the country, about 300 more than four years ago. Mahesh Kumar A./AP
People light lamps to commemorate the victims of Japan's March 11 earthquake and tsunami, at the Boudhanath Stupa in Kathmandu. Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters
A woman reacts while using a mobile phone as she looks at her house destroyed by the earthquake and tsunami in the town of Kessenuma, Miyagi Prefecture. Japan appeared resigned on Monday to a long fight to contain the world's most dangerous atomic crisis in 25 years after high radiation levels complicated work at its crippled nuclear plant. Carlos Barria/Reuters
A tourist jumps from block to block at the Holocaust Memorial on a sunny morning in Berlin, Germany. Temperatures in Berlin are expected to climb to almost 68 degrees F. Shane Thomas McMillan/AP
Nate Nguon and his daughter Natalie attend a candlelight vigil in Long Beach, Calif., to remember the victims of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan and raise funds for the survivors. Lucy Nicholson/Reuters
A boy plays cricket outside his home near Sri Lanka's R Premadasa Stadium before Tuesday's first semifinal of the cricket world cup between Sri Lanka and New Zealand in Colombo. Philip Brown/Reuters
Ultra-Orthodox Jews take part in a mass prayer after boxes containing the remains of ancient bones were bought to Jerusalem's Mea Shearim neighborhood. The bones were unearthed near Tel Aviv where a luxury hotel is to be built. Ultra-Orthodox Jews, who believe there are ancient Jewish graves at the site, have protested the new building. The Israel Antiquities Authority, after examinations, concluded the bones are not from Jewish graves. Daniel Bar-On/Reuters
An Afghan refugee youth looks on while standing in an alley of a slum on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan. Nathalie Bardou/AP
A police officer and a soldier lift rocks during clashes between teachers and the police in Tegucigalpa. Honduras's President Porfirio Lobo declared a strike by teachers who are protesting a plan by the Honduras government to privatize education illegal. Edgard Garrido/Reuters
Thai soldiers practice drills as part of a ceremony to mark the delivery of three transport helicopters purchased from Russia, at the Army's 11th Infantry Regiment in Bangkok. Sukree Sukplang/Reuters
People are reflected on a stock quotation board displaying the Nikkei share average outside a brokerage in Tokyo. Japan's Nikkei fell 0.4 percent as workers continued to battle radiation leaks at the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, and more dead were pulled from the rubble in the country's northeast, which was devastated by a massive quake and tsunami on March 11. Toru Hanai/Reuters
The Three Mile Island nuclear power generating station in Middletown, Pa. continues to generate electric power with the Unit 1 reactor. TMI was the scene of the 1979 meltdown of the Unit 2 reactor the worst nuclear power plant disaster in the United states. Bradley C Bower/AP
Vienna state opera prima ballerina Karina Sarkissova performs on stage during the 'Austria Hair International 2011' fair in Vienna. Herwig Prammer/Reuters
An religious offering of food and alcoholic drinks placed on a mat with chopsticks and glasses sits on the bank of the partially frozen Songhua River in the northern city of Harbin, in China's Heilongjiang Province. David Gray/Reuters
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A law banning violence against women, considered a major step forward in women's rights in Afghanistan, failed to pass parliament. The law would have also created shelters for abused women, and limited the number of wives permitted to two.
Afghanistan's parliament failed to pass a law on Saturday banning violence against women, a severe blow to progress made in women's rights in the conservative Muslim country since the Islamist Taliban was toppled over a decade ago.
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