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In today’s pictures, a swimmer plays with snow in Russia, a dog celebrates Boxing Day in England, Indonesia remembers a deadly tsunami eight years later, and more.

Muslim pilgrims climb a rocky hill called the Mountain of Mercy on the Plain of Arafat near the holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012. Saudi authorities say around 3.4 million pilgrims, some 1.7 million of them from abroad, have arrived in the holy cities of Mecca and Medina for this year’s [...]