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    A pigeon ruffles up in the cold in St.Petersburg, Russia, Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013. The temperature in St.Petersburg is -9C ( 15.8 °F). (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)
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    Arctic sea-smoke rises from Portland Harbor where the Bahama-based oil tanker, the Teesta Spirit, unloads it's fuel, Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013, in South Portland, Maine. A stubborn cold front continues to grip the region. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
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    Erin Leighton sips a coffee while seated next to a frost-covered window at a coffee shop, Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013, in Portland, Maine. An arctic cold front with sub-zero temperatures continues to grip the region. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
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    Participants of the Five Lakes Skating Tour skate on one of the lakes near Giethoorn, northern Netherlands, Thursday Jan. 24, 2013. Some 15,000 skating enthusiasts participated in the first tour on natural ice, but a stretch of rapidly deteriorating ice forced organizers to call off the tour after a few hours. Dutch police later stopped people from reaching the area. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)
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    Belarusian huntsman Ivan Makarevich leaves the improvised store with a bag of grain for feeding of wild animals on the fertilizing ground in a forest in Nalibokskaya Forest Reserve near the village of Kruglaya, some 80 km (50 miles) west of Minsk, Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013. Forestry staff additionally fed wild animals every three days because of cold weather and heavy snow in Belarus. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
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    Swans swim in a partially frozen channel in a forest in Nalibokskaya Forest Reserve near the village of Buni, some 80 km (50 miles) west of Minsk, Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013. Forestry staff additionally fed wild animals every three days because of cold weather and heavy snow in Belarus. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
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    A U.S. Coast Guard boat, left, and a barge being pushed by a tug boat navigate the icy waters of the Hudson River on Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013, in Stuyvesant, N.Y. A polar air mass trekked from the Midwest into the region on Wednesday, prompting the National Weather Service to issue wind chill warnings across upstate New York and northern New England. The coldest weather was expected Wednesday and Thursday, after which conditions should slowly moderate before returning to normal, said John Koch, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service regional headquarters in Bohemia, N.Y. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)
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    The sun is seen through billowing steam that is being released from an office building on Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013, in Albany, N.Y. A polar air mass trekked from the Midwest into the region on Wednesday, prompting the National Weather Service to issue wind chill warnings across upstate New York and northern New England. The coldest weather was expected Wednesday and Thursday, after which conditions should slowly moderate before returning to normal, said John Koch, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service regional headquarters in Bohemia, N.Y. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)
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    Participants of the Five Lakes Skating Tour are being transported on a tractor to avoid a stretch of bad ice in Wanneperveen, near Giethoorn, northern Netherlands, Thursday Jan. 24, 2013. Some 15,000 skating enthusiasts participated in the first tour on natural ice, but a stretch of rapidly deteriorating ice in Wanneperveen forced organizers to call off the tour after a few hours. Dutch police later stopped people from reaching the area. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)
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    Special athletes slide down a ski run in a toboggan on a crisp winter day during the Michigan Area 22 Special Olympics Winter Games 2013 Thursday Jan. 24, 2013, at Apple Mountain in Freeland Mich. Special athletes from the Great Lakes Bay region participated in snow shoes, skiing, toboggan and other winter outdoor sports. (AP Photo/The Saginaw News, Jeff Schrier) ALL LOCAL TV OUT; LOCAL TV INTERNET OUT
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    In this Friday, Dec. 21, 2012 photo, Bangladeshi Rokeya Begum displays a photograph of her 18-year-old daughter Henna Akhtar, a sewing machine helper who died in the fire at Tazreen Fashions, in the garment district in Ashulia, near Dhaka, Bangladesh. When fire ravaged the Bangladeshi garment factory, killing 112 workers, dozens of their families did not even have a body to bury because their loved ones' remains were burned beyond recognition. Two months later, they have yet to receive any of the compensation they were promised - not even their relatives' last paychecks. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)
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    In this Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2013 photo, Bangladeshi man Ansar, who uses one name, wails holding photographs of his wife and daughter at his home near the gutted Tazreen factory on the outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh. Two months after his wife and daughter were killed in a fire at the Bangladeshi garment factory, 55-year-old Ansar is scrambling to survive. Ansar has been unable to pay his rent for two months and fears that if he gets evicted and is forced to return to his home village in the impoverished north, he may never be compensated. The fire drew international attention to the conditions that garment workers toil under in Bangladesh, where the $20 billion-a-year textile industry is incredibly powerful and politically connected. (AP Photo/A.M.Ahad)
