Petitioning for pistols in Texas, complaints over compensation in Italy, a spectacle on stilts in Brazil

Jerry Williams replaces his hat after giving testimony at a hearing where lawmakers discuss whether to legalize concealed handguns on college campuses and open carry everywhere, Thursday, Feb. 12, 2015, in Austin, Texas. More than 100 people waited under heightened security at the Capitol to testify on looser firearm laws that Republicans have prioritized under new Gov. Greg Abbott.

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Graduates wait to participate in their graduation ceremony as South Korean army soldiers stand guard at the Tae Sung Dong Elementary School in Paju, South Korea, near Panmunjom inside the Demilitarized Zone separating South and North Korea, Friday, Feb. 13, 2015. The school is located just a few hundred meters from the fenced and mined border with North Korea. Four students graduated from the school Thursday.

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With purple ribbons on their wrists, more than 3,000 students, teachers and nuns from the Catholic-run St. Scholastica’s College in Manila, flash the No.1 sign as they dance at their quadrangle to take part in the global campaign to end violence against women and girls dubbed One Billion Rising, Friday, Feb. 13, 2015 in Manila, Philippines.

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Actress Lily James poses for photographers during the photo call for the film Cinderella at the 2015 Berlinale Film Festival in Berlin, Friday, Feb. 13, 2015.

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Ollie the Chicken is lowered onto her white paper canvas by Erin Gray, program animal curator at Wesselman Woods Nature Preserve in Evansville, Ind., so she can make another of her paint creations Thursday morning, Feb. 12, 2015.

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Texas A&M’s Curtyce Knox, left, and Chelsea Jennings, right, juggle the ball away from Arkansas’ Katie Powell during the first half of an NCAA basketball game, Thursday, Feb. 12, 2015, in College Station, Texas. Texas A&M won 59-55.

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A man works on a sculpture, made of oranges and lemons on February 12, 2015 in Menton on the French Riviera, ahead of the start of the “Fete du Citron” (Lemon Festival). The theme of this 82nd edition, running from February 14 until March 4, 2015, is called ‘the tribulations of a lemon in China’.

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A high school student wears a Guy Fawkes mask and holds a locked chain during a demostration in Istanbul on February 13, 2015. A boycott of schools was launched on Feb. 13 upon a call from the teachers union and a number of Alevi associations to protest the government’s recent education system implementations, including on compulsory religion classes.

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A worker at one of the large number of small companies which supply Italy’s Ilva steel plant protests, demanding unpaid wages from the company, in front of the parliament in Rome, on February 13, 2015. Ilva steel plant in Taranto in the Puglia region of southern Italy — one of the most polluting in Europe — employs over 14,000 people.

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A picture taken on July 4, 2013 shows a reflection of a Rolls Royce Trent 900 turbofan engine at Heathrow Airport in London. British engine maker Rolls-Royce on February 13, 2015 slashed its earnings forecasts, blaming tumbling oil prices which have hurt revenues at its marine offshore division.

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A baby giraffe is being licked by another giraffe at the zoo in Duisburg, western Germany, on February 13, 2015. The baby giraffe was born at the zoo on February 11, 2015.

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A young Muslim girl holds a candlelight during a vigil at the Islamic Center of Southern California in Los Angeles on February 12, 2015 for the three Muslim students who were fatally shot in North Carolina. The families of three Muslim students shot dead by a white neighbor have reiterated calls for the killings to be treated as a hate crime.

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Anna Fenninger of Austria skis her second run during the 2015 World Alpine Ski Championships women’s giant slalom February 12, 2015 in Beaver Creek, Colorado.

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A stilt-walker strides towards revelers during the My Light is LED ‘bloco’ pre-Carnival street parade on February 12, 2015 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Carnival runs this year February 13-17.

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Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi (C) greets supporters as she leaves celebrations to mark the 100th birthday of the country’s independence hero, her father Aung San, in the remote central Myanmar town of Natmauk on February 13, 2015. Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi addressed a crowd of thousands in the biggest celebrations honouring her independence hero father in memory, underscoring her legacy months before leading the opposition to momentous elections.

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A bee is silhouetted as it approaches a flower at the Mughal Gardens surrounding the Indian Presidential palace during a press preview in New Delhi, India, Friday, Feb. 13, 2015. The garden will be open to public till March 15.

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In this photograph taken on February 12, 2015, an Afghan farmer scatters fertilizer on his crops on the outskirts of Jalalabad in Nangarhar province. The four-star general in charge of U.S. forces in the country testafied before senators on Thursday, discussing plans to remove troops.

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Members of the Economic Freedom Fighters, wearing red uniforms, clash with security forces during South African President’s State of the Nation address in Cape Town on February 12, 2015. Security forces were called to eject radical lawmakers who interrupted South African President Jacob Zuma’s annual state of the nation address to parliament. The members of the Economic Freedom fighters led by populist firebrand Julius Malema had caused uproar as they demanded that Zuma repay millions of taxpayers money spent on his private residence.

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A “Tschaeggaettae”, a masked participant of the traditional carnival cortege, is dressed up in the atelier of the wood carver Heinrich Rieder in the village of Blatten in the Loetschental valley, southwestern part of Switzerland, late Thursday, Feb 12, 2015. During this sinister carnival, about one hundred Tschaeggaettae wearing huge wooden masks and animal furs crowd the streets of the villages to scare the people in the Loetschental.

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An opponents to Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is arrested during a protest in Caracas, Venezuela on February 12, 2015. Opposition students marched Thursday in Caracas and other Venezuelan cities.

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Crowds watch as Indian fire force personnel attempt to retrieve the bodies of victims from the Bangalore-Ernakulam train which derailed after a boulder fell on the track in Bidaragere, about 50 kms from Bangalore on February 13, 201. At least five passengers were killed and more than 60 injured, according to local Press Trust of India (PTI) when the Bangalore-Ernakulam Inter City Express derailed.

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A young Manchester United fan shouts out to the players as they warm-up prior to the English Premier League football match between Manchester United and Burnley at Old Trafford in Manchester, north west England, on February 11, 2015. Manchester United won the game 3-1.

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A workman packs up Philadelphia Phillies baseball equipment for a trip to the teams spring training site in Clearwater, Fla., Friday, Feb. 13, 2015, in Philadelphia.

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Giannan, a Shizu dog is pictured with sunglasses backstage during the pet fashion show, part of New York Fashion Week, February 12, 2015 in New York.

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Model Winnie Harlow (C) presents a creation by Desigual during New York Fashion Week, February 12, 2015 in New York.

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