Today in photos (Dec. 30)

View a gallery of photos from around the world on Friday, Dec. 30, 2011.

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Fri., Dec. 30, 2011

Stray dogs walk in front of the Red Fort as it is shrouded in dense morning fog in New Delhi, India, Friday, Dec. 30, 2011. The dipping mercury has pushed the country-wide death toll to more than a hundred as north India continued to reel under biting cold and dense fog disrupting rail, road and air transport, according to news reports.

Kevin Frayer Associated Press
Iranian navy speed boats attend a drill in the sea of Oman, on Friday, Dec. 30, 2011. Iran's navy chief has reiterated for a second time in less than a week that his country can easily close the strategic Strait of Hormuz at the mouth of the Persian Gulf, the passageway through which a sixth of the world's oil flows.

Ali Mohammadi International Iran Photo Agency
A Palestinian protester hurls stones at Israeli soldiers during demonstration against the expansion of the nearby Jewish settlement of Halamish in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh near Ramallah, Friday, Dec. 30, 2011.

Majdi Mohammed Associated Press
In this video image from Ru-RTR Russian state tv channel, firefighters spray water on the Yekaterinburg nuclear submarine in a dock at the Roslyakovo shipyard in the Murmansk region, Russia, Friday, Dec. 30, 2011. A fire that erupted while the Yekaterinburg was in drydock for repairs at the town of Roslyakovo near Murmansk has left seven crew members injured after they inhaled poisonous fumes from the blaze.
South Korean Buddhist believer Chun Byung-chan prays for peace on the Korean Peninsula near the border village of Panmunjom (DMZ) that separates the two Koreas since the Korean War, while visiting at the Imjingak Pavilion in Paju, South Korea, Friday, Dec. 30, 2011. North Korea warned rival Seoul and the rest of the world Friday not to expect any change after Kim Jong Il's death, sending a clear message of continuity by calling for the first time his son and heir "Great Leader."

Ahn Young-Joon Associated Press
People carry the coffins of victims as thousands of mourners gathered in Gulyazi village at the border with Iraq, southeast Turkey, Friday, Dec. 30, 2011 for the funerals of 35 Kurdish civilians who were killed in a botched raid by Turkish military jets that mistook the group for Kurdish rebels based in Iraq. Turkish television footage showed people, many weeping and lamenting the dead, as they gathered after the air strikes Wednesday that killed a group of smugglers along the border, one of the deadliest episodes in the conflict between the Turkish state and Kurdish rebels who took up arms in 1984.