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    In this Friday, Dec. 21, 2012 photo, Bangladeshi Mohammed Hannan, 35, weeps as he holds a picture of his wife Ahenur, 30, an assistant sewing machine operator who died in the fire at Tazreen Fashions, in the garment district in Ashulia, near Dhaka, Bangladesh. When fire ravaged the Bangladeshi garment factory, killing 112 workers, dozens of their families did not even have a body to bury because their loved ones' remains were burned beyond recognition. Two months later, they have yet to receive any of the compensation they were promised - not even their relatives' last paychecks. The remainder were burnt beyond recognition and their remains are undergoing DNA testing to prevent people from filing fake claims. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)
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    In this Friday, Dec. 21, 2012 photo, Bangladeshi Saddam Hussein, 24, holds a photograph of his wife 20-year-old Mitu Begum, a sewing machine operator who died in the fire at Tazreen Fashions, in the garment district in Ashulia, near Dhaka, Bangladesh. When fire ravaged the Bangladeshi garment factory, killing 112 workers, dozens of their families did not even have a body to bury because their loved ones' remains were burned beyond recognition. Two months later, they have yet to receive any of the compensation they were promised - not even their relatives' last paychecks. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)
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    In this Friday, Dec. 21, 2012 photo, Bangladeshi Zamiron Begum, 45, weeps as she displays a photograph of her daughter Bobita Khatum, 18, a senior sewing machine operator who died in the fire at Tazreen Fashions, in the garment district in Ashulia, near Dhaka, Bangladesh. When fire ravaged the Bangladeshi garment factory, killing 112 workers, dozens of their families did not even have a body to bury because their loved ones' remains were burned beyond recognition. Two months later, they have yet to receive any of the compensation they were promised - not even their relatives' last paychecks. The remainder were burnt beyond recognition and their remains are undergoing DNA testing to prevent people from filing fake claims. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)
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    In this Friday, Dec. 21, 2012 photo, Bangladeshi Mohammed Habibur displays a photograph of his wife Rashida Akhtar, a sewing machine operator who died in the fire at Tazreen Fashions, in the garment district in Ashulia, near Dhaka, Bangladesh. When fire ravaged the Bangladeshi garment factory, killing 112 workers, dozens of their families did not even have a body to bury because their loved ones' remains were burned beyond recognition. Two months later, they have yet to receive any of the compensation they were promised - not even their relatives' last paychecks. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)
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    In this Friday, Dec. 21, 2012 photo, Bangladeshi Rumana Begum, 33, holds a photograph of her 18-year-old daughter Mukhtar Begum,a senior sewing machine operator who died in the fire at Tazreen Fashions, in the garment district in Ashulia, near Dhaka, Bangladesh. When fire ravaged the Bangladeshi garment factory, killing 112 workers, dozens of their families did not even have a body to bury because their loved ones' remains were burned beyond recognition. Two months later, they have yet to receive any of the compensation they were promised - not even their relatives' last paychecks. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)
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    WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 24: Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) gives an opening statement during his confirmation hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to become the next Secretary of State in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill January 24, 2013 in Washington, DC. Nominated by President Barack Obama to succeed Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State, Kerry has served on this committee for 28 years and has been chairman for four of those years. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
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    Frenchwoman Florence Cassez, left, is kissed by her mother Charlotte after landing at Roissy airport, north of Paris, Thursday, Jan.24, 2013. Cassez, who spent seven years in prison in Mexico on kidnapping charges returned to a heroes welcome in Paris on Thursday, declaring she had been cleared by the Mexican court that ordered her freed. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)
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    A Malian refugee women stands in the middle of tents, on January 24, 2013 at a refugee camp set in Menteao near the Malian border. The conflict in Mali has caused nearly 150,000 people to flee the country, while about another 230,000 are internally displaced, the UN humanitarian agency said on January 15, 2013. According to OCHA, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees has registered 144,500 refugees in neighbouring countries -- 54,100 in Mauritania, 50,000 in Niger, 38,800 in Burkina Faso and 1,500 in Algeria. AFP PHOTO KENZO TRIBOUILLARD (Photo credit should read KENZO TRIBOUILLARD/AFP/Getty Images)
