Beach visitors of different sorts watch the sunset in Dauphin Island, Ala.
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An Indian vegetable vendor clears rain water from his flooded shop after a downpour in Amritsar. Heavy rains, which fell in several areas of northern India, brought respite to the scorching heat which has dominated life in the northern plains in previous days.
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Barges and their towboats accumulate alongside the Mississippi banks of the Mississippi River near Greenville, Miss. Officials with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers say low water levels that are restricting shipping traffic, forcing harbor closures and causing towboats and barges to run aground on the Mississippi River are expected to continue into October.
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A fire fighter appears to use a garden hose to extinguish a fire in the hills around Florence. Reportedly the fires were threatening nearby houses. Some of the buildings and a hotel in the area that were hit by the blazes had to be evacuated.
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People try to recover a vehicle that got washed away into the Basantar river during a flash flood due to monsoon rains in Samba, near Jammu, India.
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Riot policemen detain an injured peasant farmer as they evicted protesters near the Supreme Court in Tegucigalpa. Riot policemen fired tear gas to remove peasant farmers who set up barricades and burned tires to block a main avenue as they demanded that a decree disallowing Bajo Aguan farmers in northern Honduras from being armed, be ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.
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Federal policemen escort a group of prisoners toward a plane bound for an undisclosed location at the Morelia International Aiport in Morelia, Mexico.
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A satellite image shows Tropical Storm Isaac. Isaac strengthened on Wednesday and looked set to become a hurricane as it churned through the Caribbean on a path that could have it hit Florida during next week’s Republican convention. The storm, packing gusts of up to 45 miles per hour, was expected to intensify over the next two days and “could become a hurricane by Thursday.”
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Four perfume warehouses are seen on fire at the industrial district of Ras al-Khor in Gulf emirate of Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
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A Kashmiri boat woman rows a grass-laden shikara (boat) on Dal Lake in Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian Kashmir.
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South African President Jacob Zuma (C) speaks to the leadership of striking Lonmin mineworkers during his visit to Marikana near Rustenburg, South Africa. President Jacob Zuma announced an inquiry into the violence at the Lonmin mine and declared a week of national mourning. South African police confirmed 34 people were killed and 78 injured during the strike by mine workers from Lonmin Marikana mine.
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Yemeni men perform a traditional dance with Yemeni daggers celebrating the Eid al-Fitr holiday at the Dar al-Hajar (Rock Palace), in the Wadi Dhahr valley on the outskirts of Sana’a, Yemen. Muslims worldwide celebrate the Eid al-Fitr holiday which marks the end of the fasting month of Ramadan.
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A Bulgarian man cools off in a waterfall during a heatwave near the capital Sofia. Temperatures in the Balkan country reached 100 degrees.
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An image released by the Nasa Earth Observatory shows a thick plume of smoke sent by an intense wildfire that broke out on the Greek island of Chios.
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An entertainer performs at the “Mons Venus” adult club in Tampa, Fla. The club, located less than 6 miles from where the Republicans will gather to nominate former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney as their presidential candidate was opened 30 years ago by Joe Redner, who almost single-handedly made Tampa’s adult entertainment world famous.
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