January 9, 2015

In this Friday, Jan. 9, 2015 photo, a Libyan honor guard stands at attention during the arrival of U.N. Special Envoy to Libya Bernardino Leon in Tripoli.(AP Photo/Mohammed Ben Khalifa)

Boys play a fighting game on an improvised swing in a slum that hosts Afghan refugees and internally displaced Pakistanis from tribal areas on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan, Friday, Jan. 9, 2015. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

Broken pens lay on the ground as members of a leftist party gather outside the French consulate to pay tribute to the victims of the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, in Istanbul, Turkey, Friday, Jan. 9, 2015. 12 people were killed on Jan. 7 in a terrorist attack at the Charlie Hebdo headquarters in Paris. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)

A day after his release, Wilberto Parada, 42, center, is reflected in a mirror with his son and wife, during an interview, in his home in Havana, Cuba, Friday, Jan. 9, 2015. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

A visitor walks past a mural of Mahatma Gandhi’s freedom movement at Dandi Kutir, an exhibition on Mahatma Gandhi, in Gandhinagar, India , Friday, Jan. 9, 2015. The exhibition traces the life and times of Mahatma Gandhi, regarded as the father of the nation, through various phases. (AP Photo/ Ajit Solanki)

A Kashmiri Muslim woman holds up medical reports, with the belief that ailments will be healed, as devotees raise their hands towards a relic, believed to be a hair from the beard of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad, being displayed by a priest at the Hazratbal shrine on the Friday following Eid-e- Milad, marking the birth anniversary of the Prophet, in Srinagar, India, Friday, Jan. 9, 2015. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

A man jogs in Yokohama, near Tokyo, Friday, Jan. 9, 2015. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

President Barack Obama walks out of the Oval Office of the White House in Washington ,Friday, Jan. 9, 2015, before his departure on Marine One to Andrews Air Force Base, Md. Obama is traveling to Knoxville, Tenn., today to formally announce his plan for a tuition-free Community College at an event at Pellissippi State Community College. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

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