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    Two men embrace as they hold a hurt dog in their arms in the crime scene where its owner, an Architect, was shot dead in Tegucigalpa, on January 24, 2013. According to Honduran Human Rights organizations, there were 20.515 violent deaths in the last three years in the country. AFP PHOTO / Orlando SIERRA (Photo credit should read ORLANDO SIERRA/AFP/Getty Images)
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    US Matt Gone poses before the opening of the Expotattoo Venezuela 2013 in Caracas, on January 24, 2013. The event will be held in Caracas five more days. AFP PHOTO/JUAN BARRETO (Photo credit should read JUAN BARRETO/AFP/Getty Images)
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    US Matt Gone gestures as he poses before the opening of the Expotattoo Venezuela 2013 in Caracas, on January 24, 2013. The event will be held in Caracas five more days. AFP PHOTO/JUAN BARRETO (Photo credit should read JUAN BARRETO/AFP/Getty Images)
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    Omar Samaha holds a photo of his sister Reema Samaha who was killed in the 2007 Virginia Tech shooting, while speaking during a press conference on Capitol Hill January 24, 2013 in Washington, DC. House and Senate Democrat where joined by law enforcement officials to introduce the "Assault Weapons Ban of 2013" legislation to ban assault style weapons and high capacity magazines. AFP PHOTO/Brendan SMIALOWSKI (Photo credit should read BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images)
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    MIAMI, FL - JANUARY 24: Guns sit in the City of Miami Police department as they are processed following a recent gun buyback program on January 24, 2013 in Miami, Florida. As the Federal Government begins to grapple with the gun issue after recent mass shootings, Miami took in 130 guns during a recent gun buyback. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
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    MIAMI, FL - JANUARY 24: City of Miami Police Homicide/Gun Squad Detective Enrique Chavez looks for identifying marks on a weapon that was turned in during a recent gun buyback program as he logs the weapons at the Miami Police station on January 24, 2013 in Miami, Florida. As the Federal Government begins to grapple with the gun issue after recent mass shootings, Miami took in 130 guns during a recent gun buyback. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
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    Striking metro workers hold a plastic sheet to protect them from the rain at the central depot in Athens, Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013. Greece’s conservative prime minister is holding emergency meeting after a deadline for striking public transport workers expired, leaving Athens’ subway system closed for an eighth day. Strikers protesting pay cuts refused to return to work Thursday despite a court decision declaring their protest illegal. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)
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    Members of India's military band rehearse for the upcoming Beating Retreat ceremony as workers, unseen, test the illumination at Raisina hill where India's most important ministries and the presidential palace are housed, in New Delhi, India,Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013. The ceremony is held annually on Jan. 29, marking the end of republic day celebrations. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
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    A stray dog stands in the path of Indian military band during rehearsals for the upcoming Beating Retreat ceremony at Raisina hill which houses India's most important ministries and the presidential palace in New Delhi, India,Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013. The ceremony is held annually on Jan. 29, marking the end of republic day celebrations. (AP Photo /Manish Swarup)
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    Manish Swarup - AP
    Members of India's military band rehearse for Beating Retreat ceremony at Raisina hill which houses India's most important ministries and the presidential palace in New Delhi, India,Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013. The ceremony is held annually on Jan. 29, marking the end of republic day celebrations. (AP Photo /Manish Swarup)
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    Bahraini anti-government protesters stand in front of riot police, unseen, in Ma'ameer, Bahrain, Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013. Riot police in Bahrain fired tear gas and stun grenades at anti-government protesters whose chants included calls to reject proposed talks aimed at easing nearly two years of unrest in the Gulf nation. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali)
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    Egyptian protesters try to tear down a cement wall built to prevent them from reaching parliament and the Cabinet building near Tahrir Square, in Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, Jan. 24, 2012. Egypt’s black-clad riot police fired tear gas in fierce dawn clashes with dozens of protesters. The violence which was soothed hours later in central Cairo comes on eve of the second anniversary of Egypt’s Jan. 25 uprising, which toppled longtime authoritarian president Hosni Mubarak in 2011. (AP Photo/Hussein Tallal)
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    In this Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2013 photo, Ultra-Orthodox Jews gather for the traditional Jewish wedding of granddaughter of Satmar Rebbe of Williamsburg, Rabbi Zalman Leib Teitelbaum, in the Israeli town of Beit Shemesh, near Jerusalem, Israel, Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2013. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
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    Ultra-Orthodox Jewish women are seen behind a curtain during a traditional Jewish wedding of the granddaughter of Satmar Rebbe of Williamsburg, Rabbi Zalman Leib Teitelbaum, in the Israeli town of Beit Shemesh, near Jerusalem, Israel, early Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013. The gauze curtain is used to separate men and women during the wedding. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
