Nat CastañedaMarch 05, 20151 Comment

World in review

Nat CastañedaMarch 05, 20151 Comment

World in Review is a collection of five photo galleries curated by Associated Press photo editors from each region of the world: Asia, Europe and Africa, the Middle East, Latin America and the Caribbean and the United States.This month’s selection from Asia includes images of emergency personnel assisting passengers exit a commercial plane after it crashed in Taiwan, Lunar New Year celebrations in China, and Britain's Prince William's visit to Tokyo.

In Europe and Africa, Russian police investigate the death of Boris Nemtsov in Moscow, a U.S. man is gored by a bull during the “Carnaval del Toro” in Spain and a Congolese soccer fan looks out over the soccer pitch during the African Cup of Nations semifinal soccer match.

In Latin America and the Caribbean, a protester in Mexico City is injured in a march marking the fifth month of the disappearance of 43 students, Rio de Janeiro celebrates Carnival and a Gentoo penguin feeds its baby in the middle of an enchanting Antarctic summer landscape.

In the Middle East, a man is comforted as he mourns over Egyptian Coptic Christians who were captured and killed by militants affiliated with the Islamic State group, an avalanche covers the Paryan district in Afghanistan and a mural of a playful-looking kitten, presumably painted by British street graffiti artist Banksy, is seen in the northern Gaza Strip.

In the U.S., snow billows in the air as the Marine One helicopter lands on the South Lawn of the White House, New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady celebrates a touchdown during Super Bowl XLIX and an aerial view reveals the Brooklyn Bridge surrounded by ice.

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A person looks at the Piton de la Fournaise volcano in eruption Thursday, Feb. 5, 2015, in the French Indian Ocean island of La Reunion. This is the second eruption in the past year at Piton de la Fournaise after 3-years of quiet. (AP Photo/Fabrice Wislez)

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Top model Chantelle Brown-Young, known as Winnie Harlow, who has a rare skin pigmentation disorder, gets her make up applied before displaying a Spring/Summer design by Desigual at Madrid's Fashion Week in Madrid, Spain, Friday, Feb. 6, 2015.(AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza)

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In this Saturday, Feb. 7, 2015 photo a model displays an Autumn/Winter design by Andres Sarda at Madrid's Fashion Week in Madrid, Spain. (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza, File)

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Designer Vivienne Westwood poses with models after her Autumn/Winter 2015 show at London Fashion Week, in London, Sunday, Feb. 22,2015. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

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In this Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2015, photo, models display creations by designer Anya Hindmarch during the Autumn/Winter 2015 show at London Fashion Week in London. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)

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In this Friday, Feb. 27, 2015, photo, a model wears a creation for Marco De Vincenzo women's Fall-Winter 2015-2016 collection, part of the Milan Fashion Week, unveiled in Milan, Italy. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni, File)

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A model displays an Autumn/Winter design by Juana Martin at Madrid's Fashion Week in Madrid, Spain, Sunday, Feb. 8, 2015 . (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza)

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In this Saturday, Feb. 28, 2015, photo, Russian police investigate the the body of Boris Nemtsov, a former Russian deputy prime minister and opposition leader, after he was shot dead at Red Square with St. Basil Cathedral in the background in Moscow, Russia. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin, File)

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Police investigate the body of Boris Nemtsov, an opposition leader and a former deputy prime minister, at Red Square in Moscow, Russia on Saturday, Feb. 28, 2015. In the background is St. Basil's Cathedral. Russia's Interior Ministry says Nemtsov was shot and killed near the Kremlin shortly after midnight. His death comes just a day before a planned protest against President Vladimir Putin's rule. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

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Navy cadets march during a rehearsal for the Victory Day military parade at the Neva River embankment in St.Petersburg, Russia, Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2015. Victory Day, marking the 70th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany, Russia's most important secular holiday will be celebrated on May 9. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)

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A Russia-backed rebel looks at the flag covered body of an Ukrainian serviceman in Debaltseve, Ukraine, Friday, Feb. 20, 2015. After weeks of relentless fighting, the embattled Ukrainian rail hub of Debaltseve fell Wednesday to Russia-backed separatists, who hoisted a flag in triumph over the town. The Ukrainian president confirmed that he had ordered troops to pull out and the rebels reported taking hundreds of soldiers captive.(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

