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A fighter of Libyan forces allied with the U.N.-backed government uses a drone to observe Islamic State fighters positions in Sirte, Libya, July 26, 2016.
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First Lady Michelle Obama smiles as she takes the podium at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. July 25, 2016.
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An aerial view shows the 2016 Rio Olympics golf venue in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 16, 2016. Picture taken July 16, 2016.
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Guests sit at tables suspended from cranes at a height of 40 metres in front of the Atomium, a 102-metre (335 feet) high structure and its nine spheres, built for the 1958 Brussels World's Fair, as part of the 10th anniversary of the event known as "Dinner in the Sky", in Brussels, Belgium June 1, 2016.
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Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus walks the floor ahead of the third night of the Republican National Convention at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio July 20, 2016.
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People hold umbrellas as they walk past a flooded street in Taiyuan, Shanxi Province, China, July 19, 2016.
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A swan is examined during Swan Upping, the annual census of the swan population on the River Thames, in a week long exercise where unmarked mute swans are now counted - rather than eaten - in a tradition exercised by the British Crown for nearly 900 years, at Sunbury, Southern England, July 18, 2016.
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Cycling - The Tour de France cycling race - The 208.5-km (129.5 miles) Stage 14 from Montelimar to Villars-les-Dombes, Parc des Oiseaux, France - 16/07/2016 - A bee flies close to a sunflower as the pack of riders cycles during the stage.
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Larry the Downing street cat waits to enter number 10, London, Britain September 7, 2015. Britain's Prime Minister, David Cameron will address to Parliament regarding the migrant crisis in Europe later on today.
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Alpha jets from the Patrouille de France fly in an 'Eiffel Tower' formation over the Champs Elysees at the start of the traditional Bastille Day military parade in Paris, France, July 14, 2016.
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A dog is seen on a swimming board at dog beach and bar in Crikvenica, Croatia, July 12, 2016. The first Croatian beach bar specifically designed for dogs opens in the northern Adriatic town of Crikvenica, enabling canines and their owners to experience the joys of summertime together. Located at one of the few dog friendly beaches in the country, the bar's offer includes specially prepared ice cream, dog beer and snacks.
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Runners lead Jandilla bulls during the fifth running of the bulls at the San Fermin festival in Pamplona, northern Spain, July 11, 2016.
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A demonstrator protesting the shooting death of Alton Sterling is detained by law enforcement near the headquarters of the Baton Rouge Police Department in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, U.S. July 9, 2016.
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Girls attend a celebration on the traditional Ivana Kupala (Ivan the Bather) holiday, the ancient tradition, originating from pagan times, is usually marked with grand overnight festivities during which people sing and dance around campfires, believing it will purge them of their sins and make them healthier, in Kiev, Ukraine, July 6, 2016.
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Employees save pigs from a flooded farm in Lu'an, Anhui Province, China July 5, 2016. Picture taken July 5, 2016.
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People watch fireworks in the form of a 'smiley face' during the 4th of July Independence Day celebrations at the National Mall in Washington, U.S., July 4, 2016.
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An Afghan boy jumps for a swim at Qargha lake in Kabul, Afghanistan
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Forensic experts work outside Turkey's largest airport, Istanbul Ataturk, Turkey, following a blast, June 28, 2016.
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Football Soccer - England v Iceland - EURO 2016 - Round of 16 - Stade de Nice, Nice, France - 27/6/16Iceland's Aron Gunnarsson celebrates after the game.
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A Hindu devotee performs a stunt with fire during a rehearsal for the annual Rath Yatra, or chariot procession, which commemorates a journey by Hindu god Jagannath, his brother Balabhadra and sister Subhadra, in specially made chariots, in Ahmedabad, India, June 26, 2016. REUTERS/Amit Dave
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Leave.eu supporters celebrate the result in Sunderland after polling stations closed in the Referendum on the European Union in London, Britain, June 23, 2016. REUTERS/Toby Melville
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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg shows the many different collars (jabots) she wears with her robes, in her chambers at the Supreme Court building in Washington, U.S. June 17, 2016.
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U.S. Customs and Border Patrol officer Constantino Zarate tries to herd an Emu off the highway as a wildfire continues to burn north of the U.S. Mexico border near Potrero, California, U.S. June 21, 2016. REUTERS/Mike Blake
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EURO 2016 - Saint Etienne, France - 20/6/16 - An female England fan wears a mask of Queen Elizabeth II as she rides on the shoulders of her mates gathering in Saint Etienne ahead of their team's match against Slovakia. REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay
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A participant dressed as a mermaid goes to swim in the beach after taking part in the Annual Mermaid Parade in Brooklyn, New York, June 18, 2016. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz
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A participant stands behind a rainbow flag during a vigil in memory of the victims of the Pulse gay nightclub shooting in Orlando, Florida, in Mumbai, India June 16, 2016.
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Portugal v Iceland - EURO 2016 Portugal's Cristiano Ronaldo reacts
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Paramilitary policemen take part in a training session in Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China, June 12, 2016.
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A Guardsman faints at Horseguards Parade for the annual Trooping the Colour ceremony in central London, Britain June 11, 2016. Trooping the Colour is a ceremony to honour Queen Elizabeth's official birthday. The Queen celebrates her 90th birthday this year.
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A hearse carrying the body of the late Muhammad Ali drives down Muhammad Ali Boulevard to Cave Hill Cemetery in Louisville, Kentucky, U.S. June 10, 2016.
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Musafir, a pet monkey, eats a Jalebi sweet on a pavement in Kolkata, India on June 9, 2016.
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Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton arrives to speak during her California primary night rally held in the Brooklyn borough of New York, U.S., June 7, 2016.
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A volunteer reacts during the YARKOcross colour run race in Almaty, Kazakhstan, June 5, 2016.
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An Arcelor Mittal steel worker, dressed in a protective work suit with a mask of Darth Vader from Star Wars, holds flares during a demonstration in protest of the government's proposed labour law reforms in Marseille, France.
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Flowers lay around a bronze statue of a gorilla and her baby outside the Cincinnati Zoo's Gorilla World exhibit, two days after a boy tumbled into its moat and officials were forced to kill Harambe, a Western lowland gorilla, in Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.
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A woman sits at the edge of the field of United States flags displayed by the Massachusetts Military Heroes Fund on the Boston Common in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. ahead of the Memorial Day holiday on May 30. The 37,000 U.S. flags are planted in memory of every fallen Massachusetts service member from the Revolutionary War to the present.
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A visitor to the Sydney Botanical Garden's inaugural contribution to the Vivid Sydney light festival takes a picture of the 'Cathedral of Light' during a preview of the annual interactive light installation and projection event around Sydney, Australia
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Britain's Queen Elizabeth II is pictured through a gap in a floral exhibit by the New Covent Garden Flower Market, which features an image of the Queen, during a visit to the 2016 Chelsea Flower Show in central London.
