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Riot police push protesters during clashes outside the Labour Ministry in Athens January 30, 2013. Greek unionists blocked the entrance to the Labour Ministry on Wednesday and clashed with police after they detained a group of 30 people, mainly members of the communists-affiliated PAME, who occupied the Minister’s office during an anti-austerity protest.
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School children dressed as Mahatma Gandhi assemble to mark his anniversary in the southern Indian city of Chennai January 30, 2013. Gandhi, leader of the Indian nationalist non-violent movement against British rule, was assassinated in 1948. India observes Gandhi’s death anniversary as Martyr’s day.
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Free Syrian Army fighters run for cover as a tank shell explodes on a wall during heavy fighting in the Ain Tarma neighborhood of Damascus January 30, 2013.
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Blood stains are seen on snow at the site of a plane crash outside Almaty January 29, 2013. The passenger plane crashed in thick fog near Kazakhstan’s commercial capital Almaty on Tuesday and broke into pieces when it hit the ground, killing all 21 people on board. Picture taken January 29, 2013.
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People cross a flooded area after heavy rain in Tabuk, 1500 km (932 miles) from Riyadh January 30, 2013.
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A Kachin refugee boy wraps himself with a blanket at a refugee camp at Man Si township in Kachin State January 19, 2013. Fierce fighting continues to rage between the KIA and Myanmar’s military, despite ceasefire orders by reformist President Thein Sein to troops not to attack the KIA or try to seize its headquarters in Laiza. The United States has expressed serious concern about the unrest and the welfare of civilians and Thein Sein insists his government wants peace talks with the KIA. The conflict resurfaced in June 2011, ending a 17-year truce, but the fighting has escalated significantly in the past two months.
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A man holds cans of fresh air which were given away by Chinese multimillionaire Chen Guangbiao near a street on a hazy day in central Beijing, January 30, 2013. China’s foulest fortnight for air pollution in memory has rekindled a tongue-in-cheek campaign by a Chinese multimillionaire with a streak of showmanship who is raising the alarm by selling canned fresh air. Chen Guangbiao, who made his fortune in the recycling business and is a high-profile philanthropist, on Wednesday handed out soda pop-sized cans of air, purportedly from far-flung and pristine regions of China, from Xinjiang in the far northwest to Taiwan off China’s southeast coast.
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A member of a U.S. Army Explosive Ordinance Disposal team drinks water while on a mission near Command Outpost AJK (short for Azim-Jan-Kariz, a near-by village) in Maiwand District, Kandahar Province January 30, 2013.
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