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A suicide bomber attacked a French-run high school in Afghanistan's capital on Thursday, killing at least one person hours after another bomb left six Afghan soldiers dead on the outskirts of Kabul. In this picture, a wounded Afghan journalist lies- The editorial -- titled "'Umbrella revolution' defeated" -- was published a day after police in the territory cleared tents and barricades that were used in more than two months of pro-democracy rallies calling for fully free leadership elections. (
- The demonstrators were calling for fully free elections for the city's leader in 2017, but Beijing has insisted a loyalist committee vet the candidates, which protesters say would ensure the selection of a pro-China stooge. (Photo: AP)
- The China Daily lamented the "great damage" caused by the protests, but said one positive had come out of the campaign , "the 'one country, two systems' principle (was) straightened out". (Photo: AP)
- The movement has long been derided by Chinese state media, who claim it lacks local support and is backed by outside forces opposed to China's rise. (Photo: AP)
- "The defeat of the 'umbrella revolution' has also sent a clear message to hostile forces -- both local and overseas," the government-published China Daily said in an editorial. (Photo: AP)
- Chinese state-run media triumphantly declared the Hong Kong pro-democracy movement "defeated", warning domestic and foreign "hostile forces" against destabilizing the city. (Photo: AP)
- Sand artist Sudarshan Pattnaik gives finshing touches to a sand sculpture of Nobel Peace Prize winners, Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai in Puri. (Photo: AP)
- Satyarthi, who gave up his job as an electrical engineer to run an NGO for rescuing children from forced labour and trafficking, said: "I refuse to accept that the world is so poor, when just one week of global military expenditure is enough to
- Shoppers swell at Ranganathan Street at T. Nagar on Sunday. -DC
- Prize winners Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai, right, look at Malala's blood stained school uniform at the opening of the Nobel Peace Prize exhibition at the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo. (Photo: AP)
- "Satyarthi and Yousafzai are precisely the people whom Alfred Nobel in his will calls 'champions of peace'," Chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee Thorbjorn Jagland said in his speech before awarding them the prestigious prize here. (Photo: AP)
- Child rights activists India's Kailash Satyarthi and Pakistan's Malala Yousafzai received this year's Nobel Prizes on Wednesday in Oslo. (Photo: AP)
- Rosemary Anderson High School serves at-risk students who were expelled or dropped out, or who are homeless or single parents. According to the school's website, 190 students annually are enrolled at the north Portland location. (Photo: AP)
- Witnesses told police there may have been a dispute outside the school before the shooting occurred at a street corner. (Photo: AP)
- The victims of the Friday shooting are students at Portland's Rosemary Anderson High School or in affiliated job training programs, police Sgt. Pete Simpson said. (Photo: AP)
- A suspected gang member opened fire on a group outside a high school, sending three young people to the hospital in what police said appeared to be a gang-related shooting. (Photo: AP)
- Afghanistan's security forces stand guard near the main gate of the French Cultural Center located at a high school, which was attacked by a suicide bomber in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Dec. 11, 2014. (Photo: AP)
- Five Afghan school children were also reported killed in a foreign forces air strike in northern Parwan province, officials said, but the international military coalition said those killed were insurgents. (Photo: AP)
- Taliban militants have stepped up a campaign of violence to try to take advantage of uncertainty and weaknesses besetting Afghanistan's security forces as they prepare to take over the war on the insurgency, now in its 13th year. (Photo: AP)
- Afghanistan's police soldiers stand guard while civil society activists take part in a demonstration to protest against Thursday's suicide attack by the Taliban at the French Cultural Centre at a high school in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Photo: AP)
A suicide bomber attacked a French-run high school in Afghanistan's capital on Thursday, killing at least one person hours after another bomb left six Afghan soldiers dead on the outskirts of Kabul. In this picture, a wounded Afghan journalist lies
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