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A monkey sits on an idol of Buddha during celebrations on the birth anniversary of Buddha, also known as Vesak Day, in Kathmandu, Nepal.
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Clowns participate in a parade during the VIII Central America Clown Convention in San Salvador, El Salvador.
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A man stands in a building earmarked for demolition in the Mathare neighbourhood of Nairobi, Kenya. Kenya's authorities tore down a badly built residential block in the poor Nairobi district on Tuesday, one of more than 250 shoddy buildings that could now face demolition after a six-story structure collapsed this month killing 51 people.
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U.S. President Barack Obama (R) honors Officer Donald Thompson of the Los Angeles Police Department, who received first and second-degree burns while pulling a motorist to safety moments before their car burst into flames, with the Medal of Valor at the White House in Washington, U.S. May 16, 2016.
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A customer pets a cat while another looks at a menu inside "Meow" cafe, where diners can play, interact or adopt cats given away by their former owners or rescued from the streets, in Monterrey, Mexico.
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Clouds of tear gas surround people who walk with an umbrella near the Invalides monument during clashes between protestors and French police during a demonstration against French labour law reform in Paris, France.
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Paratroopers jump out of a plane during an opening ceremony of U.S. led joint military exercise "Noble Partner 2016" in Vaziani, Georgia.
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Iceland's Greta Salome rehearses the song Hear Them Calling during the jury show at the Ericsson Globe Arena in Stockholm, Sweden May 9, 2016. The Eurovision Song Contest 2016 starts with the first semifinal on Tuesday, May 10.
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Swimming- European Aquatics Championships- London, Britain, 9/5/2016. Michele Benedetti of Italy competes during the diving team event.
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Foreign reporters and their government guides follow, in newspapers and broadcast on television, the address by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) congress, at a hotel in central Pyongyang, North Korea.
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Protesting refugees and migrants are pushed back by Greek police during a protest at a makeshift camp at the Greek-Macedonian border near the village of Idomeni, Greece.
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Visitors stand next to an exhibit comprising of shoes belonging to Holocaust victims during a visit to Yad Vashem's Holocaust History Museum in Jerusalem. Beginning Wednesday night, Israel marks its annual Holocaust Remembrance Day commemorating the six million Jews killed by the Nazis during World War Two.
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A woman sits on a terrace at Tiki hostel in Cantagalo favela, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Hostels in a few of RioÕs more than 1,000 slums serve not only as a cheap housing alternative for the more adventurous among the estimated 500,000 foreign tourists expected to arrive for the Olympics in August. The establishments also open up the rich culture of the city's shantytowns for travellers, giving them a glimpse into once "no-go" areas where about one-fifth of Rio's population lives.
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American slackliner Heather Larsen crosses a high wire between two towers at the Tower of David Museum in Jerusalem's Old City. Wearing a harness attached to the line, Larsen walked across a 35 meter span and then a 20 meter line inside the courtyard of the ancient museum of Jerusalem's Tower of David, named after the Biblical king. REUTERS/Nir Elias TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - RTX2CEMF
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Humanoid Diving Robot OceanOne, with a humanoid torso and a mermaid-like tail section, studded with thrusters and sensors to keep the mer-bot swimming is seen during its presentation at the History Museum in Marseille, France. The OceanOne team wants their robotic coworker to eventually find work in disaster relief, ship repair, oil and gas drilling, and other oceanographic research aside from exploring shipwrecks.
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A 3D-printed Sanpang strawberry milk flavoured ice-cream is seen at the Iceason ice-cream shop in Shanghai, China. Sanpang is a Chinese nickname for North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
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A gold prospector is detained by agents of Brazils environmental agency on the Uraricoera River during an operation against illegal gold mining on indigenous land, in the heart of the Amazon rainforest, in Roraima state, Brazil. At over 9.5 million hectares, the Yanomami territory is twice the size of Switzerland and home to around 27,000 indians. The land has legally belonged to the Yanomami since 1992, but illegal miners continue to plague the area, sawing down trees and poisoning rivers with mercury in their lust for gold.
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At dusk the blast furnaces are lit up at the now-closed Bethlehem Steel mill in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, U.S. After Bethlehem Steel's blast furnaces went silent 20 years ago in the city of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, the local economy bounced back as new industrial parks filled with e-commerce companies and white-collar businesses fleeing New York's higher costs. That adds to the challenge for Donald Trump, Republican nominee for the U.S. presidency, as he seeks voters' backing in the state's primary on April 26.
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Tourists watch actors perform the Romeo and Juliet window scene at the house where William Shakespeare was born during celebrations to mark the 400th anniversary of the playwright's death in Stratford-Upon-Avon, Britain.
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Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau trains at Gleason's Boxing Gym in Brooklyn, New York, U.S. Trudeau put on his boxing gloves and shared some of his best moves in the ring with a group of students in New York.
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Britain's Prince William is hugged by Chewbacca as British actor John Boyega smiles during a tour of the Star Wars sets at Pinewood studios in Iver Heath, west of London, Britain. Prince William and Prince Harry are touring Pinewood to visit the production workshops and meet the creative teams working behind the scenes on the Star Wars films.
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Celeste Corcoran, who lost both her legs in the Boston Marathon bombings, greets runners at they finish the120th running of the Boston Marathon in Boston, Massachusetts.
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The Villarrica Volcano is seen at night in Chile, April 16, 2016. Villarrica is one of Chile's most active volcanoes. Picture taken with long exposure.
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Ivan Shamyanok, 90, shaves in his house in the village of Tulgovichi, near the exclusion zone around the Chernobyl nuclear reactor, Belarus. Shamyanok says the secret to a long life is not leaving your birthplace even when it is a Belarusian village poisoned with radioactive fallout from a nuclear disaster. In April 1986, a botched test at a nuclear plant in Chernobyl, Ukraine, sent clouds of smouldering nuclear material across swathes of Europe and forced more than 100,000 people to leave a permanently contaminated "exclusion zone". April 26, 2016 marks the 30th anniversary of the worst nuclear meltdown in history.
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U.S. President Barack Obama blows bubbles during the 2016 White House Science Fair in Washington. The bubble maker was made on a 3D printer by Jacob Leggette, 9, of Baltimore, Maryland.
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A boy sits on his ball next to a border fence on the Greek side of the border, as Macedonian police stand guard on the Macedonian side, close to a makeshift camp for refugees and migrants near the Greek village of Idomeni. Picture taken from the Greek side of the border.