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Russia-backed separatists walk on a road that takes them to Artemivsk, littered with destroyed Ukrainian army tanks and vehicles, outside Debaltseve, Ukraine, Sunday, Feb. 22, 2015, on the edge of the territory under their control. Ukrainian military and separatist representatives exchanged dozens of prisoners under cover of darkness at a remote frontline location Saturday evening, kicking off a process intended to usher in peace to the conflict-ridden east.(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

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Russian-backed separatists cover their ears as they fire a mortar towards Ukrainian troops outside the village of Sanzharivka, northeast of Debaltseve, eastern Ukraine, Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2015. The leaders of France, Germany, Russia and Ukraine flew to the Belarus capital for crucial peace talks Wednesday as fighting still raged in eastern Ukraine. (AP Photo/Maximilian Clarke)

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel, left back to a camera, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, second left, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, second right, and Russian President Vladimir Putin, walk together to continue their peace talks in Minsk, Belarus, Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2015. Leaders of Russia, Ukraine, France and Germany are gathering for crucial talks in the hope of negotiating an end fighting between Russia-backed separatist and government forces in eastern Ukraine. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

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Russia-backed separatist stand next to bodies of Ukrainian servicemen retrieved from the rubble of the airport building a man searches them for identity papers outside Donetsk, Ukraine, Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2015. Ukrainian troops held captive in the separatist stronghold of Donetsk began digging through the rubble Wednesday to retrieve the bodies of fellow soldiers killed last month in a bitter battle for the city's airport.(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

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An elderly woman drags a cart with belongings on the outskirts of Debaltseve, Ukraine, Thursday, Feb. 26, 2015. After weeks of relentless fighting, which inflicted severe damage to most buildings, the embattled Ukrainian rail hub of Debaltseve fell last week to Russia-backed separatists. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

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In this Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2015 photo a child waits on a bus to leave the town of Debaltseve in Ukraine. Since the unrest in eastern Ukraine surged in early January, the separatists have made strides in clawing territory away from the government in Kiev. Their main offensive is now directed at Debaltseve. Almost 2,000 residents have fled in the last few days alone. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek, File)

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People shout slogans as they march in Kiev, Sunday, Feb. 22, 2015. In Kiev, thousands participated in a march on Sunday commemorating the events of a year ago and honoring the more than 100 protesters who died during them. President Petro Poroshenko led the ceremony, joined by foreign representatives including the presidents of Poland, Lithuania, Germany, Georgia and the European Union. (AP Photo/Sergei Chuzavkov)

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A musher competes with his dog-sled during the Trans-Thuringia race, one of the biggest dog-sled races with purebred dogs in central Europe, in the Thuringian Forest near Fehrenbach, central Germany, Saturday, Feb. 14, 2015. Around 500 sled dogs and their mushers covered a distance of nearly 280 kilometers in seven runs. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)

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In this Monday, Feb. 9, 2015 photo a man goes for a walk next to Aralar Sanctuary covered by snow, in Aralar, northern Spain. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos, File)

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A Russian man fishes through an ice hole near a sea port on the Finnish Gulf, in St. Petersburg, Russia, Sunday, Feb. 1, 2015. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)

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In this Monday, Feb. 2, 2015 photo, a man dressed in Red Army World War II uniform walks toward the monument to Motherland during ceremonies marking the 72nd anniversary of the Battle of Stalingrad in the southern Russian city of Volgograd, once known as Stalingrad. (AP Photo/Dmitry Rogulin, File)

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Blackburn's Rudy Gestede, left, in action against Stoke's goalkeeper Jack Butland during the English FA Cup fifth round soccer match between Blackburn and Stoke at Ewood Park Stadium, Blackburn, England, Saturday, Feb. 14, 2015. (AP Photo/Jon Super)

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Tottenham's Jan Vertonghen, left, fights for the ball with Fiorentina's Micah Richards during a Uefa Europa League, round of 32 second leg soccer match between Fiorentina and Tottenham at the Artemio Franchi stadium in Florence, Italy, Thursday, Feb. 26, 2015. (AP Photo/Fabrizio Giovannozzi)

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Ghana's goalkeeper Razak Braimah dives as he fails to save the winning penalty from Ivory Coast's goalkeeper Boubacar Barry, during their African Cup of Nations final soccer match in Bata, Equatorial Guinea, Sunday, Feb. 8, 2015. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)

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Honk kong team compete during the Women's team pursuit qualifying race at the Track Cycling World Championships in Saint Quentin-en-Yvelines, outside Paris, France, Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2015. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

