The Folk Ballet of Korea perform the Drum Dance, one of the most ancient dances of Korea’s 5,000-year-old culture. Aspiring dancers audition for the troupe at age 6, which is on a good will tour of the U.S. to honor veterans and the American people for coming to the aid of South Korea in June, 1950. All U.S. veterans and active duty military personnel and their families may obtain free tickets to the Little Angels at performances at 3 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. both on June 15th and June 16th at 311 West 34th St. Veterans should call 1-914-631-9262. Others may call Ticketmaster: 1-800-745-3000.
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An Uzbek woman named Matluba — who says she fled from the southern Kyrgyz city of Osh after her family were killed — weeps as she stands in line in no-man’s-land near the Uzbek village of Jalal-Kuduk, waiting for permission to cross into Uzbekistan.
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Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men gesture at police officers during a protest against the removal of ancient tombs, in Jaffa, a part of Tel Aviv, Israel.
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A worker loads crushed stone onto a dumper truck at a construction site in the commercial Connaught Place area of New Delhi, India.
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Haylie Murray kisses her fiance, Marines Lance Corporal Denis Newton with 1/3 Marines Bravo Company, upon his return to Hawaii following a seven- month deployment in southern Afghanistan.
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A Pakistani worker carries boxes of mangoes at a fruit market in Islamabad.
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Brazilian supermodel Gisele Bundchen presents an outfit by Colcci during the 2010-2011 Spring-Summer collection of the Sao Paulo Fashion Week in Brazil.
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Rowers sit in a 203-foot-long dragon boat on the Yangtze River in Zigui County.
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Thai scuba divers wearing soccer jerseys cheer underwater during an event for the World Cup at the Siam Ocean World in Bangkok.
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A boy is hit by a large wave during high tide on Mumbai’s seafront.
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A woman passes by a poster advertising a boxing hall in downtown Johannesburg.
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Nice residents watch Patrouille de France airshow to celebrate 150 years of Affiliation ceremony in Nice, France.
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A lion protects his soccer ball at the Ranch Hotel in Polokwane, South Africa.
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A huge elephant, part of the stage setting for the opera Aida, arrives at the lake theatre ‘Seebuehne’ in Bregenz, Austria.
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A U.S. army Black Hawk helicopter flies as the sun sets over Baghdad, Iraq. The State Department is quietly forming a small army to protect diplomatic personnel in Iraq after U.S. military forces leave the country at the end of 2011 and take their firepower with them.
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Kyrgyz Interior Ministry forces conduct house-to-house searches in the Anoshin neighborhood in the city of Osh, southern Kyrgyzstan. Some 100,000 minority Uzbeks fleeing a purge by mobs of Kyrgyz massed at the border, an Uzbek leader said, as the deadliest ethnic violence to hit this Central Asian nation in decades left a major city smoldering.
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Levi Rosser puts the brakes on a steer and brings him down during the steer wrestling event at the 62nd Glennville Rodeo.
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Members of Mexico’s federal police stand guard outside the emergency room at a hospital where their injured colleagues will be receiving treatment in Morelia.
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A local resident walks near flooding water as it spills over the dam south of Hefner between Macarthur and Rockwell in Oklahoma City.
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Florida Gov. Charlie Crist is followed by the media as he claims that Miami Beach is clean and free of oil. The governor visited Miami Beach to meet with local hospitality and business leaders to discuss the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and its impact on the state.
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