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Pictures of the Year Best Photographs Pictures Time Magazine Newly recruited female police officers practice with their rifles before a test on a shooting range in Pol-E Khumri, Afghanistan.
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Newly recruited female police officers practice with their rifles before a test on a shooting range in Pol-E Khumri, Afghanistan.

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