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July 19, 2012
Hungarian police officers arrest a Greenpeace activist on the roof of a local gas station in Budapest, Hungary, during a protest against Shell Oil's plans to drill in the Arctic.
ATTILA KISBENEDEK
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AFP/GETTY IMAGES
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July 19, 2012
Christian tourists bathe in the Jordan River outside the Qasr el-Yahud baptismal site, near the West Bank city of Jericho. Temperatures at noon reached above 100 degrees at the Jordan River on Wednesday.
RONEN ZVULUN
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REUTERS
July 19, 2012
Police display counterfeit money during a news conference in Lima, Peru.
MARIANA BAZO
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REUTERS
July 19, 2012
Firefighters protest against austerity measures announced by the Spanish government in Barcelona. The country is in its second recession in three years, and its government borrowing rates are unsustainably high as investors worry the government may face new costs in rescuing the banks. If the government's borrowing rates do not fall back down, it may eventually need a sovereign bailout like those taken by Greece, Ireland and Portugal.
MANU FERNANDEZ
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AP
July 19, 2012
A Jordanian man looks at decorations for Ramadan in Amman. Religious authorities in Jordan declared that Friday will be the start of the holy month of Ramadan, a period devoted to dawn-to-dusk fasting, prayers and spiritual introspection. Ramadan begins around 11 days earlier each year. Its start is calculated based on the sighting of the new moon, which marks the beginning of the Muslim lunar month that varies between 29 or 30 days.
Mohammad Hannon
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AP
July 18, 2012
Aircraft drop water over a burning pine forest as a firefighter gives directions to a colleague during a wildfire near Patras, Greece. Greek authorities declared a state of emergency near the country's third-largest city Wednesday because of the raging wildfires, but officials said no inhabited areas were under immediate threat.
Thanassis Stavrakis
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AP
July 18, 2012
Shinto priests march as Japan's Emperor Akihito, not shown, visits Meiji Shrine in Shibuya, Tokyo. The shrine is dedicated to the deified spirit of Akihito’s great-grandfather Emperor Mutsuhito. July 30 marks the centennial of Mutsuhito's death.
Itsuo Inouye
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AP
July 18, 2012
Prince Charles climbs on the traversing wall in the new gym at Grainville Secondary School in St. Helier, Jersey, in the Channel Islands.
Chris Jackson
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GETTY IMAGES
July 18, 2012
A building burns after shelling at Al-Ghouta in Homs, Syria.
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REUTERS
July 17, 2012
Nasa Indians drag off a soldier in Toribio, Colombia. Dozens of Indians attacked half a dozen soldiers guarding communications towers on the outskirts of the town. Indians have demanded that security forces and leftist rebels stay off their land.
William Fernando Martinez
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AP
July 17, 2012
People gather at the scene of a train derailment in the Giza neighborhood of Badrashin on the outskirts of Cairo. The train was traveling from southern Egypt toward Cairo when it derailed in a Cairo suburb on Tuesday, injuring 15 people, security and medical officials said. They denied early reports that passengers had died in the crash.
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Reuters
July 17, 2012
Police cadets attend a graduation ceremony in Madrid. Riot police cordoned off the entrance to a sprawling police facility to prevent demonstrating police officers from disrupting a graduation ceremony for some 1,200 cadets about to enter the police force. The demonstrators were protesting parts of the austerity package, namely the elimination of one of 14 paychecks that most Spanish civil servants get each year. The one being axed comes right before Christmas.
Emilio Morenatti
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AP
July 17, 2012
Police officers listen to Afghan President Hamid Karzai's speech during their graduation ceremony in Kabul, Afghanistan. Karzai is trying to negotiate a peace settlement with the Taliban, but he warned insurgents on Tuesday that their attacks on civilians would not be forgotten by the Afghan people.
Ahmad Jamshid
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AP
July 15, 2012
A Libyan militiaman guards a checkpoint in the desert near the border of Bani Walid in Misurata, Libya. Tensions between the National Army and the former Moammar Gaddafi stronghold of Bani Walid have eased after the release of kidnapped journalists Abdelkader Fusuk and Youssef Baadi.
Manu Brabo
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AP
July 16, 2012
A performer blows fire from his mouth during the annual Hindu religious festival of Bonalu in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad. The ritual in the month-long festival involves offering cooked rice, jaggery, curd, water and other dishes, which are brought by women to the Goddess Kali. Devotees believe that the offerings ward off evil and epidemics during the monsoon season.
Krishnendu Halder
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Reuters
April 15, 2012
In this file photo released by the Korean Central News Agency, North Korean leader Kim Jong Eun, right, smiles with the Korean People's Army senior officers during a mass military parade to celebrate the centenary of the birth of his grandfather, national founder Kim Il Sung in Pyongyang, North Korea.
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AP
July 16, 2012
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Israel's President Shimon Peres embrace after a joint statement in Jerusalem. Clinton met with Peres for about an hour.
Oded Balilty
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AP
July 16, 2012
A collapsed house lies in a riverbank in the Hoshino River in Yame City, Japan, after four days of torrential rains. Record rainfall forced hundreds of thousands to flee and left at least 32 dead or missing.
Kazuhiro Nogi
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AFP/Getty Images
July 15, 2012
Sudanese refugees board a truck heading to Batil refugee camp in Jamam camp, South Sudan. As many as 16,000 refugees are in the process of being moved because of flooding in the camp as the rainy season continues. There are currently three refugee camps in the Upper Nile area housing 107,000 refugees from the Engassana region. South Sudan recently celebrated its first independence anniversary. Over the past year, repeated conflict with Sudan, corruption scandals and economic difficulties have plagued the new country. Further problems caused by the shutdown of its oil production have led to a sharp decline in its currency and a rise in the price of food and fuel. South Sudan is one of the most underdeveloped countries in the world.
Paula Bronstein
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Getty Images
July 14, 2012
In this citizen journalism image provided by Shaam News Network SNN, a Syrian man mourns over the body of a man killed, in Homs, Syria. On Sunday, Syria denied U.N. claims that government forces used heavy weapons during a military operation that left scores dead.
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AP
July 14, 2012
A young woman, with traditional western Macedonian decorations on her head, looks on during a wedding ceremony a night before the Galicnik Wedding, in Macedonia's western village of Galicnik. Traditionally, the two-day Galicnik Wedding is held every year on Orthodox St. Peter's day.
Boris Grdanoski
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AP
July 14, 2012
People with torches participate in a wedding procession a night before the Galicnik Wedding, in Macedonia's western village of Galicnik.
Boris Grdanoski
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AP
July 15, 2012
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton walks with Hussein Tantawi to a meeting at the Ministry of Defense in Cairo. Clinton is holding talks with Egypt's top military leaders to press for the military to work with Egypt's new Islamist leaders on a full transition to civilian rule.
Brendan Smialowski
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AP
July 15, 2012
Opposition presidential candidate Henrique Capriles, third from right, is greeted by supporters as he gets on a makeshift stage during a campaign rally in Caracas, Venezuela. Presidential elections are scheduled for Oct. 7.
Ariana Cubillos
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AP
July 15, 2012
A crowd of people gather at the beach in Rabat during a heat wave in Morocco.
Fadel Senna
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AFP/Getty Images
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