Photos of 13 April 2011

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Explanation:

1. Shanties of informal settlers are seen in ruins after a fire in Tambo, Paranaque city in Manila, Philippines.

2. A rebel soldier lights his cigarette with a torch at a camp in Ajdabiyah, Libya.

3. Anti-government protestors shout slogans during a demonstration demanding the resignation of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh in Sanaa.

4. A U.S. Army soldier walks in front of a medevac helicopter as a heavy sandstorm hits Camp Dwyer in Helmand province, Afghanistan.

5. An empty evacuation center within the exclusion zone, about 12 miles (20 kilometers) away from Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant, Japan.

6. A man searches for valuables in neck-deep water after a fire razed some 500 houses along a coastal village in Malabon city, north of Manila.

7. Reflections of Libyan men are seen in the window of a car with pictures depicting the uprising launched against Muammer Gaddafi"s regime in Benghazi.

8. An evacuee sleeps at a gymnasium inside Ajinomoto stadium, which is currently serving as an evacuation center after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Japan.

9. A soldier loyal to Ivory Coast presidential claimant Alassane Ouattara lies on a road as fighting flares in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.

10. Forces loyal to Alassane Ouattara gather outside Abidjan as fighting between those loyal to the Ivorian presidential claimant and his rival for the office, Laurent Gbagbo intensified in the capital.

11. A Libyan rebel points to the medal of a comrade near Brega.

12. A house still stands in a area near Sendai, Miyagi prefecture, Japan, that was damaged by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

13. Rebel fighters question a man from Chad at a checkpoint after he was captured in Ajdabiyah, Libya.

14. Impersonators Mary Wills as the Queen, Simon Watkinson as Prince William and Jodie Bredo as Kate Middleton ride through the streets of London in wedding attire to promote photographer Alison Jackson"s new book Kate and Wills Up the Aisle.

15. A fuel pump is defaced with a caricature of Muammar Gaddafi in the rebel-held town of Ajdabiyah, Libya.

16. Pro-Gbagbo militiamen patrol in the empty streets of Abidjan as forces loyal to the internationally recognized President Alassane Ouattara approach the capital, Ivory Coast.

17. Kanami Matsumi sheds tears during her graduation ceremony at Rokugou junior high school in Sendai, Miyagi prefecture. The ceremony was held in a class shared with about 200 refugees occupying a gymnasium.

18. Children sift through a mountain of garbage in Mogadishu"s southern Hamarjajab neighborhood.

19. Shells explode near a barricade of rebel vehicles as forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi attack near Bin Jawad, Libya, on March 29, 2011.

20. An assistant awaits the arrival of Britain"s Prince Charles and his wife Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, at Queluz Palace in Portugal.

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