The past year has been a big one for world news. There were transformative political movements bringing democracy to Burma and neo-Nazism to Greece, there was tumultuous violence in Israel-Palestine and Mali, moments of martyrdom near a South African mine and in a Russian courtroom, heroism personified in the first Saudi women at the Olympics and in a blind Chinese dissident's flight to safety, devastation in a Nigerian plane crash and in the shelling of an ancient Syrian city, and many more events, large and small, that could resonate for years. Here are some of those moments, captured in 25 photos.
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