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Israeli Jewish worshippers light candles as they perform a ceremony for Passover in Kathmandu. Hundreds of Jewish travellers in Kathmandu attended what the organisers claimed was the world's biggest Passover celebration. The Jewish people celebrate Passover as a commemoration of their liberation over 3,300 years ago by God from slavery in ancient Egypt that was ruled by the Pharaohs, and their freedom as a nation under the leadership of Moses. It commemorates the story of the Exodus as described in the Hebrew Bible especially in the Book of Exodus, in which the Israelites were freed from slavery in Egypt.
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People dressed as devils perform as they protest against oil exploration off the coast of the Balearic Islands, at Playa de Palma in Palma de Mallorca. According to Repsol, the deep waters off the Canaries could hold a deposit equivalent to 900 million barrels of oil - or up to 2.3 billion barrels in the most optimistic scenario - but opponents of the project say the exploration "represents a serious threat to the natural wealth of the archipelago, to its economy, to its capacity to provide its own drinking water, to its tourism, and thus to its current and future inhabitants."
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