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Day in photos Calif. surfing contest, Portugal train crash, Athens transit strike, Martin Luther King Jr. march and more.
Jan. 22, 2013
Umbrellas are displayed in front of Seoul City Hall in Seoul. The display symbolizes Seoul public officials' intention to be an umbrella for citizens.
Ahn Young-joon
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Jan. 22, 2013
An Indian sadhu, or holy man, performs evening prayers on the bank of the Sangam, the confluence of the Rivers Ganges, Yamuna and the mythical Saraswati during the Maha Kumbh Mela in Allahabad. The Maha Kumbh Mela will see up to 100 million worshipers gather over the next 55 days to take a ritual bath in the holy waters, believed to cleanse sins and bestow blessings.
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Jan. 20, 2013
Colin Dwyer competes during heat 4 of the Mavericks Invitational big wave surf contest in Half Moon Bay, Calif.
Marcio Jose Sanchez
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Jan. 22, 2013
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu touches the stones of the Western Wall in Jerusalem’s Old City. Israelis headed to polling stations Tuesday to cast votes in a parliamentary election expected to return Netanyahu to office despite years of stalled peacemaking with the Palestinians and mounting economic troubles.
Uriel Sinai
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Jan. 21, 2013
President Obama kisses his wife, Michelle, after the ceremonial swearing-in at the U.S. Capitol during the 57th Presidential Inauguration in Washington. At right is Chief Justice John Roberts.
Paul Sancya
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Jan. 21, 2013
A supporter of former Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko takes part in a rally outside Ukraine’s presidential office in Kiev. Ukrainian authorities have formally notified Tymoshenko that she is a suspect in the killing of a businessman and lawmaker in 1996.
Efrem Lukatsky
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AP
Jan. 21, 2013
A plane flies over a residential area to land at Heathrow airport in west London after the airport announced flight cancellations because of adverse weather.
Andrew Cowie
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Jan. 22, 2013
A train sits beneath the carriage of another train after a train crash at a station in Alfarelos, Portugal. Officials said a high-speed intercity train rear-ended a local train waiting to enter a station in central Portugal, derailing several carriages, leaving a pile of wreckage on Portugal’s main north-south line and slightly injuring 21 people. Officials said the local train was waiting to pull into a station near Coimbra, 120 miles north of the capital, Lisbon, when the northbound intercity train slammed into it from behind.
Miguel Teixeira
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AP
Jan. 21, 2013
A woman mourns as rescue workers search for victims after a bus crash on the outskirts of Pijchu, Bolivia. According to police, at least 10 people were killed and several injured after a bus drove off a mountain road and plunged down a ravine.
Juan Karita
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AP
Jan. 21, 2013
Drivers stay in their trucks as they are inundated by floodwaters in Penjaringan subdistrict in Jakarta, Indonesia. Companies and residents have started to calculate damages from the widespread floods that hit Jakarta, claiming at least 15 lives, according to a police spokesman. Thousands were displaced from their homes, a local newspaper reported.
Adek Berry
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AFP/Getty Images
Jan. 21, 2013
Municipal employees remove snow from the sidewalks a day after heavy snowfalls in Douai, northern France. With up to 8 inches of snow falling in the most affected areas over the weekend, more than a quarter of France’s regions were on alert.
Philippe Huguen
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AFP/Getty Images
Jan. 21, 2013
An image of then-French President Charles de Gaulle, right, and West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, left, is projected on the church Berliner Dom in Berlin on the eve of a celebration marking 50 years since the Elysee Treaty launched after WWII French-German cooperation. In signing the landmark treaty on Jan. 22, 1963, de Gaulle and Adenauer sealed a new era of reconciliation between the former foes.
Marc Tirl
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Jan. 21, 2013
An activist of Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front shouts slogans during a memorial service to mark the anniversary of an alleged massacre in Srinagar, India. People in the Kashmir valley allege that Indian soldiers of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) opened fire indiscriminately on thousands of peaceful demonstrators near Gaw Kadal in Srinagar 23 years ago, killing more than 50 people.
Mukhtar Khan
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AP
Jan. 21, 2013
Algerian firemen carry a coffin containing a person killed during the gas facility hostage crisis at the morgue in Ain Amenas, Algeria. The Islamist militants who attacked the natural gas plant included two Canadians and a team of explosives experts who had memorized the layout of the sprawling complex and were ready to blow up the place, Algeria's prime minister said. Algeria detailed a grim toll from the attack, saying at least 38 hostages and 29 militants died in four days of mayhem.
Anis Belghoul
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Jan. 22, 2013
A homeless man sits near the closed entrance of a subway station in central Syntagma square during a strike in Athens. Striking subway workers in Athens defied a court order to return to work and continued their protest for a sixth day on Tuesday, as demonstrations against new pay cuts escalated in the Greek capital.
Petros Giannakouris
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AP
Jan. 20, 2013
Commuters travel in a decorated minivan in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Many trucks, buses and vans in the country are highly customized and decorated by their owners. These adorned vehicles are considered moving art, or jingle art, with vehicle owners paying as much as $2,000 for decorations.
Asif Hassan
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Jan. 22, 2013
A man shouts during a protest in Nairobi with the words “Blood Ivory” painted across his face. Affiliates of an activist group called Kenyans United Against Poaching took to the streets to put pressure on the government to declare the rampant poaching of rhinos and elephants, now at unprecedented levels, a national disaster.
Tony Karumba
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AFP/Getty Images
Jan. 21, 2013
Riders pass a mural as they participate in a march honoring slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. in San Antonio.
Eric Gay
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AP
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