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Sep 2, 2013

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An unidentified veiled woman, flanked by a friend, is taken away by plain-clothed and uniformed police officers in Paris. France’s new ban on Islamic face veils was met with a burst of defiance Monday. AP Photo

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A man cycles under cherry blossoms on a warm and sunny day in downtown Frankfurt, Germany. AP Photo

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A soldier allied with Alassane Ouattara is given a handful of bullets for his new AK-47 after a shipment of weapons arrived at a republican forces operating base on the outskirts of Abidjan, Ivory Coast. AP Photo

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Members of the Nassau County police search team look through a brush area for the remains of bodies slain by a possible serial killer near Tobay Beach in Wantagh. Reuters

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Anti-government protestors shout slogans during a demonstration demanding the resignation of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh. AP Photo

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Julius Malema (center left), the leader of the governing African national Congress youth wing, and Winnie Madikizela-Mandela (center right), former wife of Nelson Mandela, are under heavy guard outside the Johannesburg High Court. AP Photo

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Orlando Duque of Colombia dives into Ik Kil cenote from the 27.25-meter platform during the second stop of the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series at Chichen Itza in Yucatan, Mexico. AFP/Getty Images

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South African President Jacob Zuma shakes hands with Libyan leader Moammar Khadafy on his arrival in Libya. The Libyan regime has accepted an African Union peace plan designed to the end the current conflict, the South African president said from Tripoli yesterday. AFP/Getty Images

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Firemen try to control a fire which gutted down 30 houses and left 90 families homeless in Quezon City, Philippines. EPA

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Thai tourists visit Wat Chaiwattanaram, built in 1630, in Ayutthaya, the old Siamese royal capital. According to local media reports, Thailand will nominate the ancient capital as a possible site for World Expo 2020. EPA

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People help a victim of a blast in central Minsk. A blast hit a metro station in the center of the Belarussian capital Minsk on Monday, killing some. REUTERS

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Indonesian parliament member from Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) Arifinto watches a porn video on his tablet computer. The conservative lawmaker who helped pass a controversial anti-pornography law resigned Monday after he was caught watching explicit videos on his tablet computer during a parliamentary session. AP Photo

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Rebel fighter Abdul-Hakim Jinjan, 42, who lost his leg before the current conflict, walks on crutches to the pickup truck where he mans an anti-aircraft gun, on the outskirts of Ajdabiya, Libya. AP Photo

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A supporter of the Mexican Electricians Union (SME) confronts Mexican policemen, at the building where the company is located and that was confiscated by the Government in 2009 in Mexico City. EPA

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The Boeoegg, a snowman made of wadding and filled with firecrackers, explodes atop a bonfire in the Sechselaeuten square in Zurich. As the bells of St. Peter’s church chime six o’clock, the bonfire below the “Boeoegg” is set alight and mounted guildsmen gallop around the pyre to the tune of the Sechselaeuten March. The faster the head of the “Boeoegg”, the symbol of winter, catches fire and explodes, the warmer and more beautiful the summer will be. REUTERS

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A boat of migrants arriving on the island of Lampedusa, southern Italy. Reports state that Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini on 12 April 2011 downplayed comments made the day before by Interior Minister Roberto Maroni about Italy leaving the European Union. Maroni had only been expressing ‘his strong disappointment’ amid a row over migration. EPA

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A four-jet-engine plane seemingly passes the moon, flying over Sieversdorf, eastern Germany. AFP/Getty Images

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(L to R) Samantha Vazquez, Claudia Elias, Maribel Zavala, Gina Aguilar, Ofelia Fernandez and Rosa Maria Arcos, flight attendants with Mexicana Airlines, pose for the photographers during the presentation of the Playboy magazine issue with their pictures in Mexico City. Six former Mexicana flight attendants who were invited by Playboy magazine to pose in the nude said that they did it not only for the money, but also to attract attention on the economical problems of their airline in terms to keep their jobs. AFP/Getty Images

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An aerial view of Kaieteur Falls in southern Guyana. Located on the Pitaro Rivers, Kaieteur Falls is considered one of the most powerful in the world when combining the height of the main plunge of 741 feet , with the great volume of water. REUTERS

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The sun rises over the Ob River in the early morning, near the city of Novosibirsk, about 1,750 miles east of Moscow. AP Photo

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Mohamed, 10, stands guard at the frontline along the western entrance of Ajdabiyah. Mohamed’s rebel fighter father earlier had given him a rifle and asked him to replace him in his duties. REUTERS

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A supporter of Uganda’s Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) leader Kizza Besigye falls as he is attacked by a military policeman during riots in the Kasangati suburb of the capital Kampala. Ugandan police fired teargas to disperse a crowd that gathered after the opposition leader was prevented from taking part in a second round of protests over rising fuel and food prices. REUTERS

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A participant rests during the culmination of ‘Save River Yamuna March’ in New Delhi, India. A tributary of one of India’s main rivers, the Ganges, the Yamuna is small but swells during monsoon rains. Officials say factories are ignoring regulations and dumping untreated sewage and industrial pollution, turning toxic the river that gives the capital much of its drinking water. AP Photo