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A devotee with his body painted poses as he waits to perform during a ritual as part of the annual Shiva Gajan religious festival at Sona Palasi village, in West Bengal, India. Devotees offer sacrifices and perform acts of devotion during the festival in the hopes of winning the favour of Hindu god Shiva and ensuring the fulfillment of their wishes, and also to mark the end of the Bengali calendar year.
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A white Bengal tiger cub plays with its sister, a golden Bengal tiger cub, at the Circo de Renato (Renato Circus) in Ciudad Sandino, Nicaragua.
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Italian police clash with demonstrators during a protest against Prime Minister Matteo Renzi during a visit to the southern city of Naples, Italy.
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People dressed as Hungarian Hussars and Austrian soldiers of the Habsburg dynasty take part in the re-enactment of the battle in Tapiobicske, Hungary.
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Participants throw their pillows during the International Pillow Fight Day at Liberty Square, in Taipei, Taiwan.
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A rebel fighter jumps through a fire loop as he demonstrates his skill during a military display as part of a graduation ceremony at a camp in the north of Hama province, Syria.
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One of two rescued endangered olive ridley turtles arrives at Sea World's animal rescue center after being flown from the Oregon coast by the U.S. Coast Guard to San Diego, California.
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A diver takes pictures as people look at sharks from an underwater room structure installed in the Aquarium of Paris, France. Airbnb and the Aquarium of Paris offer contest winners a night underwater sleeping with sharks and create a research platform for "misunderstood" shark species. Picture taken March 14, 2016.
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U.S. President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama perform a reading of the children's book "Where the Wild Things Are" for children gathered for the annual White House Easter Egg Roll on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington.
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An Ultra-Orthodox Jewish boy (C) from the Belz Hasidic dynasty dressed in a Purim costume takes part in the reading from the Book of Esther ceremony performed on the Jewish holiday of Purim, in Jerusalem. Purim is a celebration of the Jews' salvation from genocide in ancient Persia, as recounted in the Book of Esther.
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A gaucho is unseated by an unbroken or untamed horse during Creole week celebrations in Montevideo. All Easter week gauchos all over Uruguay and neighboring Argentina and Brazil come to Montevideo to compete for the award of best rider.
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A 1934 Morris car is stands in a car repair shop which used to service the monarch's vehicles, at Fouad street in Alexandria, Egypt. In Egypt's Alexandria, Fouad Street reflects the city's rich history and is known for its elegant villas and antique shops. Today the Mediterranean coastal city, once a melting pot of nationalities and faith groups, is overcrowded and dilapidated, like many of Egypt's urban centres. Fouad, among the city's oldest streets and once home to a Greek poet and a British novelist, today features modern retail brands and is an area still popular with antique fans and art lovers.
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The flag of Belgium flies at half mast alongside the Union Flag on the roof of 10 Downing Street after the Brussels attacks, in London.
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Photographers take pictures as the Soyuz TMA-20M spacecraft carrying the crew of Jeff Williams of the U.S., Alexey Ovchinin and Oleg Skripochka of Russia blasts off to the International Space Station (ISS) from the launchpad at the Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan.
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A Steller sea lion eats fish during a press visit at the Marineland Zoo in Antibes before its reopening, six months after the flooding that affected the French Riviera in October 2015, in Antibes, France.
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Christian volunteers, who have joined the Kurdish Peshmerga fighters, take part in a training session by coalition forces in a training camp in Duhok province, Iraq.
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A farmer harvests broccoli in the town of al-Ansariyeh south of Sidon, Lebanon.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Swiss President Johann Schneider-Ammann (R) look at head-mounted display units on the Brother International exhibition stand during a media tour of the world's biggest computer and software fair, CeBit, in Hanover, Germany.
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U.S. Secret Service agents detain a man after a disturbance as U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump spoke at Dayton International Airport in Dayton, Ohio.
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Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s (TEPCO) tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is illuminated for decommissioning operation in the dusk in Okuma town, Fukushima prefecture, Japan, in this aerial view photo taken by Kyodo, a day before the five-year anniversary of the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster.
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A supporter of Republican U.S. presidential candidate Marco Rubio sits by herself after a campaign rally in Miami, Florida.
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A woman with her face painted with a drawing of a screaming mouth shouts slogans during a demonstration to mark International Women's Day and to demand policies to prevent femicides outside the Congress in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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Members of Pokrov youth military club take part in a training session in the village of Beryozovka, near Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, Russia. The club was founded in 2008 by Andrei Krapitus, a former sergeant in the airborne troops, for children and youth to learn skills they can use to prepare for army service.
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A rebel fighter from 'Jaysh al-Sunna' holds his weapon as he stands behind sand barricade in Tel Mamo village, in the southern countryside of Aleppo, Syria.
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A military band rehearses ahead of the opening session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China.
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A protester with her mouth taped over with the word "life" stands in front of the U.S. Supreme Court on the morning the court takes up a major abortion case focusing on whether a Texas law that imposes strict regulations on abortion doctors and clinic buildings interferes with the constitutional right of a woman to end her pregnancy, in Washington.
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U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton arrives at her Super Tuesday primary night party in Miami, Florida.
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A migrant walks past a burning makeshift shelter set ablaze in protest against the partial dismantlement of the camp for migrants called the "jungle", in Calais, northern France. Work began on Monday to clear a shanty town outside Calais used by migrants trying to reach Britain after the French government won a legal battle to dismantle part of the camp.
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Lady Gaga sings her Oscar-nominated song "Til It Happens to You" at the 88th Academy Awards in Hollywood, California. Vice President Joe Biden made a special appearance at the Oscars ceremony on Sunday to advocate for victims of sexual assault and introduced a powerful performance by Lady Gaga that featured survivors of sexual abuse.
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A man participates in the Red Bull Jump & Freeze Lebanon at Mzaar Kfardebian Ski Resort in mount Lebanon February 28, 2016.
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A tiger jumps while being trained at the Tiger Temple in Kanchanaburi province, west of Bangkok, Thailand, February 25, 2016.
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Peruvian surfer Carlos 'Huevito' Areola rides a reed board, or "caballito" (little horse), into a wave at Sydney's Bondi Beach. Areola is part of a group of Peruvian surfers touring Australias east coast to promote the use of the caballito. The "caballito" is thought to have been invented around 3,000 BC in northern Peru.
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A Buddhist monk lights a candle at Wat Phra Dhammakaya during a ceremony on Makha Bucha Day in Pathum Thani province, north of Bangkok. The Dhammakaya temple is regarded as the country's richest Buddhist temple. Makha Bucha Day honours Buddha and his teachings, and falls on the full moon day of the third lunar month.
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People wear Samsung Gear VR devices as they attend the launching ceremony of the new Samsung S7 and S7 edge smartphones during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain.
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New York Islanders right wing Cal Clutterbuck (15) hits Washington Capitals defenseman Dmitry Orlov (9) during the second period at Barclays Center.
