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The most POWERFUL photos over the past year: Part III

This week, rediff.com has been bringing for you a series of compelling photos shot by Reuters photographers that encompass the drama and diversity of trends and topics that defined the past year.

The most POWERFUL photos over the past year: Part I

The most POWERFUL photos over the past year: Part II

Here's the concluding part of the series.

Marianne Theodorsen, Alexander Norheim and Elen Kristvik take a break from the Moods of Norway Party in SoHo during "Fashion's Night Out" in New York. Designers, celebrities and shoppers in cities from New York to Milan roamed boutiques and stores in droves as part of the fourth annual "Fashion's Night Out," a global event to encourage spending.

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Zoe Jurusik, 20, paddle-boards down a flooded city street in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy in Bethany Beach, Delaware. Millions of people were left reeling in the aftermath of monster storm Sandy in October as New York City and a wide swathe of the eastern United States struggled with epic flooding and massive power outages. 

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Audience members watch a model during the J Mendel Spring/Summer 2013 show at New York Fashion Week.

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A protester taunts riot policemen in Syntagma Square in Athens during a violent protest against the visit of Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel. Tens of thousands of angry Greek protesters filled the streets of Athens to greet German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who offered sympathy but no promise of further aid on her first visit since the euro crisis erupted three years ago.

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A woman sings the Portuguese national anthem during a protest against austerity, in front of Portugal's parliament in Lisbon. Portugese parliament's 2013 budget promises a third year of recession and the biggest tax hikes in modern history to ensure international bailout terms are met.

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Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel arrives at the European Union council headquarters for an EU leaders summit discussing the EU's long-term budget in Brussels.

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People walk past a beach club destroyed by Hurricane Sandy in Sea Bright, New Jersey.

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Members of the Free Syrian Army take up a position during a truce on the top of a hilly mountain in the Kurdish area of al-Qaftal, overlooking the town of Azaz, October 31, 2012. Picture taken October 31, 2012.

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An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man is seen through a damaged car window after a rocket fired from Gaza landed in the southern city of Ashdod.

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Student Samba shows a Nike logo shaved into his hair in front of a former Portuguese colonial administrative building in Cacheu, Guinea-Bissau.

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Paramilitary police officers shovel snow in a line at the Forbidden City on a day of both rain and snow, in central Beijing.

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A groom leads his horse in the equine pool after working out on the track, during early morning workouts for the upcoming Derby race in Mumbai

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Rescue team members try to tighten ropes around a whale shark, which died after being stranded on the Parangkusumo beach, near Yogyakarta.

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A Free Syrian Army fighter carries the body of a fellow fighter during clashes in Aleppo

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A teleprompter obscures US President Barack Obama as he speaks during an event at Capital University in Columbus, Ohio.

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People hold up shoes during a protest demanding German President Christian Wulff to resign outside the presidential palace Bellevue Castle in Berlin.

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A man sits next to the word "Sweetness" in an alley (viela), in the Brasilandia favela of Sao Paulo. Six alleys in the favela are painted by Spanish artist group Boa Mistura as part of their "Light on the Alleys" project, which aims to modify rundown communities by using art as a tool for change in their daily lives.

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A refugee child walks on top of a tent in a refugee camp in Atimeh, on the Syrian-Turkish border of the Idlib Governorate

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Paula Broadwell, the woman whose affair with CIA director David Petraeus led to his resignation, leaves her home in Charlotte, North Carolina.

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Tate Gallery frame conservation technician Adrian Moore inspects "The Lady of Shalott" at the Museum and Art Gallery in Birmingham, central England.

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Unemployed Antonia Rodriguez, 44, smokes in an apartment of an occupied building in the Andalusian capital of Seville, southern Spain. More than 30 struggling families are occupying an apartment in Seville in southern Spain that has been empty since it was finished three years ago.

The building is one of hundreds of thousands of ghost constructions gathering dust all over Spain that banks and property developers are unable to sell. Most of the occupiers of the flats, which have brand-new wooden floors with sparkling double glazing, have been thrown out of their own homes by landlords or bailiffs after they defaulted on their mortgage or could not pay the rent.

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