Day in Photos, February 23, 2013
![Children of ethnic Hmong peddling souvenirs and drinks in Sapa, Lao Cai province in northwest Vietnam (Photo by Bùi Thụy Đào Nguyên/Vietnam/VOA reader)](https://gdb.voanews.com/20205537-84a5-4aef-bf57-e7f9e7a986b0_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Children of ethnic Hmong peddling souvenirs and drinks in Sapa, Lao Cai province in northwest Vietnam (Photo by Bùi Thụy Đào Nguyên/Vietnam/VOA reader)
![A farmer loads bananas atop a cargo vehicle to be transported to vendors in Manila, in Magsaysay, Occidental Mindoro in central Philippines.](https://gdb.voanews.com/a7ae97b5-e31e-41e5-872d-db7d2b533cea_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A farmer loads bananas atop a cargo vehicle to be transported to vendors in Manila, in Magsaysay, Occidental Mindoro in central Philippines.
![Competitors ski in the men's skiathlon competition at the Nordic World Ski Championships in the northern mountain resort of Tesero in Val di Fiemme, Italy.](https://gdb.voanews.com/873125ad-b466-4635-9eca-f0462101a99e_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Competitors ski in the men's skiathlon competition at the Nordic World Ski Championships in the northern mountain resort of Tesero in Val di Fiemme, Italy.
![A man cries at a site hit by what activists said was a Scud missile in Aleppo's Ard al-Hamra neighborhood, Syria.](https://gdb.voanews.com/8b79512a-5a85-4975-917e-e383e7025f11_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A man cries at a site hit by what activists said was a Scud missile in Aleppo's Ard al-Hamra neighborhood, Syria.