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Brian Seligman holds a sign to protest a gas leak in the Porter Ranch area of Los Angeles before a meeting of the California Air Quality Management District in Granada Hills, California January 9, 2016. Southern California Gas Company has been tackling a Los Angeles-area natural gas leak that has been sickening nearby residents for more than two months. Photo: Reuters
Firefighters try to put out the fire in an oil tank in the port of Es Sider, in Ras Lanuf, Libya January 6, 2016. Firefighters have extinguished two fires at oil storage tanks at Libya's Ras Lanuf terminal, but blazes continue at five tanks in the nearby port of Es Sider after attacks this week by Islamic State militants, a Petroleum Facilities Guards (PFG) spokesman said on Thursday. Photo: Reuters
A civil defence member carries a dead child in a site hit by what activists said were airstrikes carried out by the Russian air force in the rebel-controlled area of Maaret al-Numan town in Idlib province, Syria January 9, 2016. At least 70 people died in what activists said where four vacuum bombs dropped by the Russian air force in the town of Maaret al-Numan; other air strikes where also carried out in the towns of Saraqib, Khan Sheikhoun and Maar Dabseh, in Idlib. Photo: Reuters
A police vehicle is set on fire by protesters during clashes in Pristina, Kosovo January 9, 2016. Demonstrators in Kosovo fought running battles with police and briefly set fire to government headquarters on Saturday in the latest violence in the young Balkan country over an accord with its former ruler Serbia. Photo: Reuters
Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Chairperson and presidential candidate Tsai Ing-wen (C) is greeted by supporters from her vehicle during a campaign rally for the 2016 presidential election in Tainan, southern Taiwan, January 10, 2016. Photo: Reuters
Soldiers stand outside a safe house, where five people were shot dead during an operation on Friday to recapture the world's top drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, at Jiquilpan Boulevard in Los Mochis, in Sinaloa state, Mexico, January 9, 2016. Mexico's government aims to fulfill a request from the United States to extradite the newly-recaptured drug lord Guzman to face drug trafficking charges, sources familiar with the situation said on Saturday. Photo: Reuters
A television journalist points to a weapon found in a drain from where Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman escaped before being captured at Jiquilpan Boulevard in Los Mochis, in Sinaloa state, Mexico, January 9, 2016. Mexico's government aims to fulfill a request from the United States to extradite the newly-recaptured drug lord Guzman to face drug trafficking charges, sources familiar with the situation said on Saturday. Photo: Reuters
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