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    Hatem Moussa - AP
    Palestinians wave yellow Fatah flags during celebrations marking the 48th anniversary of the Fatah movement in Gaza City, Friday, Jan. 4, 2013. The secular-leaning Fatah party staged a massive rally Friday in the Gaza Strip, the first such gathering in the territory since the Islamist Hamas group violently took control there in 2007 - a reflection of the warming ties between the two rival Palestinian factions.(AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)
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    Palestinians wave yellow Fatah flags during celebrations marking the 48th anniversary of the Fatah movement in Gaza City, Friday, Jan. 4, 2013. The secular-leaning Fatah party staged a massive rally Friday in the Gaza Strip, the first such gathering in the territory since the Islamist Hamas group violently took control there in 2007 - a reflection of the warming ties between the two rival Palestinian factions.(AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)
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    A Palestinian woman stands in front of a hair and beauty parlour as she watches Israeli, Palestinian and foreign activists demonstrate against the Israeli occupation and house demolitions in the Arab east Jerusalem neighbourhood of Issawiya on January 4, 2013. AFP PHOTO/AHMAD GHARABLI (Photo credit should read AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP/Getty Images)
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    Masked Palestinian protesters hurl stones towards Israeli forces during clashes following a march organised by residents of the West Bank village Nabi Saleh to protest against the expansion of Jewish settlements on Palestinian land, on January 4, 2013. (ABBAS MOMANI/AFP/Getty Images)
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    A child uses a megaphone to lead others in chanting Free Syrian Army slogans during a demonstration in the neighborhood of Bustan Al-Qasr, Aleppo, Syria, Friday, Jan. 4, 2013. The U.N. said Wednesday that more than 60,000 people have been killed since Syria's crisis began in March 2011 — a figure much higher than previous opposition estimates. (AP Photo/Andoni Lubaki)
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    A Jordanian boy wears a headband with Arabic writing that reads "there is no God but Allah, and Mohammed is his Prophet." during a rally by Jordanian and Syrian followers of the banned Islamic-oriented Hizb Al-Tahrir, Liberation Party, after the Friday prayer in front of the Syrian embassy, in Amman, Jordan, Jan. 4, 2013. Hundreds of protesters shouted slogans proclaiming that Syria will have an Islamic state after the toppling of Bashar Assad and his regime. Russia's foreign minister said Saturday that Assad has no intention of stepping down and it would be impossible to try to persuade him otherwise. (AP Photo/Mohammad Hannon)
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    Syrians stomp on a portrait during a demonstration in the neighborhood of Bustan Al-Qasr, Aleppo, Syria, Friday, Jan. 4, 2013. The U.N. said Wednesday that more than 60,000 people have been killed since Syria's crisis began in March 2011 — a figure much higher than previous opposition estimates. (AP Photo/Andoni Lubaki)
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    A Syrian man uses his mobile phone to capture a child using a megaphone to lead others in chanting Free Syrian Army slogans during a demonstration in the neighborhood of Bustan Al-Qasr, Aleppo, Syria, Friday, Jan. 4, 2013. The U.N. said Wednesday that more than 60,000 people have been killed since Syria's crisis began in March 2011 — a figure much higher than previous opposition estimates. (AP Photo/Andoni Lubaki)
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    Supporters of the Sunni Islamist Hizb al-Tahrir (liberation party) wave their party flag and shout slogans alongside Syrian nationals living in Jordan during a protest in solidarity with Syrians, in front of the Syrian embassy, in Amman on January 4, 2013. The protesters shouted slogans against the US and United Nations-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi. (KHALIL MAZRAAWI/AFP/Getty Images)
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    Afghani men pray after being released from prison in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Jan. 4, 2013. Some 250 prisoners formerly held by the U.S. have been released by Afghan authorities in hopes that this will lead to reconciliation in the 11-year conflict, a Defense Ministry spokesman said Friday. The released prisoners had been captured in operations against the Taliban and other groups. (AP Photo/Ahmad Jamshid)
