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Day in photos: Nov. 21, 2012

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Parade workers secure the 'toon policeman balloon (while a pair of others get trapped in Charlie Brown's net) during setup for the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade in Manhattan.

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Firefighters extinguish a pile of uncollected trash set afire by neighbors in a street in Jerez de la Frontera, Spain. Collectors have been on strike since Nov. 5 in protest of austerity measures.

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A massive pile of turkeys awaits gobbling up -- they'll be handed out at a community center for families in Salt Lake City.

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Warsaw's tallest buildings rise from a blanket of think fog covering the Polish capital.

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Christmas lights line the Champs-Elysees in Paris.

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Yemeni security forces peer into a gaping hole at the scene of a military plane crash in Sanaa that killed 10 people while the craft was trying to make an emergency landing.

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Turkish workers reinforce the border fence between the northern Syrian town of Ras al-Ain and the Turkish border town of Ceylanpinar.

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Laura Engelhardt shovels sand from what's left of the patio of her home in Mantoloking, NJ.

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Smoke billows from the site of an Israeli airstrike before a ceasefire went into effect in Gaza City. Israeli aircraft pounded Gaza with at least 30 strikes overnight.

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Empty shells rest on the cracked bed of a dried lake in Waterloo, Neb., as a new report shows the nation's worst drought in decades is getting worse -- with 60.1 percent of the continental U.S. in some form of drought.

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Who's that guy? Just Grinnell College sophomore guard Jack Taylor putting away two of his NCAA record 138 points against Faith Baptist Bible college. That includes 18 threes in the last 20 minutes of play.