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Former English national soccer team captain David Beckham is silhouetted as he arrives to speak at a press conference to mark his 10 years as a goodwill ambassador for UNICEF and to launch '7', a new fund for children in danger across the globe, in London, Monday, Feb. 9, 2015. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

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Adrien Theaux, of France, is airborne during a men's World Cup downhill training session, in Saalbach Hinterglemm, Austria, Friday, Feb. 20, 2015. (AP Photo/Giovanni Auletta)

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Members of the Swedish synchronized skating team Surprise perform during the gala exhibition at the European Figure Skating championships in Stockholm, Sweden, on Sunday, Feb. 1, 2015. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)

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Norway's Rune Velta jumps during the Mixed Team Ski Jumping competition at the Nordic Skiing World Championships in Falun, Sweden, Sunday, Feb. 22, 2015. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

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Eventual winner Fox Kieren rides Berrahri, far left, competes during the GP Christoffel Bau Trophy on the frozen Lake St. Moritz on the second weekend of the White Turf races in St. Moritz, Switzerland, Sunday, Feb. 15, 2015. (AP Photo/Keystone, Gian Ehrenzeller)

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An injured Feyenoord's fan lies on the ground after being arrested with others during clashes occurred with Italian Policemen at the Spanish steps prior to the start of the Europa League soccer match between Roma and Feyenoord in Rome, Thursday, Feb. 19, 2015. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

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A Congolese soccer fan looks out over the soccer pitch during the African Cup of Nations semifinal soccer match between Congo and Ivory Coast in Bata, Equatorial Guinea, Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2015. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)

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Eddie Redmayne, winner of Best Actor for The Theory of Everything poses for photographers in the winners room, during the British Academy Film and Television Awards 2015, at the Royal Opera House, in London, Sunday, Feb. 8, 2015. (Photo by Jonathan Short/Invision/AP)

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Madonna stumbles whilst performing on stage during the Brit Awards 2015 at the 02 Arena in London, Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2015. (AP Photo/PA, Yui Mok) UNITED KINGDOM OUT NO SALES NO ARCHIVE

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In this photo taken Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2015, children perform during the second round of a casting for the Young Ensemble of the Friedrichstadt-Palast Theatre in Berlin, Germany. Hundreds of children apply every year for only 20-30 spots in the theater???s renowned Young Ensemble. Overall, some 250 children, ages seven through 16, attend the school at any one time. The ensemble provides year-round theatre training for children. All children receive two years of basic training in classic dance, drama and jazz. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

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A projection turns and throws images onto a wall during the light festival in Ghent, Belgium, on Sunday, Feb. 1, 2015. More than 40 light installations were on display during the festival, which takes places every three years. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

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A man cleans the floor as visitors walk past vintage and classic cars displayed by Bonhams auction house, during an exhibition, at the Grand Palais in Paris, Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2015. The Grand Palais is staging an exhibition of vintage cars, to be followed by a sale of historic cars by Bonhams auction house on Thursday. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon)

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Flowers are laid in front of the synagogue in Copenhagen, Denmark, Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2015, following recent attacks. A Danish gunman who attacked a free-speech seminar and a synagogue was released about two weeks ago from a jail where he may have been radicalized while serving time for a vicious stabbing. As Denmark mourned the two victims, these and other troubling details emerged Monday about Omar Abdel Hamid El-Hussein's path to the country's worst terror spree in three decades.(AP Photo/Michael Probst)

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FILE - In this Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2015, file photo, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, right, stands behind a window that reflects the European flag as she waits for the arrival of the Prime Minister of Sweden Stefan Lofven at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)

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European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, right, walks hand in hand with Greece's Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras upon his arrival at the European Commission headquarters in Brussels Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2015. Tsiparis is on a one day trip to Brussels to meet with EU leaders. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)

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Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, center, falls after addressing supporters upon his return from an African Union meeting in Ethiopia, Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2015. Mugabe, 90, was elected chairman of the African Union and is set to celebrate his 91st birthday on Feb. 21. (AP Photo)

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FILE - In this Thursday, Feb. 5, 2015 file photo, people look at the four surviving original parchment engrossments of the 1215 Magna Carta as they are displayed to mark the 800th anniversary of the sealing of Magna Carta at Runnymede in 1215, in the Queen's Robing Room at the Houses of Parliament in London. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, Pool, File)

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A participant falls whilst taking part in the fancy dress Great Spitalfields Pancake Race, off Brick Lane in east London, Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2015. Shrove Tuesday, widely known in Britain as Pancake Day, is traditionally the last day for merrymaking before the start of Lent. Pancakes were thought to be a good way for Christians to consume the fat they were supposed to give up during the 40 days before Easter. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

