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Day in photos Kumbh Mela festival, 113th Congress, teenager shot by Taliban for promoting girls’ education is released from hospital and more.
Jan. 4, 2013
Naga Sadhus, or “naked Hindu holy men,” arrive during a religious procession toward the Sangam, the confluence of the Ganges, Yamuna and mythical Saraswati rivers, as part of the Kumbh Mela festival in Allahabad, India. Millions of Hindu pilgrims are expected to take part in the large religious congregation on the banks of the Sangam during the festival, which falls every 12th year.
Rajesh Kumar Singh
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AP
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Jan. 3, 2013
In this image taken from video obtained by Network 1 News and Information Syndicate (NNIS), which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, Bikram Singh Brahma, center, a leader of India's ruling Congress party, has his shirt torn off by women in the village of Santipur, India. Police said Brahma was visiting the village of Santipur, on the Bhutan border, when he entered a woman's house and raped her at 2 a.m Thursday morning. The arrest of Brahma is considered a sign that police attitudes toward rape might be changing since the vicious gang rape last month of a 23-year-old woman in New Delhi.
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Jan. 4, 2013
A woman practices with an instructor during a self-defense class at a school in Mumbai. After nearly three weeks of lurid reporting on a brutal gang-rape in New Delhi, women in the Indian capital say they are more anxious than ever, leading to a surge in interest in self-defense classes.
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Jan. 4, 2013
An Indian mahout and his elephant cross a street on a cold and foggy morning in Allahabad, India. More than 100 people have died of exposure as northern India deals with historically cold temperatures.
Rajesh Kumar Singh
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AP
Jan. 1, 2013
The Royal Dutch Shell drilling rig Kulluk remains run aground off a small island near Kodiak Island. No leak has been seen from the drilling ship that grounded off the island earlier this week during a storm, officials said. The grounding has fueled criticism of drilling in the arctic.
Sara Francis
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U.S. Coast Guard via AP
Jan. 2, 2013
The snow-covered Taklimakan Desert in western China is seen in this image taken with the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Aqua satellite. Snow has covered much of the desert since a storm blew through the area Dec. 26.
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NASA via Reuters
Jan. 4, 2013
Soldiers inspect a port in Yingkou where boats are stranded in ice, in China’s Liaoning province. Sea ice continues to occur in some Chinese coastal provinces as a result of recent cold waves, according to Xinhua News Agency.
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China Daily via Reuters
Jan. 4, 2013
The Web site of the Russian TV station Pervyi Kanal displays a picture of actor Gerard Depardieu alongside a letter by the actor, translated into Russian. Depardieu confirmed yesterday that he had applied for a Russian passport and said he was “pleased” to have been granted citizenship by President Vladimir Putin. “Yes, I filed a passport application and I am pleased that it was accepted. I love your country, Russia — its people, its history, its writers,” he said in an open letter broadcast on Pervyi Kanal, following a highly publicized quarrel with French authorities over their proposal to increase the tax rate for millionaires to 75 percent.
Yuri Kadobnovyuri
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Jan. 4, 2013
Malala Yousafzai says goodbye as she is discharged from Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham in Birmingham, England. She will continue her rehabilitation at her family’s temporary home in the area. The teenage Pakistani girl, who had been shot in the head by the Taliban for promoting women’s education, was released from the hospital after impressing doctors with her strength. Hospital officials said Friday that Malala, 15, will be treated as an outpatient before being readmitted for further cranial reconstructive surgery at the end of the month or in early February.
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Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham via AP
Jan. 3, 2013
Shiite pilgrims beat their chests in ritual mourning for Imam Hussein, the prophet Muhammad's grandson, as they mark the religious ceremony of Arbaeen at Imam Abbas shrine in Karbala, Iraq.
Mohammed Ameen
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Reuters
Jan. 4, 2013
A boy waves a Palestinian flag during a rally marking the 48th anniversary of the founding of Fatah, in Gaza City. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians joined the rare rally as tensions ease with the rival Hamas, the Islamist organization that has ruled the enclave since 2007.
Mohammed Salem
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Reuters
Jan. 3, 2013
A Shiite girl watches the Arbaeen festival from a window in the village of Sanabis, Bahrain. Arbaeen marks the 40th day after Ashura, commemorating the 7th-century death of the prophet Muhammad’s grandson, Imam Hussein.