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Australian dog trainer and former surfing champion Chris de Aboitiz rides a wave with his dogs Millie (L) and Rama off Sydney's Palm Beach. An Australian dog trainer and former surfing champion is using the discipline of surfing as a way of teaching owners to build healthy relationships with man's best friend.
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A H-IIA rocket, carrying X-ray astronomy satellite "ASTRO-H", lifts off from the launch pad at Tanegashima Space Center on the Japanese southwestern island of Tanegashima, in this photo taken by Kyodo.
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Police stop demonstrators during a protest against the students of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) outside the university campus in New Delhi, India. India's biggest nationwide student protests in a quarter of a century spread across campuses on Monday after the arrest of a student accused of sedition, in the latest battle with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government over freedom of expression. Outrage over the arrest of the left-wing student leader, who had organized a rally to mark the anniversary of the execution of a Kashmiri separatist, has led to demonstrations in at least 18 universities.
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Photographers take pictures as the Soyuz TMA-19M spacecraft carrying the crew of Timothy Peake of Britain, Yuri Malenchenko of Russia and Timothy Kopra of the U.S. as it blasts off to the International Space Station (ISS) from the launchpad at the Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan.
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The collision of two black holes holes - a tremendously powerful event detected for the first time ever by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, or LIGO - is seen in this still image from a computer simulation released in Washington February 11, 2016. Scientists have for the first time detected gravitational waves, ripples in space and time hypothesized by Albert Einstein a century ago, in a landmark discovery announced on Thursday that opens a new window for studying the cosmos. REUTERS/Caltech/MIT/LIGO Laboratory/Handout via
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A supporter of U.S. Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio scuffles with a man dressed as a robot outside a polling place on voting day in Manchester, New Hampshire.
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Bikers perform in the Globe of Terror during a media preview of Zippos Cirque Berserk at the Peacock Theatre in London, Britain.
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People burn incense as they pray for good fortune on the first day of the Chinese Lunar New Year, at a temple in Chengdu, Sichuan province.
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Members from Sri Lankan military march wth national flags during Sri Lanka's 68th Independence day celebrations in Colombo.
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A monkey catches knives as it balances on a board during a daily training session at a monkey farm in Baowan village, Xinye county of Chinas central Henan province. Baowan village of Chinas central Henan province appears to be your average farming community from the surface, but at a closer look, one can hear monkey hoots from every direction. Although no official number exists, villagers say that they have been a breeding ground for both monkeys and monkey trainers for centuries.
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An Afghan band performs at the ruins of Darul Aman palace in Kabul during a campaign called "One Thousand Smiles for Peace" by Non-Violent World Organization (NVWO). A military helicopter flies on the left.
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Linda Farley, a supporter of U.S. Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz, sits in her car decorated with patriotic items outside a campaign event in Jefferson, Iowa, United States.
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Jon Hathaway shows off a hat full of signatures from U.S. presidential candidates after a Bernie Sanders campaign rally at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa.
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South Korean and U.S. Marines hurl snow during a winter military drill in Pyeongchang, South Korea.
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un provides field guidance to the Kim Jong Suk Pyongyang Textile Mill, in this undated file photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in Pyongyang.
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Iran President Hassan Rouhani (L) smiles with Pope Francis at the Vatican.
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A Palestinian worker collects stones from a residential building destroyed during the 2014 war, on a rainy day in Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip.
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France's Gael Monfils dives for a shot during his fourth round match against Russia's Andrey Kuznetsov at the Australian Open tennis tournament at Melbourne Park, Australia.
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A boy swings on window bars in the old city of Algiers Al Casbah, Algeria. The Algiers Casbah is a UNESCO World heritage site that includes the Sidi Ramdane mosque and former fortress, 10 centuries old. Decay from the passing years, as well as earthquake damage in 2003, leads some to consider a move to modern apartments with financial backing from the government. Others refuse to leave a neighbourhood they have called home for decades.
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A model presents a creation by Dorothee Schumacher at the Berlin Fashion Week Autumn/Winter 2016 in Berlin, Germany.
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A volunteer at a U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders' campaign event wears a shirt decorated with Sanders' image in Fort Dodge, Iowa, United States.
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Pizzas are seen on the terrace of Cappuccino restaurant after an attack on the restaurant and the Splendid Hotel in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
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A workman opens the smokebox door of a Japanese-made steam train at a train depot in Changhua, Taiwan.
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U.S. President Barack Obama reacts to cheers as he arrives at the podium to deliver his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress in Washington.
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A woman with a Ziggy Stardust tattoo visits a mural of David Bowie in Brixton, south London. David Bowie, a music legend who used daringly androgynous displays of sexuality and glittering costumes to frame legendary rock hits "Ziggy Stardust" and "Space Oddity", has died of cancer.
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A devotee is cheered as he dances at the annual voodoo festival in Ouidah. The national voodoo holiday in the West African country of Benin had a distinctively political accent this year as practitioners from Africa and the Americas gathered on Sunday to offer prayers and sacrifices for peace. Hundreds of followers of the traditional religion gathered in the Atlantic coast town of Ouidah, once an important port in the slave trade, to pray for calm during the tiny country's presidential election scheduled for February. REUTERS/Akintunde Akinleye TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - RTX21RJQ
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Indonesia's Mount Sinabung volcano spews lava and ash during an eruption as seen from Tiga Serangkai village in Karo, Indonesia North Sumatra province, in this photo taken by Antara Foto.
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Nastya Usachyova, 9, and her mother Natalia, 39, members of the Cryophile winter swimmers club, warm up before swimming in the Yenisei River in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, Russia. The air temperature was about minus 24 degrees Celsius. "I feel cold at first but I overcome it," says Nastya. "Many of my friends and their parents say it’s impossible to bathe in the winter in the Yenisei River. They don’t approve." Nastya, whose mother Natalia, 39, is a former world champion in winter swimming, first took to the icy water when she was aged two.
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People visit ice sculptures illuminated by coloured lights on the opening day of the Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival in the northern city of Harbin, Heilongjiang province, China.
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An employee of a printing house checks a copy of the latest edition of French weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo with the title "One year on, The assassin still on the run" near Paris, France. France this week commemorates the victims of last year's Islamist militant attacks on satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo and a Jewish supermarket with eulogies, memorial plaques and another cartoon lampooning religion.
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Peter Prevc of Slovenia soars through the air during a trial jump for the third jumping of the 64th four-hills ski jumping tournament in Innsbruck, Austria. REUTERS/Dominic Ebenbichler TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - RTX20UY9
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Gurung girls wearing traditional costumes dance while taking part in a New Year parade in Kathmandu, Nepal December 30, 2015. Members of the Gurung community in Nepal celebrate their Tamu Lhosar or Losar (New Year) with a feast and various cultural programs to usher in the year of the Monkey. REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - RTX20H8I
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Newly inducted New York Police hug as they take part in a graduation ceremony at Madison Square Garden in the Manhattan borough of New York. According to New York's Mayor Bill de Blasio, 1123 new officers graduated onto the force.
