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  12. SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA - DECEMBER 07: Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper attends a joint press conference with South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak at the presidential house on December 7, 2009 in Seoul, South Korea. Canada and South Korea met to discuss economic exchanges and to strengthen bilateral relationships in trade, culture and diplomacy.
  13. Relatives and friends of Lilia Kalashnikova, a victim of a nightclub fire, mourn at a cemetery in Perm, about 700 miles (1,200 kilometers) east of Moscow, Monday, Dec. 7, 2009. Authorities said more than 100 people died and over a hundred injured. The fire tore through the popular Lame Horse nightclub in Perm late Friday, after fireworks set a suspended plastic ceiling ablaze, filling the crowded club with thick black smoke.
  14. Grieving relatives of a victim of a nightclub fire, seen at a cemetery in Perm, about 700 miles (1,200 kilometers) east of Moscow, Monday, Dec. 7, 2009. Authorities said more than 100 people died and over a hundred injured. The fire tore through the popular Lame Horse nightclub in Perm late Friday, after fireworks set a suspended plastic ceiling ablaze, filling the crowded club with thick black smoke.
  15. Mother of Liliya Kalashnikova, a victim of the night club fire, center, no name given, cries at her daughter's funeral at a cemetery in the Ural Mountains city of Perm, about 1,200 km (700 miles) east of Moscow, Monday, Dec. 7, 2009. Authorities said more than 100 people died and over a hundred injured. The fire tore through the popular Lame Horse nightclub in Perm late Friday, after fireworks set a suspended plastic ceiling ablaze, filling the crowded club with thick black smoke.
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