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Day in Photos: Aug. 15, 2012

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Raymond Roth,is escorted by law enforcement officers to the Long Island State Park Police Headquarters in Babylon. Roth is suspected of faking his own drowning at a New York beach in a scheme to collect on a life insurance policy. The 47-year-old was reported missing by his son on July 28 at Jones Beach.

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A resident wades on a flooded street in camp Lagoon in Baguio, Trinidad province, north of Manila, as tropical Storm Kai-tak hit the northeast of the main island of Luzon before dawn.

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Indian school children march past during India's Independence Day celebrations in Secunderabad, the twin city of Hyderabad. Manmohan Singh used his Independence Day speech to promise to improve conditions for foreign investment in the country after a sharp downturn in economic growth.

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A couple talks at each other as the sun sets at Enoshima beach in Fujisawa, near Tokyo.

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A worker monitors molten iron pouring into a furnace at steel manufacturing plant in Hefei, Anhui province. China.

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People sit along the harbor as they wait for relatives to arrive by boat from the eastern town of Jeremie in Port-a-Prince, Haiti. Residents from the eastern Haitian town make the 14 hour journey weekly, to sell goods in the capital and return with food and supplies.

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Japanese veterans and their followers clad in outdated military costume march to pay respects to the nation's war dead at the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo. Japan marked the 67th anniversary of its surrender in World War II today.

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A Injured children Syrian evacuate a field hospital after a second air strike in the town of Azaz on the outskirts of Aleppo, Syria.

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Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks to traveling press secretary Rick Gorka on the campaign charter flight before departure from Port Columbus International airport in Columbus , Ohio.

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A gardener designs a giant carpet made of flowers to form a floral decoration at Brussels' Grand Place. The design requires about 700,000 flowers to create, according to event organizers.

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A plane drops retardant to create a fire break at the Sunlight Waters housing development as the Taylor Bridge wildfire advances on the community near Cle Elum, Wash. The extreme fire conditions across the West came to bear in a rural part of Washington state near CleElum when three separate blazes were sparked in just 90 minutes. Firefighters snuffed two quickly, but the third exploded across more than 40 square miles of grassland, timber and sagebrush on the east slope of the Cascades. It left authorities scrambling to evacuate hundreds of residents.

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Schoolchildren take part in the Independence Day celebrations in front of the historic Red Fort, where Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is to address the nation in Delhi, India.

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A tourist sunbathes on a rock at the beach at Manuel Antonio National Park in Quepos, 98 miles off San Jose. The lush national parks of Costa Rica have long attracted tourists from around the globe with their evergreen rainforests, white beaches and thermal springs. Recently, they have lured more unsavory visitors in the form of drug traffickers. Organized crime cartels have turned to Costa Rica's treasured nature reserves as governments wage military offensives against the gangs throughout Mexico and Central America.

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A firefighter (L) holds a 14-month-old baby who has been rescued from a pit caused by a road cave-in in Harbin, China. According to local authorities, two people died from injuries sustained in the fall into a 10-meter-deep pit caused by a road cave-in.