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| Cairo, Egypt: a woman runs away after being caught between riot police and stone-throwers during clashes near the interior ministry |
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| Damascus, Syria: the Russian foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, is surrounded by cheering Syrians as his motorcade drives to the presidential palace |
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| Male, Maldives: mutinying police confront the military |
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| Bastelica, Corsica: snow-covered trees |
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| Ahmedabad, India: a large flock of birds |
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| Denver, US: the Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum speaks at the Cable Centre |
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| Beijing, China: visitors view ice sculptures at the Yanqing ice festival |
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| New Delhi, India: a boy prepares to board a train with his family at the Nizamuddin rail station |
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| London, UK: schoolchildren watch the King's Troop Royal Horse Artillery leave St John's barracks, in St John's Wood |
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| Singapore: a Hindu man has his body pierced with hooks before taking part in the Thaipusam procession at Sri Srinivasa Perumal Temple |
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| Barakaldo, the Spanish Basque Country: volunteers from the pressure group Berri-Otxoak walk towards the town hall during a Via Crucis (Way of the Cross) protest against unemployment and cuts to social services cuts and housing benefit |
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| New Delhi, India: a boy waits for a free meal at the Hindu Hanuman Mandir, or Monkey God Temple |