January 12, 2015

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A Nepalese labor works at a cement lined pipe factory on the outskirts of Kathmandu, Nepal, Monday, Jan. 12, 2015. Laborers usually work from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. everyday earning $105 per month. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

Haitians walk to Mass, past the ruins of the National Cathedral during the 5th anniversary of the January 2010 earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Monday, Jan. 12, 2015. Somber Haitians gathered early Monday to remember the devastating earthquake that left much of the capital and surrounding area in ruins in one of the worst natural disasters of modern times. ( AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)

A man in suit wears a “Je Suis Charlie” (I am Charlie) button, during a gathering in solidarity with victims of the recent Paris terrorist attacks, at the Plaza de Francia in Panama City, Monday, Jan. 12, 2015. A group of foreign residents and Panamanian citizens gathered to protest against the recent terrorist attacks in France. (AP Photo/Arnulfo Franco)

An honor guard stands at attention as Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal, not pictured, arrives following an inaugural ceremony to begin his second term in office, Monday, Jan. 12, 2015, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Kimono-clad women, who reach the age of 20 this year, ride a roller coaster following their Coming of Age ceremony at Tokyo’s Toshimaen amusement park on the Coming of Age Day national holiday in Tokyo, Monday, Jan. 12, 2015. The event was hosted by the amusement park to celebrate the coming of age for the participants. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)

An Afghan refugee schoolgirl displays her hands decorated with Bangles and painted with Henna paste during class at a makeshift school on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan, Monday, Jan. 12, 2015. Pakistani children and staff returned to a school in northwestern Pakistan where Taliban gunmen nearly a month ago killed 150 people almost all of them students. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

Indonesian air force personnel carry the flight data recorder of the ill-fated AirAsia Flight 8501 that crashed in the Java Sea, at the airport in Pangkalan Bun, Indonesia, Monday, Jan. 12, 2015. Divers retrieved one black box Monday and located the other from the AirAsia plane that crashed more than two weeks ago, a key development that should help investigators unravel what caused the aircraft to plummet into the Java Sea. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim)

The town of Sinjar is seen through a bulletproof window damaged by sniper fire from Sunni extremist fighters of the Islamic State group at a viewpoint in a Peshmerga base on the frontline with the extremists, near Sinjar, Iraq, Monday Jan. 12, 2015. Kurdish forces have taken back a large part of the town of Sinjar since the Sunni extremists occupied it in August last year. (AP Photo/Bram Janssen)

People walk up and down a steep street next to the Gloria funicular tracks in Lisbon, Monday, Jan. 12, 2015. Gloria, Bica and Lavra are the three street funiculars in the capital that help locals and tourists move up and down its hilly districts. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

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