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Nepalese citizens wave as they participate in a peace rally to mark the Nepalese New Year in Katmandu, Nepal. AP Photo

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North Koreans pay their respects before a monument of Kim Il Sung at Mansu Hill in Pyongyang, North Korea. People began to celebrate on the eve of 99th anniversary of Kim Il Sung’s birthday. April 15 is called “The Day of the Sun” in honor of the former guerrilla fighter who founded North Korea in 1948. AP Photo

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People carry a replica of a crocodile during a rally to celebrate the Bengali new year in Dhaka, Bangladesh. REUTERS

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People walk past debris left by demonstrators to block a road during a strike by Bolivian trade unions in La Paz. Bolivian trade unions remained on strike, which began April 7, 2011, to demand a higher wage rise than the 10 percent offered by the government, according to the Andean country’s biggest umbrella union, the Bolivian Workers Central group (COB). REUTERS

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A girl leads as pupils dance to Michael Jackson’s “Dangerous” during a daily exercise routine at a primary school in Wushan county of Chongqing municipality. A total of 725 pupils in the school dance to the Michael Jackson hit song every morning as a routine exercise program between classes. REUTERS

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A reporter with the Iwate Tokai newspaper, is swept by a surging tsunami at the port city of Kamaishi, northeastern Japan, as the region was struck by a massive earthquake that spawned the tsunami. Chiba, who was shooting photos at the mouth of the Owatari River when the tsunami struck him, survived and found himself only suffering scratches and bruises after being swept away for about 98 feet. AP Photo

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A Ugandan policeman kicks a protester, in Kampala, Uganda. Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye, President Yoweri Museveni’s closest rival in February elections, was injured while taking part in a protest against high food and fuel prices. AP Photo

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Japanese police officers carry a body during a search and recovery operation for missing victims in the area devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Namie, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan. AP Photo

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Former Croatian Army General Ante Gotovina,(C), talks to his defense team, prior to his verdict in the courtroom of the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands. AP Photo

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Makerere University students run after police open tear gas during a riot that destroyed several properties at the university in Kampala, after the university management doubled school fees. It was the second demonstration the city is experienced, after one named ‘walk to work’ where several politicians were arrested for allegedly inciting the public to protest high cost of fuel and other commodities. AP Photo

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Members of the British Army Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment polish part of their kit during a media event at the Hyde Park Barracks in London. Members of the Regiment will escort Prince William and his bride, Kate Middleton, on their wedding day, of April 29th. REUTERS

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Workers work at a construction site in Beijing, China. China’s inflation rose again in March despite government efforts to cool politically sensitive living costs, fueling expectations of more interest rate hikes and other steps to rein in rapid economic growth. AP Photo

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Lightning is seen over a hillside during an evening thunderstorm in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince. AFP/Getty Images

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U.S. Army soldiers from the Bravo Company, 234th Battalion, 1st Infantry Division, wait for takeoff while seated inside their transport plane at Manas airport near Bishkek. REUTERS

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Rebel fighters run (L) as they launch rockets against Muammar Gaddafi forces in the front line along the western entrance of Ajdabiyah. REUTERS

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People throw vermillion powder on one another to celebrate the Nepali New Year, also known as “Sindoor Jatra” at Thimi, near Kathmandu. REUTERS

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Workers prepare the wreckage of a Swiss Army Cougar helicopter before recovery in the snow in Maderanertal in the Swiss Alps. Two pilots and a loadmaster were injured as the helicopter crashed on March 30 at some 2,300 metres altitude. REUTERS

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Chinese construction worker walking along a beam.

Diversity campaigner Faye Allen diversity campaigner was quick to blast the bash, claiming that “horrified” attendees reached out to her with complaints, including one woman who “literally walked into a crotch.” AFP/Getty Images

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Boys dive and swim in the Ebrie laguna in a district of Abidjan. Ivory Coast’s slow recovery after four months of bloody political crisis gained pace today as Alassane Ouattara’s victorious regime declared the resumption of schooling and cocoa exports. AFP/Getty Images

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A couple takes pictures in front of an Osborne bull painted with the colours of the rainbow flag in Montuiri on the Spanish Balearic Island of Palma de Mallorca. The bull, known as the unofficial national symbol of Spain, was painted by unknown authors. AFP/Getty Images

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This image provided by the US Postal Service shows the Lady Liberty first class postage stamp. Just as the post office was hoping to promote going green, it finds itself red-faced. It turns out that a first-class stamp featuring the Statue of Liberty actually is based on a photo of a Las Vegas replica of the statue. AP Photo

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Robbie Maddison of Australia takes part in a training session during the first stage of the Red Bull X-Fighters World Tour at the Jumeirah Beach in Dubai. AFP/Getty Images

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Brazilian supermodel Ana Beatriz Barros on the runway at the 2011-2012 Marks & Spencer fashion show in Istanbul, Turkey. INFevents.com

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A open-air fish market in New York’s Chinatown advertises “Crap” on sale for $1.99 per pound. Sign was later corrected to read “Carp”. Sharilyn Neidhardt/New York Post

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