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Day in photos: Feb. 4, 2013

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A teacher checks students' chalk boards in a classroom in Gao, Mali. Schools have reopened officially after the town was freed from radical Islamists' occupation last week by French and Malian forces.

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A member of the SIRO-A performance troupe -- touted as Japan's answer to the Blue Man Group -- does his thing at the Leicester Square Theatre in London.

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A quartet of revelers make a statement dressing as corrupt judges in Haiti's legal system as Carnival celebrations begin in the streets of Jacmel.

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An Egyptian man mourns amid a funeral for activists Amro Saad and Mohammed al-Guindi outside Omar Makram Mosque in Tahrir Square.

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Mathias Menanteau, a French violin maker, works on the body of a cello in his workshop in Rome. After studying and working in England and Germany, Menanteau set up shop in Italy where he builds and restores instruments for notorious musicians.

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A woman releases sparrows as an offering in mourning Cambodia's former King Norodom Sihanouk in Phnom Penh.

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Activists from the group Animal Naturalis sprawl across the plaza at the Revolution Esplanade Monument in Mexico City to protest bullfighting.

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An Afghan woman begs for alms in the snow as she sits on a slush-filled road in Kabul.

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A Venezuelan soldier, his face painted with the colors of the national flag, attends a military parade in Caracas commemorating the 21st anniversary of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's attempted coup d'etat.

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Syrian man carries his sister to safety after a government airstrike hit their neighborhood in Aleppo, Syria.

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A Pakistani man arranges cauliflower at a vegetable market in Lahore.