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Russia - Young conventuals attend an Orthodox Easter mass at the St. Nicholas nunnery near Moscow.

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China - Firefighters take part in a candlelight vigil after a forest fire that broke out in Muli county, Sichuan province, killed 30 of their colleagues.

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USA - A lantern draped with a flower lei floats on the water as thousands of lanterns are released during the Na Lei Aloha Lantern Floating event held by the Shinnyo-en Buddhist organization at Ala Moana Beach Park during Memorial Day in Honolulu, Hawaii.

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Myanmar - Candlelight illuminates the interior of this makeshift house in Thanlyin township, outside Yangon.

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Swaziland - Residents of Ngwenya village attend a candlelight memorial for AIDS victims near Mbabane, the Swazi capital.

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Thailand - Young Buddhist monks hold candles during the festival of Yee Peng in the northern city of Chiang Mai. 

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Serbia - A homeless man holds candles as he sits in a tomb where he lives, this in the southern Serbian city of Niš.

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Spain - Penitents take part in the procession of La Paz (The Peace) brotherhood during Holy Week in the Andalusian capital of Seville. 

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Hungary - Demonstrators holding burning torches form the peace sign at the Heroes' Square in Budapest during a protest against clashes in far off Tibet.

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Iraq - Frequent power cuts in Baghdad mean many families like this one end up eating dinner by candlelight. 

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India - Devotees light candles at a Gurdwara, or Sikh temple, during celebrations to mark Bandi Chhor Divas, which coincides with the Hindu festival of Diwali, in Chandigarh, India.

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Mexico - A girl reads the Bible as she takes part in a Holy Week procession in Taxco, in the southwestern Mexican state of Guerrero.

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Turkey - A mining helmet and carnations are seen placed on the ground by demonstrators during a candlelight vigil for the victims of the Soma mining disaster in western Turkey.

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Switzerland - Villagers dance with their iffelen (giant bishop's mitres lit by candles from within) during the traditional Klausjagen procession through the village of Küssnacht am Rigi on the shores of Lake Lucerne.

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Armenia - People light candles during a religious service in Yerevan to mark the anniversary of the mass killing of Armenians in the genocide of 1915–17.

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Nepal - Candlelight is the sole source of illumination in this Kathmandu bakery during a power outage.

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Kenya - A power outage in an east Nairobi suburb means this 5-year-old is attempting to do his homework with the aid of a candle.

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El Salvador - A Salvadoran child looks at candles in the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in San Salvador as thousands of Salvadoran pilgrims prepare to celebrate the Day of the Virgin of Guadalupe.

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Chile - Chilean volunteers hold up candles during Earth Hour in the city of Valparaíso.

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Ukraine - A boy is seen in a window as he holds a candle during a commemoration for Holodomor victims in the Ukrainian capital Kiev. The Holodomor famine of 1932-33, engineered by the Soviet Union, killed millions of people.

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Canada - A Cochrane, Alberta shop owner holds a candle after lighting 15 jack-o'-lanterns that were made in her candle store.

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Philippines - A resident, covered with mud and dried banana leaves, holds candles as he attends a mass celebrating the feast day of the Catholic patron St. John the Baptist, this in the village of Bibiclat in Nueva Ecija, north of Manila.

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Israel - An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man lights candles for the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah in Jerusalem's Mea Shearim neighborhood. 

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Indonesia - Men wearing traditional costumes hold candles to support Earth Hour in Jakarta.

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England -

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India -

The Sikh holy shrine, the Golden Temple, is illuminated by candles on the occasion of the birth anniversary of Guru Nanak Dev Ji, the founder of Sikhism, in the northern Indian city of Amritsar.

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China - Chinese nurses holding candles celebrate International Nurses Day at First People's Hospital in Wenling, east China.

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Russia - People stick candles in Kulich cakes, a traditional Russian Easter bread, during Easter celebrations at Andreyevsky Cathedral in the southern Russian city of Stavropol. 

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Spain - People gather in Barcelona's Plaça de Sant Jaume in protest against nuclear power. 

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Mexico - An indigenous Tzotzil Mexican amber miner digs by candlelight deep underground in a mine in the southern state of Chiapas.

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Serbia - Shoemakers work under candlelight during a power outage in Belgrade.

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USA - Hundreds of carved pumpkins stare down at a woman holding a candle at the Great Highwood Pumpkin Festival in Highwood, Illinois. 

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Philippines - A young girl cooks dinner for her family as her father opens canned fish at their makeshift, candlelit shelter in Palo, Leyte.

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India - People attend a candlelit awareness rally during World Environment Day in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad.

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