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World on Fire - With conflicts and uprisings raging across the globe, BET.com takes a look at pivotal events from the past year that we will likely still be discussing long after Jan. 1. — Naeesa Aziz (Photo: AP Photo/Adel Hana)

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Egypt - After an explosive 2011 that saw the ouster of former leader Hosni Mubarak, Egypt ended 2012 simmering on the brink of yet another revolution. After its newly elected president, Mohamed Morsi, issued decrees giving him near absolute power, angry Egyptians took to the street in protest. Judges on the state’s highest court refused to return to work unless the decrees were withdrawn. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

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Democratic Republic of Congo - The Congo’s struggle to quell the country’s well-trained, well-equipped M23 rebels has undoubtedly been the country’s biggest fight of 2012. In April, former members of an insurgent group organized as the M23 and began their campaign of capturing strategic territory in the country in aims to wrest control of Congo’s mineral rich regions.   (Photo:Jerome Delay/AP Photo)

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Israel – Gaza - The conflict between Israel and Palestine is one of the oldest and most heartbreaking conflicts to burst back into the international spotlight this year as renewed fighting took both sides to the brink of war.(Photo:Lefteris Pitarakis/AP Photo)

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Brazil - In late October, tensions between Brazilian police and local gangs in São Paulo erupted into a full-scale conflict as police tried to clamp down on the powerful gangs, ending a six-year truce.(Photo: Courtesy CNN)

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Syria - Syria’s turmoil has raged on since early in the year when President Bashar al-Assad began launching attacks on rebel forces and their area strongholds, leaving civilians in the crossfire. An estimated 2.5 million people have been displaced by the lengthy conflict. (Photo: Narciso Contreras/AP Photo)

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Colombia - In late November, Colombia reached a ceasefire with the Marxist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) that has been fighting against the Colombian government for nearly 50 years. Since 1964, the FARC has been intent on using armed struggle to turn the tide of Colombia's long history of social inequality. (Photo: Enrique De La Osa/LANDOV/REUTERS)

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Thailand - After a relatively calm year in a country known for political turbulence, tens of thousands of supporters of royalist group Pitak Siam took to the streets of Bangkok in late November to protest Prme Minister Yingluck Shinawatra's government. (Photo: Sakchai Lalit/AP Photo)

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Somalia - Somalia has seen gains and losses in its fight to contain Islamist group al-Shabab this year. The group seeks to control the country and install sharia law. In February, al-Shabab formally aligned itself with al-Qaeda and continues to launch attacks against the Somalian and Kenyan armies.  (Photo: Stuart Price/LANDOVReuters)

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Hong Kong - Tens of thousands of protesters flooded government headquarters in Hong Kong over a proposed law that opponents felt would amount to mass brainwashing and political indoctrination. The Beijing-backed plan to impose a system of “moral and national education” was stalled in light of the demonstrations, but the measure was not completely revoked. (Photo: Tyrone Siu/REUTERS/LANDOV)