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Rescue workers at the site of the collapsed iconic Plasco building in Tehran, Iran, 20 January 2017. The major Plasco commercial building in Tehran has collapsed on 19 January 2017, after hours of a severe fire, according to Iranian state media. At least 30 firefighters have died after being trapped on the upper floors of the building. EPA-EFE/ABEDIN TAHERKENAREH
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A fisherman pulls a fishing net from the Dojran lake, in Djordan, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, 04 January 2017. Dojran lake provides 90 per cent of the fish that Macedonian orthodox believers eat during the Christmas fasting, especially on Christmas eve. 15 years ago the Dojran lake was on the verge of ecological disaster because it was running out of water and the flora and fauna in it was dying out, but a canal providing new streams of water was made and brought the lake back to life. The lake although small by surface, it is the main source of sweet water fish for Macedonia. EPA-EFE/GEORGI LICOVSKI
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An Iranian fire fighter cry as other prepare as the iconic Plasco building collapses after a fire in Tehran, Iran, 19 January 2017. Media reported that the major commercial building in Tehran has collapsed after hours of a severe fire, according to Iranian state media. At least 30 firefighters are believed to have died after being trapped on the upper floors of the building. EPA-EFE/ABEDIN TAHERKENAREH
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Iranian fire fighters condole one of their colleagues in Tehran, Iran, 19 January 2017. Media reported that the major Plasco commercial building in Tehran has collapsed after hours of a severe fire, according to Iranian state media. EPA-EFE/ABEDIN TAHERKENAREH
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A man wearing the 'Toro Huaco' costume sits in front of a mural depicting Latin American revoluion leaders during the traditional 'Tope de los Santos' procession in Diriamba, Nicaragua, 19 January 2017. The procession marks the appearance of an image with Saint Sebastian, Saint Marc and the apostle James. EPA-EFE/Jorge Torres
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Chinese workers display an eight-meter-high giant inflatable chicken resembling Donald Trump in a factory in Jiaxing, China's Zhejiang province, 12 January 2017. This factory made the giant inflatable chickens resembling golden mane and signature hand gestures of the US president-elect Donald Trump. They are for sale to celebrate the upcoming Chinese Lunar New Year which is the 'Year of the Rooster' with the price of about RMB 3,000 yuan (about Euro 408) for the eight-meter-high version. EPA-EFE/ZHU JUN
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A model is photographed backstage before the show of British designer, Vivienne Westwood during the London Men's Fashion Week, in London, Britain 09 January 2017. The Mens collections were presented until 09 January. EPA-EFE/FACUNDO ARRIZABALAGA
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President-elect Donald J. Trump (L) takes the oath of office as the 45th President of the United States in Washington, DC, USA, 20 January 2017. Trump won the 08 November 2016 election to become the next US President. On right is his son Baron and his wife Melania (2-R) holding a bible as he takes tha oath. EPA-EFE/JUSTIN LANE
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A photo taken with a slow shutter speed shows ice floe drifting on the River Danube below Szabadsag (Freedom) Bridge in Budapest, Hungary, 10 January 2017. EPA-EFE/ZOLTAN BALOGH HUNGARY OUT
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Protestors demonstrate near the parade route, where Donald J. Trump will walk after taking the oath of office, as he is sworn in as the 45th President of the United States in Washington, DC, USA, 20 January 2017. Trump won the 08 November 2016 election to become the next US President. EPA-EFE/TRACIE VAN AUKEN
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President Donald J. Trump delivers his Inaugural address after taking the oath of office as the 45th President of the United States in Washington, DC, USA, 20 January 2017. Trump won the 08 November 2016 election to become the next US President. EPA-EFE/GARY HE
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Israeli soldiers react at the scene after a truck ramming attack on the Armon Hanatziv promenade in Jerusalem, Israel, 08 January 2017. Reportedly four Israeli soldiers were killed and another 15 wounded in the attack carried out by a Palestinian who had been released from Israeli jail. The driver of the truck, reported by local media to be an Arab Israeli from East Jerusalem, was shot and killed by security forces, media reports said. EPA-EFE/ABIR SULTAN
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A Trump supporter salutes during the 58th Presidential Inauguration Welcome Celebration in Washington, DC, USA, 19 January 2017. Trump won the 08 November 2016 election to become the next US President. EPA-EFE/JOHN TAGGART
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Muslim devotees travel on an overcrowded train to attend the final prayer service for the annual Bishwa Ijtema festival at Tongi near Dhaka, Bangladesh, 15 January 2017. Millions of Muslims flocked to the banks of the Turag river in Bangladesh to take part in the final day of the festival. EPA-EFE/MONIRUL ALAM
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Robin Geueke and David Gamm of Germany celebrate in the finish area after the doubles competition of the Luge World Championships Race in Innsbruck, Austria, 28 January 2017. EPA-EFE/ANDREAS SCHAAD
