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GIANYAR, BALI - JUNE 19: A zookeeper gives milk to a week-old newborn baby Langur at Bali Zoo on June 19, 2014 in Gianyar, Bali, Indonesia. Javan Langurs are found in Java, Bali and Lombok in Indonesia and are listed as a threatened species due to hunting, agricultural expansion and habitat loss. (Photo by Putu Sayoga/Getty Images)

A zookeeper feeds a week-old langur at Bali Zoo in Bali, Indonesia.

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A poodle wearing a Brazilian national soccer team shirt sits on the beach of Porta Negra prior to the World Cup 2014 soccer match between Japan and Greece in Natal June 19, 2014. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach (BRAZIL - Tags: SPORT SOCCER WORLD CUP SOCIETY TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

A furry fan hangs out at the beach in Porta Negra, Brazil.

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A view of the al-Saleh mosque in Sanaa June 19, 2014. A power struggle between President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi and his predecessor escalated this week, with government forces raiding a pro-Saleh TV station. They have also surrounded the mosque in central Sanaa they say his supporters were planning to use as a base to attack the presidential palace. REUTERS/Mohamed al-Sayaghi (YEMEN - Tags: RELIGION CIVIL UNREST POLITICS TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

An al-Saleh mosque spews smoke in Sanaa, Yemen.

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Mehdi Army fighters loyal to Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr attend a military-style training in Najaf June 19, 2014. Iraqi government forces battled Sunni rebels for control of the country's biggest refinery on Thursday as Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki waited for a U.S. response to an appeal for air strikes to beat back the threat to Baghdad. REUTERS/Alaa Al-Marjani (IRAQ - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS)

Mehdi fighters train in Najaf, Iraq.

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Spanish bullfighter Jose Tomas performs a pass during his bullfight at the Monumental El Frascuelo bullring in Granada June 19, 2014. REUTERS/Pepe Marin (SPAIN - Tags: ANIMALS SOCIETY TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

Bullfighter Jose Tomas performs in Granada, Spain.

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Labourers sit in cement pipes near residential buildings at a construction site in Wuhan, Hubei province June 19, 2014. The first fall in Chinese home prices in two years has crystallised worries of a messy end to a housing boom, but some analysts say fears of an imminent collapse similar to that in the United States after the sub-prime crisis are overblown. REUTERS/Stringer (CHINA - Tags: BUSINESS CONSTRUCTION EMPLOYMENT REAL ESTATE) CHINA OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN CHINA

Laborers sit in cement pipes in Wuhan, Hubei province, China.

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The words of civil rights leaders are seen at the new National Center for Civil and Human Rights in Atlanta, Georgia June 19, 2014. The museum opening on Monday links the U.S. civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s to modern fights for human rights across the world to give visitors new insight on how the struggles are related, organizers said. REUTERS/Tami Chappell (UNITED STATES - Tags: SOCIETY)

At the new National Center for Civil and Human Rights in Atlanta

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Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton reacts as she signs copies of her book "Hard Choices" at a Barnes & Noble book store in Los Angeles, California June 19, 2014. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS MEDIA)

Hillary Clinton laughs at a book signing in Los Angeles.

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Fianna Roberts-Squier, 8, applauds during a media preview for The Wizarding World of Harry Potter-Diagon Alley at the Universal Orlando Resort in Orlando, Florida June 19, 2014. The new attraction, which opens to the public on July 8, expands the original Harry Potter world, which opened in 2010 and is modeled after Hogsmeade Village, which is located near the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry where the series' leading character Harry Potter begins his magical adventures. REUTERS/David Manning (UNITED STATES - Tags: ENTERTAINMENT BUSINESS SOCIETY)

A fan applauds at a preview for The Wizarding World of Harry Potter-Diagon Alley in Orlando, Fla.

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A caretaker opens the main gate of the Mosque "Imam Ali Ibn Abi Talib" , a religious shrine of the Muslim community that was inaugurated in 1972, in Curitiba June 19, 2014. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh (BRAZIL - Tags: RELIGION SOCIETY)

A caretaker opens mosque gates in Curitiba, Brazil.

