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Day in photos Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, Texas pileup, meals for those in need, clashes in Egypt and more.
Nov. 22, 2012
A balloon float goes down Sixth Avenue during the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York.
Carlo Allegri
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Reuters
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Nov. 22, 2012
From left, Abby, Elmo and Big Bird join the Sesame Street float during the 86th Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York.
Brendan McDermid
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Reuters
Nov. 22, 2012
Handlers lower the T-Rex balloon toward spectators during the 93rd annual Philadelphia Thanksgiving Day Parade.
Joseph Kaczmarek
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AP
Nov. 22, 2012
The Kung Fu Panda balloon takes part in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York. The American harvest holiday came as portions of the Northeast were still coping with the wake of Hurricane Sandy, and volunteers planned to serve thousands of turkey dinners to people it left homeless or struggling.
Charles Sykes
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AP
Nov. 22, 2012
Shoppers make their way through the aisles of a Wal-Mart in Salem, N.H., on Thanksgiving.
Jessica Rinaldi
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Reuters
Nov. 22, 2012
A joyful shopper laughs as she attempts to load a 40-inch TV into her cart at Target during its Black Friday event in Flint, Mich.
Griffin Moores
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Flint Journal/MLive.com via AP
Nov. 22, 2012
Kathleen Preston joins volunteers as they serve more than 140 Thanksgiving meals at a soup kitchen in Benton Harbor, Mich.
Don Campbell
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Herald-Palladium via AP
Nov. 22, 2012
People eat a Thanksgiving dinner cooked and served by volunteers in Staten Island.
Eric Thayer
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Reuters
Nov. 22, 2012
Michelle Devlin, center, checks the address on a bag containing a turkey dinner while her mother, Rebecca Devlin, right, dispatches volunteer drivers at St. Charles Church on Staten Island. Volunteers served thousands of turkey dinners to people left homeless or struggling after Hurricane Sandy.
Stephanie Keith
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AP
Nov. 22, 2012
Volunteers hand out Thanksgiving meals at the GLIDE foundation in San Francisco. GLIDE staff members estimated that about 500 volunteers helped prepare and serve around 5,000 meals.
Jeff Chiu
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AP
Nov. 22, 2012
People tend to a collision on Interstate 10 in southeast Texas. The Texas Department of Public Safety says at least 35 people were injured in the more than 50-vehicle pileup.
Guiseppe Barranco
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Beaumont, Tex., Enterprise via AP
Nov. 22, 2012
An family walks from the massive accident on Interstate 10 in southeast Texas.
Guiseppe Barranco
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Beaumont, Tex., Enterprise via AP
Nov. 23, 2012
A French riot gendarme reacts after being covered with lime amid clashes with demonstrators during an evacuation operation on the land that will house a new airport in Notre-Dame-des-Landes, France. The airport, 19 miles from Nantes, is scheduled to be completed by 2017.
Stephane Mahe
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Reuters
Nov. 22, 2012
A boy cleans debris outside Dar Al-Shifa hospital in Aleppo, Syria.
Francisco Leong
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AFP/Getty Images
Nov. 23, 2012
A man protects himself as other hurl stones at security forces in Cairo’s Tahrir Square. Supporters and opponents of President Mohamed Morsi rallied across Egypt after the leader passed decrees Thursday giving himself sweeping new powers.
Khaled Elfiqi
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European Pressphoto Agency
Nov. 23, 2012
People watch as protesters burn items ransacked from an office of the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party in Alexandria, Egypt. Morsi's decrees, which put his decisions above legal challenge until a new parliament is elected, caused fury amongst his opponents, who accused him of being the new Hosni Mubarak and hijacking the revolution. There were violent protests in Alexandria, Port Said and Suez.
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Reuters
Nov. 22, 2012
Women run as Congolese soldiers and rebel fighters battle over the eastern Congolese town of Sake. The woman in orange, who identified herself as Mamou, said she lost her husband to a fatal wound to the head from incoming an mortar round. Thousands fled the M23-controlled town as the militants seeking to overthrow the government vowed to push forward despite mounting international pressure.
Jerome Delay
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AP
Nov. 22, 2012
Thousands of Congolese flee the town of Sake following fresh fighting in eastern Congo. Fighting broke out Friday afternoon, causing people to head east, toward Goma, to the camps for the internally displaced in the village of Mugunga.
Phil Moore
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AFP/Getty Images
Nov. 23, 2012
Historians prepare replicas of Roman field artillery for firing at Harzhorn, Germany. They test these pieces of field artillery near Kalefeld, where bolts indicating a massive bombardment of the Vogelsberg mountain were found.
Peter Steffen
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European Pressphoto Agency
Nov. 22, 2012
Tourists take pictures of paintings on the walls of King Merenptah's tomb, from around 1200 B.C., in the Valley of the Kings in Luxor, Egypt. The tomb, which was closed for five years for restoration work, was opened Thursday as the city celebrates the 90th anniversary of the discovery of King Tutankhamen's tomb.
Asmaa Waguih
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Reuters
Nov. 22, 2012
A conservationist from the Getty Conservation Institute works on a wall painting in the Tomb of Tutankhamen in the Valley of the Kings.
Asmaa Waguih
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Reuters
Nov. 22, 2012
People stand near a house that sits in the middle of a newly built road in Wenling, China. The house belongs to an elderly man who refused to sign an agreement to allow it to be demolished, saying the compensation offered was not enough, according to local media.
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AP
Nov. 23, 2012
A tourist talks on his phone while looking at a statue of a Korean boy defecating at the Toilet Culture Park in Suwon, South Korea, about 29 miles south of Seoul. The park, the only of its type in the world, exhibits a variety of bowls, from traditional Korean squat toilets to Western bedpans.
Kim Hong-Ji
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Reuters
Nov. 22, 2012
A tourist poses for a photo next to a toilet-bound sculpture in the shape of Auguste Rodin's "The Thinker" at the Toilet Culture Park in Suwon. South Korea.
Kim Hong-Ji
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Reuters
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