Jan. 10 Daily Brief: Lightning streaks across the sky of Montevideo, Stage 5 of the Dakar 2014, a dog fight on the outskirts of Herat
Iranian breast cancer patient Farvah and her fiance Saleh try to wake up in the morning in their countryside house, lightning streaks across the sky of Montevideo, skiing tje World cup downhill slope and more in today’s daily brief.
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- Portuguese Paulo Goncalves watches his Honda on fire during the Stage 5 of the Dakar 2014 between Chilecito and Tucuman, Argentina, on January 9, 2014. (Franck Fief/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Hummer driver Robby Gordon and co-driver Kellon Walch compete during the Stage 5 of the Dakar 2014 between Chilecito and Tucuman, Argentina, on January 09, 2014. (Franck Fife/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Lightning streaks across the sky of Montevideo, over the Legislative Palace — seat of the Uruguayan Government — during a thunderstorm early on January 10, 2014. (Marina Suarez/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Iranian breast cancer patient Farvah and her fiance Saleh try to wake up in the morning in their countryside house in a village near the Caspian Sea port city of Bandar Anzali, northern Iran on November 1, 2013, during a trip to take a break after her surgery and to start the new phase of her medication with radiotherapy. According to Iranian cancer research, breast cancer is the most common form of the illness suffered by Iranian women with roughly more than 7000 new cases per year with widespread pollution in big cities being blamed for the soaring cancer statistics, while import of medicine is still difficult as Iran is affected by Western economic sanctions due to the country’s controversial nuclear program. Farvah, a 30-years-old copywriter and editor from Tehran fought her breast cancer since she acknowledged the disease in July 2013 and went through cancer treatments of chemotherapy, radiotherapy and a lumpectomy operation to overcome the cancer in December. Farvah wrote on her Facebook wall in November 2013: “Sometime I forget my illness. After seeing yesterday an old photo of mine with long hair, I said unconsciously: “I look good with long hair! Why did I chop it down?” (Behrouz Mehri/AFP/Getty Images)
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- An Afghan boy pushes a wheelbarrow on the outskirts of Jalalabad in Nangarhar province at sunset on January 9, 2014. Over a third of Afghans are living in abject poverty, as those in power are more concerned about addressing their vested interests rather than the basic needs of the population, a UN report said. (Noorullah Shirzada/AFP/Getty Images)
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- An Afghan man screams at his dog during a dog fight on the outskirts of Herat on January 9, 2014. Over a third of Afghans are living in abject poverty, as those in power are more concerned about addressing their vested interests rather than the basic needs of the population, a UN report said. (Aref Karimi/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Tourists wait next to the Alpine ski World cup downhill slope in Zauchesee January 10, 2014. The training for the women’s World Cup downhill race had to be cancelled due to snowfall overnight and heavy wind. (REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger)
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- Giant Panda cub Fu Bao, meaning lucky leopard, sits on a tree stump in its enclosure at the zoo in Vienna January 10, 2014. It is the Panda’s second public appearance outside of its tree cave since it’s birth on August 14, 2013. (REUTERS/Heinz-Peter Bader)
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- Protesters who support ousted President Mohamed Mursi, set a police vehicle on fire during clashes with riot police at Nasr City district in Cairo January 10, 2014. (REUTERS/Al Youm Al Saabi Newspaper)
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- Mourners chant slogans as they carry coffins of victims killed by a suicide bomber during the funeral in the holy city of Karbala, 110 km (68 miles) south of Baghdad January 10, 2014. A suicide bomber killed 23 Iraqi army recruits and wounded 36 in Baghdad on Thursday, officials said, in an attack on men volunteering to join the government’s struggle to crush al Qaeda-linked militants in Anbar province. (REUTERS/Mushtaq Muhammed)
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- Catholic pilgrims attend mass at the baptism site on Jordan River January 10, 2014. Thousands of Catholics on Friday flocked to the baptism site on the banks of the Jordan river to kick start the pilgrimage. (REUTERS/Muhammad Hamed)
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- A Palestinian protester uses a sling to hurl a stone during clashes with Israeli troops at a protest against the Jewish settlement of Ofra, in the West Bank village of Silwad, near Ramallah January 10, 2014. Israel on Friday announced plans to build 1,400 new homes in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, days after U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry visited the region to push peace talks in which settlements represent a major hurdle. (REUTERS/Mohamad Torokman)
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- A performer passes his mobile phone to an assistant as they get ready for a Chinese opera performance for elderly guests invited by welfare organisations ahead of Lunar New Year in Singapore January 10, 2014. The opera show was organised by Shan You, a voluntary welfare organisation, which was raising funds to continue their services to the elderly. (REUTERS/Edgar Su)
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- A barefoot girl jumps over an open drain filled with rubbish at Tomping camp in Juba, January 10, 2014, where some 17,000 internally displaced people who fled their homes during the recent violence in the country are being sheltered by the United Nations. More than three weeks of fighting between government forces and rebels loyal to former vice president Riek Machar have killed more than 1,000 people and driven 230,000 from their homes and forced a cut in oil production. (REUTERS/Andreea Campeanu)
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- Members of Syrian opposition groups take part in a consultative meeting in Cordoba, southern Spain January 10, 2014. Several factions of the Syrian opposition, meeting together for the first time, called on Friday for a new coalition but did not reach agreement on who should attend peace talks later this month, or whether they would attend at all. Diplomats hoped they could bring a more comprehensive group together at Friday’s meeting in Cordoba – a venue offered by the Spanish government because of its historical importance as the capital of an Islamic caliphate 1,000 years ago. (REUTERS/Marcelo del Pozo)
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- The skyline of New York City is shrouded in fog as boats ply the Hudson river that is choked with ice in Liberty City, New Jersey January 10, 2014. (REUTERS/Carlo Allegri)
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- Ice lines the shoreline of the Hudson River as the New York City skyline is seen from Jersey City, New Jersey January 10, 2014. (REUTERS/Brendan McDermid)
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