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Day in photos: June 6, 2013

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A casket bearing the late Sen. Frank Lautenberg is carried into the Capitol building by an honor guard. New Jersey's Lautenberg, the Senate's last surviving World War II veteran, is to lie in repose in the Senate chamber.

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A light installation titled 'lux eucharistica' illuminates the inside of the Cologne, Germany.

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A masked protester considers some troubling graffiti on a barricaded street near Istanbul's Taksim Square.

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A surfer flips off a wave at Kuta Beach, Bali.

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Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist John White, right, is interviewed during a protest in opposition to the Sun-Times' decision to lay off its 28 full-time photographers.

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A farmer steps over a marsh on her way to her fields in Khokana, Napal.

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Diners enjoy a meal on a platform suspended by crane over Brussels, Belgium. 'Dinner in the Sky' accommodates 22 guests seated 148 feet from the ground.

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A Kashmiri woman mourns during the funeral of a militant commander in Rajpora, Kashmir. Two militants -- including commander Mohammed Abbas Nangroo -- were killed Wednesday in a shootout with security forces.

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One member of a traditionally dressed welcoming party awaits the arrival of China's President Xi Jinping at the Mayan ruins of Chichen Itza in Mexico. The Chinese first couple toured the ruins on the final day of their visit with Mexico's President Enrique Pena Nieto.

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A man bails out his home along the river Blanice in Putim, Czech Republic, as central Europe continues to suffer heavy flooding that has left at least 11 dead.

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South Africa's A.B. de Villiers dives for a run out during his squad's ICC Champions Trophy match against India at Cardiff Wales Stadium.

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One of the more than 800 firefighters on the scene battles the still-growing Thompson Ridge wildfire which is wreaking havoc near Jemez Springs, NM.