2012: The Year in Pictures
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July 23: James E. Holmes appears at a Colorado court. He was charged with 24 counts of first-degree murder in connection with the shooting rampage at a theater showing the latest Batman movie.
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August 3: Pussy Riot members, from left, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Yekaterina Samutsevich and Maria Alekhina sit in a glass cage at a court room in Moscow, Russia.
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August 3: Runners pass by the Olympics flame on the first day of the athletics in the Olympic Stadium at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.
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Displaced Afghans wait for aid near the site of a landslide at the Argo district in Badakhshan province.