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Members of the Honor guard line up during a meeting of Turkmenistan's President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov with his Ukrainian counterpart Viktor Yanukovich in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan.
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A Syrian woman waits for the opening of Cilvegozu border gate near the town of Reyhanli in Hatay province at the Turkish-Syrian border.
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German chancellor Angela Merkel drinks beer during a political Ash Wednesday meeting of her Christian Democratic Party, CDU, in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , in Demmin, eastern Germany.
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Ethnic Kachin children eat a meal at a camp for internally displaced people in Myitkyina, northern Kachin state, Burma.
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Banana Joe, an Affenpinscher, won Best of Show during the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show at Madison Square Garden in New York, February 12, 2013.
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Small-scale tobacco farmers arrange bales at the start of Zimbabwe's selling season at Boka Auction Floors in Harare.
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Nuns wave to Pope Benedict XVI as he leads the Wednesday general audience in Paul VI hall at the Vatican.
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A street vendor selling bread walks in front of graffiti denouncing Egypt's President Mohamed Morsi near Tahrir Square in Cairo.
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Chinese residents cook Cantonese fried rice during Chinese Lunar New Year celebrations in Chinatown in San Jose, Costa Rica, February 12, 2013.
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Prasit Rangsitwong, left, and Varutton Rangsitwong run away from a giant flower ball as a part of an adventure-themed wedding ceremony in Prachinburi province, Thailand, on the eve of Valentine's Day.