Biologist Kadie Burrone gets a furry hug from an endangered clouded leopard cub named Tien. The two month old kitty lives at Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium in Tacoma, Wash.
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As protests rage in Brazil, this military officer’s not taking any guff at all. A woman, who may or may not have been involved in the demonstrations, gets a face full of pepper spray on a corner in Rio de Janeiro.
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Italy’s Lorenzo Insigne gets a hug from a teammate after his squad lost the European U21 Soccer Championship to Spain in Jerusalem.
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Forest Service fireman Bo Rice stamps out hot spots left in the wake of the destructive Carstens Fire in the Sierra National Forest near Jerseydale, Calif. More than 700 firefighters are battling the blaze, which has so far torched 900 acres.
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Discarded public payphones pile up in a New York City salvage yard under the West Side Highway in Harlem. Despite the ever-growing number of cell phones, over 400,000 pay phones in the US still process about 1.7 billion calls per year.
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Those protesters in Turkey? Just a bunch of tree huggers, obviously. This woman is protesting in Kugulu park in central Ankara, where riot police dispersed hundreds of protesters overnight.
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Syrian rebels prep a rocket launcher for an attack against government forces in Homs province as Syrian warplanes took aim at rebel positions near a contested military air base and government soldiers marched on Aleppo.
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Outside the gates of the G8 summit in Enniskillen, N. Ireland, is Toyoshige Sekiguchi — a Japanese Buddhist Monk and anti-nuclear protester. The 48-year-old Sekiguchi spent the previous nine days on a peace walk from Belfast to Enniskillen.
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Hot air balloons taker off over Qiongzhou Strait in Haikou, China, during the H1 China Hot Air Balloon Challenge.
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As Britain’s Royal Ascot horse racing festival kicks off around him, this guy’s content just to read his paper on a bench in the park’s empty Royal Enclosure.
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Protesters in Sofia, Bulgaria, are shouting about the country’s new socialist government, elected last month. Those in power vowed to reform electoral law in hopes of calming the backlash but squandered some credibility by naming a powerful media figure to head national security.
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An Indian man salvages a pumpkin from the rising waters of the Yamuna river in New Delhi. Early monsoon rains in the country’s north have left at least 64 people dead.
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