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In this photo taken with a long exposure photo, a silhouetted child spins a ball of fire during rituals in celebration of Mesni Zagovezni (Shrovetide) in the village of Lozen near the capital Sofia, Sunday, Feb. 15, 2015. People in the region believe they can chase away evil spirits by performing fire rituals on Mesni Zagovezni. (AP Photo/Valentina Petrova)

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In this photo taken on Saturday, Feb. 14, 2015, Benjamin Miller, 20, from Georgia, in the US, is gored by a bull during the "Carnaval del Toro" in Ciudad Rodrigo, Spain. An American youth is recovering in the intensive-care unit of a hospital in western Salamanca after being savagely gored during a bullfighting festival celebrating Carnival, officials said Sunday. Surgeon Enrique Crespo said he was called to operate on 20-year-old Benjamin Miller from Georgia, who had been gored and tossed by a large fighting bull on Saturday, the first day of nearby Ciudad Rodrigo's "Carnaval del Toro." (AP Photo/Jose Vicente)

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Riot police, top, break a glass window as housing rights activists, who block the building entrance, protect their faces and shout during Elvira Reyes Mariano and her family's eviction in Madrid, Spain, Thursday, Feb. 12, 2015. The landlord's loss of the apartment to Bankia bank is causing Reyes Mariano and her family's eviction. Reyes Mariano lives with her husband Soltero Rodriguez Cuevas, 44 years old, both unemployed, her sister and their three kids. They continued to occupy a foreclosed Bankia bank apartment after their landlord left as they could not afford to pay rent. Dozens of housing right activists tried to stop the process by blocking the building's entrance but riot police removed them and evicted the family. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)

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A man covers his face with animal blood to takes part in the ''Momotxorro Carnival'', in Alsasua, northern Spain, Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2015. Momotxorro, characters who seem to have been resurrected from a prehistoric ritual, come out onto the town's streets. Wearing horns and hiding their faces under headscarves, they are dressed in a white sheet stained with blood, sheepskin gilets, blue trousers, white socks and black sandals. They tour the town roaring fiercely and brandishing their wooden staves, goading and frightening everyone who gets in their way. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)

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In this Feb. 2, 2015 picture, a member of the Endiablada brotherhood walks trough the cemetery after paying respect to their deceased fellow believers and relatives during the 'Endiablada' traditional festival in Almonacid Del Marquesado, Spain. The "Endiablada" (The Brotherhood of the Devils) festivals are celebrated each Feb. 2-3 in the central Spanish town of Almonacid del Marquesado since medieval times or before. In the festival, men from the town dress up as devil-type characters in colorful jumpsuit costumes and red miter hats. They don large heavy copper cowbells around their waists, which clang incessantly as they walk, dance and jump through the town's winding streets and visit the cemetery. The Feb. 2 procession, the "Candelaria" (Candlemas), represents the Virgin Mary presenting baby Jesus to authorities in the temple 40 days after Christmas. The protocol is believed to have caused her some embarrassment and the accompanying bell-clanging characters are thought to be a way of diverting the public???s attention. (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza)

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Men covered in oil and soot carrying bull horns on their head and cowbells on a belt representing devils, march during a traditional carnival celebration in the small village of Luzon, Spain, Saturday, Feb. 14, 2015. Preserved records from the 14th century document Luzon's carnival, but the real origin of the tradition could be much older. Carnival festivals are celebrated in their own way around hundreds of villages in Spain. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)

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In this Thursday, Feb. 26, 2015, photo, students march and light flares during the second day of student strike in Madrid, Spain. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki, File)

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In this Friday, Feb. 27, 2015, photo, a woman holds up her hand as she waits to be silhouetted with white chalk during a performance by Spanish Artist Irisarri at ARCO, the international contemporary Art fair in Madrid, Spain. (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza, File)

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A man is comforted by others as he mourns over Egyptian Coptic Christians who were captured in Libya and killed by militants affiliated with the Islamic State group, outside of the Virgin Mary church in the village of el-Aour, near Minya, 220 kilometers (135 miles) south of Cairo, Egypt, Monday, Feb. 16, 2015. Egyptian warplanes struck Islamic State targets in Libya on Monday in swift retribution for the extremists' beheading of a group of Egyptian Christian hostages on a beach, shown in a grisly online video released hours earlier. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