Mohammed al-Shaikh
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AFP/Getty Images
Jan. 3, 2013
Men stand amidst wreckage and debris after a car bomb exploded at a crowded gas station in the Barzeh al-Balad neighborhood of Damascus, Syria. At least 11 people were killed and 40 wounded in the Thursday explosion, opposition activists said. The station was packed with people waiting in line for fuel, which has become increasingly scarce during the country's 21-month-long insurgency.
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SANA via Reuters
Jan. 3, 2013
A bus traveling from Newtown, Conn., stops in front of 26 angels along the roadside on the first day of classes for Sandy Hook Elementary School students since the Dec. 14 shooting, in Monroe, Conn. Survivors started their new academic year in Monroe, where a disused middle school has been converted and renamed from its original Chalk Hill to Sandy Hook.
Jessica Hill
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AP
Jan. 3, 2013
A Sandy Hook Elementary School looks out the window of a school bus in Newtown, Conn.
Timothy A. Clary
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AFP/Getty Images
Jan. 4, 2013
Edmund De Vera strokes the hair of his son John-John, 5, inside the morgue of a private hospital in Kawit, Philippines, after he was killed in a mass shooting. A man who was apparently intoxicated fatally shot eight people before he was gunned down by police in a town near Manila, officials said Friday.
Bullit Marquez
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AP
Jan. 3, 2013
Farmers in Yemen’s Haraz Mountains, seen here, launched a local campaign to cut down trees of qat, a mild stimulant, and replace it with coffee and almond plants. Qat dominates life in Yemen, where most men spend half the day chewing it, even at work. Experts say it is ravaging Yemen's frail economy and sucking up precious water.
Khaled Abdullah
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Reuters
Jan. 4, 2013
Ivory tusks are displayed after being confiscated in Hong Kong. Hong Kong authorities have made their third big seizure of illegal ivory in three months after confiscating more than a ton of the elephant tusks, worth $1.4 million. The city's customs department said it seized 779 pieces of ivory weighing 2,866 pounds. The department said Friday that the ivory was found in a shipping container sent to the Hong Kong port.
Kin Cheung
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AP
Jan. 3, 2013
A dog and several cats seek refuge on a piece of furniture in a home flooded by heavy rains in the Xerem district of Brazil. Nearly 8.5 inches of rain fell in just 24 hours in the mountainous region north of Rio de Janeiro. Hard rains in Brazil are creating a state of alert in Rio and in nearby areas, where flood-triggered mudslides have killed hundreds in recent years.
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Jan. 3, 2013
Marine Staff Sgt. Mark Zambon enters a car in Lima, Peru, ahead of the 2013 Dakar Rally, which this year will thunder through Peru, Argentina and Chile from Jan. 5 to 20. Zambron is a member of the team Race 2 Recovery, consisting of British and U.S. military service members who have suffered serious injuries in the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan in recent years.
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Jan. 3, 2013
Perched in a basket 120 feet high, Brad Eberle, right, and Kenny Kennedy of Sam Estes Painting and Sandblasting of Maceo use a power washer at 5,000 pounds per square inch to clean accumulated grime off a water tower in Owensboro, Ky.
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Messenger-Inquirer via AP
Jan. 3, 2013
Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), center in purple, stands with other congresswoman as they gather for a photograph on the opening day of the 113th Congress at the Capitol.
Bill O'Leary
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The Washington Post
Jan. 3, 2013
Newly elected Rep. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), center in red, chats with Rep. Nita M. Lowey (D-N.Y.) as they gather for a photograph on the opening day of the 113th Congress at the Capitol. Duckworth lost her legs while serving as an Army helicopter pilot in Iraq.
Bill O'Leary
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The Washington Post
Jan. 3, 2013
Tammy Baldwin, the newly elected Democratic senator from Wisconsin, is sworn in by Vice President Biden during an reenacted swearing-in ceremony on Capitol Hill.
Nikki Kahn
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The Washington Post
Jan. 3, 2013
Newly reelected Speaker of the House John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) holds up the gavel just given to him by Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), left, on the opening day of the 113th Congress at the Capitol.
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