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Day in photos Israeli-Gaza conflict, President Obama tours Staten Island, Latin Grammy awards and more.
Nov. 16, 2012
Relatives of a 10-month-old Palestinian girl, Hanen Tafesh, who was killed the day before in an Israeli air strike, mourn over her body before her funeral in Gaza City. Israeli warplanes carried out multiple new air strikes on the Palestinian territory, including several hits on Gaza City, the third day of an intensive campaign that the military has said is aimed at stamping out rocket fire on southern Israel.
Marco Longari
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Nov. 15, 2012
Volunteers clean bloodstains from a children's room in an apartment in a building that was hit by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip, where three people were killed in Kiryat Malachi, southern Israel. Militants in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip killed three Israelis on Thursday in a rocket attack liable to deepen a bruising Israeli air, naval and artillery offensive against Palestinian rocket squads. The casualties were the first in Israel since it launched its operation on Wednesday with the assassination of Hamas’s top military commander.
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AP
Nov. 16, 2012
Fares Sadallah, an 11-year-old Palestinian boy, cries as he sits outside his home, which was damaged after an Israeli air strike in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza Strip. Egypt’s premier vowed to intensify Cairo’s efforts to secure a truce and urged world leaders to end Israel’s “aggression” in Gaza, as he visited the Hamas-run enclave.
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Nov. 15, 2012
Handprints and shrapnel holes are visible on a wall in an apartment in a building that was hit by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip, where three people were killed in Kiryat Malachi, southern Israel.
Ariel Schalit
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AP
Nov. 16, 2012
Palestinian medical workers wheel a wounded boy into al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City. Gaza militants targeted Tel Aviv on Friday with another rocket, defying Israeli warnings of a possible ground assault to follow its aerial bombardment of the Hamas-run strip.
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Nov. 16, 2012
An Israeli women holds her dog as a siren sounds warning of incoming rockets in the southern city of Ashkelon. The latest upsurge in a long-running conflict was triggered on Wednesday when Israel killed Hamas’s military mastermind, Ahmed Al-Jaabari, in a precision air strike on his car. Israel then began shelling the coastal enclave from land, air and sea.
Amir Cohen
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Reuters
Nov. 15, 2012
World War I buff Philippe Gorczinski poses with a model of a British-made Mark IV tank nicknamed “Deborah” in Cambrai, France. Gorczinski found the tank, which was unearthed in a field outside Flesquieres in 1998. The tank was first used during the battle of Cambrai in 1917, where residents will celebrate the 95th anniversary this weekend.
Pascal Rossignol
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Reuters
Nov. 15, 2012
Chilean solar tricycle “Acapomil,” from Army Academy Polytechnic, takes part in the first stage of the Solar Race Atacama 2012 between Iquique and Calama, Chile. Teams from Chile, Argentina, Venezuela and India are taking part in the race.
Felipe Trueba
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European Pressphoto Agency
Nov. 16, 2012
War veterans celebrate during a live broadcast from the International War Crimes Tribunal in the main square of Zagreb, Croatia. Appeals judges at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal have overturned the convictions of two Croat generals, Ante Gotovina and Mladen Markac, for crimes against humanity and war crimes committed against Serb civilians in a 1995 military blitz. Gotovina and Markac were sentenced to 24 years and 18 years respectively in 2011 for crimes, including murder and deportation. Judges ruled both men were part of a criminal conspiracy led by former Croat president Franjo Tudjman to expel Serbs.
Nikola Solic
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AP
Nov. 16, 2012
Prince Charles and Lisa Shannon, right, dance at the Dance-O-Mat during a visit to Christchurch in Feilding, New Zealand. The Dance-O-Mat was set up to give people the opportunity to keep dancing after many of the venues were destroyed by the 2010 earthquake. The prince was in New Zealand on the last leg of a Diamond Jubilee.
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Nov. 15, 2012
President Obama talks with resident Debbie Ingenito as he tours a hurricane-battered Staten Island neighborhood in New York. Obama was due to visit areas of New York still without power on Thursday, 17 days after superstorm Sandy tore across the Eastern Seaboard.
Kevin Lamarque
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Reuters
Nov. 15, 2012
Barbara Pierce Bush, left, laughs with her sister, Jenna Bush Hager, as they take part in the “Enduring Legacies of America’s First Ladies” conference in Austin. The children of three presidents discussed life in the White House as part of a conference on first ladies at the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library.