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Pope Tawadros II, the 118th pope of the Coptic Church of Egypt, leads a mass for the Egyptian Christians who were killed in Libya, at St. Mark's Cathedral in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2015. An Islamic State video released on 15 February claimed to show the extremist group beheading 21 Egyptian Christians abducted in Libya more than a month ago. The Egyptian army responded on Feb. 16 by an airstrike against the militants targeting bases and weapons storage facilities in Libya. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

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Safi al-Kaseasbeh, right, father of slain Jordanian pilot, Lt. Muath al-Kaseasbeh receives condolences from tribal leaders at the Kaseasbeh tribe's gathering divan at their home village of Ai, near Karak, Jordan, Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2015. Jordan executed two al-Qaida prisoners before dawn Wednesday, just hours after an online video purported to show Islamic State group militants burning a captured Jordanian pilot to death in a cage. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

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Jordanian King Abdullah II, center, escorted by Safi al-Kaseasbeh, left, father of slain Jordanian pilot, Lt. Muath al-Kaseasbeh, and his uncle Fahed al-Kaseasbeh, arrives to offer his condolences at the memorial tent set up for the pilot at their home village of Ai, near Karak, Jordan, Thursday, Feb. 5, 2015. Jordan's king vowed to wage a "harsh" war against the Islamic State group after the militants burned a captive Jordanian pilot in a cage and released a video of the killing. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

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In this Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2015 photo, gunsmith Bahktiyar Sadr-Aldeen holds a weapon at his shop, in Irbil, northern Iraq. Sadr-Aldeen, an Iraqi Kurd, has seen his business shoot up by 50 percent since last June, when the Islamic State took over the Iraqi city of Mosul. The Kurdish fighting force known as the pershmerga has been at war against the Sunni extremists ever since, keeping Aldeen busy. Photos of Aldeen as a child working at his father's repair shop hang on the wall. (AP Photo/Bram Janssen)

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FILE - In this Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2015 file photo, Anwar al-Tarawneh, the wife of Jordanian pilot, Lt. Muath al-Kaseasbeh, held by Islamic State group militants, holds a poster of him as she weeps during a protest in Amman, Jordan. The Islamic State group released a video on Feb. 3, 2015, of it burning al-Kaseasbeh to death in a cage, sparking outrage in Jordan, which launched new strikes targeting the militants. (AP Photo/Raad Adayleh, File)

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Supporters and family members of Jordanian pilot, Lt. Muath al-Kaseasbeh express their anger of his reported killing, at the tribal gathering chamber, Amman, Jordan, Tuesday, 3, 2015. A video released online Tuesday purportedly showed al-Kaseasbeh who was captured by the Islamic State extremist group in Syria being burned to death by his captors following a weeklong drama over a possible prisoner exchange. At the tribal meeting place where the pilot's relatives have waited for weeks for word on his fate, chants against Jordan's King Abdullah II erupted and some family members wept. (AP Photo/Raad Adayleh)

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Egyptian Coptic men mourn for 21 Coptic Egyptian men seized by Islamic State militants in the central city of Sirte, Libya, more than a month ago at the Virgin Mary Church in the village of el-Aour, near Minya, 220 kilometers (135 miles) south of Cairo, Egypt, Monday, Feb. 16, 2015. The mass beheadings of Egyptian Christians by militants in Libya linked to the Islamic State group have thrown a spotlight on the threat the extremists pose beyond their heartland in Syria and Iraq, where they have established a self-declared proto-state. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

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FILE - In this Saturday, Feb. 28, 2015 file photo, an Assyrian man with a red cross painted on his forehead holds a banner as he walks during a protest of several hundred people in solidarity with Christians abducted in Syria and Iraq, in downtown Beirut, Lebanon. The Islamic State group, which has repeatedly targeted religious minorities in Syria and Iraq, abducted more than 220 Assyrians this week in northeastern Syria. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

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An African Christian mother and her child attend mass at Anglican church in Tripoli, Libya, Friday, Feb. 20, 2015. Numbers here have dropped since fighting in the capital last summer forced many expatriate workers to leave Libya. (AP Photo/Mohamed Ben Khalifa)

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In this Friday, Feb. 13, 2015 photo, a Coptic Christian woman prays for the release of 21 Coptic Egyptian men whose were abducted by Islamic State militants in the central city of Sirte, Libya more than a month ago, during a protest at the Coptic cathedral in Cairo, Egypt. A video purporting to show the mass beheading of Coptic Christian hostages was released Sunday, Feb. 15, 2015, by militants in Libya affiliated with the Islamic State group. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

