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Day in photos: Nov. 6, 2012

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A patriotic pooch waits patiently for its owner outside the polls at Stuart-Hobson Middle School in Washington, DC. Reuters
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A Syrian loyalist soldier patrols for insurgents in the Harasta area of war-torn Damascus. EPA
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A surfer wipes out off the coast of Cardiff, Calif. Reuters
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Downed wires underscore the fatalist message spray-painted across one piece of the hard hit Rockaway beach boardwalk. Reuters
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A young Avenger, three-year-old Raena Lamont, joins her mom, Joanne Hernandes, in the booth at a voting center/donation site in Staten Island. Getty Images
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A bus burns in Karachi, Pakistan, where at least 12 people were killed and 14 others injured in widespread violence. ZUMA Press
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Artist Jeff Koons strolls by his sculpture ‘Tulips,’ in front of Christie’s at Rockefeller Plaza in New York City. Getty Images
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An Acme supermarket employee trashes goods damaged in Superstorm Sandy in Long Beach Township, NJ. Getty Images
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An Indian girl is seen through the broken windshield of an abandoned car in a poor New Delhi neighborhood. AP
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Admirers of deceased Argentinian film director and singer Leonardo Favio mob the hearse carrying his body to funeral services in Buenos Aires. EPA
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A boy walks past graffiti on the wall of subway station in Rio de Janeiro. Metro Rio asked grafitti artists to spruce up Rio’s tube line. AFP/Getty Images
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Mourners burn candles at a prayer service for Tim Ribberink at a church in Tilligte, Netherlands. Ribberink, 20, commited suicide last week, leaving a letter explaining his suicide was a result of incessant bullying. EPA
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Sri Lanka’s Tillakaratne Dilshan celebrates scoring a century (100 runs) in the team’s third One Day International cricket match against New Zealand. Reuters