Michael Phelps talks with his coaches during practice in Mesa, Ariz. The 22-time Olympic medalist is entered in three events at the Arena Grand Prix starting Thursday.
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A child places a flower at one of the 107 wooden crosses in Prague, which honor victims of recent protests in Ukraine.
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A boeoegg, a snowman made of wadding and filled with firecrackers, stands atop a stack of wood at Sechselaeuten square in Zurich, Switzerland. On April 28 the Boeoeeg, the symbol of winter, will be set alight in a bonfire during Zurich’s traditional Sechselaeuten celebrations.
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A group of tourists sit during a bullfight master class for schoolchildren at the Maestranza bullring in the Andalusian capital of Seville, Spain.
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A pack of riders climbs the “Wall of Huy” during the Fleche Wallonne Classic cycling race in Huy, Belgium.
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A golden pheasant walks amongst bluebells at Kew Gardens in west London.
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Actors perform a scene from an adaptation of William Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” for the gathered press at Shakespeare’s Globe in London.
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Members of a Polish paratrooper unit watch as an US Air Force plane ferrying men and equipment of the US Army 173rd Airborne Brigade lands at a Polish air force base in Swidwin, Poland. Approximately 150 US troops, as well as another 450 destined for the three Baltic states in coming days, will participate in bilateral military exercises over the coming weeks in a sign of commitment among NATO members.
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Children of immigrants march near the White House while calling for immigration reform in Washington, DC. About 100 people joined the protest to voice their concerns over the government’s deportation policies.
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Friends and neighbors of the late Douglas Rafael da Silva Pereira pray before playing soccer in a plaza near the spot where Silva Pereira’s body was found in the Pavao Pavaozinho slum of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. On Tuesday night, angry residents who blame police for his death set fires and showered homemade explosives and glass bottles onto a busy avenue in the city’s main tourist zone following the killing of the popular local figure.
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Kathryn Grant, with the Campaign to Keep Guns Off Campus, speaks during a rally at an Atlanta church protesting a gun bill Georgia’s governor is signing today expanding where people can bring their guns. The bill allows those with a license to carry to bring a gun into a bar without restriction and into some government buildings that don’t have certain security measures. It also allows religious leaders to decide whether it’s OK for a person with a carry license to bring a gun into their place of worship. And school districts would now be able, if they want, to allow some employees to carry a firearm under certain conditions.
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A woman weeps as she carries a flower wreath while attending the funeral of Win Tin, a senior leader of the National League for Democracy, in Yangon, Myanmar. Win Tin, a prominent journalist and a giant of Myanmar’s democracy movement who became Myanmar’s longest-serving political prisoner after challenging military rule by co-founding the NLD died on April 21.
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Pope Francis waves to faithful as he is driven through the crowd for his weekly general audience in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican.
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Armenians take part in a torch-lit march to commemorate the 99th anniversary of the genocide in Yerevan, Armenia. The genocide killed an estimated 1.5 million Armenians.
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Michael Dunn and his new attorney Waffa Hanania, right, walk away from the bench after a pretrial hearing at the Duval County Courthouse in Jacksonville, Fla. Judge Russell Healey agreed to a request from Dunn’s new attorney to push back the May 5 trial date. Dunn is charged with murdering 17-year-old Jordan Davis in 2012 during an argument over loud music outside a Jacksonville convenience store.
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A student carries a flower in her mouth during a protest against a tuition increase outside the University of Puerto Rico in San Juan. The 24-hour protest was called even though officials at the university have extended a one-year moratorium on the four percent increase.
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People hold a Ukrainian flag atop a World War I-era MK V tank in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Ukraine’s highly publicized goal to recapture police stations and government buildings seized by pro-Russia forces in the east produced little action on the ground Wednesday but ignited foreboding words from Moscow.
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A demonstrator looks on with a sign reading “I am against the military courts for civilians” taped over his mouth during a demonstration calling for the release of activists in detention in front of El-Thadiya Egyptian Presidential in Cairo.
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President Obama and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe depart Sukiyabashi Jiro sushi restaurant in Tokyo.
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Police train their fire hose at protesters as the latter try to force their way closer to the US Embassy for a rally against next week’s visit of President Obama, in Manila, Philippines.
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Masked Sunni gunmen pray during a patrol outside Fallujah, Iraq. Government forces are fighting rebellious Sunni tribes and an al Qaeda splinter group, the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, in western Anbar province.
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A worker clears away graffiti of the Star of David on the Pope John Paul II memorial boulder in Krakow, Poland. Vandals daubed paint across the stone memorial commemorating the late Pope John Paul II in his home region of southern Poland on Wednesday, days before he is to be made a saint.
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A snapping turtle on display at the Shenandoah Valley Discovery Museum in Winchester, Va. awaits boxing for a move to its new home during “Moving Day.” The museum will open in its new, larger location in Winchester, Va. on Saturday, May 10, 2014.
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