Wednesday: The day in photos
Israeli soldiers gesture from an armored personnel carrier at the start of a temporary ceasefire along the Israeli-Gaza border in Israel.
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(Spencer Platt / Getty Images)
Family members cry during a funeral for 10 relatives who were killed Tuesday in an Israeli attack on a United Nations school in Gaza. Israel said Hamas militants had been firing mortar rounds from the school.
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(Mahmud Hams / AFP / Getty Images)
Palestinian children whose families fled their homes because of the Israeli military offensive in the Gaza Strip take shelter at a school run by the
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An icebreaker cuts a channel through the Elbe River near Doemitz, Germany. Ice had halted regular ship traffic on the Elbe. (Jens Buettner / EPA)
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Iranian and Iraqi Shiites beat their chests during a ritual held on the final day of the mourning period of Ashura inside Tehran’s Karbalaiya mosque. Ashura marks the anniversary of the battlefield death in the seventh century of Imam Hussein, a grandson of the prophet Muhammad. (Behrouz Mehri / AFP / Getty Images)
Gael Monfils of France eyes the ball during his match against fellow countryman Nicolas Devilder in the second round at the ATP Qatar tennis open in Doha, Qatar. (Hassan Ammar / Associated Press)
Snow falls on Quai du Port street in Marseille’s old harbor in southern France. Snow and freezing temperatures hit a swath of Europe on Wednesday. (Claude Paris / Associated Press)