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In this Saturday, Feb. 7, 2015 photo, Pakistani Christian bride Dunya Yacob, 24, and her groom Indriaz Liaqat, 27, sit during their wedding ceremony in a makeshift home at a slum home to Christian families on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan. ???Since I was a little girl, I dreamed of the day I would get married and put on a nice dress and have a nice party with a lot of people,??? the 24 year old said. ???But today, my dream didn???t turn the way I imagined it, but there is nothing I can do about it. This is how our lives look like today and we have to adapt.??? (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

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In this Saturday, Feb. 7, 2015 photo, Pakistani Christian bride Dunya Yacob, 24, center, surrounded by family members while having her makeup done on her wedding day in a makeshift tent at a slum home to Christian families on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan. ???Since I was a little girl, I dreamed of the day I would get married and put on a nice dress and have a nice party with a lot of people,??? the 24 year old said. ???But today, my dream didn???t turn the way I imagined it, but there is nothing I can do about it. This is how our lives look like today and we have to adapt.??? (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

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In this Saturday, Feb. 21, 2015 photo, a Libyan soldier wakes his comrade in Al Ajaylat, 120 kilometers (75 miles) west of Tripoli, Libya. Army forces in Libya have been fighting Islamic and tribal militias since last September. (AP Photo/Mohamed Ben Khalifa)

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Pakistani female police commandos attend a training session in Nowshera, near Peshawar Pakistan, Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2015. Authorities formed a Special Combat Unit after Taliban militants stormed a Peshawar school on Dec. 16, 2014 and massacred 150 children and teachers. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)

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In this Monday, Feb. 2, 2015 photo, drug addicts pray at a treatment camp, in Verdij village some 15 miles (25 kilometers) northwest of the capital Tehran, Iran. Anti-narcotics and medical officials say more than 2.2 million of Iran's 80 million citizens already are addicted to illegal drugs, including 1.3 million on registered treatment programs. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

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In this Monday, Feb. 2, 2015 photo, a female drug addict prays at her dorm, in Chitgar treatment camp, in a mountain village northwest of Tehran, Iran. Officials say methamphetamine production and abuse are skyrocketing in the country despite potentially lethal criminal penalties if caught, partly because of Iran???s status as the gateway for the region???s top drug exporter, Afghanistan _ and partly because Iranian dealers are profiting so handsomely from sales to overstressed students and exhausted double-jobbers. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

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In this Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2015 photo, drug addicts gather around fire to warm themselves, in a suburb of Tehran, Iran. Anti-narcotics and medical officials say more than 2.2 million of Iran's 80 million citizens already are addicted to illegal drugs, including 1.3 million on registered treatment programs. They say the numbers keep rising annually, even though use of the death penalty against convicted smugglers has increased, too, and now accounts for more than nine of every 10 executions. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

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In this Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2015 photo, drug addicts walk on a street at midnight in Tehran, Iran. Anti-narcotics and medical officials say more than 2.2 million of Iran's 80 million citizens already are addicted to illegal drugs, including 1.3 million on registered treatment programs. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

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In this Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2015 photo, drug addicts sleep in their chairs at drop in center and shelter, south of Tehran, Iran. Anti-narcotics and medical officials say more than 2.2 million of Iran's 80 million citizens already are addicted to illegal drugs, including 1.3 million on registered treatment programs. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

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In this Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2015 photo, 36 year-old Palestinian mother Abeer, right, sits near her daughter, 19-month-old Anwar Saad, at their family home in Gaza City. For the Saads, the summer???s war in Gaza, the third between Israel and Hamas, came into their home on July 18, 2014 when they say an Israeli tank shell crashed through the wall of their house in Gaza???s crowded Shijaiyeh neighborhood. Shrapnel wounded all of the Saad family. Anwar???s mother spends much of her time caring for her daughter. The infant only stops crying when she is in her rocking bed. Before the war, Anwar was playful and alert, the mother said. Not any longer. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

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Palestinian mourners carry the body of Jihad al-Jafari, 19, during his funeral in the Deheisha refugee camp near the West Bank city of Bethlehem, Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2015. Bethlehem Governor Jebren al-Bakri says al-Jafari was shot in the chest Tuesday morning on the roof of his house in the Deheisha refugee camp as he was watching a disturbance below. The Israeli military says troops on a "routine activity" were attacked with rocks and firebombs in the camp and feeling their lives were in danger, opened fire at one of the instigators. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

