Images: Valentine’s Day Around The World
A Pakistani vendor sells roses heart-shaped balloons on a Valentines Day in Lahore, Pakistan. Writing on the wall reads with love, hate nobody.
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Jorge Shafik Handal, who is running for mayor of San Salvador for the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front, gives a flower to a women for Valentines Day as he campaigns in San Salvador, El Salvador, Tuesday Feb. 14, 2012. El Salvador will hold elections for congressional representatives and mayors on March 11.
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A Chinese couple kiss for 60 seconds to receive a free food in a kissing competition at a cafe in Shanghai, China.
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A Pakistani man prepares balloons for Valentines Day at a street in Islamabad, Pakistan, .
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A customer buys red roses for celebrations of Valentines Day at a flower market in Nairobi, Kenya.
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Lovers kiss on a square in Shanghai, China, on Valentines Day.
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African penguin Howard carries a valentine heart written by a visitor to the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, Monday, Feb. 13, 2012.
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A Kenyan woman sells a bouquet of red roses to a customer for celebrations of Valentines Day at a flower market in Nairobi, Kenya.
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FedEx worker Johnny Brown sorts some of about 25,000 boxes of flowers from Pro Flowers at the FedEx airport facility at the Oakland Airport in Oakland, Calif., Monday, Feb. 13, 2012 in time for delivery on Valentines Day on Tuesday. The flowers were grown in different parts of Northern California and will be delivered to points across the U.S.
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A man selects a red rose for celebrations of Valentines Day at a flower market in Shanghai, China.
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Penguin biologist Brooke Weinstein gives Howard, an African penguin, a valentine heart written by visitors to the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, Monday, Feb. 13, 2012.
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Don French, of Costa Mesa, Calif., shops for roses for his girlfriend for Valentines Day at Orange County Wholesale Flowers Monday, Feb. 13, 2012 in Santa Ana, Calif. The shop sells about 5,000 dozen roses for the Valentines rush, mostly to shops.
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A Pakistani vendor holds heart-shaped balloons while he waits for customers at a roadside on Valentines Day in Islamabad, Pakistan on Tuesday, Feb 14, 2012.
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Newly married couple Nonilon and Concepción Elizalde embrace following a mass wedding sponsored by the city of Paranaque, south of Manila, Philippines on Valentines Day. More than 300 couples, all residents of the city, tied the knot Tuesday that becomes the annual tradition of the city on Valentines Day.
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A couple displays their wedding rings during a mass wedding sponsored by the city of Paranaque, south of Manila, Philippines on Valentines Day. More than 300 couples, all residents of the city, tied the knot Tuesday that becomes the annual tradition of the city on Valentines Day.
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An Indian man waits for customers as he sells balloons for Valentines Day at a market in New Delhi, India.
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Yang Guang the panda attempts to lick a Valentines Day cake which was donated to Edinburgh Zoos animal keepers by a local cakemaker. The four-tiered vanilla sponge is decorated in honor of Pandas Tian Tian and Yang Guang. It features the black and white animals nestling together among bamboo and red hearts.
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Lela Mc Arthur, right, and Stephanie Figarelle, of Anchorage, Ak., drink champagne after their Valentines Day wedding ceremony at the Empire State Building in New York. The two women, who met at the University of Alaska, have become the first same-sex couple to be married at the Empire State Building.
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A Kenyan woman arranges red roses for customers for celebrations of Valentines Day at a flower market in Nairobi, Kenya.
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A Pakistani poor girl sells roses at a street on Valentines Day in Lahore, Pakistan.
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