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Day in photos: Feb. 25, 2013

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Austria's Gregor Schlierenzauer flies through a training jump at the Men's Large Hill Ski Jumping event at the FIS Nordic Skiing World Championships in Predazzo, Italy.

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Just another day in the neighborhood for this guy, strolling past a Damascus house damaged by Syrian government forces.

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Buddhist monks pray at the Wat Phra Dhammakaya temple in Pathum Thani province, north of Bangkok, Thailand, on Makha Bucha Day.

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A woman walks through a creation by Argentinean artist Julio Le Parc at a preview of the artist's exhibition 'Soleil Froid' (or cold sun) at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris.

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A Palestinian protester throws stones during clashes with Israeli soldiers in the West Bank city of Hebron.

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Jason Price and his son Dorian, age 4, arrive at the Peoria Sports Complex before an exhibition game between the Seattle Mariners and the Los Angeles Angels in Peoria, Ariz.

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Pakistanis crossing a Karachi street darkened in a nationwide power outage that lasted over two hours.

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Members of dance troupe Fighters perform during the Battle Four by Four breakdancing competition at the Fine Arts theater in Guatemala City.

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A Hindu priest washes his face with seawater during a religious ceremony called Melasti in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.

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Thijs Glas admires frozen hydrangeas in a nursery garden in Heerhugowaard, Netherlands. Glas sprayed the plants to freeze the buds, a method of protecting them from the freezing night.

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Hot-air balloons rise into the sky over Goreme National Park in Goreme, Turkey.

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Filipino protesters push back against the shields of riot cops sent to quell a demonstration outside the US embassy in Manila. The protesters are calling for the immediate withdrawal of American troops stationed there.