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    Protesters chant slogans against the Iraq's Shiite-led government as they wave national flags during a demonstration in Fallujah, 40 miles (65 kilometers) west of Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, Jan. 4, 2013. About 3,000 people gathered in the northern city of Mosul, where they called for the release of female prisoners and to end to what they say are random arrests of Sunnis. Among their chants were: "Down, down with al-Maliki" and "No to sectarianism." In the ethnically mixed city of Kirkuk, about 1,000 protested to demand the release of Sunni detainees. Protests were also reported in the Sunni strongholds of Fallujah and Tikrit. (AP Photo)
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    This photo made available by Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, England shows Malala Yousufzai saying goodbye as she is discharged from the hospital to continue her rehabilitation at her family’s temporary home in the area, Friday, Jan. 4, 2013. the teenage Pakistani girl shot in the head by the Taliban for promoting girls' education has been released from the hospital after impressing doctors with her strength. Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham officials said Friday 15-year-old Malala Yousufzai will be treated as an outpatient before being readmitted for further cranial re-constructive surgery at the end of the month or in early February. (AP Photo/Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham)
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    Rafiq Maqbool - AP
    School children and staff watch a self defense training program at a school in Mumbai, India, Friday, Jan. 4, 2013. An attack on a 23-year-old woman, who died of severe internal injuries over the weekend, has provoked a fierce debate across India about the routine mistreatment of females and triggered daily protests demanding action. Indian Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde announced a special recruitment drive for women police officers Thursday and ordered every police station in the capital to be staffed by at least nine female officers to make them more attentive to women's needs. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)
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    Mauritian President Rajkeswur Purryag, center, walks after the ceremonial guard of honor in New Delhi, India, Friday, Jan. 4, 2013. Purryag is in India for a week long visit. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
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    Kin Cheung - AP
    Ivory tusks are displayed after being confiscated by Hong Kong Customs in Hong Kong Friday, Jan. 4, 2013. Hong Kong authorities have made their third big seizure of illegal ivory in three months after confiscating more than a ton of the elephant tusks worth $1.4 million. The city's customs department said it seized 779 pieces of ivory weighing about 1,300 kilograms (2,866 pounds). The department said Friday that the ivory was found in a shipping container sent to the Hong Kong port. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
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    Edmund De Vera strokes the hair of his son John-John, 5, inside a morgue of a private hospital in Kawit township, Cavite province, 16 kilometers (10 miles) south of Manila, Philippines after he was killed along with seven others Friday Jan.4, 2013. A man who was apparently intoxicated has fatally shot eight people, including a child who tried to shield herself behind seat cushions, before he was gunned down by police in a town near the Philippine capital, officials said Friday. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)
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    Aniolina Caimol, 63, the grandmother of shooting victim Micaela Caimol, 7, cries after viewing her grand daughter inside a morgue of a private hospital in Kawit township, Cavite province 16 kilometers (10 miles) south of Manila, Philippines Friday Jan. 4, 2013. A man who was apparently intoxicated has fatally shot eight people, including a child who tried to shield herself behind seat cushions, before he was gunned down by police in a town near the Philippine capital, officials said Friday. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)
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    Pedestrians are reflected in a framed image of Cuba's Fidel Castro, left, and Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, hanging inside a shop, in Havana, Cuba, Friday, Jan. 4, 2013. Chavez hasn't spoken publicly or been seen since his Dec. 11 operation in Cuba, and the latest report from his government Thursday night increased speculation that he is unlikely to attend his Jan. 10 inaugural ceremony. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
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    German chancellor Angela Merkel, right, looks at a caroler, depicting one of the 'Three Kings' during a reception for carol singers from all over Germany at the chancellery in in Berlin, Germany, Friday, Jan. 4, 2013. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)
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    Seth Wenig - AP
