The Year in Pictures
VOA takes a visual tour of the events that defined the year 2011.
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Tokyo residents were warned not to give babies tap water because of radiation leaking from a nuclear plant crippled in the earthquake and tsunami. Here a baby is checked for radiation in Fukushima City on March 24, 2011. (Reuters/Kyodo)
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The moon rises over the Bronx in New York City March 19, 2011. The "Super Moon" arrived at its closest point to the Earth in 2011, a distance of 356,575 km) away. (Reuters)
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A man is pulled across to safety on a rope during a rescue operation in Govindghat in the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand as damaged buildings and the Alaknanda river are seen in the background. Flash floods and landslides unleashed by early monsoon rains have killed at least 560 people in Uttarakhand and left tens of thousands missing, officials said.
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An illustration shows a projection of binary code on a man holding a laptop computer in an office in Warsaw, Poland.