Jan 17. Photo Brief: Germany is freezing over while Australia heats up, tenuous peace on the Indian-Pakistan border and pets be blessed
Temperatures get down right chilly in western Germany while the thermometer reaches 104 Fahrenheit at the Australian Open tennis tournament, a tenuous ceasefire holds on the India-Pakistan border following cross-border firing, priests bless pets on the day of San Anton, Spain’s patron saint of animals and more in today’s daily brief.
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- Thousands attend the funeral ceremony of the three Kurdish activists shot in Paris, in Diyarbakir, the largest city in Turkey’s mainly Kurdish southeast. The bodies of the activists, including that of Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) co-founder Sakine Cansiz, arrived by plane on Wednesday evening in Diyarbakir. (Umit Bektas/Reuters photo)
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- Laura Robson of Britain hits a return to Petra Kvitova of Czech Republic during their women’s singles match at the Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne. (David Gray/Reuters photo)
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- A priest blesses a dog outside San Anton church in Madrid. Hundreds of pet owners bring their animals to be blessed every year on the day of San Anton, Spain’s patron saint of animals. (Juan Medina/Reuters photo)
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- A worker installs a banner depicting Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv. Netanyahu looks set to form a new governing coalition after next week’s election, polls show, with the only question being whether he wants to soften its hardline contours. (Baz Ratner/Reuters photo)
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- A woman crosses a flooded area at the business district in Jakarta . Heavy monsoon rains triggered severe flooding in large swathes of the Indonesian capital Jakarta with many government offices and businesses forced to closed because staff could not get to work. (Supri/Reuters photo)
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- An Indian Border Security Force (BSF) soldier patrols along the border fence at an outpost along the India-Pakistan border in Abdulian, 38 kms southwest of Jammu. A ceasefire took hold January 17 in disputed Kashmir after the Indian and Pakistani armies agreed to halt deadly cross-border firing that had threatened to unravel a fragile peace process. (Tauseef Mustafa/Getty Images)
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- Dutch girls present the cheese for the Green Week Agricultural Fair, at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. The International Green Week takes place from January 18 to 27 in Berlin. (Wolfgang Kumm/Getty Images)
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- Alexei Vasyukov (L) and Mikhail Rukosuev, members of a team from the Russian Ural city of Perm, work on a snow sculpture based on a creation by Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo during the 1st International festival of snow and ice sculptures called “The Magical Ice of Siberia” on an embankment of the Yenisei River in Krasnoyarsk, January 17, 2013. Ice and snow sculptors representing USA, China, Kazakhstan and 25 Russian cities take part in a five-day-long competition which will start next Monday, according to the festival organizers. (Ilya Naymushin /Reuters)
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- Swans swim in Oberhausen, western Germany. (Roland Weihrauch/Getty Images)
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- Barbary macaques cuddle in fresh snow at the zoo near Salem, Germany. (Felix Kaestle/Getty Images)
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- Dancers from the French cabaret Le ‘Lido’ display creations designed by French lingerie company Lejaby, during the women’s Fall-Winter 2013-2014 collection show in Paris. (Lionel Bonaventure/Getty Images)
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- Sam Favret of France glides on the wide face of “Cirque de Fond Blanc” during the 5th Linecatcher at the Les Arcs ski resort, French Alps. (Philippe Desmazes/Getty Images)
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- Members of the brotherhood of Saint Sebatian Matyr participate in the dance of The Moors and Christians in the town of Apastepeque, 50 kms east from San Salvador, El Salvador . The members of the Saint Sebastian brotherhood dance in the honor of the co-patron saint of Apatepeque. (Jose Cabezas/Getty Images)
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- A horseman jumps over a bonfire in the central Spanish village of San Bartolome de Pinares to open the celebrations for the feast of Saint Anthony, patron saint of animals. (Pierre-Philippe Marcou/Gety Images)
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- Female staff from the Imperial Hotel perform moves during a self-defence class led by Delhi Police in New Delhi. After One-month of lurid reporting on a horrifying gang-rape and murder of a student in New Delhi, women in the Indian capital say they are more anxious than ever, leading to a surge in interest in self-defence classes.(Raveen Dran/Getty Images)
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- People light candles and pray during a memorial service for the victims of the 1995 “Great Hanshin earthquake”, at a park in Kobe, Hyogo prefecture in western Japan. Memorial services were held to mark the 18th anniversary of the 1995 massive earthquake, which stuck just before dawn and killed more than 6,400 people. (Jiji Press/Getty Images)
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- A model presents a creation by designer Patrick Mohr during the Autumn/Winter 2013 shows of the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in Berlin. The Berlin Fashion Week takes place from January 15 to 20, 2013. (Johannes Eisele/Getty Images)
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- A young spectator cools by standing in front of water vapour machines on the fourth day of the Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne. Fans gathered at a scorching Melbourne Park, where the mercury nudged 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit). (Paul Crock/Reuters photo)
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- Justin Rose of England hits his tee-shot on the 15th hole during the first round of The Abu Dhabi HSBC Golf Championship at Abu Dhabi Golf Club in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. (Andrew Redington/Getty Images)
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