    James Ferchland looks around his house, which was severely damaged by Superstorm Sandy, in the Broad Channel section of Queens, New York, Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013. Many home and business owners flooded out by Hurricane Sandy could get insurance payouts soon through congressional action expected Friday, Jan. 4 on a $9.7 billion bill to replenish the National Flood Insurance Program. The Federal Emergency Management Agency, which runs the program, warned that it will run out of money next week if Congress doesn't give it additional borrowing authority to pay out claims. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
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    Mohammad Hannon - AP
    Jordanian security policemen stand on alert behind a black flag with Arabic writing that reads "there is no God but Allah, and Mohammed is his Prophet." during a protest rally by Jordanian and Syrian followers of the banned Islamic-oriented Hizb Al-Tahrir, Liberation Party, after the Friday prayer in front of the Syrian embassy, in Amman, Jordan, Jan. 4, 2013. Hundreds of protesters shouted slogans proclaiming that Syria will have an Islamic state after the toppling of Bashar Assad and his regime. Russia's foreign minister said Saturday that Assad has no intention of stepping down and it would be impossible to try to persuade him otherwise. (AP Photo/Mohammad Hannon)
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    KHALIL MAZRAAWI - AFP/Getty Images
    Supporters of the Sunni Islamist Hizb al-Tahrir (liberation party) wave their party flag and shout slogans alongside Syrian nationals living in Jordan during a protest in solidarity with Syrians, in front of the Syrian embassy, in Amman on January 4, 2013. The protesters shouted slogans against the US and United Nations-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi. (KHALIL MAZRAAWI/AFP/Getty Images)
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    A large construction vehicle carries remnants of the boardwalk in Seaside Heights, N.J., Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013, that was destroyed two months ago by Superstorm Sandy. Under intense pressure from angry Republicans, House Speaker John Boehner has agreed to a vote this week on aid for Superstorm Sandy recovery. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)
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    Jason Rearick - AP
    Former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, center, holds hands with her husband, Mark Kelly, while exiting Town Hall at Fairfield Hills Campus in Newtown, Conn. after meeting with Newtown First Selectman Pat Llodra and other officials on Friday, Jan. 4, 2013. At far left is Lt. Gov. Nancy Wyman; behind Giffords to the left is U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal. Giffords also met with families of the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary massacre that left 26 people dead. (AP Photo/The News-Times, Jason Rearick) MANDATORY CREDIT
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    Jacquelyn Martin - AP
    Pages lead a Senate procession carrying two boxes holding Electoral College votes through Statuary Hall to the House Chamber on Capitol Hill on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Jan. 4, 2013, for the counting of the votes in the presidential election. A tally of the U.S. Electoral College vote affirmed President Barack Obama's re-election. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
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    J. Scott Applewhite - AP
    During a meeting of the U.S. Electoral College in the House of Representatives chamber, clerks unseal the certificates of results from all fifty states, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Jan. 4, 2013. The constitutional formality affirmed President Barack Obama's re-election. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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    As a procession from the Senate enters the House chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Jan. 4, 2013, for a meeting of the U.S. Electoral College, the new senator from South Carolina, Sen. Tim Scott, is greeted by his former House colleagues. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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    A Pakistani boy, bottom left, walks past laundry hung in a field to be dried, during a foggy and cold morning in Islamabad, Pakistan, Friday, Jan. 4, 2013. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
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    Muhammed Muheisen - AP
    A Pakistani man sits in a park reading the newspaper during a foggy and cold morning in Islamabad, Pakistan, Friday, Jan. 4, 2013. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
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    A.M. Ahad - AP
    A young Bangladeshi boy walks past aluminum buckets displayed for sale on a street in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Friday, Jan. 4, 2013. The buckets are kept for use in case of fire at garment factories. (AP Photo/A.M. Ahad)