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Pro-Russian separatists hold rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) projectiles as they get ready to go to the battle line in Seversk (Siversk), located near the town of Krasny Liman, Donetsk region, June 19, 2014. Ukrainian troops and pro-Russian separatists were locked in fierce fighting in the east of Ukraine on Thursday after rebels rejected a call to lay down their arms in line with a peace plan proposed by President Petro Poroshenko, government forces said. Heavy fighting broke out at around 4 a.m. (0100 gmt) near the town of Krasny Liman, which itself has been under government control since early this month. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov (UKRAINE - Tags: CONFLICT POLITICS CIVIL UNREST MILITARY)

Pro-Russian fighters clutch rockets in Seversk, Ukraine.

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WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 19: U.S. President Barack Obama speaks about Iraq in the Brady Briefing room of the White House on June 19, 2014 in Washington, DC. Obama spoke about the deteriorating situation as Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militants move toward Baghdad after taking control over northern Iraqi cities. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

President Obama speaks about Iraq in the White House.

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WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 19: Retired Marine Cpl. William "Kyle" Carpenter receives the Medal of Honor from U.S. President Barack Obama during a Medal of Honor ceremony in the East Room of the White House on June 19, 2014 in Washington, DC. Carpenter received the medal for taking the blast from a grenade to protect fellow Marines and sustained major wounds. Carpenter is the eighth living recipient chosen for the high honor. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

President Obama awards the Medal of Honor to retired Marine Cpl. William "Kyle" Carpenter in Washington.

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NOGALES, AZ - JUNE 18: Two young girls watch a World Cup soccer match on a television from their holding area where hundreds of mostly Central American immigrant children are being processed and held at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Nogales Placement Center on June 18, 2014, in Nogales, Arizona. Brownsville, Texas, and Nogales, have been central to processing the more than 47,000 unaccompanied children who have entered the country illegally since Oct. 1. (Photo by Ross D. Franklin-Pool/Getty Images)

Two detained girls watch the World Cup in a Nogales, Arizona, immigration holding center.

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Senator Ted Cruz, R-Texas arrives to speak at the Faith and Freedom Coalition's Road to Majority event in Washington, Thursday, June 19, 2014. Some of the Republican Party's most ambitious leaders are courting religious conservatives as evangelical Christians claim new momentum in their fight for the GOP's soul. (AP Photo/Molly Riley)

Sen. Ted Cruz speaks at the Faith and Freedom Coalition's Road to Majority event in Washington.

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Pope Francis holds a monstrance containing a Holy Host at the end of the Corpus Domini procession from St. John at the Lateran Basilica to St. Mary Major Basilica to mark the feast of the Body and Blood of Christ, in Rome, Thursday, June 19, 2014. (AP Photo/Riccardo De Luca)

Pope Francis leads a procession in Rome.

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Al-Qaeda inspired militants stand with captured Iraqi Army Humvee at a checkpoint outside Beiji refinery, some 250 kilometers (155 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, June 19, 2014. The fighting at Beiji comes as Iraq has asked the U.S. for airstrikes targeting the militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. While U.S. President Barack Obama has not fully ruled out the possibility of launching airstrikes, such action is not imminent in part because intelligence agencies have been unable to identify clear targets on the ground, officials said.(AP Photo)

Militants stand outside a captured Iraqi army Humvee in Beiji.

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Unionized nurses wear chains in order to draw attention to their low wages and poor working conditions, on their ninth day of a nationwide strike, during a demonstration outside the offices of the Latin America International Labor Organization in Lima, Peru, Thursday, June 19, 2014. The nurses who earn about 600 dollars a months, are asking their pay be doubled. (AP Photo/Sebastian Castañeda)

Unionized nurses wear chains as part of a protest in Lima, Peru.

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Homes are damaged on Thursday, June 19, 2014, after a tornado tore through the area on Wednesday in Wessington Springs, S.D. National Weather Service meteorologist Todd Heitkamp said law enforcement in Wessington Springs reported that the tornado went right "through the heart of town." (AP Photo/Argus Leader, Joe Ahlquist)

Damaged homes in Wessington Springs, South Dakota, following severe storms

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Police arrest a protestor during a Demonstration against the Monarchy in Madrid, Spain, Thursday, June 19, 2014. Dozens of protestors gathered in Madrid's main square to protest against the Spanish Monarchy on the day Spain's King Felipe VI was crowned. The Spanish Government unauthorized any kind of protest against the Spanish monarchy and police cordoned off the city centre. Felipe’s father Juan Carlos, who reigned during four decades, stepped down after signing an abdication law Wednesday so that younger royal blood can rally a country beset by economic problems, including an unemployment rate of over 25 percent. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)

Police arrest a man protesting the Spanish monarchy in Madrid.