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Day in photos: March 7, 2013

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A protester clutches stones as he faces down riot police during the fifth day of clashes at the state security building in Port Said, Egypt. AP
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Seventy-year-old Indian salt worker Walbai Ayyubbhai lugs a giant rake at the Little Rann of Kutch salt marsh in Gujarat, India. AFP/Getty Images
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Riot cops line up against angry Goodyear employees protesting the closing of a plant in Rueil Malmaison, France. AP
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Ocean waves crash over a seawall and into houses along the coast of Scituate, Mass., as a messy nor’easter traveled up the East Coast. AP
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A supporter pays her respects to the late Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez at a Caracas military academy, where he lies in state. AP
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After seven years of restoration, new lighting brightens the towering interior of the Fourviere Basilica in Lyon, France. AFP/Getty Images
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A student protester in Santiago, Chile, flees riot cops who began firing a water cannon at a rally demanding changes to the country’s public education system. Reuters
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A Malaysian soldier stands guard in Felda Sahabat for Prime Minister Najib Razak, who has rejected a ceasefire call by the self-proclaimed Philippine sultan whose Islamic fighters have launched a deadly incursion into Malaysia. AFP/Getty Images
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People walk through still-falling snow outside the US Capitol in Washington, DC, amid the city’s worst storm in two years. AFP/Getty Images
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A delivery man works in the still-wet, narrow streets of Barcelona, Spain, as the sun rises following a stormy night. AP
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PETA protesters, including one in an elephant suit, rally outside the Washington, DC, city hall a few weeks ahead of the arrival of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus in town. AFP/Getty Images
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Thai paramilitary rangers train in a camp in the country’s troubled Yala province. Thailand has agreed to pursue peace talks with the Barisan Revolusi Nasional, a Muslim group fighting for autonomy in the region. Reuters