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FILE - In this Thursday, Feb. 26, 2015 file photo, Palestinians run away from tear gas fired by Israeli security forces during a protest against nearby Israeli settlements in the West Bank village of Azun, near the town of Qalqilya. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed, File)

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FILE - In this Friday, Feb. 27, 2015 file photo, a mural of a playful-looking kitten, presumably painted by British street graffiti artist Banksy, is seen on a wall damaged in last summer's Israel-Hamas war, in Beit Hanoun, in the northern Gaza Strip. In a short film posted on his website, the popular street artist appears to sneak into Gaza through an underground tunnel from Egypt. The video shows aftermath footage from the 2014 Gaza summer war and includes political commentary about the strip???s misery. Some of his work is seen as well, such as a drawing of a Greek goddess cowering against a remaining concrete slab of a destroyed structure.(AP Photo/Adel Hana, File)

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Afghan refugee schoolgirls attend a class at a makeshift school on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan, Monday, Feb. 23, 2015. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

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The shadow of supporters of Houthi Shiites casts on a large representation of the Yemeni flag as they celebrate the fourth anniversary of the uprising in Sanaa, Yemen, Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2015. The United States, Britain and France moved to close their embassies in Yemen on Wednesday, increasing the isolation of Shiite rebels who have seized power. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

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Egyptian Muslims gather during Moulid al-Hussein, a religious celebration marking the birthday of the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2015. The celebration is one of the largest in Egypt, which attracts hundreds of thousands of Muslims worshippers from all over the country and takes place at Al-Hussein mosque. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)

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Former Egyptian Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif, right in cage, and former Interior Minister Habib el-Adly, stand behind bars in a courtroom during a retrial hearing that acquitted them over charges of squandering public money in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2015. The case stems from allegations they collaborated in awarding a German firm a contract to import license plates by direct order. Over the past months, many Mubarak-era officials have won a series of acquittals, mostly in corruption-related cases. (AP Photo/El Shorouk, Aly Hazzaa) EGYPT OUT

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An elderly Egyptian woman is rescued from an apartment balcony during a building fire as neighbors and firefighters use an improvised slide to evacuate her to the roof of an adjacent building in downtown Cairo, Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2015. An electrical fire raged in a residential building in the Ramsis neighborhood of Cairo injuring at least three people. (AP Photo/Ahmed Gamil)

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FILE - In this Saturday, Feb. 28, 2015 file photo, Egyptian policemen stand guard in front of the courtroom defendant's cage during a verdict hearing on a case that stems from clashes near the Muslim Brotherhood's headquarters on June 30, 2013, four days before the ouster of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi, that left 11 people dead and 91 wounded, in Cairo, Egypt. The Egyptian court sentenced four members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood organization to death and 14 to life in prison. Some 22,000 people have been arrested since Morsi's ouster, including most of the Brotherhood's leaders, as well as non-Islamist activists swept up by police during protests. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)

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Canadian Al-Jazeera English journalist Mohamed Fahmy, pauses during an interview with The Associated Press in Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, Feb. 19, 2015. Al-Jazeera journalists Fahmy and Baher Mohammed are free pending their retrial, scheduled for Feb. 23. A third colleague, Peter Greste, was released two weeks ago and deported to his home country of Australia. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

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Al-Jazeera English journalist Baher Mohammed kisses his 6 month-old son Haroon, who was born while he was in prison, during an interview with the Associated Press at his home in 6 October city, a suburb southwest of Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2015. Mohammed, one of three Al-Jazeera English journalists released after over a year in Egyptian prison says he is optimistic he would be exonerated from terrorism-related charges during his retrial which begins next week. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)

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FILE - In this Thursday, Feb. 26, 2015 file photo, Afghan villagers pray for victims of an avalanche, in the Khanj district of Panjshir province, north of Kabul, Afghanistan. The number of people killed in a massive avalanche in a mountain-bound valley in northeastern Afghanistan rose on Thursday to more than 160 as lack of equipment and the sheer depth of snow that buried entire homes and families hampered rescue efforts. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini, File)

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FILE - In this Thursday, Feb. 26, 2015 file photo, a Pakistani couple escort their cattle in the suburbs of Islamabad, Pakistan. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash, File)

