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• Jan. 30: In this photo distributed by Chiba Prefectural Government Office, the same package of a Chinese-made dumpling sold at a supermarket in Chiba near Tokyo is shown. At least 10 Japanese were sickened, including a child who fell in a coma, after eating the Chinese-made dumplings contaminated with insecticide, police and health officials said. The victims suffered severe abdominal pains, vomiting and diarrhea after eating the frozen dumplings imported from China by a Japanese company, the Health Ministry said.
• Jan. 30: Lebanese men help push a car as it slides on snow in Bhamdoun, in the central mountains east of Beirut, Lebanon. Lebanon was hit with a snow storm that blocked roads in the mountains and brought heavy rain to the capital, Beirut, and other coastal areas since Monday.
• Jan. 30: Dust rises from a residential house as the dead bodies of suspected militants lay on the ground during a gunbattle in Batpora, some 38 miles south of Srinagar, India. Three suspected rebels were killed in the battle with Indian forces in the troubled state of Jammu and Kashmir, police said.
• Jan. 30: Indian Congress Party President Sonia Gandhi pays her respects at a memorial at the site where Mohandas K. Gandhi, or Mahatma Gandhi, was assassinated in New Delhi, India. India commemorated the 60th anniversary of Mohandas K. Gandhi's assassination on Wednesday with his great-granddaughter scattering the peace icon's ashes in the sea off the country's most bustling metropolis
• Jan. 30: Dust, tin and bricks fly in the air as Indian paramilitary soldiers blast a residential house during a gunbattle in Batpora some 38 miles south of Srinagar, India. Three suspected rebels were killed in the battle with Indian forces in the troubled state of Jammu and Kashmir, police said.
• Jan. 30: People wait in a line to pay their respects to the body of Greece's Orthodox Church leader, Archbishop Christodoulos, at Athens Cathedral. Visitors from around the country waited up to three hours outside the city's cathedral, where the body lay in state following his death on Monday. Archbishop Christodoulos died of cancer at his home, aged 69, and was to be buried Thursday morning. Church bishops were to meet Feb. 7 to elect a successor.
• Jan. 30: Women mourn during the funeral of Alaa Abdul-Karim al-Fartoosi, a 29-year-old Iraqi cameraman who worked for al-Forat TV in Baghdad, Iraq. Al-Fartoosi was traveling with three colleagues when a roadside bomb went off next to their car in Balad, 50 miles north of Baghdad, killing him and the driver and wounding two others.
• Jan. 30: Taxi drivers block the Place de la Republique in Paris to protest a government plan to open up the profession to more competition. Several thousand cab drivers parked their cars in the large Place de la Republique, some of whose vehicles bore banners reading 'Angry Taxi' or 'Don't touch my taxi' on their windshields.
• Jan. 30: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad reacts to a crowd on his regular provincial visit to the southern Iranian port of Bushehr, where the first light-water nuclear power plant of the country is under construction by Russia, 720 miles south of Tehran. Ahmadinejad on Wednesday urged western powers to participate in the construction of nuclear power plants for his country, state television reported.
• Jan. 30: A carp is released to Hoan Kiem Lake in Hanoi,Vietnam, for a ceremony of Tet, Vietnamese New Year. Traditionally, Vietnamese families offer three carp to the three kitchen guardians when the three guardians return to heaven on the 23rd day of the last month of the Chinese calendar, which is on a Wednesday this year. After the ceremony the fish are released into ponds, lakes or rivers.
• Jan. 30: Police bomb squad members gather pieces of evidence following an explosion at a fish-processing plant at General Santos City in southern Philippines that killed three people and wounded 24. The blast was caused by an improvised bomb and occurred near the gate of the Philbest canning factory as workers were changing shift and many were milling around, police said.
• Jan. 30: Costumers line up to buy confiscated food at the National Guard headquarters in San Antonio, on Venezuela's western border with Colombia. The National Guard is selling at discount prices tons of goods confiscated from smugglers on the border. President Hugo Chavez is cracking down on the smuggling of staples including rice, flour and sugar to Colombia.
• Jan. 30: Costumers line up to buy confiscated food at the National Guard headquarters in San Antonio, on Venezuela's western border with Colombia. The National Guard is selling at discount prices tons of goods confiscated from smugglers on the border. President Hugo Chavez is cracking down on the smuggling of staples including rice, flour and sugar to Colombia.
• Jan. 30: Opposition leader Raila Odinga addresses a crowd at the entrance to the Kibera slum in Nairobi. Six charred, slashed bodies were brought to the Nairobi mortuary Wednesday after a night of violence in the slums sparked by the death of an opposition legislator. Elsewhere, Kikuyus were on the offensive after suffering most of the violence that followed a disputed presidential vote.
• Jan. 30: Palestinians walk past palm trees and the walls of Jerusalem's Old City during a snowstorm that blanketed Jerusalem and other parts of the Holy Land in white on Wednesday, closing schools and stores and grounding transportation.