TOPSHOTS French Foreign Legion troops work under a deployed parachute on January 30, 2013 at Timbuktu airport two days after freeing the northern Malian desert city. French troops on January 30 entered Kidal, the last Islamist bastion in Mali's north after a whirlwind Paris-led offensive, as France urged peace talks to douse ethnic tensions targeting Arabs and Tuaregs. AFP PHOTO / ERIC FEFERBERG