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Day in photos: Oct. 5, 2012

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Bahraini anti-government protesters toss gasoline bombs at police in Sanabis as violence in the Middle-Eastern island kingdom continues. AP
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GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney hops off his campaign jet for a stop in Clearwater, Fla. AFP/Getty Images
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Turkish basketball fans horde the Celtics’ Jason Terry in hopes of getting an autograph before Boston’s promotional game against Fenerbahce Ulker in Istanbul. NBAE/Getty Images
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Gasoline prices top $5 per gallon at a Menlo Park, Calif., Chevron station. The cost of fuel leapt as much as 20 cents overnight. AP
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Workers harvest cranberries in a marsh near Warrens, Wis. The state is expected to produce 4.5 million barrels of cranberries this year. AP
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Emergency personnel clean up after a crash that caused a San Antonio school bus to go through a guardrail and fall off Interstate 37. A 7-year-old student and school district staffers were hurt. ZUMA Press
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A Palestinian militant from an armed wing of the Popular Resistance Commitees shoulders a launcher during a graduation ceremony for new comrades in the Gaza town of Khan Younis. EPA
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Police officers and a guard dog cordon off a court in Kyrgyzstan’s capital of Bishkek during a protest in support of detained opposition lawmakers arrested while rallying for the nationalization of a Canadian-owned Kyrgyz mine. AFP/Getty Images
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Elmo visits with 5-year-old patient Xiomara Nunez at St. Joseph’s Children’s Hospital in Tampa, Fla. AP
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Jennifer Lopez performs during a stop for her Dance Again tour at the Atlantico Pavilion in Lisbon, Portugal. EPA
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Demonstrators protest the extradition of terror suspects to the US outside the High Court in London. Reuters
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Third-graders feed a goat by hand during their school’s annual Harvest Day celebration in Owensboro, Ky. AP