US President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Hyderabad House in New Delhi. Obama, who was chief guest during the Republic Day celebrations, became the first US president to visit India twice while in office. The US president announced $4 billion in government-backed investments and lending to India, as he sought to scale up a trade relationship he said was "defined by so
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Pope Francis is seen through a plastic cover as he arrives to visit Palo Cathedral near Tacloban airport on January 17, 2015. Storms greeted Pope Francis when he arrived in the central Philippines city of Tacloban on Saturday to pray for the dead and comfort survivors of Typhoon Haiyan, the country's worst natural disaster that killed 6,300 people barely a year ago
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Bank of Japan (BOJ) Governor Haruhiko Kuroda drinks water during a news conference at the BOJ headquarters in Tokyo on January 21, 2015. Two years into the so-called Abenomics, a mix of aggressive monetary and fiscal policy plus structural reform, the Bank of Japan is struggling to reach an ambitious inflation target and convince Japanese that years of deflation are in the past. On Wednes
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Holocaust survivor Hy Abrams, 90, poses for a portrait with a book that he carries with him every day that documents all the different concentration camps he was held in during the World War II, in the Brooklyn borough of New York on January 15, 2015. In a little leather book, Abrams keeps the names that still haunt him: Auschwitz, Plaszow, Mauthausen, Melk and Ebensee. It has been 70 yea
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Mourners gather around the grave of Saudi King Abdullah in Riyadh on January 23, 2015. King Abdullah was buried in an unmarked grave in keeping with local religious traditions. His successor pledged to maintain existing energy and foreign policies
