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Seven days in photographs. March 12-18, 2011

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The Japanese Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA) on Friday raised the level of threat from the accident on the quake-stricken Fukushima-1 nuclear plant to the fifth of seven possible levels on the International Nuclear Events Scale.

The Japanese Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA) on Friday raised the level of threat from the accident on the quake-stricken Fukushima-1 nuclear plant to the fifth of seven possible levels on the International Nuclear Events Scale.

© RIA Novosti . Ilia Pitalev / Go to the mediabankThe death toll from the Japanese quake which occurred on March 11 has risen to 5,429 people, with 9,594 listed as missing.

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The death toll from the Japanese quake which occurred on March 11 has risen to 5,429 people, with 9,594 listed as missing.

© Photo : Emergency Situations Ministry Rescuers continue to search for people who may have survived the disaster on the island of Honshu.

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Rescuers continue to search for people who may have survived the disaster on the island of Honshu.

© RIA NovostiLibya closed its airspace to civil aviation on Friday, according to European air traffic control organization Eurocontrol, after the United Nations Security Council imposed a no-fly zone over the country, Reuters said.

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Libya closed its airspace to civil aviation on Friday, according to European air traffic control organization Eurocontrol, after the United Nations Security Council imposed a no-fly zone over the country, Reuters said.

© RIA Novosti . Andrey Stenin / Go to the mediabankGovernmental forces held a large-scale military operation in western Libya as a result of which three cities controlled by rebels surrendered.

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Governmental forces held a large-scale military operation in western Libya as a result of which three cities controlled by rebels surrendered.

© NASA . Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of WashingtonNASA's Messenger spacecraft entered orbit around Mercury on March 18.

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NASA's Messenger spacecraft entered orbit around Mercury on March 18.

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