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This file photo shows a view of - Les Pleurants - (The Mourners), the sculptures are part of the tomb of the Second Duke of Normandy Jean sans Peur (1371-1419) and his wife Marguerite de Bavière. A "pleurant" (mourner) sculpture, estimated to be worth more than 2 million euros, is part of a judiciary battle between the Culture Ministry and a family to claim its ownership. JEFF PACHOUD / AFP
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A picture taken on December 29, 2017 in Paris shows a statue in front of the Eiffel Tower before its lights were switched off as a tribute for the victims of a suicide blast targeting Shiites in Kabul. More than 40 people were killed and dozens wounded in a suicide blast targeting Shiites in Kabul on December 28, officials said, with chaotic scenes at the city's hospitals as anguished families sought loved ones. The Sunni Islamic State group (IS) claimed responsibility for the gruesome assault on the pro-Iranian Tabayan cultural centre, the third deadly attack it has claimed in the Afghan capital this month. Zakaria ABDELKAFI / AFP
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People walk before the statues of late North Korean leaders Kim Il-Sung (L) and Kim Jong-Il (R) after laying flowers to mark the sixth anniversary of the death of Kim Jong-Il, at Mansu hill in Pyongyang on December 17, 2017. KIM Won-Jin / AFP
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A woman shops for yellow underwear in Medellin, Antioquia Department, Colombia, on December 29, 2017. Wearing yellow underwear and burning "Old Year dolls" on New Years' Eve are the most traditional superstitions in Colombian popular culture. Joaquin SARMIENTO / AFP
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Curator of the Rochefort's museums Claude Stefani (C) inspects the required restoration works in the house of late French writer Pierre Loti, in Rochefort on December 28, 2017. XAVIER LEOTY / AFP
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Italian conductor Riccardo Muti performs with Vienna's Philharmonic Orchestra during a Preview Performance ahead of the "New Year Concert 2018" in Vienna, Austria, on December 30, 2017. HANS PUNZ / APA / AFP
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People wearing bear skins parade as part of a new year and winter festival during which groups from northern Romanian villages are invited to sing winter carols and dance on December 29, 2017 in the city of Vatra Dornei. Daniel MIHAILESCU / AFP
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The Great Ferris Wheel is pictured near the Museum of Civilizations from Europe in the sunset, on December 30, 2017 in Marseille, southeastern France. BORIS HORVAT / AFP
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The stage and the illuminated Brandenburg Gate reflect in a puddle as preparations are under way for New Year's Eve celebrations in Berlin on December 30, 2017. Ralf Hirschberger / DPA / AFP
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This picture taken on December 24, 2017 shows an Indian bride posing as others show off their decorated hands at a mass wedding in Surat, some 270km from Ahmedabad. 251 fatherless girls were married off to partners in the mass wedding organized by the charitable PP Savani & Movaliya Groups. SAM PANTHAKY / AFP