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UN troops dispersed protesters by firing tear gas. -
On Wednesday, as Young Patriots surrounded state TV headquarters in Abidjan, protesters further west attacked a UN base, sparking clashes in which at least four people died. -
UN forces fled the base and withdrew to the north. In Abidjan, Ivorian security forces were on the streets but did little to stop the unrest. -
Nepal clashes
Demonstrators have taken to the streets of Kathmandu in protest at Nepali King Gyanendra's absolute power. -
Police confronted the activists, who defied a new ban on rallies. -
Some of the pro-democracy protesters hurled stones, in what correspondents described as a rally with a bitter atmosphere. -
Many were bundled into police trucks. -
Both activists and police were reportedly injured in the clashes. -
Residents looked worried as the violence escalated after a crackdown on activists on Friday. -
Day in pictures: 24 January 2006
Freezing weather continues to affect much of central and eastern Europe, including Moscow, where St Basil's Cathedral is seen through an iced-up window. -
A bus driver in Indian Punjab prepares to set out from the city of Amritsar across the border to the Pakistani city of Lahore, in the latest confidence-building measure. -
Rhys Jones, aged 19, of Hampshire in the UK, stands atop Mount Vinson in Antarctica, the youngest person to scale the 4,876m (16,000ft) peak. He has just returned home. -
In Ukraine's capital, Kiev, a policeman stands guard amid more freezing winter weather. -
Rescuers pull a survivor from the wreckage of a four-storey building, which collapsed on Monday, in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi. -
A Chinese woman in the city of Nanjing has her hairstyle tweaked in advance of the Chinese New Year, which begins on 29 January. -
Riot police in Nepal clash with a pro-democracy protester in the capital Kathmandu, a day after a week-long ban on rallies was lifted. -
Day in pictures: 25 January 2006
A model displays a creation by French fashion designer Franck Sorbier for his Haute Couture spring-summer 2006 collection presented in Paris. -
Prince Harry, third in line to the British throne and pictured on army exercise, has announced he is to join the Blues and Royals regiment of the Household Cavalry. -
An enthusiastic Palestinian votes at a polling station in Gaza City. -
The Parthenon in Athens is shrouded in white after heavy snowfalls in Greece. -
A Nepalese police officer fires a teargas shell at students in the Patan Campus in Nepal's capital Kathmandu. -
Wild ducks fly above a frozen lake in Bucharest, Romania, where at least 22 people have died during freezing temperatures. -
Reuters - Mon Jan 23, 6:09 AM ET
Kashmiri earthquake survivors carry valuables from the Kamsar camp some 10 km (6 miles) north of the earthquake-devastated city of Muzaffarabad in Pakistan-administered Kashmir January 23, 2006. The two-time refugees returned to the village to collect valuables, wood and metal roofs to build makeshift shelters in a new camp in Muzaffarabad. More than two million people have been living in tents or crude shelters patched together from ruined homes since the October 8, 2005 quake killed more than 73,000 people in northern Pakistan. REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis -
AP - Tue Jan 24, 8:14 AM ET
Tourists take photos under colorful lanterns on display at the Kek Lok Si temple in Penang Island, Malaysia, for the upcoming Chinese New Year celebrations Monday, Jan. 24, 2006. Chinese throughout the world will be celebrating Chinese lunar new year which falls on Jan. 29. (AP Photo/Gary Chuah) -
Reuters - Tue Jan 24,12:29 AM ET
Eight-year-old monkey Gun-Mo skates on the ice during a promotional event for the 2006 Animal Academy show, which runs until February 10 in Seoul , January 24, 2006. The monkey was drilled to skate for two weeks, the animal trainer said. REUTERS/You Sung-Ho