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Gay pride parade, polar bear puppet, presidential election in Mexico and more in the day in photos News and feature images from around the world.
June 24, 2012
Mark Wilson carries a rainbow flag during San Francisco's 42nd annual gay pride parade. Organizers say more than 200 floats, vehicles and groups of marchers took part in the parade.
Noah Berger
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AP
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June 24, 2012
Evelyn Kennedy marches with a hula hoop during Seattle's annual gay pride parade.
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June 23, 2012
Migrated tribal children play with a rubber bicycle tire near a bricks factory on the outskirts of the eastern Indian city of Bhubaneswar.
Biswaranjan Rout
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AP
June 25, 2012
A man, who was displaced by floods in 2010 from a village in Pakistan's Sindh province, plays with his son while laying in a bed next to his makeshift tent, in a slum on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan. Many Pakistanis sleep outdoors during the summer months to escape the heat in their homes.
Muhammed Muheisen
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June 25, 2012
Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men in Jerusalem participate in a prayer to protest an expected replacement to a law that exempts ultra-Orthodox yeshiva students from mandatory military service.
Sebastian Scheiner
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AP
June 24, 2012
Greg Bodine hugs his wife, Karen, as they watch a wildfire burn from the roof of her parents' home in Cascade, Colo. The fire erupted and grew out of control to more than three square miles early Sunday, prompting the evacuation of more than 11,000 residents and an unknown number of tourists from the area.
Christian Murdock
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AP
June 25, 2012
Kashmiri residents watch as firefighters try to extinguish a blaze at the nearly 200-years-old shrine of Sheikh Abdul Qadir Jeelani, popularly known as Ghaus-e-Azam, or Dastgeer Sahib, in downtown Srinagar, India. Anti-India clashes between protesters and government forces erupted in Indian-controlled Kashmir’s main city Monday after the highly revered Muslim shrine was destroyed, police said. The cause of the fire is yet unknown.
Dar Yasin
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AP
June 24, 2012
A Catholic Filipino man, who soaked himself in mud and wrapped himself in banana leaves, walks around Bibiclat village, in the Nueva Ecija province in northern Philippines, to beg for candles prior to attending a mass in celebration of the Saint John the Baptist’s feast day. Traditionally, the Feast of St. John the Baptist is celebrated in this predominantly Roman Catholic nation by dousing unwary people with water, but in this sleepy village the residents soak themselves in muddy rice fields and don banana leaves instead. The unique celebration has now become a tourist attraction.
Bullit Marquez
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AP
June 23, 2012
Moses Grubb and Amy Pillikowski march in costume on the boardwalk during the 30th annual Mermaid Parade at New York's Coney Island.
Mary Altaffer
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AP
June 23, 2012
A Mermaid Parade celebrant escapes the streets for more practical matters, during the annual Coney Island affair.
Eric Thayer
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Reuters
June 23, 2012
A human-operated polar bear puppet walks toward tourists at Retiro Park in Madrid. The polar bear is part of Greenpeace’s Arctic Rising campaign, with polar bears appearing in major cities and well-known landmarks across the world to raise awareness about threats to the Arctic.
Alberto Di Lolli
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AP
June 24, 2012
Sanya Richards-Ross crosses the finish line in the women's 400 meters at the U.S. Olympic track and field trials in Eugene, Ore. Richards-Ross tied a longstanding meet record in the race, finishing in 49.28 seconds for a spot on the Olympic team.
Matt Slocum
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AP
June 24, 2012
The New York Mets' R.A. Dickey is safe sliding home on David Wright's fifth-inning RBI single, during an interleague game against the New York Yankees at the Mets’ Citi Field.
Kathy Willens
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AP
June 24, 2012
A supporter of Mohammed Morsi, the Muslim Brotherhood's candidate for president of Egypt, celebrates next to a giant poster of Morsi at campaign headquarters in Cairo. Morsi, a conservative Islamist candidate, was declared Egypt's first freely elected president on Sunday after the first presidential elections in the country's history. He narrowly defeated Ahmed Shafiq, a former prime minister under Hosni Mubarak, in a race that raised political tensions in the country to a fever pitch. The poster reads, in Arabic, "Renaissance is the nation's desire."
Amr Nabil
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AP
June 23, 2012
Jennifer Lopez performs during the Pop Music Festival 2012 at Arena Anhembi in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Yasyoshi Chiba
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AFP/Getty Images
June 24, 2012
An unidentified swimmer dives during practice for the U.S. Olympic swimming trials in Omaha. The trials began on Monday.
Charlie Neibergall
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AP
June 23, 2012
National Action Party (PAN) presidential candidate Josefina Vazquez Mota gestures to the crowd during a campaign rally in Mexico City. Mexico will hold its presidential election on July 1.
Dario Lopez-Mills
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AP
June 24, 2012
Spectators play with beach balls at Omaha’s TD Ameritrade Park while South Carolina plays against Arizona in Game 1 of the NCAA College World Series baseball finals. Arizona’s Wildcats defeated South Carolina’s Gamecocks 5-1.
Dave Weaver
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AP
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