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People take part in a protest against the police in Manhattan, New York after a grand jury cleared two Cleveland police officers on Monday in the November 2014 fatal shooting of 12-year-old Tamir Rice. Rice was brandishing a toy gun in a park, and a prosecutor said there were a series of mistakes but no criminal activity.
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Goyo, an eight-month-old mini pig, plays with a dog in Mexico City, December 21, 2015. Mini pigs can grow to about 30 kg (66.1 lbs) in weight and about 35 cm (1.1 ft) in height, according to the company Mini Pigs Mexico. The company says that the mini pigs' popularity as pets is growing and around 300 are sold every year in Mexico, with prices ranging from $350 to $1,600. Picture taken December 21, 2015. REUTERS/Edgard Garrido TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - RTX206R0
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Expedition 46 Flight Engineer Tim Kopra performs a spacewalk outside the International Space Station in this NASA handout photo. Kopra and Expedition 46 Commander Scott Kelly successfully moved the International Space Station's mobile transporter rail car ahead of the December 23, 2015 docking of a Russian cargo supply spacecraft.
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Boats of fishermen are seen on the dried Poopo lakebed in the Oruro Department, south of La Paz, Bolivia. Lake Poopo in Bolivia, the Andean nation's formerly second largest after the famed Titicaca, has dried up entirely. With the water now gone, animals have died off in the millions, according to studies. And the local families, having lost much of their sustenance, have been forced to migrate.
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Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) shortly after the announcement that the U.S. Federal Reserve had hiked interest rates for the first time in nearly a decade in New York. The U.S. central bank's policy-setting committee raised the range of its benchmark interest rate by a quarter of a percentage point to between 0.25 percent and 0.50 percent, ending a lengthy debate about whether the economy was strong enough to withstand higher borrowing costs.
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People are seen in silhouette exercising under the fog covered Manhattan Bridge in New York.
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A protester flashes a victory sign as he holds Polish and EU flags during an anti-government demonstration in front of PiS (Law and Justice) leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski's house in Warsaw, Poland. Anti-government protesters gathered outside Kaczynski's house on the anniversary of the imposition of a 1981 martial law, imitating an annual anti-communist gathering that had taken place outside the house of General Wojciech Jaruzelski, who had imposed the martial law, while he was alive.
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Demonstrators march during an anti-Islamophobia rally in Seattle, Washington. Several hundred showed up to demonstrate after the recent death of Hamza Warsame. The 16-year-old's death is being investigated by the Seattle Police Department.
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A diver dressed in a Santa Claus costume swims with sardines during a promotional event for Christmas "Sardines Feeding Show with Santa Claus" at the Coex Aquarium in Seoul, South Korea.
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Jesse Hughes (R) and Julian Dorio, members of Eagles of Death Metal band, mourn in front of the Bataclan concert hall to pay tribute to the shooting victims in Paris, France. The band Eagles of Death Metal, known as EODM, was performing at the Bataclan when the deadliest of the Islamic State attacks took place in Paris on November 13.
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Chinese artist Kong Ning walks in her costume made of hundreds of orange plastic blowing horns during her art performance raising awareness of the hazardous smog in front of the Drum tower in a historical part of Beijing on a very polluted day. Kong, whose works include themes related to China's air pollution problem, named her new performance "The Orange Horns Bride Marries the Blue Sky" and presented it dressed in orange, the colour of the second highest pollution alert level issued again in Beijing as hazardous smog blankets the capital.
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A petrol bomb explodes next to a riot police officer during clashes with hooded youth following an anniversary rally marking the 2008 police shooting of 15-year-old student, Alexandros Grigoropoulos, in Athens, Greece.
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Marion (L) and Nikola (R), members of the Sport Saber League, pose with their light sabers in front of the Eiffel tower in Paris, France. Three "Star Wars" fans opened the French Academy of the Sport Saber League in September 2015 due to the increase interest for light saber fighting and the upcoming movie "The Force Awakens" which will premier in Paris, December 16th, two days before its worldwide official release.
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A spent cartridge lies on the ground as police officers secure the area after at least one person opened fire at a social services agency in San Bernardino, California. The San Bernardino Police Department said on Twitter that it had "confirmed 1 to 3 possible suspects" and multiple victims in the shooting. The agency called it an "active shooter" incident.
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A man pulls his luggage past electronic screens showing the Olympic Green park under blue skies, near the National Stadium (R), or the Bird's Nest, amid heavy smog in Beijing, China.
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Japanese macaques (or so called Snow Monkeys) hold each other while sitting on rocks near a hot spring at a valley in Yamanouchi town, Nagano prefecture, Japan, November 30, 2015. REUTERS/Yuya Shino TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - RTX1WGY6
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French President Francois Hollande and U.S. President Barack Obama place flowers at a makeshift memorial to pay tribute to the victims of the Paris attacks at the Bataclan in Paris November 29, 2015. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - RTX1WETB
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Greenpeace activists fly a hot air balloon depicting the globe next to the Eiffel Tower ahead of the 2015 Paris Climate Conference, known as the COP21 summit, in Paris, France, November 28, 2015. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - RTX1W7RB
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Pope Francis waves as he arrives at the Kangemi slums on the outskirts of Kenya's capital Nairobi, November 27, 2015. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - RTX1W242
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The "Hello Kitty" balloon proceeds high above spectators along 6th Ave during the 89th Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in the Manhattan borough of New York November 26, 2015. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri (TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) - RTX1VYQZ
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U.S. President Barack Obama pardons the National Thanksgiving Turkey during the 68th annual presentation of the turkey in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington November 25, 2015. REUTERS/Carlos Barria TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - RTX1VUH9
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A H-IIA rocket, Telesat's broadcast and telecommunication satellite, lifts off from the launching pad at Tanegashima Space Center on the Japanese southwestern island of Tanegashima, in this photo taken by Kyodo November 24, 2015.
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A worker examines a French bisque doll at the Vectis auction house in Stockton-on-Tees, Britain November 23, 2015. The doll from approximately 1880 is estimated to sell for 6000-8000 GB pounds when auctioned in a doll and teddy bear auction on Tuesday.
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A French police officer stands guard by the Eiffel tower a week after a series of deadly attacks in the French capital Paris, France, November 22, 2015.
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The flood waters of the Snoqualmie River cover 284th Ave NE in this aerial photo in Carnation, Washington November 19, 2015. About 185,000 homes and businesses remained without power in Washington state late on Wednesday, after a storm blew down trees and triggered mudslides and flooding, killing at least three people, authorities said.
