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Day in photos: Oct. 23, 2012

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A Russian Soyuz rocket blasts off from the Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, carrying a crew of two Russians and one American to the International Space Station. AP
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Traders watch their screens in dismay during a rough day on the New York Stock Exchange. The Dow landed down over 200 points. EPA
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Supporters of the Hungarian Tousends government march through Budapest to commemorate the country’s 1956 uprising against Soviet occupation. AFP/Getty Images
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu smiles as he overlooks an area of Gilo — claimed by Palestinians — where he says Israel plans to build some 800 new housing units. AP
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Laborers build scaffolding in preparation for the World Parachuting Championship in Dubai. AP
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Turkish children peer through the shattered window of a clinic in the Reyhanli district of Turkey’s Hatay province that was hit by an anti-aircraft shell fired from Syria. Reuters
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A canopy of pink umbrellas cover a street in downtown Sofia, Bulgaria, as part of an art installation aiming to raise awareness of breast cancer. Reuters
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Gabonese crowd the edge of a collapsed road destroyed by heavy flooding in Libreville. AFP/Getty Images
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A pedestrian fights the wind as he walks in downtown Montevideo, Uruguay, where authorities sounded a red alert over a cyclone that has already killed one. EPA
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President Obama chats with a young supporter as he arrives at the airport in Dayton, Ohio. Reuters
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Muslim pilgrims circle a structure known as the Kaaba outside the Grand mosque in the holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia. AP