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Revellers explode firecrackers near dragon dancers as they celebrate Chinese New Year in Manila's Chinatown, Philippines February 8, 2016. Photo: Reuters
Iraqi civilians flee to a safe area with help from Iraqi security forces in Ramadi city, February 7, 2016. Picture taken February 7, 2016. Photo: Reuters
An Afghan National Army officer escorts a slightly injured boy from the site of a suicide attack on the outskirts of Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan February 8, 2016. Photo: Reuters
A member of the Association for the Recovery of Historical Memory (ARMH) holds a human skull during the exhumation of the grave in Guadalajara's cemetery, Spain, January 28, 2016. At the request of an Argentine judge in a lawsuit seeking redress for crimes committed during the 1936-39 civil war and the four-decade dictatorship of General Francisco Franco that followed, a Guadalajara court has authorised the exhumation of the grave, containing 22 bodies of people believed to have been killed by Franco's forces in the months after the end of the civil war. Picture taken January 28, 2016. Photo: Reuters
Revellers of Grande Rio samba school perform during the carnival parade at the sambadrome in Rio de Janeiro, February 8, 2016. Photo: Reuters
People burn incense as they pray for good fortune on the first day of the Chinese Lunar New Year, at a temple in Chengdu, Sichuan province, February 8, 2016. Photo: Reuters
Rescuers carry a survivor out from the site where a 17-storey apartment building collapsed after an earthquake hit Tainan, southern Taiwan, February 8, 2016. Photo: Reuters
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