2012: The Year in Pictures
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April 28: A Nuba woman, wounded during a raid by Sudan's air force, sits in a makeshift hospital in South Kordofan, Sudan.
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May 24: Chen Guangcheng, the blind Chinese dissident and legal advocate who was granted visiting scholar status in the United States, gives an interview in New York.
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May 30: A Syrian woman cries as she carries her son who was shot in the hand by a Syrian border guard when they were crossing a river from Syria to Lebanon, at the northern border town of Wadi Khaled, north Lebanon.
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May 31: Jake Beaudoin, a U.S. Army Private, takes cover during a controlled detonation in Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan.