An Afghan vendor sells balloons during the Nowruz festivities to mark the Afghan New Year in Kabul on March 21, 2015. Nowruz, one of the biggest festivals of the war-scarred nation, marks the first day of spring and the beginning of the year in the Persian calendar. Nowruz is calculated according to a solar calendar, this coming year marking 1394. (Photo by Wakil Kohsar/AFP Photo)
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