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Cooking contest in N. Korea

Cooking contest in N. Korea

People snap photos of entries displayed at a cooking competition held Feb. 12, 2023, in Pyongyang, to celebrate North Korea's late leader Kim Jong Il's birthday.

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Cooking contest in N. Korea

Cooking contest in N. Korea

People snap photos and take videos of a North Korean chef preparing a dish at a cooking competition held Feb. 12, 2023, in Pyongyang, to celebrate the country's late leader Kim Jong Il's birthday.

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Cooking contest in N. Korea

Cooking contest in N. Korea

A North Korean chef takes part in a cooking competition held Feb. 12, 2023, in Pyongyang, to celebrate the country's late leader Kim Jong Il's birthday as people gather to take photos.

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Figure skating: Four Continents

Figure skating: Four Continents

Japan's Riku Miura (R) and Ryuichi Kihara perform during the exhibition gala at the Four Continents Figure Skating Championships in Colorado Springs, Colorado, on Feb. 12, 2023. Miura and Kihara won the pairs title.

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Figure skating: Four Continents

Figure skating: Four Continents

Japan's Riku Miura (R) and Ryuichi Kihara perform during the exhibition gala at the Four Continents Figure Skating Championships in Colorado Springs, Colorado, on Feb. 12, 2023. Miura and Kihara won the pairs title.

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Figure skating: Four Continents

Figure skating: Four Continents

Japan's Kao Miura performs during the exhibition gala at the Four Continents Figure Skating Championships in Colorado Springs, Colorado, on Feb. 12, 2023. Miura won the men's title.

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Figure skating: Four Continents

Figure skating: Four Continents

Japanese ice dancers Kana Muramoto (front) and Daisuke Takahashi perform their free dance at the Four Continents Figure Skating Championships in Colorado Springs, Colorado, on Feb. 12, 2023.

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Figure skating: Four Continents

Figure skating: Four Continents

Japanese ice dancers Kana Muramoto and Daisuke Takahashi (facing camera) perform their free dance at the Four Continents Figure Skating Championships in Colorado Springs, Colorado, on Feb. 12, 2023. (Kyodo)

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Figure skating: Four Continents

Figure skating: Four Continents

Japanese ice dancers Misato Komatsubara (L) and Takeru Komatsubara perform their free dance at the Four Continents Figure Skating Championships in Colorado Springs, Colorado, on Feb. 12, 2023.

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Figure skating: Four Continents

Figure skating: Four Continents

Japanese ice dancers Misato Komatsubara (L) and Takeru Komatsubara perform their free dance at the Four Continents Figure Skating Championships in Colorado Springs, Colorado, on Feb. 12, 2023.

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Skateboarding: World championships

Skateboarding: World championships

Kokona Hiraki of Japan competes en route to finishing second in the world championships' women's skateboard park final in Sharjah, the United Arab Emirates, on Feb. 12, 2023.

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Skateboarding: World championships

Skateboarding: World championships

Kokona Hiraki of Japan is pictured after competing in the world championships' women's skateboard park final in Sharjah, the United Arab Emirates, on Feb. 12, 2023.

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Aftermath of powerful quake in Turkey, Syria

Aftermath of powerful quake in Turkey, Syria

An excavator removes remnants of a collapsed building in Kahramanmaras, southern Turkey, on Feb. 12, 2023, following a powerful earthquake that struck the region and neighboring Syria.

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Aftermath of powerful quake in Turkey, Syria

Aftermath of powerful quake in Turkey, Syria

Women stand among rubble in Kahramanmaras, southern Turkey, on Feb. 12, 2023, following a powerful earthquake that struck the region and neighboring Syria.

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Speed skating: World Cup in Poland

Speed skating: World Cup in Poland

Japan's Miho Takagi competes en route to finishing second in the women's 1,000 meters at a World Cup speed skating meet in Tomaszow Mazowiecki, Poland, on Feb. 12, 2023.

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Fire festival at Aichi Pref. shrine

Fire festival at Aichi Pref. shrine

Men jump into flames rising from two giant torches at Toba Shinmei shrine in the Aichi Prefecture city of Nishio, central Japan, on Feb. 12, 2023. The men are competing for sacred trees placed in the fires at the annual fire festival, held after a two-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Fire festival at Aichi Pref. shrine

Fire festival at Aichi Pref. shrine

Men jump into flames rising from two giant torches at Toba Shinmei shrine in the Aichi Prefecture city of Nishio, central Japan, on Feb. 12, 2023. The men are competing for sacred trees placed in the fires at the annual fire festival, held after a two-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Fire festival at Aichi Pref. shrine

Fire festival at Aichi Pref. shrine

Men jump into flames rising from two giant torches at Toba Shinmei shrine in the Aichi Prefecture city of Nishio, central Japan, on Feb. 12, 2023. The men are competing for sacred trees placed in the fires at the annual fire festival, held after a two-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Crown Prince Fumihito at welfare organ meeting

Crown Prince Fumihito at welfare organ meeting

Japanese Crown Prince Fumihito speaks during a meeting of a social welfare organization in Yokohama near Tokyo on Feb. 12, 2023.

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Crown Prince Fumihito at welfare organ meeting

Crown Prince Fumihito at welfare organ meeting

Japanese Crown Prince Fumihito speaks during a meeting of a social welfare organization in Yokohama near Tokyo on Feb. 12, 2023.

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Environmental symposium in Hokkaido

Environmental symposium in Hokkaido

Former Japanese Environment Minister Shinjiro Koizumi makes a speech at a symposium on decarbonization in Kamikawa on the northernmost Japanese main island of Hokkaido on Feb. 12, 2023.

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Environmental symposium in Hokkaido

Environmental symposium in Hokkaido

Former Japanese Environment Minister Shinjiro Koizumi makes a speech at a symposium on decarbonization in Kamikawa on the northernmost Japanese main island of Hokkaido on Feb. 12, 2023.

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