Newly commissioned officers throw their hats in celebration at the close of graduation ceremonies at the Coast Guard Academy in New London, Conn.
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A Chinese fisherman works at a sewage-polluted river junction point in Xi’an. With inadequate sewage treatment facilites, the Zao River takes in 60 percent of the city’s sewage.
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Christopher Columbus (or at least his likeness perched high over Barcelona, Spain) dons a giant replica of next season’s new FC Barcelona jersey.
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A dancer performs on a watery stage — suspended above the audience –during a dress rehearsal for the Fuerza Bruta theater troupe’s production, ‘Wayra,’ in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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A doll makes an impression on the dried soil of the Los Laureles reservoir in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. The Honduran capital’s two reservoirs are at critically low levels.
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Refugees — seen through a barbed-wire barrier — protest amid the Dutch government’s debate of immigration policy in The Hague.
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An aerial view shows an empty, destroyed neighborhood in Moore, Okla.
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A man rows a boat toward a shack built on a rock in the middle of the river Drina. The house was built in 1968 by a group of young men who decided that the rock on the river was an ideal place for a tiny shelter.
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A great grey owl holds tight as a strong wind threatens to blow it from its perch at the Algonquin Provincial Park in Ontario, Canada.
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Bungee cords pull a man from the Kalom, a large well that dates back to the 16th century, traditional Sufi Muslim ceremony in the village of Ndande.The gaping, now-dry well was the site of historic battles in Senegalese history.
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A Chilean protestor shows little fear as he pummels the side of a riot vehicle with a large branch amid clashes with cops in Valparaiso, Chile.
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Stormy conditions farther off the coast of Cape Town, South Africa, make for a bumpy ride around the Misty Cliffs for this windsurfer and his sail-mounted camera.
EPA