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A Hindu devotee takes his selfie while sitting on a boat before offering prayers to the rising sun in the polluted waters of Yamuna river during the Hindu religious festival of Chatt Puja in New Delhi, India, November 18, 2015. Hindu women fast for the whole day for the betterment of their families and the society during the festival.
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Two men row a boat through a frosty fog along the Yenisei River at air temperature some minus 20 degrees Celsius in the Taiga district outside the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, Russia, November 17, 2015.
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U.S. first lady Michelle Obama does the Conga with actor Josh Segarra (L) and choreographer Sergio Trujillo (R) during a student workshop honoring the history of Broadway at the White House in Washington.
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Tokyo Tower is illuminated in blue, white and red, the colors of the French flag in response to the Paris attacks, in Tokyo, Japan. REUTERS/Yuya Shino TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - RTS75BQ
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A youth paints a slogan on the wall of the Bank of Greece headquarters as fires caused by petrol bombs thrown by youths burn at the entrance of the bank, during a 24-hour general strike in central Athens, Greece. Domestic flights will be grounded, ships will remain docked at ports and public offices will shut on Thursday as Greeks walk off the job to protest austerity measures demanded by international lenders in exchange for fresh bailout funds. The slogan reads "Burn it".
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A wooden cross floats amongst poppies that have been thrown into a fountain in Trafalgar Square during the Armistice Day of remembrance in central London , Britain.
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People wave handkerchiefs as they wait for the arrival of Pope Francis at the Artemio Franchi stadium during his pastoral visit in Florence. REUTERS/Stefano Rellandini - RTS6B5N
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A student participates in the 'Our Generation, Our Choice' protest near the White House in Washington. The Monday march to highlight race, climate, and immigration issues was timed to mark exactly one year until the 2016 U.S. presidential election, according to protesters.
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Rabbis gather to pose for a group photo in front of the Chabad-Lubavitch world headquarters in the Brooklyn borough of New York. Some 4,400 Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic rabbis from around the world gathered for the annual International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Emissaries.
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Participants in costume hold burning torches and crosses as they take part in one of a series of processions during Bonfire night celebrations in Lewes, southern England. The processions and bonfire mark the uncovering of Guy Fawkes' "Gunpowder Plot" to blow up the Houses of Parliament in 1605, and commemorates the memory of Lewes' seventeen Protestant martyrs.
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Wingsuit flyer contestants practice ahead of a competition in Zhaotong, Yunnan province.
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People take pictures during an opening ceremony of Rome's Trevi Fountain after being restored. Italian fashion house Fendi takes down the plastic barriers that surrounded Rome's Trevi Fountain for 16 months as the stone rendering of Tritons underwent the most drastic renovation in its 252-year history. Fendi is one of a gaggle of luxury companies that have stepped in to prop up Italy's crumbling monuments as public funding for their upkeep dwindled.
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A winter swimmer swims in icy water after breaking part of the frozen surface of the Amur river, in Heihe, Heilongjiang province, China.
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Kansas City Royals players pose for a team photo after defeating the New York Mets in game five of the World Series at Citi Field. The Royals win the World Series four games to one.
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Outgoing House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) waves his trademark box of tissues as he addresses colleagues prior to the election for the new Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives on Capitol Hill in Washington.
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Britain's Prince Harry laughs as U.S. first lady Michelle Obama catches a basketball during a game played by wounded warriors at Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Prince Harry is at Fort Belvoir to meet soldiers and spread the word about the Invictus Games, which supports wounded warriors. Prince Harry spearheaded the Invictus Games, which was first held in London last September. The next Invictus Games is planned for May in Orlando, Florida. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - RTX1TO95
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A student of the "Escola de Papai Noel do Brasil" (Brazil's school of Santa Claus) wears his hat before lessons in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The school, which was founded since 1993, prepare men to represent Santa Claus during the Christmas season. Lessons include singing, physical activity, how to dress and how to care for their beard.
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Mercedes Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton of Britain leaps off of his car after winning the U.S. F1 Grand Prix at the Circuit of The Americas in Austin, Texas. Hamilton clinched his third Formula One world championship on Sunday after winning a thrilling and unpredictable U.S. Grand Prix for Mercedes.
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U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton reacts to reporters' questions as she exits the hearing room for a lunch break from testimony before the House Select Committee on Benghazi on Capitol Hill in Washington. The congressional committee is investigating the deadly 2012 attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, when Clinton was the secretary of state.
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Teachers and students exercise on the playground located on the roof of a kindergarten building, in Xi'an, Shaanxi province, China.
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Liberal Party leader Justin Trudeau kisses his wife Sophie Gregoire as he arrives to give his victory speech after Canada's federal election in Montreal, Quebec.
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A 3D printing professional wears his T-Rex skull creation during a 3D printing show in Brussels, Belgium.
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The shoes of Jeison Rodriguez (L), the living person with the largest feet in the world, are seen next to the shoes of his nephew at his house in Maracay, Venezuela. Rodriguez, holds the Guinness World Record for the largest feet, with 40.1 cm (1 ft 3.79 in) on the right foot and 39.6 cm (1 ft 3.59 in) on the left foot.
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Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko (C) looks at a Ukrainian flag brought from an eastern region of the country where a military conflict took place, during his visit to an exhibition of new Ukrainian military equipment in Kiev, Ukraine. The country marks Defenders Day on Wednesday. Picture taken through plastic box which the flag was displayed in.
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Hindu devotees with earthen oil lamps pray inside a temple during the Navratri festival in Chandigarh, India, . The festival, which is held in honour of the Hindu goddess Durga, is celebrated over nine days. In Hindu mythology, Durga symbolises power and the triumph of good over evil.
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A goat, the mascot of Spanish legionnaires, parades past (L to R) Spanish King Felipe, Spanish Queen Letizia and their daughters Princess Leonor and Princess Sofia during a military parade marking Spain's National Day in Madrid.
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Performers dance during a gala show celebrating the 70th anniversary of the founding of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea, in Pyongyang, North Korea. Isolated North Korea marked the 70th anniversary of its ruling Workers' Party on Saturday with a massive military parade overseen by leader Kim Jong Un, who said his country was ready to fight any war waged by the United States.
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An Afghan National Army (ANA) officer takes part in a training exercise at the Kabul Military Training Centre in Afghanistan.
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A girl participates in art therapy at a shelter outside a morgue in Santa Catarina Pinula, on the outskirts of Guatemala City. Despair in the search for dozens of people still missing after a deadly landslide swallowed part of a Guatemalan town is so deep that some relatives feel lucky simply to have found the bodies of their loved ones. Families lit candles on Sunday for relatives engulfed by a mass of earth and rubble that crashed down on a neighborhood in Santa Catarina Pinula. Rescue teams have found more than 130 bodies and up to 150 others are missing, feared dead.
