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Day in Photos: Aug. 16, 2012

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Spanish bullfighter Fernando Cruz is gored by a bull at Las Ventas bullring in Madrid, Spain. EPA
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A woman threatens a police officer with a wooden stick as she is evicted from the Jacobo Arbenz housing settlement in Guatemala City. Security forces evicted about 200 families from vacant lots that they took over in January, called the Jacobo Arbenz housing settlement, which is located in front a military base. AP
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President Obama sits down for breakfast at Riley’s Cafe with U.S. military veterans in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Pictured (L-R) Obama, Terry Phillips, Jake Krapfl, and Amanda Irish. REUTERS
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Event site organizers rush to stop a Chinese fan from hugging NBA basketball player Kobe Bryant during a promotional event in Wuhan, China. REUTERS
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British police officers arrest a protesters in support of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange from the front of Ecuadorian Embassy in central London. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange entered the embassy in June in an attempt to gain political asylum to prevent him from being extradited to Sweden, where he faces allegations of sex crimes, which he denies. AP
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A policeman gestures in front of some of the dead miners after they were shot outside a South African mine in Rustenburg, northwest of Johannesburg. South African police opened fire on Thursday against thousands of striking miners armed with machetes and sticks at Lonmin’s Marikana platinum mine, leaving several bloodied corpses lying on the ground. REUTERS
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Police officers stand guard as hired farmers uproot coca shrubs as part of a manual eradication campaign in San Miguel on Colombia’s southern border with Ecuador. AP
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Protesters shout slogans during a rally against South Korea in Tokyo. A group of South Korean protesters, swimming across the sea in a relay, reached contested islands in the Sea of Japan, called Takeshima in Japanese and Dokdo in Korean in a demonstration aimed at belittling Japan’s claims to that territory. AP
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A view of Del Campo square during a training session of the Palio race in Siena. Every year , almost without fail since the mid-1600s, 10 riders compete bareback around Siena’s shell-shaped central square in a bid to win the Palio, a silk banner depicting the Madonna and child. REUTERS
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A Pakistani man and his daughter, sleep on a bed under the shadow of a tree, on a street median, on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan. Many Pakistanis sleep outdoors to escape the heat trapped in their homes during the summer months. AP
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Chinese exhibitors show samples of Brazilian football souvenir items during the China Sourcing Fair in Sao Paulo, Brazil. More than 500 companies from mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan took part in the fair, presenting a variety of products from electronic goods to clothes. AFP/Getty Images
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Students from Pashupatinath Veda Vidya Ashram, a school on Hindu religious teaching, look out from a window of their class in Katmandu, Nepal. AP
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Pakistani security stand guard at the entrance of Pakistan’s air force base in Kamra, northwest of Islamabad, Pakistan. Militants attacked an air force base in northwest Pakistan filled with F-16’s and other aircraft before dawn Thursday, sparking a heavy battle with security forces that left parts of the base in flames. AP
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Republican vice presidential candidate, Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis. listens to the crowd response during his speech at a campaign stop at Walsh University in North Canton, Ohio. AP
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A firefighting tanker plane drops fire retardant on homes threatened by the Taylor Creek Fire outside Cle Elum, Washington. REUTERS
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Commuters queue at Lima’s Metropolitano bus station during the public transportation workers’ strike in Lima. Transportation workers are protesting against Lima’s mayor Susana Villaran’s new ordinance that aims to impose tighter restrictions to regulate public transportation providers. Private vehicle owners have taken advantage of the strike by providing short distance routes and charging commuters more than what they would normally pay for public transportation. REUTERS
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Thai vegetable market vendors pull back awnings and their produce off a railway track to allow a cross-country train to dissect through the middle of the town of Maeklong, in Samut Songkhram, west of Bangkok . The bustling market, in the middle of the town, has to scramble from the tracks eight times a day as trains pass. REUTERS
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An Italian Carabinieri falls off from his horse during a parade on the eve of the Palio horse race, in Siena. AFP/Getty Images