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(141118) -- CARACAS, Nov. 18, 2014 (Xinhua) -- Image provided by Venezuela's Presidency shows Venezuelan President, Nicolas Maduro (2nd L), attending the closing act of the first Congress of Venezuela's Working Class, in Caracas, Venezuela, Nov. 17, 2014. (Xinhua/Venezuela's Presidency) ***NO SALES-NO ARCHIVE*** ***EDITORIAL USE ONLY***

(141117) -- BUCHAREST, Nov. 17, 2014 (Xinhua) -- Supporters of presidential candidate Klaus Iohannis celebrate in Bucharest, Romania, Sunday, Nov. 16, 2014. Romania's Center-right candidate, Sibiu city mayor Klaus Iohannis garnered 54.81 percent of the vote in Sunday's presidential run-off, while Social Democrat leader, incumbent Prime Minister Victor Ponta scored 45.18 percent, showed the latest partial results released by the Central Election Bureau (BEC) on Monday. (Xinhua/Gabriel Petrescu)

(141117) -- QUETTA, Nov. 17, 2014 (Xinhua) -- A vendor waits for customers at a handicraft shop in southwest Pakistan's Quetta on Nov. 17, 2014. (Xinhua/Irfan) ****Authorized by ytfs****

(141117) -- CANBERRA, Nov. 17, 2014 (Xinhua) -- Chinese President Xi Jinping (L), his wife Peng Liyuan (4th L), Australian Governor-General Peter Cosgrove (2nd L) and his wife Lynne Cosgrove (3rd L) take a ride together at the Government House in Canberra, capital of Australia, Nov. 17, 2014. (Xinhua/Huang Jingwen)

(141117) -- OAXACA, Nov. 17, 2014 (Xinhua) -- Relatives of the 43 missing students protest in Oaxaca, Mexico, on Nov. 17, 2014. A caravan of buses carrying relatives of the 43 missing students arrived in the city of Oaxaca on Monday, which is part of its tour to several cities in Mexico, aiming to put continuous pressure on Mexican Government and demand its efforts to keep searching the students. (Xinhua/Max Nunez) (rtg)

(141118) -- BUDAPEST, Nov. 18, 2014 (Xinhua) -- People attend a large-scale demonstration in front of Parliament to protest a laundry list of issues they consider government wrongs in what has been dubbed "Public Outrage Day" in Budapest, Hungary, Nov. 17, 2014. (Xinhua/Attila Volgyi)

(141117) -- PYONGYANG, Nov. 17, 2014 (Xinhua) -- Photo provided by Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on Nov. 17, 2014 shows top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) Kim Jong Un (C) inspecting the combined foodstuff-processing factory under the Korean People's Army (KPA) Unit 534. He went around the essential foodstuff shop, maize-processing shop, rice-polishing shop, vegetable-processing shop and instant rice shop to learn details about their modernization. (Xinhua/KCNA)

(141118) -- KABUL, Nov. 18, 2014 (Xinhua) -- An Afghan soldier stands guard on a building at the site of a car bombing in Kabul, Afghanistan, Nov. 18, 2014. At least two Afghan security guards were killed Tuesday morning after a Taliban suicide car bombing targeted a NATO-led coalition's base in eastern part of Afghan capital of Kabul, the latest in a string of deadly attacks in the war-torn country, sources said. (Xinhua/Ahmad Massoud) (djj)

(141117) -- LA PAZ, Nov. 17, 2014 (Xinhua) -- Bolivian President Evo Morales shows the "illa of Ekeko" in the city of La Paz, Bolivia, on Nov. 17, 2014. The "illa of Ekeko", which is an oval-shape statuette representing Ekeko, or "God of Abundance", was returned to Bolivia on Monday by the National Museum of Berna in Switzerland, 156 years after being taken away from its native country, according to local press. (Xinhua/Jose Lirauze/ABI) (jp)