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A local man wearing a bear costume, made of hay and reed, is pulled by another man dressed as a gypsy as they march during the celebrations of the winter holiday 'Malanka' in the village of Krasnoilsk, western Ukraine, 14 January 2017. 'Malanka' - or 'Old New Year Celebrations' is one of the most popular traditional festivals in Western Ukraine celebrated every year between 13 and 14 January, which is New Year's Eve in accordance with the old Julian calendar. During these two days of celebration, locals, young and old, wear traditional masks and carnival costumes and stroll from house to house singing carols, wishing households good luck, while at the same time playing pranks or performing short plays. EPA-EFE/OLEG PETRASYUK
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A model presents a creation from the Spring/Summer 2017 Haute Couture collection by French designer Jean-Paul Gaultier, during the Paris Fashion Week, in Paris, France, 25 January 2017. The presentation of the Haute Couture collections was from 22 to 26 January. EPA-EFE/ETIENNE LAURENT
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Members of the National Inter-Institutional Security Force (FUSINA) present alleged members of the gang Barrio 18, who were found to be in possession of illegal weapons in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, 18 January 2017. The alleged gang members were allegedly involved in the murder of Honduran journalist Igor Padilla, who, according to media reports, was shot dead 17 January by men wearing police uniforms. EPA-EFE/JORDAN PERDOMO
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A man walks on charred rubble close to a fire in the village of Vichuquen, region of Maule, 290 km southern Santiago de Chile, Chile, early morning 25 January 2017. EPA-EFE/ELVIS GONZALEZ
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A general view over people walk and skate on the frozen New Danube discharge channel in Vienna, Austria, 29 January 2017. Temperatures drop subzero for weeks after Europe was hit by a cold snap and made the New Danube freeze. EPA-EFE/LISI NIESNER
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President-elect Donald J. Trump (C) arrives to be sworn in as the 45th President of the United States in Washington, DC, USA, 20 January 2017. Trump won the 08 November 2016 election to become the next US President. EPA-EFE/JIM LO SCALZO
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Rescuers work at the site of an airplane crash near the airport Manas, 30 km from Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, 16 January 2017. A Turkish Boeing 747-400 cargo plane crashed on a village near the capital of Kyrgyzstan, destroying 32 houses and killing at least 37 people, according to reports. EPA-EFE/IGOR KOVALENKO
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A moth lands on the nose of Rafael Nadal of Spain during the Men's Singles quarter-final match against Milos Raonic of Canada at the Australian Open Grand Slam tennis tournament in Melbourne, Australia, 25 January 2017. EPA-EFE/LUKAS COCH AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND OUT
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Iris Mittenaere (R) from France is crowned the 65th Miss Universe by her predecessor, Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach (L) from the Philippines during the coronation night of the Miss Universe pageant at the Mall of Asia Arena in Pasay City, south of Manila, Philippines, 30 January 2017. A total of 86 candidates competed for the crown. EPA-EFE/ROLEX DELA PENA
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Roger Federer of Switzerland in action against Rafael Nadal of Spain during the Men's Singles at the Australian Open Grand Slam tennis tournament in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 29 January 2017. EPA-EFE/DEAN LEWINS AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND OUT
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An Eritrean Orthodox Christian pilgrim is baptized, as pilgrims celebrate Epiphany at the Qasr al Yahud baptism site, near the West Bank city of Jericho, 19 January 2017. The baptism site is where, according to tradition, Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist. Christian tradition marks this site as the place of the 'spiritual birth' of Jesus as opposed to his physical birth. EPA-EFE/ABIR SULTAN
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Rosalie Gurna, nine, joins hundreds of protesters denouncing the travel ban from Muslim-majority countries enacted by US President Donald Trump outside of the international terminal at Los Angeles International Airport in Los Angeles, California USA, 28 January 2017. The executive order halts all refugee entry for 120 days and for 90 days bans entry from seven countries: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen. EPA-EFE/EUGENE GARCIA
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A picture taken with a slow shutter speed shows the Colima Volcano, the most active in Mexico, during an eruption as seen from the site of Carrizalillos, Colima, Mexico, 26 January 2017. The National Coordination of Civil Protection of the Ministry of Interior reported that since October 2016, the Colima volcano entered a mainly explosive stage of activity with irregular intervals, generating eruptive columns, with heights between one and four kilometers, sometimes with incandescent fragments launched one or two kilometers from the crater. EPA-EFE/ULISES RUIZ BASURTO
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Elvis impersonator Ricky Ford boards the Elvis Train at Central Station in Sydney, New South Wales (NSW), Australia, 12 January 2017, before a seven-hour trip to the town of Parkes. The 2017 Elvis Festival, celebrating the life and music of the American singer and actor, is held in the NSW country town of Parkes from 11 to 15 January 2017. EPA-EFE/DEAN LEWINS AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND OUT
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Janelle Monae (L) and Taraji P. Henson pose with the SAG Award for Outstanding Cast in a Motion Picture award for 'Hidden Figures,' during the 23rd annual Screen Actors Guild Awards ceremony at the Shrine Exposition Center in Los Angeles, California, USA, 29 January 2017. EPA-EFE/PAUL BUCK
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US President Donald J. Trump and British Prime Minister Theresa May participate in a joint press conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, USA, 27 January 2017. Prime Minister May was the first foreign head of state to meet with President Trump at the White House. EPA-EFE/SHAWN THEW