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    A costumer buys vegetables at a market in Manila on January 4, 2013. The Philippines' inflation rate fell to a five-year low last year, the government said Friday, helping efforts to hold down interest rates and boost economic growth. Consumer prices expanded by 3.2 percent for the entire 2012, substantially lower than the 4.6 percent recorded in 2011, the National Statistics Office said. (JAY DIRECTO/AFP/Getty Images)
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    Indian devotees in thousands along with the Priests participate in a Maha Aarti at the end of celebrations during the 50 years celebrations of the Bochassanwasi Shri Akshar Purshottam Swaminarayan Sanstha (BAPS), Shahibaug's Temple in Ahmedabad on January 4, 2012. Thousands of devotees from India and abroad thronged the Sardar Patel, Navrangpura stadium in Ahmedabad. (SAM PANTHAKY/AFP/Getty Images)
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    Indian dancers perform in front of a life-sized created structure of Swaminarayan Temple, Shahibaug during the 50 years celebrations of the Bochassanwasi Shri Akshar Purshottam Swaminarayan Sanstha (BAPS), Shahibaug's Temple in Ahmedabad on January 4, 2012. Thousands of devotees from India and abroad thronged the Sardar Patel, Navrangpura stadium in Ahmedabad. (SAM PANTHAKY/AFP/Getty Images)
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    Marchers dance during the Three Kings Day Parade in East Harlem on January 4, 2013 in New York City. The parade celebrates the Feast of the Epiphany, also known as Three Kings Day, marking the Biblical story of the visit of three kings to Bethlehem to visit the baby Jesus, revealing his divinity. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)
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    Ted S. Warren - AP
    Alex Tanz, left, and Duncan Moore, right, divers at the Seattle Aquarium, wear Seattle Seahawks NFL football jerseys, Friday, Jan. 4, 2013, as they swim near a "12th Man" flag and dives in the facility's "Window on Washington Waters" exhibit in Seattle. The aquarium plans to have divers show their support of the Seahawks daily during diving performances through Sunday, when the Seahawks will face the Washington Redskins in an NFC wild card playoff game in Landover, Md. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
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    The Scorchers run out to field during the Big Bash League match between the Perth Scorchers and the Sydney Thunder at WACA on January 4, 2013 in Perth, Australia. (Photo by Paul Kane/Getty Images)
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    Andy Murray of Britain throws his racket in his quarterfinal match against Denis Istomin of Uzbekistan at the Brisbane International tennis tournament in Brisbane, Australia, Friday, Jan. 4, 2013. (AP Photo/Tertius Pickard)
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    Mathilde Johansson of France serves in her singles match against Chanelle Scheepers of South Africa during day seven of the Hopman Cup at Perth Arena on January 4, 2013 in Perth, Australia. (Photo by Will Russell/Getty Images)
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    Austrian fans celebrate during the 61st Four Hills tournament in Innsbruck, Austria on January 4, 2013. Austria's Schlierenzauer won ahead of Poland's Kamil Stoch and Norway's Anders Bardal. (SAMUEL KUBANI/AFP/Getty Images)
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    An unknown athlete competes during the trial round for the FIS Ski Jumping World Cup event of the 61st Four Hills ski jumping tournament at Bergisel-Stadion on January 4, 2013 in Innsbruck, Austria. (Photo by Lars Baron/Bongarts/Getty Images)
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    Andreas Wank of Germany competes during the first round for the FIS Ski Jumping World Cup event of the 61st Four Hills ski jumping tournament at Bergisel-Stadion on January 4, 2013 in Innsbruck, Austria. (Photo by Lars Baron/Bongarts/Getty Images)
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    Austria's Gregor Schlierenzauer soars through the air during his final jump to win the third stage of the four hills ski jumping tournament in Innsbruck, Austria, Friday, Jan. 4, 2013. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)
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    Austria's Wolfgang Loitzl soars through the air during his competition jump of the third stage of the four hills ski jumping tournament during foggy weather in Innsbruck, Austria, Friday, Jan. 4, 2013. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)
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    Gregor Schlierenzauer of Austria takes 1st place during the FIS Ski Jumping World Cup Vierschanzentournee (Four Hills Tournament) on January 04, 2013 in Innsbruck, Austria. (Photo by Stanko Gruden/Agence Zoom/Getty Images)
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