Day in Photos: Dec. 20, 2011

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Lori Berenson arrives from Lima, Peru, with her son Salvador Apari at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey. Berenson, who was convicted of aiding Peruvian guerrillas and served 15 years before she was paroled last year, said she fully intended to return to Peru by the court-ordered deadline of Jan. 11. AP Photo

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A father and his son pull a sled through the snow at the Feldberg mountain in the western state of Hessen. AFP/Getty Images

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A man walks past graffiti portraying former Czech President Vaclav Havel in Prague. Havel, a dissident and playwright who was the hero of the 1989 Velvet Revolution against communist rule and became his country’s first post-independence president, died at age 75. AFP/Getty Images

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Russia’s Prime Minister Vladimir Putin shakes hands with local Federal Security Service (FSB) special forces officers during a visit to the Chechnya’s second-largest city, Gudermes. AFP/Getty Images

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Indian men bathe on a water pipe above a sewage drain on a cold and foggy morning in New Delhi, India. AP Photo

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An armed Yemeni tribesman loyal to Sheik Sadeq al-Ahmar, the head of the powerful Hashid tribe, keeps watch near a building damaged during recent clashes with security forces in Sanaa, Yemen. AP Photo

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The body of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il is laid in a memorial palace in Pyongyang, North Korea. AP Photo

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British Prime Minister David Cameron shakes hands with a member of the Royal Air Force’s 12(B) squadron during a visit at Kandahar airfield in Kandahar. AFP/Getty Images

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People look at illuminated decorations ahead of Christmas at Usaquen Park in Bogota, Colombia. REUTERS

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Indian Navy personnel salute from the deck of a submarine during the 10th Presidents Fleet Review (PFR) in the Arabian Sea off the coast of Mumbai, India. EPA

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President Barack Obama speaks about the payroll tax cut extension from the briefing room of the White House in Washington. A stand-off in Congress over extending payroll tax cuts deepened after the Republican-led House of Representatives rejected a hard-won deal struck in the Senate. REUTERS

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People walk among logs and debris washed ashore four days after Typhoon Washi hit a village in Iligan city, southern Philippines . REUTERS

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Students dressed as Santa Claus engage in Christmas celebrations at their school in the northern Indian city of Chandigarh. REUTERS

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A woman jumps into the water on a very hot day in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. ZUMAPRESS.com

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