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    A Pakistani boy, holds on into his donkey after loosing control, while he and others walk in a field toward the main road on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan, Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
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    Simona Costache, bottom center, wife of Romanian engineer TIberiu Costache who was killed during the hostage crisis in Algeria, cries leaning on his coffin during a religious service in the village of Tatarani, Romania, Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013.The standoff at Algeria's remote Ain Amenas natural gas plant, resulted in 37 hostages and 29 militants killed.(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
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    A man watches the religious service during the funeral of Romanian engineer TIberiu Costache who was killed during the hostage crisis in Algeria, in the village of Tatarani, Romania, Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013. The standoff at Algeria's remote Ain Amenas natural gas plant, resulted in 37 hostages and 29 militants killed. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
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    Vadim Ghirda - AP
    Villagers watch the religious service during the funeral of Romanian engineer TIberiu Costache who was killed during the hostage crisis in Algeria, in the village of Tatarani, Romania, Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013. The standoff at Algeria's remote Ain Amenas natural gas plant, resulted in 37 hostages and 29 militants killed. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
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    Vadim Ghirda - AP
    Candles are reflected in icons during the funeral of Romanian engineer TIberiu Costache who was killed during the hostage crisis in Algeria, in the village of Tatarani, Romania, Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013. The standoff at Algeria's remote Ain Amenas natural gas plant, resulted in 37 hostages and 29 militants killed. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
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    Aziz Karimov - AP
    A hotel is on fire in Ismayilli, some 175 kilometers (110 miles) from the capital, Baku, Azerbaijan, Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013. A minor car accident in a town in central Azerbaijan spiraled into a showdown Thursday between residents and regional authorities, exposing underlying tensions and democratic shortcomings in the oil-rich former Soviet nation. Hundreds of angry demonstrators in Ismayilli surrounded a regional government building Thursday demanding the governor's resignation after a night of rioting in which a hotel and several cars were torched. (AP Photo/Aziz Karimov)
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    Aziz Karimov - AP
    Azerbaijani police officers detain a demonstrator in Ismayilli, some 175 kilometers (110 miles) from the capital, Baku, Azerbaijan, Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013. A minor car accident in a town in central Azerbaijan spiraled into a showdown Thursday between residents and regional authorities, exposing underlying tensions and democratic shortcomings in the oil-rich former Soviet nation. Hundreds of angry demonstrators in Ismayilli surrounded a regional government building Thursday demanding the governor's resignation after a night of rioting in which a hotel and several cars were torched. (AP Photo/Aziz Karimov)
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    A spiritual guide blesses a toy truck and trailer at the Alasitas Miniature Fair, in La Paz, Bolivia, Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013. Following an ancient Aymara Indian tradition, Bolivians buy miniature objects that represent their wish list; including everything from canned food to cars, marriage licenses to plane tickets, and luxury apartments to large amounts of cash. After purchasing their miniatures, believers have them blessed with alcohol and incense by a spiritual guide and then take them home, and place the symbolic wishes around their statue of Ekeko, the Bolivian god of prosperity and the central figure of the fair. Statues of Ekeko can only be given as a gift and not purchased or it is thought, the wishes will not come true. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)
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    Maxim Kovtun, of Russia, skates his short program at the ISU European figure skating championship in Zagreb, Croatia, on Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)
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    ADVANCE FOR SUNDAY JAN. 27 - In this Wednesday Jan. 9, 2013 photo Davi Della Fiamma says eating fire isn’t as scary as it looks. “It tastes a little like burned marshmallows,” in Charleston, W.Va. Her latest talent is portraying a mermaid, which she said fascinates children. (AP Photo/The Charleston Daily Mail, Tom Hindman)
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    In this Dec. 18, 2008 photo provided by The Wildlife Trust/Georgia Department of Natural Resources, a right whale named Equator swims entangled in fishing line offshore of Cumberland Island, Ga. The endangered right whale that Georgia wildlife biologists once freed from fishing line caught around its midsection has returned off the coast four years later with a newborn calf in tow. Whale watchers at the state Department of Natural Resources are celebrating, saying it's the first time a whale saved from entanglement in Georgia waters has come back to give birth. (AP Photo/The Wildlife Trust/Georgia Department of Natural Resources)
