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Week In Photos: Jan. 28-Feb. 1, 2013

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A protester peers over the balcony of her home during demonstrations against Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi in Port Said, Egypt.

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Burkina Faso's Mohamed Koff juggles the ball during his team's training in Nelspruit, South Africa, for their African Cup match Tuesday with Zambia.

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A riot policeman beats a protester rallying against Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi during clashes near Tahrir Square in Cairo.

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Afghan policemen take a break after surviving an IED attack while on patrol with American troops in Kandahar.

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A couple sits on a bench amid floodwaters from the Brisbane River. Severe flooding in Australia's northeast have killed at least three.

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A woman crosses a footbridge over a highway in Beijing on an evening when the Chinese capital's air pollution reached levels almost 20 times the World Health Organization's 'safe' limit.

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A man climbs up an artificially made wall of ice near the Swiss mountain resort of Pontresina.

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A child stands on one of the trusses of the Quezon Bridge in Manila, Philippines.

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The father of one of the 232 victims of the fire Sunday at Boate Kiss nightclub, cries during his daughter's funeral in Santa Maria, Brazil.

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A surfer leaps from his board during a run on the Arnette Punta Galea Big Wave World Tour in Spain.

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Malian children peer into a car on the roadside in Konna. French-led troops were advancing on the fabled city of Timbuktu after a string of victories in their offensive against Islamist militant groups.

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People through a snow-covered park in Bucharest, Romania.

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A construction worker takes a break on a meshed platform outside a high-rise in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Construction in the island nation is picking up for the first time after civil war ended four years ago.

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A Chicago man ice fishes on the frozen waters of Lake Michigan in Belmont Harbor.

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Mourners comfort each other at a makeshift memorial outside the Kiss nightclub in Santa Maria, Brazil, where a fire killed over 230 over the weekend.

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Anfisa, a 8-year-old female chimpanzee, washes the window of her own enclosure at the Royev Ruchey zoo in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia.

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A truck clears a path near construction stalled by Sandy in Long Branch, NJ. The Senate has finally approved a long-delayed $50.5 billion aid package for victims of the storm.

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Maitland, Florida, sixth graders watch as President Obama takes off from the south lawn of the White House aboard Marine One.

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A Hayward Gallery employee poses inside artist Anthony McCall's installation entitled 'You and I, Horizontal' at the gallery in London.

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Looters scramble into a shop in Timbuktu, Mali, where hundreds began looting stores they claim belong to "Arabs" and "terrorists" linked to the radical Islamists who've occupied the town for nearly a year.

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A newly initiated Hindu monk peers from behind a tent during the Maha Kumbh festival -- one of the world's largest religious gatherings -- in Allahabad, India.

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Ice sculptures stand on display near St. Basil's cathedral, just outside the Kremlin in Moscow.

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A woman squeezes past paint-covered riot cops gathered to handle angry steel plant workers in Leige, Belgium, where Arcelor Mittal, the world's largest steel producer, plans to shut a coke plant and six finishing lines.

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Egyptian protesters cheer their capture of an armored police vehicle during clashes near Tahrir Square in Cairo.

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Viking-clad marchers celebrate the Up Helly Aa festival in Lerwick, Shetland Islands, which recognizes the islands' Scandinavian influence.

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One of hundreds of anti-government protesters marching in the village of Sanabis, Bahrain, throws a molotov cocktail during clashes with riot cops.

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A damaged British Academy of Film and Television Arts award is placed in in a furnace to be recycled into new ones at a London foundry. The BAFTA Awards are scheduled for Feb. 10.

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A US Army Explosive Ordinance Disposal team member patrols a patch of farmland near Command Outpost AJK in Kandahar.

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Ukrainian nationalists march through the streets of the western city of Lviv to mark the anniversary of a 1918 battle against the Red Army.

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A 3-month-old white tiger cub seems a bit put out by a zookeeper's examination at the Serengeti wildlife park in Hodenhagen, Germany.

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School children dressed as Mahatma Gandhi assemble to mark the anniversary of his death in Chennai, India.

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A South Korean rocket lifts off at the Naro Space Center in Goheung carrying a satellite into orbit from its own soil for the first time.

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Malian youths gang up on an alleged looter in the northern city of Gao.

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Drivers and scooter riders traverse a flooded road in Jakarta, Indonesia. The capital continues to be hit by floods -- due to surging tides and bad drainage -- that have shut down electricity and displaced thousands.

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Exiled Tibetans chant together at a rally for the Tibetan People's Solidarity Campaign in New Delhi, India.

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Beyonce performs the National Anthem (for real this time) during a press conference promoting her appearance on the Super Bowl XLVII halftime show.

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A Palestinian boy mourns during the funeral of six members of a local Gaza City family who were killed in an accidental fire.

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A new bell -- known as Gabriel -- is hoisted from a flatbed truck in front of the Notre Dame cathedral in Paris. Nine enormous bronze bells have made their way from a Normandy foundry to their new home.

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Riot police in Kashmir try calming demonstrators with hand gestures as protests raged against local authorities' plans to raze illegally built homes in Sidhra.

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A Sotheby's employee laughs at her reflection in "Untitled," a work by Anish Kapoor, at the London auction house.

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Hindu holy men ritually bathe -- an act believed to rid them of all ties in this life and dedicate themselves to serving God -- in the Sangam during the Maha Kumbh festival in Allahabad, India.

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The daughter of Eusebio Gonzalez -- a policeman shot dead while trying to stop a group of assailants in increasingly violent Ecatepec, Mexico -- cries during a tribute to her father.

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A Pakistani schoolgirl receives a polio vaccine from a health worker at school in a poor neighborhood on the outskirts of Islamabad.

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A rocket carrying NASA's next-gen Tracking and Data Relay Satellite-K lifts off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida.

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A Malian child studies writing on a blackboard at his Timbuktu school -- reopened after being shuttered by 10 months of islamic occupation.

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Kashmiri Muslim faithful clambor to see as a priest (not shown) hoists a relic believed to be a hair from the beard of Prophet Mohammed at the Hazratbal Shrine in Srinagar.

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A young chess player yawns (maybe because the competition is a bit light) at the Moscow Open Chess Festival.

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A long-exposure photo shows commuters in the Grand Central Terminal, which is celebrating its centennial.

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Bundled-up employees sort logs on a bank of the Yenisei River at the Novoyeniseisk wood processing plant, in Lesosibirsk, Russia.

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Boys walk through a house damaged in an air strike targeting al Qaeda-linked militants in the southern Yemeni town of Jaar.

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Window cleaners work at the top of the Shard -- London's newest and the EU's tallest skyscraper -- on its first day open to the public.

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Swiss skiier Simon Ammann soars through a practice jump at the World Cup Ski Flying competition in Harrachov, Czech Republic.

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Locals gather to gawk at a 12-foot whale shark hauled in to Karachi, Pakistan's harbor.

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Rescuers look for survivors at the site of an overpass collapse on the Lianhuo highway in Mianchi county, China. At least five people died when a fireworks truck exploded, causing the collapse.

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A US embassy security guard calls for help just moments after a suicide bomber hit the Ankara, Turkey, embassy's entrance, killing at least two.