Tunisians
from the country’s south joined protests on Jan. 23 in Tunis. Demonstrators criticized the interim government’s continued dominance by officials from the
old ruling party.
Protesters
clashed with those who supported President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt on Feb. 3. Both sides battled for control of Tahrir Square in Cairo, the center of
continuing protests.
Volunteers
began to clean up Tahrir Square on Feb. 12, a day after President Mubarak announced his resignation.
A man
comforted his daughter in Benghazi, Libya, as he put her on an evacuation ship
to Tunisia on Feb. 26. Thousands fled the city where mass protests against the
government led to a takeover by Libyan opposition groups.
A girl
stands in front of a damaged home on the eastern outskirts of Tripoli on March
25. Libyan government officials said the scene was evidence of Western
airstrikes targeting civilian areas, a claim that was not verified.
On Oct.
30, two youths observed a house destroyed by government shelling in Taiz,
Yemen.
A woman
took care of a wounded relative on Oct. 15 inside a mosque being used as a hospital by antigovernment demonstrators in Sana, Yemen.
Israelis
slept in a tent encampment in central Tel Aviv in July in an effort to bring
attention to the cost of housing, food and other basic goods.
An
encampment of tarps and tents in Zuccotti Park, where Occupy Wall Street protesters lived for two months.
Will
Harris, a resident of Toronto, played the guitar in City Hall Park in October
as Occupy Los Angeles moved into its 17th day on Oct. 17.
A police
officer used pepper spray on an Occupy Portland protester in Oregon in
November. Pepper spray, used as a crowd control measure, has become a topic of
national debate.
A
tsunami’s wave crashed over a seawall and onto the street in Miyako in
northeastern Japan after a magnitude 9 earthquake struck the area on March 11.
Yoshikatsu
Hiratsuka grieved in front of his collapsed home in Onagawa, northern Japan, where the body of his mother was buried in the rubble from the quake.
In July,
six weeks after a tornado killed 158 people in Joplin, Mo., the city continued
to work its way toward physical and psychological recovery.
A cloud of
ash billowed from the Puyehue-Cordón Caulle volcano in Chile. The June
eruption, its first in decades, prompted the evacuation of 3,500 people.
A woman
caring for her malnourished child in July in the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya, where Somalis fled to escape drought.
A young
boy in Cincinnati greeted President Obama after the president gave a speech on the American Jobs Act.
Julie
Holzhauer stood among her family’s possessions after they were evicted from
their home in Centennial, Colo., on Sept. 15 after falling behind on the rent.
Her husband, John Holzhauer, a home building contractor, said he had lost up to
40 percent of his business because of the weak economy.
Crowds
rehearsed in Juba in preparation for South Sudan’s independence ceremonies. After decades of guerrilla struggles and two million lives lost, the Republic
of South Sudan officially split from the north on July 9 and became Africa’s
54th country.
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