David J. Phillip
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AP
Nov. 15, 2012
Carla Morrison poses with the award for best alternative album and best alternative song for “Dejenme Llorar” during the 13th Latin Grammy Awards in Las Vegas.
Steve Marcus
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Reuters
Nov. 15, 2012
Couples kiss as they demonstrate to support a draft law to allow same-sex marriage in Lyon, France. The country's Socialist government approved a draft law to allow same-sex marriage, saying the reform, under fire from religious leaders and conservative politicians, meant progress for the whole society. The law would grant gay couples the right to adopt children but not to use assisted procreation methods such as artificial insemination. Parliament is due to vote on it by mid-2013.
Robert Pratta
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Reuters
Nov. 15, 2012
Robert Khuzami, director of the enforcement division of the Securities and Exchange Commission, speaks at a news conference in New Orleans to announce new criminal charges and a settlement in the case against British oil company BP for the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. BP will pay $4.5 billion in penalties and plead guilty to felony misconduct in the Deepwater Horizon disaster, which caused the worst U.S. offshore oil spill ever. The settlement includes a $1.256 billion criminal fine, the largest such levy in U.S. history, the oil company said on Thursday. U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder called the deal a "critical step forward" but was adamant that it did not end the government's criminal investigation of the spill.
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Reuters
Nov. 15, 2012
A Greenpeace activist displays bottles containing what the group says is polluted water during a demonstration at Huntsman company offices in Mexico City. As part of its "Toxic Rivers" campaign, Greenpeace is demanding transparency for the discharges of companies such as Huntsman, one of the largest global suppliers of chemicals for textile, made in the waters of the Rio Santiago in Jalisco, Mexico. According to the organizers, the water samples were analyzed in the laboratories of Greenpeace International at the Exeter University in Britain.
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Nov. 10, 2012
A worker at Pakistan's lone beer maker, Murree Brewery, checks the quality of bottles at the factory in Rawalpindi. Murree Brewery, established in 1860 by British colonial rulers to supply beer to their troops, is desperately looking for business overseas to hedge against its uncertain domestic market. Prohibition was imposed in Pakistan in 1977, and non-Muslims and foreigners must obtain a government permit to purchase alcohol at designated retailers, which are mainly upscale hotels.
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Reuters
Nov. 15, 2012
Parade participants react after a trailer carrying wounded veterans in a parade was struck by a train in Midland, Texas. “Show of Support” president and founder Terry Johnson says there are “multiple injuries” after a Union Pacific train slammed into the trailer, killing at least four people and injuring 17 others.
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AP
Nov. 15, 2012
Irish Minister for Health James Reilly appears at a press conference in Dublin as Ireland’s ambassador to India is attempting to ease concerns in the country over the death of a woman who was refused an abortion as she miscarried. Pressure mounted Thursday for the Irish government to draft a law spelling out when life-saving abortions can be performed — a demand that came after a pregnant woman who was denied an abortion died. Activists protested Thursday night in Belfast a day after thousands rallied in London, Dublin, Cork and Galway in memory of Savita Halappanavar, a 31-year-old dentist who died a week after doctors said she was starting to miscarry her 17-week-old fetus.
Julien Behal
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AP
Nov. 16, 2012
Women activists of India’s main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party shout slogans against the Irish government outside their embassy in New Delhi. Pressure mounted Thursday for the Irish government to draft a law spelling out when life-saving abortions can be performed, a demand that came after a pregnant woman who was denied an abortion died.
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AP
Nov. 15, 2012
A vulture follows an Olive Ridley turtle after the turtle nested at the La Flor Wildlife Refuge, about 93 miles south of Managua, Nicaragua. According to the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources, La Flor is one of seven beaches in Central America where more than 100,000 Olive Ridley turtles nest each year.
Oswaldo Rivas
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Reuters
Nov. 15, 2012
Towns and villages emit light visible through a layer of cloud covering the Lake Geneva region as the Mont Blanc massif is visible in background at center right, as seen from 5,013 feet above sea level at La Barillette in the Jura mountains, western Switzerland.
David Azia
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AP
Nov. 12, 2012
Wild geese fly over a field at the Oderbruch near Wriezen, eastern Germany. The Oderbruch, a region with wide fields near the Oder River, is a popular resting place for migratory birds on their way to the south.
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