World Lens: Week of March 29
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NFL Players in South Africa - Football star Mark Clayton of the Baltimore Ravens eats a chicken foot during his visit to a South African school, while Adrian Peterson, of the Minnesota Vikings, looks on. They were part of a group of four professional football players who traveled to the nation on a four-day visit to promote football. (AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam)
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Friendly Soccer Game - NFL players Roy Williams (Cincinnati Bengals), Mark Clayton (Baltimore Ravens) and Peterson play a friendly game of soccer with children from Mzamomhle Primary School on the outskirts of Cape Town. (AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam)
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Playing With Students - Football players Peterson (left) and Clayton (center right) play with school children from the Mzamomhle Primary School. (AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam)
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Returning to the Track? - South African runner Caster Semenya listens to her lawyer during an athletic competition in Stellenbosch, South Africa. She recently announced her plans to return to competitive racing this season, despite the fact that she was denied a chance to run at a meet in her native nation because the IAAF hasn’t released its findings from her gender verification tests. (AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam)
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Somali Protest - An armed Somali guard joins demonstrators holding signs reading, “Fight Those Who Dug Our Clerics Graves” while marching in the streets of Mogadishu. Last week, radical al-Qaida-linked militants dug up the graves of venerated clerics prompting hundreds of Somalis to hit the streets chanting “Down with Al-Shabab.” Troops guarded the protestors and fired shots into the sky. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)
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World Cup Ready - A South African student plays with a soccer ball in the Thembisa Township during his school’s Easter break. The nation will host the FIFA World Cup Soccer tournament in June. (AP Photo/Denis Farrell)
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Taking Perpetrators to Court - Kofi Annan, the former UN Secretary General, talks to reporters while in Nairobi, Kenya. He announced that within the next five days the International Criminal Court might decide whether they will investigate the perpetrators of Kenya’s post-election violence. “Crimes against humanity” likely occurred after President Kibaki was declared the winner of 2007’s elections, says ICC chief prosecutor, Luis Moreno Ocampo. (AP Photo/Khalil Senosi)
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Libya Leader: Divide Nigeria in Half - Controversial Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi is shown here at the closing session of the Arab League Summit in Sirte, Libya. Gadhafi drew Nigeria's anger last week by saying the oil-rich nation should be divided into Muslim and Christian nations in an attempt to quell violence in the country. (AP Photo/Abdel Magid Al Fergany)
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Save the Earth - South Africans stand with candle lights at a beach on the outskirts of Cape Town. Millions of people around the world turned off lights and electrical appliances for one hour last Saturday night to bring awareness to environmental concerns. (AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam)
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Zuma Visits Uganda - South African President Jacob Zuma (left) stands alongside Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni at his country’s State House Entebbe. Zuma was there to strengthen ties between the two nations. (AP Photo/Stephen Wandera )
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Exercising - Haitian earthquake survivors exercise at a downtown square in Port-au-Prince. After the devastating quake in January, more than one million people have been forced to live in makeshift camps. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)
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Food Aid - Women in Haiti carry food aid as peacekeepers from the U.N. patrol the streets of Port-au-Prince. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)
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Palm Sunday - A child sits under a woman’s chair during a Palm Sunday mass in Port-au-Prince. The celebration is the start of the Christian Holy Week. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)