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FILE - In this Thursday, Feb. 26, 2015 file photo, Afghan villagers gather to pray for victims of an avalanche, in the Khanj district of Panjshir province, north of Kabul, Afghanistan. The number of people killed in a massive avalanche in a mountain-bound valley in northeastern Afghanistan rose on Thursday to more than 160 as lack of equipment and the sheer depth of snow that buried entire homes and families hampered rescue efforts. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini, File)

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FILE - In this Friday, Feb. 27, 2015 file photo, Israeli security forces detain a Palestinian protester during a demonstration marking the 10th anniversary of their campaign against Israel's separation barrier in the West Bank village of Bilin near Ramallah. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed, File)

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FILE - In this Friday, Feb. 27, 2015 file photo, a Houthi Shiite rebel with Yemen's flag painted on his face chants slogans during a rally to show support for leader of rebels, Abdel-Malik al-Houthi in Sanaa, Yemen. Yemen's Shiite rebel leader lashed out at Saudi Arabia on Thursday, accusing it of seeking to split the country following his group's power grab, as a U.N. envoy met the embattled Yemeni president who has fled the capital, Sanaa. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed, File)

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FILE - In this Thursday, Feb. 26, 2015 file photo, models present creations by Pakistani designer Zaheer Abbas at Expo Pakistan Fashion Show 2015. (AP Photo/Shakil Adil, File)

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Venus Williams of the U. S. returns the ball to Belinda Bencic of Switzerland during the second day of Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Monday, Feb. 16, 2015. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)

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Simone Bolelli of Italy returns the ball to Tomas Berdych of the Czech Republic as a pigeon flies over the court during the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2015. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)

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FILE - In this Saturday, Feb. 28, 2015 file photo, Roger Federer of Switzerland serves the ball to Novak Djokovic of Serbia during the final match of the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili, File)

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Starlings swirl in the sky in a phenomenon known as murmuration in the Negev Desert at dusk near the Bedouin city of Rahat, southern Israel, Thursday, Feb. 5, 2015. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

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A man walks in a park amid plum trees in blossom, in Peshawar, Pakistan, Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2015. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)

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Survivors wait to receive food donations near the site of an avalanche in the Paryan district of Panjshir province, north of Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Feb. 27, 2015. The death toll from severe weather that caused avalanches and flooding across much of Afghanistan has jumped to more than 200 people, and the number is expected to climb with cold weather and difficult conditions hampering rescue efforts, relief workers and U.N. officials said Friday. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

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The Dome of the Rock Mosque in the Al Aqsa Mosque compound is seen in Jerusalem's old city, Friday, Feb. 20, 2015. A heavy winter storm descended on parts of the Middle East on Friday, with snow forcing the closure of all roads leading in and out of Jerusalem and sprinkling Israel's desert with a rare layer of white. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

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A Lebanese villager walks in the middle of a road covered in snow, in Sawfar village, mount Lebanon, Friday, Feb. 20, 2015. A heavy winter storm descended on parts of the Middle East of the West Bank, Lebanon, Jordan and Syria as a cold front swept through the region. The Beirut-Damascus highway was closed since late Thursday and the Lebanese fire department urged people to stay at home. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

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Lebanese sit in the snow as they smoke a water pipe a day after a strong snow storm, near the village of Hamana, Mount Lebanon, Sunday, Feb. 22, 2015. A heavy winter storm descended on parts of the Middle East on Friday with snow falling in Israel, parts of the West Bank, Lebanon, Jordan and Syria. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

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FILE - In this Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2015 file photo, Syrian boys run in the mud from the heavy rains at a refugee camp in the town of Marej in the Bekaa valley, east Lebanon. There are almost 1.2 million registered Syrian refugees in Lebanon, many of them living in flimsy tents scattered across the country but mostly in Lebanon???s eastern Bekaa valley near the border with Syria. Three successive snow storms and heavy rain has made living conditions particularly miserable for the refugees this winter, turning their tent encampments to mud. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

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Palestinians take photos of each other as the sun sets over the water of the Mediterranean Sea at fisherman's port in Gaza City, northern Gaza Strip, Monday, Feb. 16, 2015. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

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FILE - In this Friday, Feb. 27, 2015 file photo, a house is covered with snow from an avalanche in the Paryan district of Panjshir province, north of Kabul, Afghanistan. The death toll from severe weather that caused avalanches and flooding across much of Afghanistan has jumped to more than 200 people, and the number is expected to climb with cold weather and difficult conditions hampering rescue efforts, relief workers and U.N. officials said Friday. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File)