January 24, 2014

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People ride their motorcycles through a flooded street in Jakarta, Indonesia. Torrential rains in recent days have increased the number of flooded areas, causing 64,000 people to be displaced from their homes.

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Women hold posters of Ugur Mumcu, Turkey's best-known investigative journalist, who was killed in 1993, and one of Ali Ismail Korkmaz, a Turkish student killed during last summer's protests, as thousands of people gathered to commemorate the anniversary of Mumcu's death in Ankara. Banner in the background reads: " We are living days without Ugur (which also means luck)."

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Children play with bubble toy guns under Chinese lunar New Year decorations at a park in Beijing. According to the Chinese lunar calendar, the New Year, which welcomes the Year of the Horse, falls on January 31.

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A woman makes a snowwoman in a competition in Dizin north of Tehran, Iran. Some 600 Iranians participated in a snow festival organized by Iran's ski federation at the Dizin ski resort.