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Migrants wash themselves using water from a barrel heated by a fire underneath it at the abandoned customs warehouse in Belgrade, Serbia, 30 January 2017. Migrants mostly from Afghanistan are struggling in the freezing temperatures that have hit Serbia in last couple of days. Low temperatures have caused traffic disruptions and cut off some rural parts of the country. EPA-EFE/KOCA SULEJMANOVIC
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A young girl holds a sign during a protest against President Trump's ban on the immigration of citizens from seven majority-Muslim countries in Battery Park in New York, New York, USA, 29 January 2017. On 28 January, a federal judge in Brooklyn temporary blocked the executive ban, which had stranded as many as 200 inbound foreigners at U.S. ports of entry. EPA-EFE/PETER FOLEY
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Ricky Brabec from the USA rides his Honda during the third stage of the Rally Dakar 2017 between San Miguel de Tucuman and San Salvador de Jujuy, Argentina, 04 January 2017. EPA-EFE/DAVID FERNANDEZ
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Slovenia's Rok Perko speeds down the slope during the Men's downhill race of the FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, 27 January 2017. EPA-EFE/PHILIPP GUELLAND
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A leprosy patient sits inside her room at the leprosy hospital in Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian Kashmir, 30 January 2017. World Leprosy Day is observed on 30 January every year to increase the public awareness of the leprosy disease. EPA-EFE/FAROOQ KHAN
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People gather along Independence Ave for the Women's March on Washington in Washington, DC, USA, 21 January 2017. Protest rallies were held in over 30 countries around the world in solidarity with the Women's March on Washington in defense of press freedom, women's and human rights following the official inauguration on 20 January of Donald J. Trump as the 45th President of the United States of America in Washington, USA. EPA-EFE/Tracie Van Auken
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Six month-old baby elephant Fah Jam, meaning Clear Sky, swims aided by a harness during a hydrotherapy treatment session to rehabilitate her injured foot at a veterinary clinic near Pattaya, Thailand, 07 January 2017. When the calf was three months old, Fah Jam lost part of her front left foot in a snare set up by local villagers in Chanthaburi province as a means to protect their crops from animals. The hydrotherapy sessions are part of the rehabilitation process to help Fah Jam regain strength and mobility in her injured foot. EPA-EFE/Diego Azubel
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Bulgarian men jump into the icy waters of a lake to recover a wooden cross during celebrations of the Epiphany day in Sofia, Bulgaria, 06 January 2017. The swimmers were competing to find the cross, thrown into the water by an Eastern Orthodox priest. This tradition is believed to bring health and luck throughout the New Year. EPA-EFE/VASSIL DONEV
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US President Barack Obama wipes a tear from his eye while delivering his farewell address to the American people at McCormick Place in Chicago, Illinois, USA, 10 January 2017. Obama's eight year term as president of the USA ended on 20 January when President-elect Donald Trump takes the oath of office EPA-EFE/Kamil Krzaczynski
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Filipino funeral parlor workers collect the body of a suspected drug dealer who was shot dead following a police operation against illegal drugs in Manila, Philippines, 19 January 2017. According to media reports, more than 6,000 people have been killed and more than one million drug dealers and users have been arrested or have surrendered to the authorities since 01 July 2016, when President Rodrigo Duterte's campaign against illegal drugs began. EPA-EFE/FRANCIS R. MALASIG ATTENTION EDITORS: GRAPHIC CONTENT
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Ryan Gosling (2-L) and Emma Stone (R), winners for Best Actor and Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy Film for 'La La Land' pose in the press room during the 74th annual Golden Globe Awards ceremony at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California, USA, 08 January 2017. EPA-EFE/MIKE NELSON
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A picture taken with a Tilt-Shift lens of Domen Prevc of Slovenia during his practice jump at the Four Hills ski jumping tournament for FIS Ski Jumping World Cup on the Bergisel Hill in Innsbruck, Austria, 03 January 2017. EPA-EFE/EXPA
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Relatives and friends mourn at the coffin during the funeral of Ayhan Arik, one of the 39 victims of the gun attack on the Reina, a popular night club in Istanbul near by the Bosphorus river, in Istanbul, Turkey, 01 January 2017. At least 39 people were killed and 65 others were wounded in the attack, local media reported. EPA-EFE/SEDAT SUNA
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US President Barack Obama departs the Brady Press Briefing Room after his last press conference as president at the White House in Washington, DC, USA, 18 January 2017. Obama spoke about the incoming Trump Administration, as well as his commutation of Chelsea Manning. EPA-EFE/JIM LO SCALZO
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Costumed people get out of the North Sea during the Nieuwjaarsduik (New Year's Dive) on New Year's Day in Scheveningen, the Netherlands, 01 January 2017. EPA-EFE/BART MAAT
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A dog takes a peek into a butcher shop on a snowy day in Istanbul, Turkey, 07 January 2017. Temperatures in Istanbul dropped to minus five degrees Celsius with snow showers. EPA-EFE/SEDAT SUNA