December 22, 2013

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A layer of ice coats the leaves of a Japanese maple tree after an ice storm in Toronto, Canada.

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A vehicle tries to drive over a sidewalk to avoid an ice-covered tree branch that came down after freezing rain in Toronto, Canada. Thousands of households are without power in the Greater Toronto area following an overnight ice storm.

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People hold a Central African flag as they protest against the French "Sangaris" intervention in the Galabadia neighborhood close to President Michel Djotodia's private house in the eigth district of Bangui.

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Freed Russian former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky (C) arrives for his news conference in the Museum Haus am Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin, Germany. Khodorkovsky, pardoned by Russian President Vladimir Putin after 10 years in jail, said in remarks that he would not go into politics or seek to regain assets of his former oil company, Yukos.