Today in photos (March 8)

View a gallery of photos from around the world Tuesday, March 8.

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Tue., March 8, 2011

In this photo released by the Israeli Government Press Office, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli soldiers look through binoculars towards Jordan during a tour of the Jordan Valley, a strip of West Bank land along the border with Jordan, Tuesday, March 8, 2011. Netanyahu declared Tuesday that his country must retain the Jordan Valley, a strategic section of the West Bank, under any future peace deal, a position unlikely to win Palestinians over to his reported plan to offer them a temporary state.

Moshe Milner Gpo
A plow clears snow from a road in the northern Athens' suburb of Dionyssos, Tuesday, March 8, 2011. Civil defense authorities were on alert, and problems with power were reported across the country. Most of the schools in the northern parts of the Greek capital were closed and ferries were confined to the ports ahead of the strong winds.

Thanassis Stavrakis Associated Press
Kate Middleton flips a pancake watched by Ellie Tang, 6, and Britain's Prince William, at a display by the charity Northern Ireland Cancer Fund for Children outside the City Hall in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Tuesday, March 8, 2011. Police kept watch from the rooftops for a visit that brought the center of Belfast to a standstill. Some 50 to 100 people gathered in the bright sunshine near the imposing city hall to greet the couple, who arrived in a convoy of five black Range Rovers, but the crowd swelled to several hundred as shoppers realized something special was happening.

Peter Morrison Associated Press
Aiala Zaldibar, a suspected Basque activist fugitive from Spain, raises her fists into the air, in a police van as she leaves the courthouse of Pau, southwestern France, Tuesday, March 8, 2011. Aiala Zaldibar is suspected of belonging to the banned Basque separatist movement 'Segi' in Spain.

Bob Edme Associated Press
Libyan Leader Moammar Gadhafi arrives at a hotel to give television interviews in Tripoli, Libya, on Tuesday, March 8, 2011.

Ben Curtis Associated Press
Anti-Gadhafi rebels drive a vehicle forward as smoke rises following an air strike by pro-Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi warplanes that attacked a highway leading to the town of Ras Lanouf, eastern Libya, Tuesday, March 8, 2011. Libyan warplanes launched at least three new airstrikes Tuesday near rebel positions in the oil port of Ras Lanouf, keeping up a counteroffensive to prevent the opposition from advancing toward leader Moammar Gadhafi's stronghold in the capital Tripoli.

Hussein Malla Associated Press
Men from Bangladesh, who used to work in Libya but recently fled the unrest, wait to be called in order to leave for their country in a refugee camp at the Tunisia-Libyan border, in Ras Ajdir, Tunisia, Tuesday, March 8, 2011.

Emilio Morenatti Associated Press
A female anti-government protestor wears an umbrella to avoid the sun, during a demonstration demanding the resignation of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, in Sanaa, Yemen, Tuesday, March 8, 2011. A Yemeni security official says about 2,000 inmates have staged a revolt at a prison in the capital, taken a dozen guards hostage and joined calls by anti-government protesters for the country's president to step down. The official says the unrest in the Sanaa prison erupted late Monday when prisoners set their mattresses ablaze and occupied the facility's courtyard. Arabic reads on her headband, " Leave".

Muhammed Muheisen Associated Press