South Sudan Vice President James Igga announces to the media the recapture of Malakal town by government forces from the rebels, in the capital Juba
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A journalist from a local television station gets pelted with snowballs while trying to report next to a snowman in the Sierra de Arteaga
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Italy delays "Google tax" until July, OKs funds for business, welfare
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Canadian Greenpeace activist Alexandre Paul smiles as he meets the media with his parents after arriving in Montreal
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