Somali midwives at a hospital in the Bakool region of Somalia. Bakool has had no hospitals for three-and-a-half years, since Al-Qaeda affiliated Shebab insurgents closed down a maternity clinic set up in 2008.
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A fire truck speeds to the scene of a house fire in Sittwe, Myanmar. More than 30,000 people have been displaced by clashes in the country’s west and at least 29 people have been killed since June 8, with scores more wounded and nearly 2,600 homes burned across the state.
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Fifteen-month-old Brianna Migoya, plays in a field of flags at the ceremony for the new 9/11 memorial in Miami. The memorial features in its center a steel beam recovered from the rubble of the Twin Towers in New York.
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A Palestinian protester hurls stones at Israeli soldiers during clashes at a protest against the Jewish settlement of Qadomem, near Nablus.
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A man casts his line into Hopfen Lake in Hopfen, Germany.
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A Brazilian indian applies make-up before the inauguration of the People’s Summit in the Flamego Park in Rio de Janeiro. The UN conference, which marks the 20th anniversary of the Earth Summit — a landmark 1992 gathering that opened the debate on the future of the planet and its resources — is the largest ever organized, with 50,000 delegates.
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A performer dressed as a sheriff prepares for trouble at the opening of the Twinpigs City theme park in Zory, southern Poland. Twinpigs City is a Wild West theme park, with gun duels, bank robberies, and stunt shows as main attractions.
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Miners fire handmade rockets at riot police officers, unseen, as they defend their position near the mine “El Soton” amid clashes in El Entrego, Spain. Strikes, road blockades, and mine sit-ins continue as 8,000 mineworkers at over 40 coal mines in northern Spain continue their protests against government action to cut coal subsidies.
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Sweden’s Fredrik Kessiakoff coasts his way to a win the 7th stage of the 76th Tour de Suisse near Zurich Lake in Gossau, Switzerland.
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A helicopter flies through the Cache La Poudre Canyon in Colorado, where flames have scorched the forest south of the river and caused a mandatory evacuation for residents of the Glacier View area.
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Eager Mousketeers help light up the World of Color show in Paradise Bay, on the eve of the public grand reopening of Disney California Adventure Park in Anaheim, Calif.
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An aerial view of the Christ the Redeemer statue shows it lit to celebrate the UN’s Rio+20 forum on Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro.
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Wu ping, spokesperson for China’s manned flight program, reacts as a solar panel drops from a scale model of the Shenzhou 9 module docking with China’s Tiangong 1 space module and three astronauts during a press conference at the Jiuquan satellite launch center near Jiuquan in western China’s Gansu province.
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Former Goldman Sachs Group Inc board member Rajat Gupta (L) leaves Manhattan Federal Court after hearing a guilty verdict in New York. Gupta was convicted on Friday of illegally tipping his hedge-fund manager friend Raj Rajaratnam with secrets about the investment bank, a major victory for prosecutors seeking to root out insider trading on Wall Street.
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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney shakes hands after speaking at a campaign event at the Scamman Farm in Stratham, New Hampshire. Romney is kicking off a five-day tour through the battleground states.
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