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Photos from around the world Here is a look at some of the best photography from around the world during the past week.
July 31, 2012
Traffic moves along a busy road after electricity was restored in New Delhi, India. Hundreds of millions of people across India were left without power on Tuesday in one of the world's worst blackouts, trapping miners, stranding train travelers and plunging hospitals into darkness when grids collapsed for the second time in two days.
Adnan Abidi
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Reuters
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July 31, 2012
Ultra-Orthodox Jews gather for Siyum Ha’Shas, a celebration marking the completion of the learning cycle of the Babylonian Talmud, a collection of oral Jewish laws and traditions passed down from generation to generation, in Jerusalem. Each of the Talmud’s 2,711 pages is studied in sequence, one day at a time, in a process that lasts about seven and a half years. More than 10,000 people attended in the event.
Oded Balilty
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Associated Press
July 31, 2012
A Filipino boy plays in a flooded street in Obando town, Bulacan province, north of Manila.Typhoon Saola dumped torrents of rain as it swept past the Philippines, killing at least seven people and displacing more than 20,000 others by Tuesday.
Aaron Favila
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Associated Press
July 31, 2012
A newlywed couple poses for a wedding photo in Shanghai, China.
Eugene Hoshiko
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Associated Press
July 28, 2012
Ukulele players perform to set a new Guinness world record for the largest ensemble by the Hawaiian guitar in Yokohama, southwest of Tokyo. A total of 2,134 players strummed on ukuleles, playing "Aloha Mahalo A Hui Ho," a song written by Hawaiian-born former sumo wrestler Konishiki.
Kazuhiro Nogi
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Agence France-Presse via Getty Images
The Olympic rings light up the stadium during the opening ceremony of the 2012 Summer Olympics on July 27 in London.
Morry Gash
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Pool photo via AP
New Zealand's Caroline Lenamore runs with her horse Lenamore during horse inspection for the equestrian eventing competition at Greenwich Park, the site for the equestrian and modern pentathlon events at the Summer Olympics in London.
Markus Schreiber
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Associated Press
A photo obtained by Reuters shows badly damaged buildings in the Juret al-Shayah neighborhood of Homs, a Syrian city where government forces have used artillery in combat with rebel forces.
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Reuters
The body of a 4-year-old Syrian boy is carried for burial in the Jordanian town of Ramtha on July 27. The boy was allegedly shot dead by the Syrian army soldiers as he, his parents and a dozen other refugees tried to cross the Syrian-Jordanian border to seek refuge in Jordan.
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Agence France-Presse via Getty Images
July 26, 2012
Syrians flee the northern city of Aleppo, Syria's commercial center, after government forces began shelling the city in an effort to crush a growing uprising against the government of President Bashar al-Assad. The government was also using troops, tanks, warplanes and attack helicopters against rebels in Aleppo and Damascus. U.S. officials said they feared the assault could lead to a massacre of civilians.
Bulent Kilic
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Agence France-Presse via Getty Images
July 25, 2012
Opposition fighters prepare homemade firebombs in the northern Syrian city of of Aleppo, where rebel forces are battling an onslaught by government troops, tanks, aircraft and attack helicopters.
Pierre Torres
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Agence France-Presse via Getty Images
July 25, 2012
The Tower Bridge in London is adorned with the Olympic rings two days before the start of the Summer Games. London is the first city to host a third Olympic Games.
Franck Fife
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AFP/Getty Images
July 26, 2012
Medic Kate Nesbitt, said to be the first woman in the Royal Navy and the second woman in the British armed forces to be awarded the Military Cross, carries the Olympic torch on her way to 10 Downing St. on July 26, the day before the Olympic Games opened in London.
Toni L. Sandys
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The Washington Post
July 25, 2012
Jonathan Horton of the United States attends a gymnastics training session at the O2 Arena before the start of the Olympic Games in London. This photo was taken using multiple exposures.
Mike Blake
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Reuters
July 25, 2012
A girl jumps into a public swimming pool in Essen, Germany. The country faces sunny and hot weather for the next few days.
Frank Augstein
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Associated Press
July 25, 2012
Veins are seen on the horse Clifton Promise while ridden by New Zealand rider Jonathan Paget during training for the equestrian competition in Greenwich Park at the Summer Olympics in London.
David Goldman
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Associated Press
July 25, 2012
Rescuers and gendarmes stand next to the debris of a Cougar helicopter near La Palud-sur-Verdon after six employees of the aviation company Eurocopter died in a helicopter crash as they were carrying out a test flight in the Verdon Gorges in Alpes-de-Haute-Provence in southeastern France.
Anne-Christine Poujoulat
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Agence France-Presse via Getty Images
July 25, 2012
Indian police detain activists of various left-wing parties and allied organizations during a protest in Hyderabad, India. The leftists' leaders accused the government of failure to deal with the power crisis in Andhra Pradesh state, which has resulted in problems for the farming and industrial sectors.
Mahesh Kumar A
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Associated Press
June 28, 2012
Razi Khan, background, looks at Irshad, 2, sleeping in a hammock attached to a bed at her home in Surkh Rod, in the district of Nangarhar, east of Kabul, Afghanistan. For Khan, a debt of almost $900 has condemned him and his family to years of work in a brick factory. With a salary of just $6 a day to feed his eight children and sick wife, it is unlikely that he will soon pay off the debt that has followed him for the past six years.
Rahmat Gul
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Associated Press
July 24, 2012
A Saudi man walks with his children while taking part in a national campaign to raise money for Syrians caught in the violent uprising. The children are dressed in the colors of Syria's pre-Baathist flag, which has been adopted by Syrian rebels as their banner. Saudis collected nearly $32.5 million on the first day of the fundraising campaign.
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Getty Images
July 24, 2012
A woman leans into the mouth of a plastic shark to kiss her child at the COEX Aquarium in Seoul.
Hye Soo Nah
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Associated Press
July 23, 2012
A fireman fights a wildfire near Vrpolje, close to the Croatian tourist town of Sibenik, south of Zagreb. More than 1,500 tourists were evacuated and a firefighter died after several wildfires fanned by strong winds broke out on several places along the Adriatic coast.
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Getty Images
July 23, 2012
People gather at the scene of a bomb attack in Baghdad's Shiite enclave of Sadr City.
Karim Kadim
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Associated Press
July 23, 2012
Mohammed Jassim is treated at a hospital after a car-bomb attack in Baghdad's Shiite enclave of Sadr City. An onslaught of bombings and shootings killed scores of people across Iraq on Monday, in the nation's deadliest day this year. The attacks come days after the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq declared a new offensive.
Karim Kadim
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Associated Press
July 22, 2012
Worshippers in a mosque in Gujranwala, Pakistan, wait to break their fast on the second day of Ramadan. During the holiest month in the Islamic calendar, Muslims refrain from eating, drinking, smoking and sex from dawn to dusk.
Aftab Rizvi
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Associated Press
July 22, 2012
A Kashmiri girl bites a popsicle inside the Jamia Mosque in Srinagar, India, on the second day of Ramadan.
Mukhtar Khan
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Associated Press
July 22, 2012
An Israeli army recruit is embraced by friends before he boards an army bus after reporting for the draft at the Tel Hashomer induction centre near Tel Aviv. Defense Minister Ehud Barak spoke to the young recruits at the IDF Induction Center about various security issues, including the terror attack in Bulgaria and the conflict in Syria. National military service is mandatory for all Israeli citizens over the age of 18.
Uriel Sinai
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Getty Images
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