A Bahraini Shiite Muslim leads a group of anti-government protesters at a rally in the streets of Ma’ameer aganst proposed peace talks.
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A tractor carries tourists on a skating tour past a patch of bad ice in Wanneperveen, Netherlands. Some 15,000 participated in the first of the tours held on natural ice, but the bad stretch forced organizers to call it off.
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A Bangladeshi man cries as he talks about his wife and daughter, killed in the Tazreen factory fire in Dhaka two months ago.
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Ghana supporters get psyched for their team’s Africa Cup of Nations match against Mali in Port Elizabeth, South Africa.
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Florence Cassez, left, gets a kiss from her mother Charlotte after landing at France’s Roissy airport. Cassez spent seven years in a Mexican prison on kidnapping charges before being cleared and released.
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A masked protestor carries an injured boy away from clashes between the protesters and riot police.
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A woman sips coffee in front of a frost-covered shop window in the sub-zero cold of Portland, Maine.
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Ostriches crowd together for warmth in their open-air cage at a farm in the Belarussian village of Kozishche.
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A Syrian rebel surveys the crumbling Arabeen neighborhood of Damascus, destroyed in government airstrikes.
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American Matt Gone shows off his ink at the opening of the Expotattoo Venezuela convention in Caracas.
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Satoria Ginn, left, nails pal Desiree Lyons with a mound of snow in their Pocomoke City, Md., neighborhood.
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Simona Costache (center) mourns over the casket of her husband, Romanian engineer TIberiu Costache, who was killed during the hostage crisis in Algeria.
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