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A swan is carried down the nave of the cathedral during the Procession of the Animals at the 31st annual Feast of Saint Francis and Blessing of the Animals at The Cathedral of St. John the Divine in the Manhattan borough of New York.
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Members of the Alcochete forcados group perform during a bullfight at Campo Pequeno bullring in Lisbon, Portugal.
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A Palestinian national security officer prevents a boy from throwing stones at Israeli troops during clashes over tension in Jerusalem's al-Aqsa mosque, in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron. Israeli police and Palestinians clashed on Sunday at Jerusalem's al-Aqsa mosque compound, where violence in recent weeks has raised international concern.
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Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson interacts with Pepper, a social humanoid robot developed by Aldebaran for SoftBank, during the Clinton Global Initiative's annual meeting in New York.
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A dog wipes out during the Surf City Surf Dog Contest in Huntington Beach, California, United States.
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A Syrian migrant woman plays with her baby as she waits inside a vehicle to be allowed to continue their journey to Europe outside the Sarayici oil wrestling arena in Edirne, Turkey. European Union leaders could promise billions of euros in new funding for Syrian refugees at an emergency summit on Wednesday where they will also try to patch up bitter divisions over the migration crisis.
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U.S. President Barack Obama (L) stands with Pope Francis during an arrival ceremony for the pope at the White House in Washington. The pontiff is on his first visit to the United States.
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Workers travel on a speed boat past an inflatable Rubber Duck installation by Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman, on a lake at a botanic garden in Changsha, Hunan province, China, September 21, 2015. The 18-metre-high Rubber Duck will be shown to the public in the garden from September 21 to November 22, according to local media.
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Participants run past the Tiananmen gate, with a portrait of China's late leader Mao Zedong hanging on it, during the Beijing International Marathon in Beijing, China. About 30,000 runners participated in the annual running event.
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A man looks on as cars are seen stuck in a sinkhole that occurred in a parking area after heavy rainfall hit Haikou, Hainan province, China. No casualties have been reported.
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Migrants protest as Hungarian riot police fires tear gas and water cannon at the border crossing with Serbia in Roszke, Hungary . Hungarian police fired tear gas and water cannon at protesting migrants demanding they be allowed to enter from Serbia on Wednesday on the second day of a border crackdown.
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Members of the Dutch Royal Guard guide their horses through clouds of thick smoke and gunfire on the beach of Scheveningen, near The Hague to prepare for the presentation of the Dutch 2016 Budget Memorandum in The Hague, the Netherlands.
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A participant ropes a calf during the Russian Rodeo in the village of Kotliakovo, Bryansk region, southeast of Moscow, Russia. The competition was organised by privately held Miratorg, one of the leading Russia's meat producers, between the divisions of the agricultural holding.
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A boy walks among some of the 3,000 flags placed in memory of the lives lost in the September 11, 2001 attacks, at a park in Winnetka, Illinois, September 10, 2015. On Friday people will mark the 14th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.
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People gather at the "Tribute in Light" in Lower Manhattan, New York, September 9, 2015. The tribute was lit two days ahead of the 14th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
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Rafael Nadal of Spain lunges towards the net to hit a return to Diego Schwartzman of Argentina during their match at the U.S. Open Championships tennis tournament in New York.
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The Soyuz TMA-18M spacecraft carrying the crew of Aidyn Aimbetov of Kazakhstan, Sergei Volkov of Russia and Andreas Mogensen of Denmark blasts off from the launch pad at the Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan.
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Bibi rides her bike on the Playa during the Burning Man 2015 "Carnival of Mirrors" arts and music festival in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada. Approximately 70,000 people from all over the world are gathering at the sold-out festival to spend a week in the remote desert to experience art, music and the unique community that develops.
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A Naga sadhu, or a Hindu holy man, applies ash at his camp before a procession during Kumbh Mela or the Pitcher Festival in Trimbakeshwar, India. Hundreds of thousands of Hindus took part in the religious gathering at the banks of the Godavari river in Nashik city at the festival, which is held every 12 years in different Indian cities.
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Revelers lie in tomato pulp after the annual "Tomatina" (tomato fight) in Bunol, near Valencia, Spain. Tens of thousands of festival-goers hurled 170 tonnes of over-ripe tomatoes at each other on Wednesday to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the massive food fight in the small village of Bunol in eastern Spain. REUTERS/Heino Kalis - RTX1PQE7
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Molten lava flows from the Piton de la Fournaise, one of the world's most active volcanoes, at dawn on the French Indian Ocean Reunion Island. The eruption which started on Monday is the fourth one this year for the Piton de la Fournaise, sending hot jets of molten lava spewing up from the peak.
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Water bottles are gathered to be recycled near a statue in Martyrs' Square in Beirut, Lebanon. Lebanon's cabinet held an emergency meeting on Tuesday in its newly fortified headquarters after protests over trash collection spilled over into street violence and calls for the feuding government to resign. REUTERS/Jamal Saidi TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - RTX1PK9M
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North Koreans sign up to join the army in the midst of political tension with South Korea, in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in Pyongyang. Top aides to the leaders of North and South Korea resumed talks on Sunday after negotiating through the night in a bid to ease tensions involving an exchange of artillery fire that brought the peninsula to the brink of armed conflict.
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A firefighter's backpack is seen covered in fire retardant dropped from an airplane while battling the Twisp River fire near Twisp, Washington. Crews battling a flurry of wildfires raging unchecked in the Pacific Northwest braced on Thursday for high winds forecast in the region a day after three firefighters were killed and four others were injured in Washington state.
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A South Korean soldier takes his position as a man takes photographs of him during an anti-terror drill in Seoul, South Korea. South Korea on Wednesday (August 19) staged a nationwide civil defence drill, called the annual Ulchi Exercise, where they hope to prepare the general public for all possible emergencies. The Ulchi Exercise is run in parallel with the annual Ulchi Freedom Guardian (UFG) exercise, where both South Korean and U.S. forces also hold joint military drills. The UFG began on Monday and it will continue until August 28.
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Ants carry a leaf with a slogan reading "Merkel, Help!", a reference of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, at the zoo in Cologne, Germany. Some of the zoo's 500,000 leaf-cutting ants carry laser-cut leaves with slogans during a campaign to protect the Amazon rain forest, organised by the German branch of World Wild Fund for Nature (WWF) and Cologne Zoo. Picture taken through the glass of the display case.
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People crowd on a beach to escape the summer heat on a hazy day in Dalian, Liaoning province, China.
