Jan 7: Day in pics
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Renewable Energy Minister Farooq Abdullah speaking at the inauguration of the 10th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas, in Jaipur.
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Kashmiris holding umbrellas walk on a snow-covered field as fresh snow falls in Srinagar. The Jammu-Srinagar highway has been blocked because of heavy snowfall in the region, according to news reports. AP Photo/Dar Yasin
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People flying kites at India Gate on the occasion of Kite festival 2012, in New Delhi.
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BSF jawans march as they rehearse for the 63rd Republic Day parade at Rajpath in New Delhi. PTI Photo/Vijay Verma
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Firefighters carry the coffin containing the remains of late Panama's three-time President Arnulfo Arias Madrid (1940, 1949, 1968) before a mass at the Metropolitan Cathedral in Panama City. Arias died on August 10, 1988, in Miami and was flown and buried in Panama, but without state honors due to the military regime that ruled the country at that time. Arias' remains will be reburied Saturday, during an official ceremony in Penonome, his hometown. AP Photo/Arnulfo Franco
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Vice President of the Cambodian People's Party and Prime Minister Hun Sen (C) and his wife Bun Rany release doves into the sky at the Cambodian People's Party (CPP) headquarters to mark the 33rd anniversary of the toppling of Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge regime in Phnom Penh. Some 1.7 million people are believed to have died in the "Killing Fields" of the ultra-Maoist guerrillas, whose four year reign of terror was brought to an end in 1979 by invading troops from neighbouring Vietnam.
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A television monitor displays English, Coptic and Arabic languages during Christmas Nativity Liturgy, the start of Christmas, at the Coptic Orthodox Church of St. George in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. Like the Eastern Orthodox Church in Russia, Copts still use the Julian calendar and thus celebrate Christmas on January 7. St. George Church, like other Coptic churches around the country, has witnessed a surge of Christians fleeing Egypt since the start of the Arab Spring. Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP
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Two women konwn as 'Amautas' or Spiritual Counselors, prepare an Andean ritual at the presidential palace in La Paz, Bolivia. The so-called 'Amautas', or spiritual counselors, led the ritual organized to thank the 'Pachamama,' or Mother Earth, and to ask it for prosperity for Bolivia's President Evo Morales, his Vice President Alvaro Garcia Linera and their government. AP Photo/Juan Karita
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A baby holds flags of Taiwan's Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Chairperson and presidential candidate Tsai Ing-wen during a campaign for the 2012 presidential election in Pingtung county, southern Taiwan. The upcoming presidential and legislative election will be held on January 14. Reuters/Jason Lee
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A paddle border and a surfer wait on a new set waves as the sun sets at Swami's beach in Encinitas, Calif. Summer like weather and high surf attracted numerous surfers. AP Photo/Lenny Ignelzi
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Liverpool's Jay Spearing, right, vies for the ball against Oldham Athletic's James Wesolowski during their FA Cup third round soccer match at Anfield, Liverpool, England. AP Photo/Tim Hales
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