Retired bus driver Glenn Williams, dressed as Captain America, greets civil rights activist Rev. Al Sharpton after Sharpton’s remarks to a rally by Amalgamated Transit Union workers to urge investment in public transit at the US Capitol in Washington.
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An Israeli boy, dressed as a surgeon, watches as a student of the faculty of health sciences treats his teddy bear at Soroka hospital in the southern city of Beersheba, as part of a project titled “Teddy Bears Hospital.” Since it started in 2000, the project aims to relieve fear that some children experience during a doctor’s visit by inviting them to bring a toy that will stand in for a patient so they can watch and take part in its medical treatment.
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A praying man is reflected in a window of the Choeung Ek Memorial, a stupa filled with the skulls of thousands of Khmer Rouge victims, on the outskirts of Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Cambodians gathered at the “Killing Fields” site on the national Day of Remembrance for those who perished during the radical communist group’s 1975-79 regime.
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Traditional dancers perform while awaiting the arrival of Indonesian presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto and his running mate, Hatta Rajasa, to register at the Election Commission for the July 9 election, in Jakarta, Indonesia.
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Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron chats with D-Day veteran Kenneth Sturdy during an event on the deck of the battleship HMS Belfast in central London. Cameron officially started the 70th anniversary commemorations of the 1944 D-Day landings at the ceremony.
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A bee leaves a Cirsium Trevors “Blue Wonder” thistle in the Well Child fresh garden at the Chelsea Flower Show in London.
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Hindu nationalist Narendra Modi, winner of recent elections for Indian prime minister, bows in respect at the steps of the parliament house upon his arrival to attend his party’s meeting in New Delhi.
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Members of the armed forces of Bosnia and Herzegovina rest near a home surrounded by mines in an area near the river Bosna in the city of Visoko.
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Men search for survivors under the rubble of collapsed houses at a site hit by what activists said was a Scud missile from forces loyal to Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad, in the town of Mareh in the countryside north of Aleppo.
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A veterinarian puts a rope around a pig’s head to help it out of water during heavy floods in the village of Prud, Serbia. Communities in Serbia and Bosnia battled to protect towns and power plants on Monday from rising floodwaters and landslides that have devastated swathes of both countries and killed dozens of people.
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US Vice President Joe Biden shakes hands with Romanian soldiers at the Otopeni military airbase near Bucharest. He arrived in Bucharest on Tuesday as part of Washington’s campaign to reassure Eastern European allies of American backing in the West’s confrontation with Russia over Ukraine.
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A University of Nairobi student cries as she surrenders after police released tear gas to disperse them from inside their lecture rooms in Nairobi, Kenya. Public university students started protests against the planned hiking of fees and lowering of maximum loans awarded to students by the Higher Education Loans Board, with police engaging the students in running battles at the main campus, local media reported.
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An Amnesty International activist, dressed as a prisoner with a mask with tape over the mouth, attends a protest rally at Wenceslas Square in Prague, Czech Republic, to draw attention to political prisoners in Belarus.
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A Thai soldier stands guard on a city center street after martial law was declared in Bangkok. The army imposed martial law across Thailand amid a deepening political crisis that has seen six months of protests and claimed at least 28 lives.
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Ann Friess remembers her lost pets as she puts flowers in the ground where her house used to be. Her pet was found in the rubble a year ago when a 2-mile-wide EF5 tornado passed through the area of Moore, Okla., on May 20, 2013.
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A Douglas A-1 Skyraider is moved onto the flight deck of the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum by crane in New York City. The plane served as a single-seat attack aircraft for the US military from 1946 to 1985. This specific plane was transported in pieces from Naval Air Station Oceana in Virginia and reassembled on site.
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Deaquan Kash, 11, stands with his dog, Special, after he and his family were evacuated from a fire in his apartment building in Brooklyn. Two people suffered minor injuries in the early morning fire that left numerous families homeless after it moved through the fourth and fifth floors.
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A 1970 photo of Lombard Street in San Francisco shows the windy, curvy roadway. San Francisco’s crooked street could soon be closed to tourists in the summertime. A transportation commission is scheduled to consider an experimental shutdown of the famously curvaceous block of Lombard Street plus an adjoining block where cars line up and wait.
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Red howler monkey Taima plays at the zoo in Berlin, Germany.
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Smoke rises after a bomb blast at a bus terminal in Jos, Nigeria. Two explosions ripped through the bustling terminal and market in the central city on Tuesday afternoon, and police said there were an unknown number of casualties. The blasts could be heard miles away and clouds of black smoke rose above the city as thousands fled and firefighters and rescue workers struggled to reach the area.
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Exercise rider Willie Delgado walks Triple Crown hopeful California Chrome after they arrived at Belmont Park in Elmont, NY.
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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie reacts to a question at the Statehouse in Trenton after he unveiled a plan for filling an unexpected gap in New Jersey’s state budget over the next 13 months. Christie’s administration announced last month that revenues for the fiscal year that ends June 30 were coming in $807 million below expectations. Christie said he planned to cut pension payments, which will mostly fill a budget gap between now and June 30, 2015. But he doesn’t plan to cut educational funding or money for developmentally disabled or drug rehab programs, among others.
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Haley Hilt, 7, of East Greenbush, NY, who has epilepsy, is comforted by her mother, Melissa, and a friend during a Senate health committee meeting at the Capitol in Albany. A bill that would legalize medical marijuana in New York has passed the Republican-led health committee, one of a series of hurdles it will have to go through before becoming law.
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A Pakistani health worker gives polio vaccine to a child in Lahore. Pakistan will require all travelers leaving the country to obtain a polio vaccination starting June 1.
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