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Day in photos Carnival in France, corruption in Ukraine, the Asian Lunar New Year, Obama at the National Prayer Breakfast, Caribbean baseball and more.
Feb. 7, 2013
Models rehearse on the runway before Tadashi Shoji’s fall collection is modeled during Fashion Week in New York.
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Flanked by security, John Brennan, the nominee for CIA director, arrives on Capitol Hill to testify at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee.
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Feb. 7, 2013
Ukrainian lawmakers talk during a parliamentary session in Kiev, Ukraine. The poster’s severed hand and “No!” are intended by the opposition to symbolize their call for an end to corruption in parliament.
Efrem Lukatsky
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AP
Feb. 8, 2013
Carnival characters in Nice, France, await the city’s 129th annual Carnival celebration.
Valery Hache
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Feb. 8, 2013
Women hold up wet saris to the wind after taking an early-morning dip at the Sangam, the confluence of the Yamuna, Ganges and mythical Saraswati rivers, during the Kumbh Mela festival in Allahabad, India. The Kumbh Mela will see up to 100 million worshippers gather over 55 days to take a ritual bath in the holy waters, believed to cleanse sins and bestow blessings.
Sanjay Kanojia
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Feb. 8, 2013
A man holds a plastic flower amid a temple’s decorations in advance of the Asian New Year celebrations in Bangkok's Chinatown. The Lunar New Year, also known as the Spring Festival, begins on Feb. 10 and marks the start of the Year of the Snake, according to the Chinese zodiac.
Damir Sagolj
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Reuters
Feb. 7, 2013
People watch the fireworks exploding over the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi to celebrate the one-year countdown to the opening of the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics.
Natalia Kolesnikova
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AFP/Getty Images
Feb. 8, 2013
Palestinians run away from tear gas during a weekly protest against the expansion of the nearby Jewish settlement of Halamish, in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh.
Majdi Mohammed
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AP
Feb. 7, 2013
An anti-government demonstrator waves a giant flag featuring the image of a protester who died during last week’s demonstrations against Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood. The 23-year-old man, Mohammed Hussein Qarni, died of a gunshot wound outside the presidential palace on Feb. 1, as protesters faced off with police into the night.
Gianluigi Guercia
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AFP/Getty Images
Feb. 7, 2013
Zen, a Shar Pei puppy, is carried by her owner on a chilly day in Bucharest, Romania.
Vadim Ghirda
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AP
Feb. 7, 2013
Men stand near camels during a competition in al-Salmi, a desert area 85 miles west of Kuwait City, as part of the ongoing Popular Heritage Festival. The one-month festival is held annually to commemorate popular activities in Kuwaiti heritage, and it features camel races, falcons contests, fishing competitions and other events.
Yasser al-Zayyat
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AFP/Getty Images
Feb. 7, 2013
South Korean and U.S. marines hurl snow at each other during a joint winter drill in Pyeongchang, some 110 miles east of Seoul. Marines from South Korea and the United States took part in a military drills, which began Monday and run through Feb. 22, to test their limits in extreme conditions.
Jun 0Yeon-Je
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AFP/Getty Images
Feb. 8, 2013
Jack Percoco reaches into depleted shelves for milk at a supermarket in Somerville, Mass. A major winter storm is heading toward the northeast, which has seen mostly bare ground this winter.
Elise Amendola
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AP
Feb. 7, 2013
A woman waits at a checkpoint on the banks of the Niger river outside Gao, in northern Mali. French troops began to withdraw from Timbuktu on Thursday after securing the city as they ramped up their mission in another northern Malian city, searching for Islamist extremists who may be mixing among the local population.
Jerome Delay
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AP
Feb. 7, 2013
Los Angeles Police Department officers investigate the site of a shooting in Corona, Calif. Christopher Dorner is suspected of this shooting of two LAPD officers who were sent to protect someone Dorner had threatened in a rambling online manifesto. Thousands of police officers throughout Southern California and Nevada searched Thursday for Dorner, a former Los Angeles officer who was angry over his firing and began a deadly shooting rampage that he warned in an online posting would target those on the force who had wronged him.
Nick Ut
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AP
Feb. 8, 2013
Activists try to break through a police barricade as they are sprayed by a police water cannon during a protest in Thiruvananthapuram, India. Riot police fired water cannons at hundreds of protesters demanding the resignation of a lawmaker over allegations he had raped a schoolgirl 17 years ago. P.J. Kurien, 72, the deputy speaker of the state's upper house, was acquitted of rape in a trial in 2005, but he has come under new pressure after his accuser demanded a fresh probe in the wake of the deadly gang rape in New Delhi in December.
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Feb. 7, 2013
A relative of slain opposition leader Chokri Belaid cries over his coffin at his parents' home near Tunis. The Islamist party dominating Tunisia's ruling coalition on Thursday rejected its own prime minister's decision to form a nonpartisan technocratic government to try to appease critics, signaling that the political crisis brought on by the assassination of Belaid, a prominent leftist politician, is far from over.
Amine Landoulsi
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AP
Feb. 7, 2013
Sheriff Tim Wilkerson of Crawford County, Ind., and Deputy Debra Young, back to camera, comfort Rose Turben as they stand in front of the mobile home where five of Turben's family members died in a fire in Sulpher, Ind. Wilkerson said it took firefighters two hours to extinguish the fire, according to the Courier Journal.
Aaron Borton
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Courier Journal via AP
Feb. 7, 2013
President Obama pauses as he speaks at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington. Obama said he hopes politicians maintain the morning's bipartisan spirit a little longer.
Manuel Balce Ceneta
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AP
Feb. 8, 2013
Ricardo Nanita of the Dominican Republic’s Leones del Escogido reacts during the final match against Mexico’s Yaquis de Obregon during the final of the 2013 Caribbean Series in Hermosillo, Mexico. Mexico won 4-3.
Ronaldo Schemidt
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AFP/Getty Images
Feb. 7, 2013
A donkey sports a skull talisman on a chain as it walks in Gao, Mali. French and Malian troops continue their efforts to liberate towns such as Gao, which have been occupied by Islamist militants.
Jerome Delay
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AP
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