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Sep 2, 2013

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Soldiers patrol in front of the Sphinx, at the closed Pyramids site in Giza, Egypt’s most famous tourist attraction. AP Photo

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A vendor waits for customers at his vegetable shop in a boat on the Buriganga River during a nationwide strike in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Police fired tear gas and arrested dozens in northwestern Bangladesh Monday as the country’s main opposition party enforced a dawn-to-dusk general strike to protest the government’s alleged failure to run the nation effectively. AP Photo

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A Pakistani man sits on the back of a vehicle loaded with vegetables in Islamabad, Pakistan. AP Photo

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An aerial view from a helicopter shows smoke billowing from a fire raging through samba schools, where floats, costumes and props of the Rio Carnival are made and kept, in Samba City, Rio de Janeiro. The fire, which swept through the center of Carnival preparations in Rio de Janeiro on Monday, destroyed hundreds of costumes and floats less than a month ahead of Brazil’s annual festival of hedonism. Reuters

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A gondolier ferries passengers across the Grand Canal in the fog in Venice. REUTERS

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A girl walks at an observation deck in Tokyo. REUTERS

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Japanese college students watch a cheerleader at a rally in Tokyo. About 1,500 students from business schools attended the rally to boost their morale ahead of their job hunt. REUTERS

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North Korean Colonel Ri Son-kwon (front R) and other North Korean officers walk south of the truce village of Panmunjom in Paju, north of Seoul, before their talks with South Korean officers. Military officers from North and South Korea met at their heavily fortified border on Tuesday for the first inter-Korean talks since tension peaked on the peninsula late last year. REUTERS

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A resident walks near burning oil tankers which were set ablaze by an bomb explosion in Peshawar, northwest Pakistan. Four trucks carrying fuel supplies for NATO in Afghanistan caught fire after small bombs planted underneath them exploded in a market on the outskirts of Peshawar. REUTERS

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Residents look for salvageable items among charred houses after a Monday night fire at a slum area in Quezon City, Metro Manila. Some 5,000 families were left homeless and investigators are still looking into what caused the fire. REUTERS

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A Thai child walks between tents after being evacuated from the Cambodian border, in the Kathararak district of Thailand’s Si Sa Ket province. Cambodian and Thai troops clashed briefly for a fourth straight day, Phnom Penh said, as UN chief Ban Ki-moon called for “maximum restraint” in a border dispute that has claimed six lives. AFP/Getty Images

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A firefighter from the New York Fire Deparment climbs a ladder to move away from a flaming window during a house fire in the Brooklyn. REUTERS

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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange talks to the media as he leaves Belmarsh Magistrates Court, in east London. Assange, who has infuriated the U.S. government by releasing thousands of secret U.S. diplomatic cables on his website, is wanted in Sweden to face allegations of sexual misconduct made by two WikiLeaks volunteers during a visit there last August. REUTERS

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A bottle of beer that was retrieved from a shipwreck in the Aland archipelago in the summer of 2010 is shown at the Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT) in Espoo. Divers retrieved more than 160 bottles of champagne and five bottles of beer in July 2010, from the wreck of a ship that likely sank during the first half of 1800’s. The beer in question is one of the world’s oldest preserved beers. The VTT is to study the contents of the bottle to determine what kind of a recipe was used in the brewing of the beer and what kind of yeast caused the fermentation process. REUTERS

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An carnival reveler attends a parade in Encarnacion, Paraguay. ZUMAPRESS.com

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Riot police clash with residents of Keratea, southeast of Athens. Three people were arrested and two policemen were injured during riots that broke out between police and local residents demonstrating against the construction of a new landfill close to the city. AFP/Getty Images

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Egyptian protesters burn the government headquarters of Port Said, which they claim have delayed their requests to acquire homes. Egypt’s government resisted growing pressure on Thursday from the United States and from a still energetic popular protest movement, both demanding radical and immediate political change. REUTERS

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Chef Angelito Araneta Jr. prepares to mix a South Sea pearl and a one-carat African diamond to his Acqua Diamanti Necro Boteglia vodka edition in Manila. The vodka, which contains 24-carat edible gold leaves, two South Sea pearls and a one-carat diamond, will be on sale on the upcoming Valentines Day for 489,000 pesos ($ 11,000) per bottle, according to Araneta. REUTERS

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Brazilian Murilo Fisher of Garmin-Cervelo celebrates after winning the Trofeo Magaluf-Palmanova, the fifth and final race in the Mallorca Challenge, in Palmanova, Spain. AFP/Getty Images

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A Chinese paramilitary policeman yawns during heavy snowfall at Tiananmen Gate in Beijing. The snow in the Beijing region was the first precipitation in the capital since rain fell on October 25, and marked the longest wait for the first winter snowfall in six decades. AFP/Getty Images

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Spain’s David Fandila, “El Fandi”, performs during a free bullfight as part of the “Bulls and Cocks for Freedom” campaign in Quito, Ecuado. Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa will hold a 10-point referendum this year, which will include a question on whether citizens agree that an animal should be killed for entertainment purposes. Bullfights and cockfights supporters have began a campaign seeking to block the referendum question that could end prohibiting or limiting bull and cock fights. AP Photo

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Australian Institute Of Marine Science (AIMS) divers examine cores of large Porites coral at Clerke Reef, Western Australia. Flood and storm-battered northern Australia is likely to suffer more frequent weather extremes, according to a study of coral cores that reveal a centuries-old climate record for the region. REUTERS

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PC Air transsexual flight attendants, from left: Nathatai Sukkaset, 26, Dissanai Chitpraphachin, 24, Chayathisa Nakmai, 24 and Phuntakarn Sringern, 24, in Bangkok. The newly formed airline wants to differentiate themselves from their competitors by hiring transsexuals, locally known as “katoeys” or “ladyboys”. Original plans to hire only male and female attendants were changed when more than 100 job applications from transvestites and transsexuals were received, four of whom were recruited along with 19 female and seven male flight attendants. The airline said the qualifications were the same as that required of female flight attendants, which include femininity and attractiveness. REUTERS

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Trees covered with snow and glazed frost along the Songhua River in Jilin, northeast China’s Jilin Province. ZUMAPRESS.com

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Aghan children peep out their tent as they watch others play as it snows in Kabul, Afghanistan. AP Photo

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A UN guard post, framed by a Turkish and Turkish Cypriot flag, is seen in the background as children play on a climbing frame in a park between the United Nations buffer zone and a Turkish military post, in the Turkish occupied area of the divided capital Nicosia, Cyprus. AP Photo

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Anti-government protesters make traditional Muslim Friday prayers at the continuing demonstration in Tahrir Square in downtown Cairo, Egypt. AP Photo

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