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    In this Dec. 18, 2008 photo provided by The Georgia Department of Natural Resources, biologist Mark Dodd prepares to cut rope off of from an entangled right whale named Equator offshore of Cumberland Island, Ga. The endangered right whale that Georgia wildlife biologists once freed from fishing line caught around its midsection has returned off the coast four years later with a newborn calf in tow. Whale watchers at the state Department of Natural Resources are celebrating, saying it's the first time a whale saved from entanglement in Georgia waters has come back to give birth. (AP Photo/Georgia Department of Natural Resources)
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    Hasan Jamali - AP
    A masked Bahraini anti-government protester blocks a road to slow down police vehicles during clashes with riot police in Ma'ameer, Bahrain, Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013. Riot police in Bahrain fired tear gas and stun grenades at anti-government protesters whose chants included calls to reject proposed talks aimed at easing nearly two years of unrest in the Gulf nation. Graffiti on the wall reads, "Freedom for Nabeel Rajab," referring to a jailed human rights activist. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali)
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    Amr Nabil - AP
    Egyptians decorate the Imam Hussein shrine, the grandson of the Prophet Mohammed, as they celebrate moulid al-nabi, the birth of Islam’s Prophet Mohammed, in Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013. Traditional rituals, from singing religious songs to the preparation of special sweets, have long been associated with the celebration of moulid al-nabi in Egypt at the beginning of the Fatimid era, during the days of the ruler al-Mu'iz Lideen Allah (in 1566 A.D.). (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)
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    Amr Nabil - AP
    Egyptians sing traditional rituals as they celebrate moulid al-nabi, the birth of Islam’s Prophet Mohammed, in Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013. Traditional rituals, from singing religious songs to the preparation of special sweets, have long been associated with the celebration of moulid al-nabi in Egypt at the beginning of the Fatimid era, during the days of the ruler al-Mu'iz Lideen Allah (in 1566 A.D.) (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)
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    A protester keeps a bag of stones close to his feet as he joined in a clash with police in Tahrir Square in Cairo on Thursday Jan. 24, 2013, the eve of the the second anniversary of the uprising that overthrew Hosni Mubarak. The protesters tried to dismantle a wall of concrete blocks that blocked a street leading to the square. (AP Photo/Tribune Review, Jusstin Merriman) PITTSBURGH OUT
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    Egyptian protesters try to tear down a cement wall built to prevent them from reaching parliament and the Cabinet building near Tahrir Square, in Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013. Egypt’s black-clad riot police fired tear gas in fierce dawn clashes with dozens of protesters. The violence which was soothed hours later in central Cairo comes on eve of the second anniversary of Egypt’s Jan. 25 uprising, which toppled longtime authoritarian president Hosni Mubarak in 2011. (AP Photo/Hussein Tallal)
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    Sunni clerics chant slogans against Iraq's Shiite-led government during a demonstration in Ramadi, 70 miles (115 kilometers) west of Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013. Thousands of Iraqi Sunnis massed along a major western highway in a demonstration, intensifying pressure on the Shiite-led government. (AP Photo/ Khalid Mohammed)
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    Ghana supporters pose for photographers ahead of the start of the African Cup of Nations Group B soccer match between Ghana and Mali at Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
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    A young tamed elephant sorts fodder ahead of an annual Buddhist festival in a temple garden in Kalaniya, outskirts of Colombo, Sri Lanka, Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)
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    Mahouts rest by a tamed elephant ahead of an annual Buddhist festival in a temple garden in Kalaniya, outskirts of Colombo, Sri Lanka, Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)
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    In this Jan. 19, 2013 photo, people paraglide over the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Lima, Peru. Paragliding has gained such popularity in the Peruvian capital that tourists wait in lines on weekends to fly for 150 soles, about $58, for a 10 minute flight over the sea and the buildings of the tourist district of Miraflores. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)
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    Sloane Stephens of the US hits a return during her semifinal match against Victoria Azarenka of Belarus at the Australian Open tennis championship in Melbourne, Australia, Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
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    The crowd applauds as Serbia's Novak Djokovic celebrates after defeating Spain's David Ferrer in their semifinal match at the Australian Open tennis championship in Melbourne, Australia, Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
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    Victoria Azarenka of Belarus receives treatment from a trainer during her semifinal match against Sloane Stephens of the US at the Australian Open tennis championship in Melbourne, Australia, Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013. (AP Photo/Andrew Brownbill)
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