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  • January 21, 2013 - Diabaly, Mali: Mali army men check a military base in central Diabaly, for unexploded ordinance, a day after Mali government troops regain control of the city. Diabaly was under islamist militants control since the 14th of January...Several insurgent groups have been fighting a campaign against the Malian government for independence or greater autonomy for northern Mali, an area known as Azawad. The National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA), an organisation fighting to make Azawad an independent homeland for the Tuareg people, had taken control of the region by April 2012...The Malian government pledge to the French army to help the national troops to stop the rebellion advance towards the capital Bamako. The french troops started aerial attacks on rebel positions in the centre of the country and deployed several hundred special forces men to counter attack the advance on the ground. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • January 21, 2013 - Diabaly, Mali: A Mali army man takes guard on the road outside Diabaly, a day after the government troops regain control of the city. Diabaly was under islamist militants control since the 14th of January...Several insurgent groups have been fighting a campaign against the Malian government for independence or greater autonomy for northern Mali, an area known as Azawad. The National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA), an organisation fighting to make Azawad an independent homeland for the Tuareg people, had taken control of the region by April 2012...The Malian government pledge to the French army to help the national troops to stop the rebellion advance towards the capital Bamako. The french troops started aerial attacks on rebel positions in the centre of the country and deployed several hundred special forces men to counter attack the advance on the ground. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • January 17, 2013 - Bamako, Mali: First group of forty five Togolese army men arrive at Bamako International Airport to take part in the international force deployed to Mali to defend the country against the islamists rebel groups advancing from the northern areas of the country...Several insurgent groups have been fighting a campaign against the Malian government for independence or greater autonomy for northern Mali, an area known as Azawad. The National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA), an organisation fighting to make Azawad an independent homeland for the Tuareg people, had taken control of the region by April 2012...Last week the Malian government pledge to the French army to help the national troops to stop the rebellion advance towards the capital Bamako. The french troops started aerial attacks on rebel positions in the centre of the country and deployed several hundred special forces men to counter attack the advance on the ground. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • anuary 17, 2013 - Bamako, Mali: First group of forty five Togolese army men arrive at Bamako International Airport to take part in the international force deployed to Mali to defend the country against the islamists rebel groups advancing from the northern areas of the country. Several insurgent groups have been fighting a campaign against the Malian government for independence or greater autonomy for northern Mali, an area known as Azawad. The National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA), an organisation fighting to make Azawad an independent homeland for the Tuareg people, had taken control of the region by April 2012.<br />
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Last week the Malian government pledge France to help the national army stop the rebellion advance towards the capital Bamako. The french troops started aerial attacks on rebel positions in the centre of the country and deployed several hundred special forces men to counter attack the advance on the ground. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • January 17, 2013 - Bamako, Mali: First group of forty five Togolese army men arrive at Bamako International Airport to take part in the international force deployed to Mali to defend the country against the islamists rebel groups advancing from the northern areas of the country...Several insurgent groups have been fighting a campaign against the Malian government for independence or greater autonomy for northern Mali, an area known as Azawad. The National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA), an organisation fighting to make Azawad an independent homeland for the Tuareg people, had taken control of the region by April 2012...Last week the Malian government pledge to the French army to help the national troops to stop the rebellion advance towards the capital Bamako. The french troops started aerial attacks on rebel positions in the centre of the country and deployed several hundred special forces men to counter attack the advance on the ground. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • January 17, 2013 - Bamako, Mali: First group of forty five Togolese army men arrive at Bamako International Airport to take part in the international force deployed to Mali to defend the country against the islamists rebel groups advancing from the northern areas of the country...Several insurgent groups have been fighting a campaign against the Malian government for independence or greater autonomy for northern Mali, an area known as Azawad. The National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA), an organisation fighting to make Azawad an independent homeland for the Tuareg people, had taken control of the region by April 2012...Last week the Malian government pledge to the French army to help the national troops to stop the rebellion advance towards the capital Bamako. The french troops started aerial attacks on rebel positions in the centre of the country and deployed several hundred special forces men to counter attack the advance on the ground. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • January 17, 2013 - Bamako, Mali: First group of forty five Togolese army men arrive at Bamako International Airport to take part in the international force deployed to Mali to defend the country against the islamists rebel groups advancing from the northern areas of the country...Several insurgent groups have been fighting a campaign against the Malian government for independence or greater autonomy for northern Mali, an area known as Azawad. The National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA), an organisation fighting to make Azawad an independent homeland for the Tuareg people, had taken control of the region by April 2012...Last week the Malian government pledge to the French army to help the national troops to stop the rebellion advance towards the capital Bamako. The french troops started aerial attacks on rebel positions in the centre of the country and deployed several hundred special forces men to counter attack the advance on the ground. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • December 11, 2012 - Cairo, Egypt: Several thousand Muslim Brotherhood supporters and islamist protesters who support president Morsi, gathered outside a local mosque in Cairo's Nasr City...A draft constitution has sparked outrage in post-revolution Egypt. A decision by Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi to extend his power during constitutional debate brought concerns about the growing influence of the Muslim Brotherhood, the movement from which he hails...Sporadic clashes between supporters and opponents of president Mohamed Morsi, erupted in the past week over his assumption of extraordinary powers and the scheduling of a referendum for next Saturday. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • December 11, 2012 - Cairo, Egypt: Several thousand Muslim Brotherhood supporters and islamist protesters who support president Morsi, gathered outside a local mosque in Cairo's Nasr City...A draft constitution has sparked outrage in post-revolution Egypt. A decision by Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi to extend his power during constitutional debate brought concerns about the growing influence of the Muslim Brotherhood, the movement from which he hails...Sporadic clashes between supporters and opponents of president Mohamed Morsi, erupted in the past week over his assumption of extraordinary powers and the scheduling of a referendum for next Saturday. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • December 11, 2012 - Cairo, Egypt: Several thousand Muslim Brotherhood supporters and islamist protesters who support president Morsi, gathered outside a local mosque in Cairo's Nasr City...A draft constitution has sparked outrage in post-revolution Egypt. A decision by Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi to extend his power during constitutional debate brought concerns about the growing influence of the Muslim Brotherhood, the movement from which he hails...Sporadic clashes between supporters and opponents of president Mohamed Morsi, erupted in the past week over his assumption of extraordinary powers and the scheduling of a referendum for next Saturday. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • December 11, 2012 - Cairo, Egypt: Tens of thousands gather outside the presidential place in Cairo to voice their anger at the planned constitution, which will be put to a referendum next Saturday...The Egyptian army has reportedly called talks between President Mohamed Morsi and the opposition to end violent protests against a draft constitution...Sporadic clashes between supporters and opponents of president Mohamed Morsi, erupted in the past week over his assumption of extraordinary powers and the scheduling of the referendum. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • December 11, 2012 - Cairo, Egypt: Protestors stand on top of a concrete wall set up outside the presidential place in Cairo, where tens of thousands gathered to voice their anger at the planned constitution, which will be put to a referendum next Saturday...The Egyptian army has reportedly called talks between President Mohamed Morsi and the opposition to end violent protests against a draft constitution...Sporadic clashes between supporters and opponents of president Mohamed Morsi, erupted in the past week over his assumption of extraordinary powers and the scheduling of the referendum. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • December 11, 2012 - Cairo, Egypt: Tens of thousands gather outside the presidential place in Cairo to voice their anger at the planned constitution, which will be put to a referendum next Saturday...The Egyptian army has reportedly called talks between President Mohamed Morsi and the opposition to end violent protests against a draft constitution...Sporadic clashes between supporters and opponents of president Mohamed Morsi, erupted in the past week over his assumption of extraordinary powers and the scheduling of the referendum. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • December 09, 2012 - Cairo, Egypt: Thousands gather outside the presidential place in Cairo to voice their anger at the planned constitution, which will be put to a referendum next Saturday...The Egyptian army has reportedly called talks between President Mohamed Morsi and the opposition to end violent protests against a draft constitution...Sporadic clashes between supporters and opponents of president Mohamed Morsi, erupted in the past week over his assumption of extraordinary powers and the scheduling of the referendum. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • December 19, 2013 - Kiev, Ukraine: Pro-EU demonstrators prepare food for free distribution at  the Independence Square.<br />
On the night of 21 November 2013, a wave of demonstrations and civil unrest began in Ukraine, when spontaneous protests erupted in the capital of Kiev as a response to the government’s suspension of the preparations for signing an association and free trade agreement with the European Union. Anti-government protesters occupied Independence Square, also known as Maidan, demanding the resignation of President Viktor Yanukovych and accusing him of refusing the planned trade and political pact with the EU in favor of closer ties with Russia.<br />
After a days of demonstrations, an increasing number of people joined the protests. As a responses to a police crackdown on November 30, half a million people took the square. The protests are ongoing despite a heavy police presence in the city, regular sub-zero temperatures, and snow. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • May 13, 2013 - Mandalay, Myanmar: A restaurant owner sets a plastic bag trap, as his bar gets infested by thousands of flying ants. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • May 09, 2013 - Yangon, Myanmar: A local resident exercises at the sound of music from a portable radio, in the early hours of the day, beside a fenced garden in central Yangon. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • May 09, 2013 - Yangon, Myanmar: Street scene in central Yangon in the early hours of the day. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • May 14, 2013 - Mandalay, Myanmar: Ashin Wirathu, the buddhist monk leader of Burma's anti-Muslim movement 969 group, at his office in Mosayein Monastery in central Mandalay. Wirathu, who was jailed in 2003 for inciting religious hatred, refers to himself as "the Burmese Bin Laden". (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • May 14, 2013 - Mandalay, Myanmar: Ashin Wirathu, the buddhist monk leader of Burma's anti-Muslim movement 969 group, walks by posters of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, in the grounds of Mosayein Monastery in central Mandalay. Wirathu, who was jailed in 2003 for inciting religious hatred, refers to himself as "the Burmese Bin Laden". (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • May 14, 2013 - Mandalay, Myanmar: Ashin Wirathu (centre), the buddhist monk leader of Burma's anti-Muslim movement 969 group, takes the traditional midday meal offered by regular citizens at Mosayein Monastery in central Mandalay. Wirathu, who was jailed in 2003 for inciting religious hatred, refers to himself as "the Burmese Bin Laden". (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • January 21, 2013 - Diabaly, Mali: Local children scavenge destroyed islamic militants' armoured vehicles in central Diabaly, a day after Mali government troops regain control of the city. Diabaly was under islamist militants control since the 14th of January...Several insurgent groups have been fighting a campaign against the Malian government for independence or greater autonomy for northern Mali, an area known as Azawad. The National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA), an organisation fighting to make Azawad an independent homeland for the Tuareg people, had taken control of the region by April 2012...The Malian government pledge to the French army to help the national troops to stop the rebellion advance towards the capital Bamako. The french troops started aerial attacks on rebel positions in the centre of the country and deployed several hundred special forces men to counter attack the advance on the ground. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • January 21, 2013 - Diabaly, Mali: Mali army men patrol a military base in central Diabaly, a day after Mali government troops regain control of the city. Diabaly was under islamist militants control since the 14th of January...Several insurgent groups have been fighting a campaign against the Malian government for independence or greater autonomy for northern Mali, an area known as Azawad. The National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA), an organisation fighting to make Azawad an independent homeland for the Tuareg people, had taken control of the region by April 2012...The Malian government pledge to the French army to help the national troops to stop the rebellion advance towards the capital Bamako. The french troops started aerial attacks on rebel positions in the centre of the country and deployed several hundred special forces men to counter attack the advance on the ground. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • January 21, 2013 - Diabaly, Mali: A Mali army men take guard in Diabaly city centre, a day after the government troops regain control of the city. Diabaly was under islamist militants control since the 14th of January...Several insurgent groups have been fighting a campaign against the Malian government for independence or greater autonomy for northern Mali, an area known as Azawad. The National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA), an organisation fighting to make Azawad an independent homeland for the Tuareg people, had taken control of the region by April 2012...The Malian government pledge to the French army to help the national troops to stop the rebellion advance towards the capital Bamako. The french troops started aerial attacks on rebel positions in the centre of the country and deployed several hundred special forces men to counter attack the advance on the ground. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • anuary 17, 2013 - Bamako, Mali: First group of forty five Togolese army men arrive at Bamako International Airport to take part in the international force deployed to Mali to defend the country against the islamists rebel groups advancing from the northern areas of the country. Several insurgent groups have been fighting a campaign against the Malian government for independence or greater autonomy for northern Mali, an area known as Azawad. The National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA), an organisation fighting to make Azawad an independent homeland for the Tuareg people, had taken control of the region by April 2012.<br />
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Last week the Malian government pledge France to help the national army stop the rebellion advance towards the capital Bamako. The french troops started aerial attacks on rebel positions in the centre of the country and deployed several hundred special forces men to counter attack the advance on the ground. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • January 17, 2013 - Bamako, Mali: First group of forty five Togolese army men arrive at Bamako International Airport to take part in the international force deployed to Mali to defend the country against the islamists rebel groups advancing from the northern areas of the country...Several insurgent groups have been fighting a campaign against the Malian government for independence or greater autonomy for northern Mali, an area known as Azawad. The National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA), an organisation fighting to make Azawad an independent homeland for the Tuareg people, had taken control of the region by April 2012...Last week the Malian government pledge to the French army to help the national troops to stop the rebellion advance towards the capital Bamako. The french troops started aerial attacks on rebel positions in the centre of the country and deployed several hundred special forces men to counter attack the advance on the ground. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • December 11, 2012 - Cairo, Egypt: Several thousand Muslim Brotherhood supporters and islamist protesters who support president Morsi, gathered outside a local mosque in Cairo's Nasr City...A draft constitution has sparked outrage in post-revolution Egypt. A decision by Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi to extend his power during constitutional debate brought concerns about the growing influence of the Muslim Brotherhood, the movement from which he hails...Sporadic clashes between supporters and opponents of president Mohamed Morsi, erupted in the past week over his assumption of extraordinary powers and the scheduling of a referendum for next Saturday. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • December 11, 2012 - Cairo, Egypt: Tens of thousands gather outside the presidential place in Cairo to voice their anger at the planned constitution, which will be put to a referendum next Saturday...The Egyptian army has reportedly called talks between President Mohamed Morsi and the opposition to end violent protests against a draft constitution...Sporadic clashes between supporters and opponents of president Mohamed Morsi, erupted in the past week over his assumption of extraordinary powers and the scheduling of the referendum. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • December 09, 2012 - Cairo, Egypt: Thousands gather outside the presidential place in Cairo to voice their anger at the planned constitution, which will be put to a referendum next Saturday...The Egyptian army has reportedly called talks between President Mohamed Morsi and the opposition to end violent protests against a draft constitution...Sporadic clashes between supporters and opponents of president Mohamed Morsi, erupted in the past week over his assumption of extraordinary powers and the scheduling of the referendum. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • August 10, 2012 - Aleppo, Syria: A group of men carry the dead body of a man killed minutes earlier by heavy shelling from the Syrian Army against a bakery in the residential area of Tariq Al-Bab in central Aleppo. At least 12 people have died and more the 20 got injured during the attack...The Syrian Army have in the past week increased their attacks on residential neighborhoods where Free Syria Army rebel fights have their positions in Syria's commercial capital, Aleppo. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • April 24, 2012 - Lalop, South Sudan: SPLA soldiers walks by a field, recently bombed by Sudan troops, in the outskirts of a newly established military base in the village o Lalop, 50 kilometers north of Bentiu...South Sudan and their northern neighbors, Sudan, have in the past two weeks been involved in heavily clashes over border disputes. Bentiu and neighboring villages have been under constant bombardment by the troops os Karthoum , who established their positions around 10 kilometers into South Sudan's territory. The international community is concerned about the possibility of a full on war between the two countries. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • April 24, 2012 - Lalop, South Sudan: A SPLA soldier stands by the location where a bomb as been dropped by Sudan's army airplanes, in the outskirts of a newly established military base in the village o Lalop, 50 kilometers north of Bentiu...South Sudan and their northern neighbors, Sudan, have in the past two weeks been involved in heavily clashes over border disputes. Bentiu and neighboring villages have been under constant bombardment by the troops os Karthoum , who established their positions around 10 kilometers into South Sudan's territory. The international community is concerned about the possibility of a full on war between the two countries. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • Ireland: Irish artist Frank Buckley seating on a sofa in one of the rooms at his Billion Euro House art installation in central Dublin. ..Worthless euros, taken out of circulation and shredded by Irelands Central Bank, formes the interior walls of an apartment that Mr. Buckley does not own in a building left vacant by the countrys economic ruin...The artist decided to call the apartment  built from thousands of bricks of shredded, decommissioned cash (each brick contains, roughly, what used to be 50,000 euros)  the Billion Euro House. He reckons that about 1.4 billion euros actually went into it, but the joke, of course, is that it is worth simultaneously so much and so little...A large gravestone beside the main door, announces that Irish sovereignty died in 2010, the year that the government accepted an international bailout so larded with onerous conditions that the Irish will be paying for it for years to come. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • March 27, 2012 - Dublin, Ireland: A painting hangs from a wall at the Billion Euro House art installation by the Irish artist Frank Buckley. ..Worthless euros, taken out of circulation and shredded by Irelands Central Bank, formes the interior walls of an apartment that Mr. Buckley does not own in a building left vacant by the countrys economic ruin...The artist decided to call the apartment  built from thousands of bricks of shredded, decommissioned cash (each brick contains, roughly, what used to be 50,000 euros)  the Billion Euro House. He reckons that about 1.4 billion euros actually went into it, but the joke, of course, is that it is worth simultaneously so much and so little...A large gravestone beside the main door, announces that Irish sovereignty died in 2010, the year that the government accepted an international bailout so larded with onerous conditions that the Irish will be paying for it for years to come. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • January 19, 2013 - Markala, Mali: French Army men take defensive position in the outskirts of Markala, in preparation for an advance towards the northern city of Diabaly, under siege by islamist militants since the 14th of January...Several insurgent groups have been fighting a campaign against the Malian government for independence or greater autonomy for northern Mali, an area known as Azawad. The National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA), an organisation fighting to make Azawad an independent homeland for the Tuareg people, had taken control of the region by April 2012...The Malian government pledge to the French army to help the national troops to stop the rebellion advance towards the capital Bamako. The french troops started aerial attacks on rebel positions in the centre of the country and deployed several hundred special forces men to counter attack the advance on the ground. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • November 14, 2012 - Kabul, Afghanistan: Afghan National Police (ANP) cadets line up for morning exercise at the Afghan Nacional Police Academy...ANP Academy trains 1250 cadets at the time during a period of four years. Every year, five hundred new recruits are selected, out of more than nine thousand of candidates, to join the academy and other five hundred graduate. Fifteen per cent of the recruits are women. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • November 14, 2012 - Kabul, Afghanistan: A commander watches Afghan National Police (ANP) cadets praying in the early hours of the morning at the Afghan Nacional Police Academy...ANP Academy trains 1250 cadets at the time during a period of four years. Every year, five hundred new recruits are selected, out of more than nine thousand of candidates, to join the academy and other five hundred graduate. Fifteen per cent of the recruits are women. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • August 17, 2012 - Marea, Aleppo, Syria: Syrian war refugees from Aleppo set camp near the border post of Kilis in Turkey. Thousands of people have in the past week fled the combats and airstrikes in Aleppo and nearby towns. Some managed to cross into the neighbor Turkey, however many still waiting the authorization to enter the country. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • April 28, 2012 - Buram, Nuba Mountains, South Kordofan, Sudan: A Nuba family seats under the shade of a tree near their improvised home in the mountains outside Buram village in South Kordofan's Nuba Mountains...Since the 6th of June 2011, the Sudan's Army Forces (SAF) initiated, under direct orders from President Bashir, an attack campaign against civil areas throughout the South Kordofan's province. Hundreds have been killed and many more injured...Local residents, of Nuba origin, have since lived in fear and the majority moved from their homes to caves in the nearby mountains. Others chose to find refuge in South Sudan, driven by the lack of food cause by the agriculture production halt due to the constant bombardments of rural areas. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • April 24, 2012 - Lalop, South Sudan: A group of SPLA soldiers look at the prepararion of war tanks at the newly established military base in the village o Lalop, 50 kilometers north of Bentiu...South Sudan and their northern neighbors, Sudan, have in the past two weeks been involved in heavily clashes over border disputes. Bentiu and neighboring villages have been under constant bombardment by the troops os Karthoum , who established their positions around 10 kilometers into South Sudan's territory. The international community is concerned about the possibility of a full on war between the two countries. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • Ireland: Art work on display at the Billion Euro House art installation by the Irish artist Frank Buckley. ..Worthless euros, taken out of circulation and shredded by Irelands Central Bank, formes the interior walls of an apartment that Mr. Buckley does not own in a building left vacant by the countrys economic ruin...The artist decided to call the apartment  built from thousands of bricks of shredded, decommissioned cash (each brick contains, roughly, what used to be 50,000 euros)  the Billion Euro House. He reckons that about 1.4 billion euros actually went into it, but the joke, of course, is that it is worth simultaneously so much and so little...A large gravestone beside the main door, announces that Irish sovereignty died in 2010, the year that the government accepted an international bailout so larded with onerous conditions that the Irish will be paying for it for years to come. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • March 27, 2012 - Dublin, Ireland: View of an interior wall at the Billion Euro House art installation by the Irish artist Frank Buckley. ..Worthless euros, taken out of circulation and shredded by Irelands Central Bank, formes the interior walls of an apartment that Mr. Buckley does not own in a building left vacant by the countrys economic ruin...The artist decided to call the apartment  built from thousands of bricks of shredded, decommissioned cash (each brick contains, roughly, what used to be 50,000 euros)  the Billion Euro House. He reckons that about 1.4 billion euros actually went into it, but the joke, of course, is that it is worth simultaneously so much and so little...A large gravestone beside the main door, announces that Irish sovereignty died in 2010, the year that the government accepted an international bailout so larded with onerous conditions that the Irish will be paying for it for years to come. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • January 19, 2013 - Niono, Mali: Local residents watch a convoy of french troops arriving at Niono village, the last government controlled location before Diabaly, a city under islamist militants control since the 14th of January...Several insurgent groups have been fighting a campaign against the Malian government for independence or greater autonomy for northern Mali, an area known as Azawad. The National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA), an organisation fighting to make Azawad an independent homeland for the Tuareg people, had taken control of the region by April 2012...The Malian government pledge to the French army to help the national troops to stop the rebellion advance towards the capital Bamako. The french troops started aerial attacks on rebel positions in the centre of the country and deployed several hundred special forces men to counter attack the advance on the ground. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • January 19, 2013 - Niono, Mali: French Army men gather in Niono's main square near the Mali police headquarters. Niono is the last government controlled location before Diabaly, a city under islamist militants control since the 14th of January...Several insurgent groups have been fighting a campaign against the Malian government for independence or greater autonomy for northern Mali, an area known as Azawad. The National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA), an organisation fighting to make Azawad an independent homeland for the Tuareg people, had taken control of the region by April 2012...The Malian government pledge to the French army to help the national troops to stop the rebellion advance towards the capital Bamako. The french troops started aerial attacks on rebel positions in the centre of the country and deployed several hundred special forces men to counter attack the advance on the ground. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • January 19, 2013 - Niono, Mali: French Army men gather in Niono's main square near the Mali police headquarters. Niono is the last government controlled location before Diabaly, a city under islamist militants control since the 14th of January...Several insurgent groups have been fighting a campaign against the Malian government for independence or greater autonomy for northern Mali, an area known as Azawad. The National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA), an organisation fighting to make Azawad an independent homeland for the Tuareg people, had taken control of the region by April 2012...The Malian government pledge to the French army to help the national troops to stop the rebellion advance towards the capital Bamako. The french troops started aerial attacks on rebel positions in the centre of the country and deployed several hundred special forces men to counter attack the advance on the ground. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • January 19, 2013 - Niono, Mali: French Army men gather in Niono's main square near the Mali police headquarters. Niono is the last government controlled location before Diabaly, a city under islamist militants control since the 14th of January...Several insurgent groups have been fighting a campaign against the Malian government for independence or greater autonomy for northern Mali, an area known as Azawad. The National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA), an organisation fighting to make Azawad an independent homeland for the Tuareg people, had taken control of the region by April 2012...The Malian government pledge to the French army to help the national troops to stop the rebellion advance towards the capital Bamako. The french troops started aerial attacks on rebel positions in the centre of the country and deployed several hundred special forces men to counter attack the advance on the ground. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • January 19, 2013 - Markala, Mali: French Army men take defensive position in the outskirts of Markala, in preparation for an advance towards the northern city of Diabaly, under siege by islamist militants since the 14th of January...Several insurgent groups have been fighting a campaign against the Malian government for independence or greater autonomy for northern Mali, an area known as Azawad. The National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA), an organisation fighting to make Azawad an independent homeland for the Tuareg people, had taken control of the region by April 2012...The Malian government pledge to the French army to help the national troops to stop the rebellion advance towards the capital Bamako. The french troops started aerial attacks on rebel positions in the centre of the country and deployed several hundred special forces men to counter attack the advance on the ground. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • January 19, 2013 - Markala, Mali: French Army men take defensive position in the outskirts of Markala, in preparation for an advance towards the northern city of Diabaly, under siege by islamist militants since the 14th of January...Several insurgent groups have been fighting a campaign against the Malian government for independence or greater autonomy for northern Mali, an area known as Azawad. The National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA), an organisation fighting to make Azawad an independent homeland for the Tuareg people, had taken control of the region by April 2012...The Malian government pledge to the French army to help the national troops to stop the rebellion advance towards the capital Bamako. The french troops started aerial attacks on rebel positions in the centre of the country and deployed several hundred special forces men to counter attack the advance on the ground. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • December 08, 2012 - Cairo, Egypt: Protestors anti-president Mohamed Morsi demonstrate in the streets near the presidential Palace in central Cairo...Sporadic clashes between supporters and opponents of president Mohamed Morsi, erupted in the past week over his assumption of extraordinary powers and the scheduling of a referendum on a disputed draft of the new constitution...Thousands of opposition protesters rallied outside the palace, in Cairo's Tahrir Square, and in cities and towns across the country, calling for an end to Mr Morsi's power grab and the shelving of the draft constitution. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • November 11, 2012 - Kabul, Afghanistan: Ninth grade female students attend geography classes at Shirino High School in Kabul...After decades without access to education under the Taliban regime, and despite the still existent social stigmas, female students make now 40 per cent of the over all students in the country. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • August 24, 2012 - Marea, Aleppo, Syria: Sheik Abu Mariam, commander of the recently created rebel militia Ibnu Walid, meets with some volunteer fighters in the village of Marea. The militia incorporates 25 fighters and has the intent to be an elite group to perform guerrilla style operations against syrian army troops in the province of Aleppo. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • August 18, 2012 - Marea, Aleppo, Syria: A recently created rebel militia (katiba) trains for the first time in the village of Marea. The katiba is called Ibnu Walid, was created by the local Sheik, Abu Mariam and incorporates 25 fighters. The Katiba intend to be an elite group to perform guerrilla style operations against syrian army troops in the province of Aleppo. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • August 17, 2012 - Marea, Aleppo, Syria: People check the rubble of a destroyed mosque in central Azaz. Syrian warplanes delivered, two days ago, a massive airstrike to the center of the town, causing more the thirthy deaths and around two hundred wounded. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • August 17, 2012 - Marea, Aleppo, Syria: People check the rubble of a destroyed mosque in central Azaz. Syrian warplanes delivered, two days ago, a massive airstrike to the center of the town, causing more the thirthy deaths and around two hundred wounded. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • August 15, 2012 - Azaz, Aleppo, Syria: Rescuers scour the rubble in search of survivors and casualties of a Syrian warplanes airstrike on the northern town of Azaz near Aleppo. 30 people are reported to be killed and more than 100 wounded. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • August 15, 2012 - Azaz, Aleppo, Syria: Rescuers scour the rubble in search of survivors and casualties of a Syrian warplanes airstrike on the northern town of Azaz near Aleppo. 30 people are reported to be killed and more than 100 wounded. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • August 15, 2012 - Azaz, Aleppo, Syria: Rescuers scour the rubble in search of survivors and casualties of a Syrian warplanes airstrike on the northern town of Azaz near Aleppo. 30 people are reported to be killed and more than 100 wounded. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • August 15, 2012 - Azaz, Aleppo, Syria: Rescuers scour the rubble in search of survivors and casualties of a Syrian warplanes airstrike on the northern town of Azaz near Aleppo. 30 people are reported to be killed and more than 100 wounded. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • August 10, 2012 - Aleppo, Syria: A group of Free Syria Army (FSA) fighters advance towards the frontline in Saheledine, a strategic neighborhood in southwest Aleppo...The Syrian Army have in the past week increased their attacks on residential neighborhoods where Free Syria Army rebel fights have their positions in Syria's commercial capital, Aleppo. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • August 10, 2012 - Aleppo, Syria: A Free Syria Army (FSA) fighter shoots towards government's snipper positions in Babar Nassar, a small neighborhood in the old citadel of Aleppo...The Syrian Army have in the past week increased their attacks on residential neighborhoods where Free Syria Army rebel fights have their positions in Syria's commercial capital, Aleppo. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • August 09, 2012 - Marea, Aleppo, Syria: A Free Syria Army (FSA) fighter walks towards a rebel checkpoint in an access road to Aleppo...The Syrian army and the FSA have in the past week exchanged heavy fire in a battle for the control of Syria's economic capital, Aleppo. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • August 09, 2012 - Marea, Aleppo, Syria: Family members and friends mourn the death of Housin Al Ali, a 28 year old Free Syria Army fighter killed in combat in Alepo's Salehedine neighborhood...The Syrian army and the FSA have in the past week exchanged heavy fire in a battle for the control of Syria's economic capital, Aleppo. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • August 09, 2012 - Marea, Aleppo, Syria: A child cries the death of his 28 year old father, Housin Al Ali, a Free Syria Army fighter killed in combat in Alepo's Salehedine neighborhood...The Syrian army and the FSA have in the past week exchanged heavy fire in a battle for the control of Syria's economic capital, Aleppo. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • May 02, 2012 - Kauda, Nuba Mountains, South Kordofan, Sudan: Sudan People?s Liberation Movement (SPLA-N) rebel fighters take defensive positions in Jebel Kwo military base, ahead of an attack on Sudan's Armed Forces (SAF) positions near Tess village in the rebel-held territory of the Nuba Mountains in South Kordofan. ..SPLA-North, a historical ally of SPLA, South Sudan's former rebel forces, has since last June being fighting the Sudanese Army Forces (SAF) over the right to autonomy and of the end of persecution of Nuba people by the regime of President Bashir. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • March 27, 2012 - Dublin, Ireland: A newspaper clipping on display at the Billion Euro House art installation by the Irish artist Frank Buckley. ..Worthless euros, taken out of circulation and shredded by Irelands Central Bank, formes the interior walls of an apartment that Mr. Buckley does not own in a building left vacant by the countrys economic ruin...The artist decided to call the apartment  built from thousands of bricks of shredded, decommissioned cash (each brick contains, roughly, what used to be 50,000 euros)  the Billion Euro House. He reckons that about 1.4 billion euros actually went into it, but the joke, of course, is that it is worth simultaneously so much and so little...A large gravestone beside the main door, announces that Irish sovereignty died in 2010, the year that the government accepted an international bailout so larded with onerous conditions that the Irish will be paying for it for years to come. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • Ireland: Detailed view of a brick made of shredded money at the Billion Euro House art installation by the Irish artist Frank Buckley...Worthless euros, taken out of circulation and shredded by Irelands Central Bank, formes the interior walls of an apartment that Mr. Buckley does not own in a building left vacant by the countrys economic ruin...The artist decided to call the apartment  built from thousands of bricks of shredded, decommissioned cash (each brick contains, roughly, what used to be 50,000 euros)  the Billion Euro House. He reckons that about 1.4 billion euros actually went into it, but the joke, of course, is that it is worth simultaneously so much and so little...A large gravestone beside the main door, announces that Irish sovereignty died in 2010, the year that the government accepted an international bailout so larded with onerous conditions that the Irish will be paying for it for years to come. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • Ireland: General view of the only bedroom at the Billion Euro House art installation by the Irish artist Frank Buckley. ..Worthless euros, taken out of circulation and shredded by Irelands Central Bank, formes the interior walls of an apartment that Mr. Buckley does not own in a building left vacant by the countrys economic ruin...The artist decided to call the apartment  built from thousands of bricks of shredded, decommissioned cash (each brick contains, roughly, what used to be 50,000 euros)  the Billion Euro House. He reckons that about 1.4 billion euros actually went into it, but the joke, of course, is that it is worth simultaneously so much and so little...A large gravestone beside the main door, announces that Irish sovereignty died in 2010, the year that the government accepted an international bailout so larded with onerous conditions that the Irish will be paying for it for years to come. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • March 27, 2012 - Dublin, Ireland: A fifty euro bill toilet paper is seen hanging in a wall at the toilet area of the Billion Euro House art installation by the Irish artist Frank Buckley. ..Worthless euros, taken out of circulation and shredded by Irelands Central Bank, formes the interior walls of an apartment that Mr. Buckley does not own in a building left vacant by the countrys economic ruin...The artist decided to call the apartment  built from thousands of bricks of shredded, decommissioned cash (each brick contains, roughly, what used to be 50,000 euros)  the Billion Euro House. He reckons that about 1.4 billion euros actually went into it, but the joke, of course, is that it is worth simultaneously so much and so little...A large gravestone beside the main door, announces that Irish sovereignty died in 2010, the year that the government accepted an international bailout so larded with onerous conditions that the Irish will be paying for it for years to come. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • January 19, 2013 - Niono, Mali: Mali troops tow a broken Armoured Personal Carrier in central Niono. Niono is the last government controlled location before Diabaly, a city under islamist militants control since the 14th of January...Several insurgent groups have been fighting a campaign against the Malian government for independence or greater autonomy for northern Mali, an area known as Azawad. The National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA), an organisation fighting to make Azawad an independent homeland for the Tuareg people, had taken control of the region by April 2012...The Malian government pledge to the French army to help the national troops to stop the rebellion advance towards the capital Bamako. The french troops started aerial attacks on rebel positions in the centre of the country and deployed several hundred special forces men to counter attack the advance on the ground. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • January 19, 2013 - Markala, Mali: French Army men take defensive position in the outskirts of Markala, in preparation for an advance towards the northern city of Diabaly, under siege by islamist militants since the 14th of January...Several insurgent groups have been fighting a campaign against the Malian government for independence or greater autonomy for northern Mali, an area known as Azawad. The National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA), an organisation fighting to make Azawad an independent homeland for the Tuareg people, had taken control of the region by April 2012...The Malian government pledge to the French army to help the national troops to stop the rebellion advance towards the capital Bamako. The french troops started aerial attacks on rebel positions in the centre of the country and deployed several hundred special forces men to counter attack the advance on the ground. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • January 19, 2013 - Markala, Mali: French Army men take defensive position in the outskirts of Markala, in preparation for an advance towards the northern city of Diabaly, under siege by islamist militants since the 14th of January...Several insurgent groups have been fighting a campaign against the Malian government for independence or greater autonomy for northern Mali, an area known as Azawad. The National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA), an organisation fighting to make Azawad an independent homeland for the Tuareg people, had taken control of the region by April 2012...The Malian government pledge to the French army to help the national troops to stop the rebellion advance towards the capital Bamako. The french troops started aerial attacks on rebel positions in the centre of the country and deployed several hundred special forces men to counter attack the advance on the ground. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • January 19, 2013 - Markala, Mali: French Army men take defensive position in the outskirts of Markala, in preparation for an advance towards the northern city of Diabaly, under siege by islamist militants since the 14th of January...Several insurgent groups have been fighting a campaign against the Malian government for independence or greater autonomy for northern Mali, an area known as Azawad. The National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA), an organisation fighting to make Azawad an independent homeland for the Tuareg people, had taken control of the region by April 2012...The Malian government pledge to the French army to help the national troops to stop the rebellion advance towards the capital Bamako. The french troops started aerial attacks on rebel positions in the centre of the country and deployed several hundred special forces men to counter attack the advance on the ground. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • January 19, 2013 - Markala, Mali: French Army men take defensive position in the outskirts of Markala, in preparation for an advance towards the northern city of Diabaly, under siege by islamist militants since the 14th of January...Several insurgent groups have been fighting a campaign against the Malian government for independence or greater autonomy for northern Mali, an area known as Azawad. The National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA), an organisation fighting to make Azawad an independent homeland for the Tuareg people, had taken control of the region by April 2012...The Malian government pledge to the French army to help the national troops to stop the rebellion advance towards the capital Bamako. The french troops started aerial attacks on rebel positions in the centre of the country and deployed several hundred special forces men to counter attack the advance on the ground. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • December 08, 2012 - Cairo, Egypt: Protestors anti-president Mohamed Morsi demonstrate in the streets near the presidential Palace in central Cairo...Sporadic clashes between supporters and opponents of president Mohamed Morsi, erupted in the past week over his assumption of extraordinary powers and the scheduling of a referendum on a disputed draft of the new constitution...Thousands of opposition protesters rallied outside the palace, in Cairo's Tahrir Square, and in cities and towns across the country, calling for an end to Mr Morsi's power grab and the shelving of the draft constitution. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • November 14, 2012 - Kabul, Afghanistan: Afghan National Police (ANP) cadets receive theory classes at the Afghan Nacional Police Academy...ANP Academy trains 1250 cadets at the time during a period of four years. Every year, five hundred new recruits are selected, out of more than nine thousand of candidates, to join the academy and other five hundred graduate. Fifteen per cent of the recruits are women. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • November 14, 2012 - Kabul, Afghanistan: Afghan National Police (ANP) female cadets during shooting exercises at the Afghan Nacional Police Academy shooting range...ANP Academy trains 1250 cadets at the time during a period of four years. Every year, five hundred new recruits are selected, out of more than nine thousand of candidates, to join the academy and other five hundred graduate. Fifteen per cent of the recruits are women. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • November 14, 2012 - Kabul, Afghanistan: Afghan National Police (ANP) cadets simulate a raid to a Taliban house during combat exercises at the Afghan Nacional Police Academy...ANP Academy trains 1250 cadets at the time during a period of four years. Every year, five hundred new recruits are selected, out of more than nine thousand of candidates, to join the academy and other five hundred graduate. Fifteen per cent of the recruits are women. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • November 14, 2012 - Kabul, Afghanistan: Afghan National Police (ANP) cadets attend the first pray of the day at the mosque in the Afghan Nacional Police Academy...ANP Academy trains 1250 cadets at the time during a period of four years. Every year, five hundred new recruits are selected, out of more than nine thousand of candidates, to join the academy and other five hundred graduate. Fifteen per cent of the recruits are women. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • August 24, 2012 - Marea, Aleppo, Syria: Sheik Abu Mariam, commander of the recently created rebel militia Ibnu Walid, meets with some volunteer fighters in the village of Marea. The militia incorporates 25 fighters and has the intent to be an elite group to perform guerrilla style operations against syrian army troops in the province of Aleppo. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • August 11, 2012 - Tarafat, Aleppo, Syria: Rubble of a destroyed residential area in Tarafat village, near Aleppo. The Syrian Army warplanes have recently bombed residential areas and the only two schools in the village, with 200 kilogram bombs. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • August 15, 2012 - Azaz, Aleppo, Syria: Rescuers scour the rubble in search of survivors and casualties of a Syrian warplanes airstrike on the northern town of Azaz near Aleppo. 30 people are reported to be killed and more than 100 wounded. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • August 15, 2012 - Azaz, Aleppo, Syria: Rescuers scour the rubble in search of survivors and casualties of a Syrian warplanes airstrike on the northern town of Azaz near Aleppo. 30 people are reported to be killed and more than 100 wounded. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • August 14, 2012 - Aleppo, Syria: A destroyed room at a local hospital in Tariq Al-Bab neighborhood in central Aleppo. The Syrian Army have in the past ten days increased their attacks on residential neighborhoods where Free Syria Army rebel fights have their positions in Syria's commercial capital, Aleppo. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • August 14, 2012 - Aleppo, Syria: A local resident passes by in Babal Nassar neighborhood in Aleppo's old city. The Syrian Army have in the past ten days increased their attacks on residential neighborhoods where Free Syria Army rebel fights have their positions in Syria's commercial capital, Aleppo. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • August 10, 2012 - Aleppo, Syria: A group of men gives assistance to a man, injured minutes earlier by heavy shelling from the Syrian Army against a bakery in the residential area of Tariq Al-Bab in central Aleppo. At least 12 people have died and more the 20 got injured during the attack...The Syrian Army have in the past week increased their attacks on residential neighborhoods where Free Syria Army rebel fights have their positions in Syria's commercial capital, Aleppo. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • August 10, 2012 - Aleppo, Syria: A group of Free Syria Army (FSA) fighters advance towards the frontline in Saheledine, a strategic neighborhood in southwest Aleppo...The Syrian Army have in the past week increased their attacks on residential neighborhoods where Free Syria Army rebel fights have their positions in Syria's commercial capital, Aleppo. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • August 10, 2012 - Aleppo, Syria: A group of Free Syria Army (FSA) fighters advance towards the frontline in Saheledine, a strategic neighborhood in southwest Aleppo...The Syrian Army have in the past week increased their attacks on residential neighborhoods where Free Syria Army rebel fights have their positions in Syria's commercial capital, Aleppo. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • August 09, 2012 - Marea, Aleppo, Syria: Family members and friends transport the body of Housin Al Ali, a 28 year old Free Syria Army fighter killed in combat in Alepo's Salehedine neighborhood...The Syrian army and the FSA have in the past week exchanged heavy fire in a battle for the control of Syria's economic capital, Aleppo. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • August 09, 2012 - Marea, Aleppo, Syria: Family members and friends mourn the death of Housin Al Ali, a 28 year old Free Syria Army fighter killed in combat in Alepo's Salehedine neighborhood...The Syrian army and the FSA have in the past week exchanged heavy fire in a battle for the control of Syria's economic capital, Aleppo. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • August 09, 2012 - Marea, Aleppo, Syria: Family members and friends gather around Housin Al Ali, a 28 year old Free Syria Army fighter killed in combat in Alepo's Salehedine neighborhood...The Syrian army and the FSA have in the past week exchanged heavy fire in a battle for the control of Syria's economic capital, Aleppo. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • August 09, 2012 - Aleppo, Syria: A Free Syria Army (FSA) fighter leaves the headquarters in Haneno neighborhood, to join his comrades on the frontline at Salehedine...The Syrian army and the FSA have in the past week exchanged heavy fire in a battle for the control of Syria's economic capital, Aleppo. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • May 02, 2012 - Kauda, Nuba Mountains, South Kordofan, Sudan: Sudan People?s Liberation Movement (SPLA-N) rebel fighters take defensive positions in Jebel Kwo military base, ahead of an attack on Sudan's Armed Forces (SAF) positions near Tess village in the rebel-held territory of the Nuba Mountains in South Kordofan. ..SPLA-North, a historical ally of SPLA, South Sudan's former rebel forces, has since last June being fighting the Sudanese Army Forces (SAF) over the right to autonomy and of the end of persecution of Nuba people by the regime of President Bashir. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • May 02, 2012 - Kauda, Nuba Mountains, South Kordofan, Sudan: Sudan People?s Liberation Movement (SPLA-N) rebel fighters take defensive positions in Jebel Kwo military base, ahead of an attack on Sudan's Armed Forces (SAF) positions near Tess village in the rebel-held territory of the Nuba Mountains in South Kordofan. ..SPLA-North, a historical ally of SPLA, South Sudan's former rebel forces, has since last June being fighting the Sudanese Army Forces (SAF) over the right to autonomy and of the end of persecution of Nuba people by the regime of President Bashir. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • April 28, 2012 - Buram, Nuba Mountains, South Kordofan, Sudan: A Nuba woman walks among the rocks near her improvised home in the caves outside Buram village in South Kordofan's Nuba Mountains...Since the 6th of June 2011, the Sudan's Army Forces (SAF) initiated, under direct orders from President Bashir, an attack campaign against civil areas throughout the South Kordofan's province. Hundreds have been killed and many more injured...Local residents, of Nuba origin, have since lived in fear and the majority moved from their homes to caves in the nearby mountains. Others chose to find refuge in South Sudan, driven by the lack of food cause by the agriculture production halt due to the constant bombardments of rural areas. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • April 24, 2012 - Panakuach, South Sudan: A group of SPLA soldiers walk by in the last defensive line outside the village of Panakuach, 70 kilometers north of Bentiu...South Sudan and their northern neighbors, Sudan, have in the past two weeks been involved in heavily clashes over border disputes. Bentiu and neighboring villages have been under constant bombardment by the troops os Karthoum , who established their positions around 10 kilometers into South Sudan's territory. The international community is concerned about the possibility of a full on war between the two countries. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • Ireland: General view of the entrance hall at the Billion Euro House art installation by the Irish artist Frank Buckley. ..Worthless euros, taken out of circulation and shredded by Irelands Central Bank, formes the interior walls of an apartment that Mr. Buckley does not own in a building left vacant by the countrys economic ruin...The artist decided to call the apartment  built from thousands of bricks of shredded, decommissioned cash (each brick contains, roughly, what used to be 50,000 euros)  the Billion Euro House. He reckons that about 1.4 billion euros actually went into it, but the joke, of course, is that it is worth simultaneously so much and so little...A large gravestone beside the main door, announces that Irish sovereignty died in 2010, the year that the government accepted an international bailout so larded with onerous conditions that the Irish will be paying for it for years to come. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • March 27, 2012 - Dublin, Ireland: A bicycle covered with shredded money is on display at the Billion Euro House art installation by the Irish artist Frank Buckley. ..Worthless euros, taken out of circulation and shredded by Irelands Central Bank, formes the interior walls of an apartment that Mr. Buckley does not own in a building left vacant by the countrys economic ruin...The artist decided to call the apartment  built from thousands of bricks of shredded, decommissioned cash (each brick contains, roughly, what used to be 50,000 euros)  the Billion Euro House. He reckons that about 1.4 billion euros actually went into it, but the joke, of course, is that it is worth simultaneously so much and so little...A large gravestone beside the main door, announces that Irish sovereignty died in 2010, the year that the government accepted an international bailout so larded with onerous conditions that the Irish will be paying for it for years to come. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • March 27, 2012 - Dublin, Ireland: A satirical gravestone is seen at the entrance of the Billion Euro House art installation by the Irish artist Frank Buckley. ..Worthless euros, taken out of circulation and shredded by Irelands Central Bank, formes the interior walls of an apartment that Mr. Buckley does not own in a building left vacant by the countrys economic ruin...The artist decided to call the apartment  built from thousands of bricks of shredded, decommissioned cash (each brick contains, roughly, what used to be 50,000 euros)  the Billion Euro House. He reckons that about 1.4 billion euros actually went into it, but the joke, of course, is that it is worth simultaneously so much and so little...A large gravestone beside the main door, announces that Irish sovereignty died in 2010, the year that the government accepted an international bailout so larded with onerous conditions that the Irish will be paying for it for years to come. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • March 27, 2012 - Dublin, Ireland: A guitar covered with shredded money stands among other objects in the main hall of the Billion Euro House art installation by the Irish artist Frank Buckley. ..Worthless euros, taken out of circulation and shredded by Irelands Central Bank, formes the interior walls of an apartment that Mr. Buckley does not own in a building left vacant by the countrys economic ruin...The artist decided to call the apartment  built from thousands of bricks of shredded, decommissioned cash (each brick contains, roughly, what used to be 50,000 euros)  the Billion Euro House. He reckons that about 1.4 billion euros actually went into it, but the joke, of course, is that it is worth simultaneously so much and so little...A large gravestone beside the main door, announces that Irish sovereignty died in 2010, the year that the government accepted an international bailout so larded with onerous conditions that the Irish will be paying for it for years to come. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • January 19, 2013 - Niono, Mali: Mali troops at a checkpoint in central Niono. Niono is the last government controlled location before Diabaly, a city under islamist militants control since the 14th of January...Several insurgent groups have been fighting a campaign against the Malian government for independence or greater autonomy for northern Mali, an area known as Azawad. The National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA), an organisation fighting to make Azawad an independent homeland for the Tuareg people, had taken control of the region by April 2012...The Malian government pledge to the French army to help the national troops to stop the rebellion advance towards the capital Bamako. The french troops started aerial attacks on rebel positions in the centre of the country and deployed several hundred special forces men to counter attack the advance on the ground. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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