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Day in Photos: Sept. 18, 2012

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Demonstrators march holding images of former Chinese leader Mao Zedong as police stand guard outside the Japanese embassy in Beijing as anti-Japanese protests continue across the country over the Diaoyu islands issue, known as the Senkaku islands in Japanese. A wave of new anti-Japan protests were expected over the disputed islands in the East China Sea on September 18 on the anniversary of the Mukden Incident that triggered Japan’s invasion of Manchuria in 1931. AFP/Getty Images
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Police officers gather at the scene where two female police officers were killed in Hattersley near Manchester, northern England. Two unarmed policewomen were killed in a shooting in Manchester on Tuesday in an attack likely to reignite a long-running debate in Britain over whether officers should carry guns. REUTERS
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Afghanistan police and officials walk at the site of a suicide attack in Kabul. A suicide bomber blew himself up alongside a minivan carrying foreigners on a major highway leading to the international airport in the Afghan capital, police said, killing at least 10 people, including nine foreigners. AFP/Getty Images
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Kashmiri boatmen row their shikara, small boat during sunset at the Dal lake in Srinagar, India. Kashmir is a green, saucer-shaped valley full of fruit orchards and surrounded by snowy mountain ranges. AP Photo
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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, meets with Myanmar democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi at the State Department in Washington. AP Photo
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Peruvian Police officers inspect a Bolivian origin aircraft wreckage at an illegal landing strip near Peru’s central jungle city of Oxapampa. Almost 772 pounds of cocaine were seized in the Amazon region of Pasco after a gun fire confrontation between police officers and drug traffickers, who were forced to leave the drug packages inside the airplane. REUTERS
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Two boys from the Mundari tribe watch over their cattle in Terekeka, a fishing community 75km north of Juba in South Sudan,. The Mandari are a nilotic tribe and are known for fishing with only spears and nets and for their cattle keeping traditions. AFP/Getty Images
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US Amber Neben competes during the women’s Elite Time Trial at the UCI Road World Championships in Valkenburg. AFP/Getty Images
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Sailors from the guided-missile destroyer USS Winston S. Churchill board the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (Navy) frigate Yi Yang to meet prior to conducting a bilateral counter-piracy exercise in the Gulf of Aden. U.S. Navy
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Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, (C), escorted by his bodyguards, waves to a crowd of tens of thousands of supporters during a rally denouncing an anti-Islam film that has provoked a week of unrest in Muslim countries worldwide, in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon. Nasrallah who does not usually appear in public for fear of assassination called for Monday’s protests in Beirut, saying the U.S. must be held accountable for the film because it was produced in America. AP Photo
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A Bangladeshi child laborer carries empty bottles at a plastic bottle recycling center in Dhaka, Bangladesh. AP Photo
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A young child draped in a Chinese national flag sits on a man’s shoulders during an anti-Japan protest near the Japanese Embassy in Beijing, China. AP Photo
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General David Petraeus, director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), (C), New York City Police Department (NYPD) Commissioner Ray Kelly, second from right, and Duncan Niederauer, chief executive officer of NYSE Euronext, right, clap during the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York. Bloomberg
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Masked Palestinians stone-throwers collect bricks to use against Israeli security forces, not pictured, during clashes erupted after demonstration against an anti-Islam film called “Innocence of Muslims” that ridicules Islam’s Prophet Muhammad, in Shuafat refugee camp, Jerusalem. AP Photo
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An aerial photo from Kyodo News shows Chinese ocean surveillance, fishery patrol ships and a Japan Coast Guard patrol ship (R and 2nd L) sailing about 27 km (17 miles) west from a group of disputed islands, known as Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China, in the East China Sea. REUTERS
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First lady Michelle Obama does a little dance with students in the afternoon school program at the Girls Place in Gainesville, Fla. AP Photo
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Space shuttle Endeavour, atop a modified jumbo jet, is moved to the mate/demate structure for protection from a forcasted storm at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. A weather system has delayed Endeavour’s departure from the space center to Los Angeles. AP Photo
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The Crazy Horse girls dressed as a Busby guards arrive in London from Paris ahead of the launch of Forever Crazy a UK presentation of the cabaret that has been seducing Parisian audiences for over 60 years, to be performed in a purpose-built venue on the Southbank in London. ZUMAPRESS.com