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Date: 2/9/2012 Album ID: 1411999
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News photos from around the world, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012.
An icebreaker makes its way through floating ice sheets on the river Spree in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012. Europe has been battling a deep freeze that started in late January and has killed hundreds, snow that has trapped thousands in Balkan mountain villages and prompted worries of flooding as heavy snow melts. (AP Photo/Gero Breloer)
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A lone tourist takes photographs of the frozen IJsselmeer inland sea on Afsluitdijk, a dike closing off the Wadden sea and North Sea from IJsselmeer inland sea, northern Netherlands, Thursday Feb. 9, 2012. Organizers of the near-mythical Eleven Cities Tour dealt 16,000 skaters and the nation at large a crushing blow Wednesday when they decided the ice was too thin to hold the 125-mile (200-kilometer) skating marathon for the first time in 15 years. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)
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A boy peeks inside a tent where the carcass of whale shark is being kept in Karachi, Pakistan, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012. Qasim Khan waged the unlikeliest of battles with Pakistani authorities Thursday over the right to charge hundreds of curious visitors 20 rupees (22 cents) each to see a roughly 40-foot whale shark he bought from a fisherman. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)
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A child walks on the carcass of whale shark in Karachi, Pakistan, Thursday, Feb 9, 2012. Qasim Khan waged the unlikeliest of battles with Pakistani authorities Thursday over the right to charge hundreds of curious visitors 20 rupees (22 cents) each to see a roughly 40-foot whale shark he bought from a fisherman. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)
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Tibetan Buddhist exiles offer prayers as they light butter lamps to show solidarity with Tibetans who have either set themselves on fire or were allegedly injured or killed in clashes with Chinese police, in New Delhi, India, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012. Chinese repression has led to the self-immolations of nearly two dozen Tibetans as well as recent deadly clashes with Chinese authorities, the head of Tibet's government-in-exile said Wednesday. Around 20 Tibetans, many of them monks or nuns have set themselves on fire over the past year, mostly in ethnic Tibetan areas of China's Sichuan province. (AP Photo/Tsering Topgyal)
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An Indian policeman chases Kashmiri pharmacists during a protest against the government in Srinagar, India, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012. Hundreds of people associated with the pharmaceutical trade staged a protest in Indian Kashmir against a newly approved Jammu and Kashmir state drug policy, stating it would severely affect the trade. The new policy aims at rationalizing the number of drug licenses and procurement of drugs listed only in essential drugs list, taking into account the demand, lead time, transportation and emergency needs, according to news reports. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)
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A supporter carries a giant portrait of Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh state Mayawati after an election rally in Allahabad, India, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012. Residents in India's largest state began voting Wednesday in a monthlong local election with repercussions for the whole nation. A large re-election victory for Mayawati, who goes by one name, could project her regional, caste-based party onto the national stage. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)
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Striking police officers and their relatives, left, walk past soldiers as they leave the state legislature building in Salvador, Brazil, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012. The strike had sparked an immediate spike in violence in Brazil's third-largest city, with murder rates more than doubling since it started last Tuesday, scaring tourists away from Salvador in the run-up to the city's iconic Carnival festivities. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
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A Syrian rebel runs for cover during an exchange of fire with army troops, unseen, in Idlib, Syria, Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2012. The European Union will impose harsher sanctions on Syria, a senior EU official said Wednesday, as Russia tried to broker talks between the vice president and the opposition to calm violence. Activists reported at least 50 killed in the regime's siege of the restive city of Homs. (AP Photo)
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Lava flows during an eruption of Mt. Etna volcano, near Catania, Sicily, in the early hours of Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012. (AP Photo/Carmelo Imbesi)
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Lava flows during an eruption of Mt. Etna volcano, near Catania, Sicily, in the early hours of Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012. The lava flowed on the snow toward a desert valley and did not pose a treat to the inhabited area. (AP Photo/Carmelo Imbesi)
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