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Snapshots: the world in 24 hours, May 13

Updated: 2011-05-14 15:18

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Snapshots: the world in 24 hours, May 13

A supporter of the Trinamool Congress party, covered in green powder, celebrates with others flashing victory signs in a street near the house of the party's leader Mamata Banerjee in Kolkata, May 13, 2011. [Photo/Agencies] 

Snapshots: the world in 24 hours, May 13

Supporters of the Trinamool Congress party release pigeons into the air as they celebrate beneath the tri-coloured flowers, the symbol of the party, on a street in Kolkata, May 13, 2011. [Photo/Agencies]

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