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Protesters yell at a police line shortly before shots were fired in a police-officer involved shooting in Ferguson, Missouri. Two people were shot in the midst of a late-night confrontation between riot police and protesters, after a day of peaceful events commemorating the fatal shooting of Michael Brown by a white officer one year ago.
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Indian soldiers stand guard in front of an India's national flag tri-colours during the full-dress rehearsal for India's Independence Day celebrations at the historic Red Fort in Delhi, India. India commemorates its Independence Day on August 15.
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Syrian refugees pack the stands inside the national stadium on the Greek island of Kos. Local authorities are struggling to cope with the increasing numbers of migrants and refugees arriving in dinghies from the nearby Turkish coast. Police ushered most migrants into the stadium, packing the stands, in order to speed up the registration process. Some migrants set up tents while police stood guard in riot gear.
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Children wearing LED-lit costumes perform during Singapore's Golden Jubilee celebration parade at Padang near the central business district. Singapore marks 50 years of independence on Sunday. An island of 5.5 million people that sits just north of the equator, what was a post-colonial backwater at independence from Malaysia in 1965 is now a global business hub whose economic and social model is the envy of nations around the world.
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The remains of a vehicle burned by the Rocky Fire is seen near Clearlake, California. The blaze has charred some 68,300 acres, destroyed more than 50 buildings and displaced thousands of residents since erupting last week in the rugged canyons and foothills about 110 miles north of San Francisco. The fire is currently 20 percent contained.
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Giant panda Weiwei leans on ice blocks to cool off inside its enclosure at a zoo in Wuhan, Hubei province, China, August 4, 2015. Local temperatures hit 36 degrees Celsius (96.8 degrees Fahrenheit) on Tuesday. REUTERS/Stringer CHINA OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN CHINA - RTX1MYZK
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A Cal Fire firefighter sets a backfire with a driptorch along Highway 20 during the Rocky Fire near Lower Lake, California. The blaze, which has scorched about 60,000 acres (24,281 hectares) east of Lower Lake, a town about 110 miles (180 km) north of San Francisco, was the fiercest of 20 large fires being battled by 9,000 firefighters across the state, officials said.
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A man jumps as he attempts an obstacle during the Bravus Race competition in Brasilia. Bravus Race challenges competitors to overcome several obstacles over a course of up to 15 km (9.32 miles).
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The Rocky Fire burns through a fence line in Lake County, California. The Rocky Fire broke out on Wednesday afternoon in Lake County, 110 miles (180 km) north of San Francisco. By Thursday morning it had spread to 8,000 acres (3,237 hectares), according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, known as Cal Fire.
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SoftBank Group Corp. Chairman and CEO Masayoshi Son reacts as SoftBank's human-like robots named "Pepper" performs during the SoftBank World 2015 event in Tokyo, Japan, .
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Members of Team Italy are seen underwater as they perform in the synchronised swimming team free routine preliminary at the Aquatics World Championships in Kazan, Russia.
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Tampa Bay Rays first baseman James Loney (21) falls into the stands after he attempted to catch a foul ball during the eighth inning against the Detroit Tigers at Tropicana Field.
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The crowd surges toward U.S. President Barack Obama as he greets the audience after his remarks at an indoor stadium in Nairobi. Obama told Kenya on Saturday the United States was ready to work more closely in the battle against Somalia's Islamist group al Shabaab, but chided his host on gay rights and said no African state should discriminate over sexuality.
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A boy plays during breaktime at the Senator Obama primary school in the village of Nyang'oma Kogelo, west of Kenya's capital Nairobi. U.S. President Barack Obama visits Kenya and Ethiopia later this month. His ancestral home of Kogelo is home to Sarah Hussein Obama, his step-grandmother. The Kenyan village, burial place of Obama's father, features an open-pit goldmine, a pork butcher's, a school named after their most famous son and outdoor market stalls. Villagers get around by motorbike taxi or on foot while a donkey-cart transports water. Children, some of them named Obama in honour of the President, walk to and from school together.
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A humanoid robot falls during the 2015 Robocup finals in Hefei, Anhui province. The Robocup, or "Robot Soccer World Cup", is an annual international robotics competitions which is held between July 17 - 23 this year in China's Hefei.
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Participants of the World Congress of Santa Clauses 2015 take part in the annual swim at Bellevue beach, north of Copenhagen, Denmark.
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British comedian known as Lee Nelson (unseen) throws banknotes at FIFA President Sepp Blatter as he arrives for a news conference after the Extraordinary FIFA Executive Committee Meeting at the FIFA headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland. World football's troubled governing body FIFA will vote for a new president, to replace Sepp Blatter, at a special congress to be held on February 26 in Zurich, the organisation said on Monday.
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Cyclists hang on to the back of a truck outside Burundi's capital Bujumbura, as the country awaits next week's presidential elections. Each day scores of cyclists make the 45 kilometer downhill journey at breakneck speed from Bugarama to sell bananas, often hanging from the back of trucks for the return uphill trip.
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Pensioners are given priority tickets by a National Bank branch manager as they wait to receive part of their pensions in Athens, Greece. Greece awoke with a political hangover on Thursday after parliament approved a stringent bailout programme, thanks to the votes of the pro-European opposition, amid the worst protest violence this year.
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Riot policemen try to avoid an exploding petrol bomb during clashes in Athens, Greece. Greek anti-establishment protesters threw dozens of petrol bombs at police in front of parliament on Wednesday ahead of a key vote on a bailout deal, in some of the most serious violence in over two years. Police responded with tear gas, sending hundreds of people fleeing in central Syntagma Square.
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Republican presidential candidate and Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker takes a selfie with supporters during a visit at a Harley Davidson motorcycle dealership in Las Vegas, Nevada. Walker jumped into the race for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination on Monday, needing to prove he has learned from early missteps and can appeal to voters beyond the conservatives who dominate the first nominating contest in Iowa.
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Trader Peter Tuchman gestures as he talks on the phone following the resumption of trading following a several hour long stoppage on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in New York.
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Children cool off on a 20 square meter Chinese chess board, at a water park in Chongqing municipality.
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Damage in the building of the Houthi movement's politburo is seen through a broken window of an adjacent house after it was hit by a Saudi-led air strike in Yemen's capital Sanaa . Saudi-led coalition air strikes and clashes killed at least 176 fighters and civilians in Yemen on Monday, residents and media run by the Houthi movement said, the highest daily toll since the Arab air offensive began more than three months ago.
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Pensioners struggle to enter a National Bank branch to receive part of their pension in Iraklio on the island of Crete, Greece. Long lines of pensioners jostling to get into a limited number of banks opened specially to pay out retirement benefits have become a powerful symbol of the misery facing Greece and the problems mounting for Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras.
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Mass lightning bolts light up night skies by the Daggett airport from monsoon storms passing over the high deserts early Wednesday, north of Barstow, California.
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