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Published June 30, 2014, 5:20 p.m. ET

Members of the June 2014 graduating class of the New York City Police Academy embrace during their graduation ceremony at Madison Square Garden in New York June 30, 2014. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton (UNITED STATES - Tags: CRIME LAW TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

The June 2014 class of the New York City Police Academy celebrates their graduation at Madison Square Garden. Reuters

Small forest fires are pictured between pine trees at night at Sierra de Tejeda nature park, on a burnt mountain from El Collado mountain pass, near the town of Competa, near Malaga, southern Spain early June 30, 2014. A wildfire forced the evacuation of 600 people from their homes, most of the evacuated were resident tourists, as two houses were razed, according to local media. Picture taken using long exposure. REUTERS/Jon Nazca (SPAIN - Tags: DISASTER ENVIRONMENT TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

Forest fires burn at Sierra de Tejeda park in Competa, Spain. Reuters

Protesters holding placards shout slogans at a rally against Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's push to expand Japan's military role in front of Abe's official residence in Tokyo June 30, 2014. Half of Japanese voters oppose dropping a ban that has kept the military from fighting abroad since World War Two, a survey showed on Monday, as Abe readied a landmark shift in security policy that would ease the constraints of the pacifist constitution on the armed forces. The change will significantly widen Japan's military options by ending the ban on exercising "collective self-defence" or aiding a friendly country under attack. The placards (C) read, "Against toleration of right to collective self-defense". REUTERS/Issei Kato (JAPAN - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS MILITARY TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

Demonstrators protest Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe outside his residence in Tokyo. Reuters

Iraqi soldiers fire artillery during clashes with Sunni militant group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in the town of Jurf al-Sakhar, south of Baghdad June 30, 2014. Iraqi troops battled to dislodge the al Qaeda splinter group from the city of Tikrit on Monday after its leader was declared caliph of a new Islamic state in lands seized this month across a swathe of Iraq and Syria. Alarming regional and world powers, the ISIL claimed universal authority when it dropped the local element in its name and said its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, as leader of the Islamic State, was now caliph of the Muslim world - a medieval title last widely recognised in the Ottoman sultan deposed 90 years ago after World War One. REUTERS/Alaa Al-Marjani (IRAQ - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS MILITARY TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

Iraqi soldiers fire at ISIS militants in Jurf. Reuters

Afghan girls read the Koran in a madrasa, or religious school, during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan in Kabul June 30, 2014. REUTERS/Mohammad Ismail (AFGHANISTAN - Tags: RELIGION EDUCATION SOCIETY)

Girls read the Koran during Ramadan in Kabul, Afghanistan. Reuters

Demonstrators in support of abortion and contraceptive rights chant in support of their cause after the Hobby Lobby ruling outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington June 30, 2014. The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ruled that business owners can object on religious grounds to a provision of U.S. President Barack Obama's healthcare law that requires closely held companies to provide health insurance that covers birth control. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst (UNITED STATES - Tags: CIVIL UNREST RELIGION POLITICS HEALTH)

Pro-choice protesters demonstrate outside the US Supreme Court.

Anti-abortion demonstrators cheer as the ruling for Hobby Lobby was announced outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington June 30, 2014. The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ruled that business owners can object on religious grounds to a provision of U.S. President Barack Obama's healthcare law that requires closely held companies to provide health insurance that covers birth control. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst (UNITED STATES - Tags: CIVIL UNREST RELIGION POLITICS HEALTH)

Anti-abortion demonstrators cheer the Hobby Lobby ruling outside the US Supreme Court. Reuters

Muslims stand after having their Iftar (evening breaking fast) meal on the first day of the holy month of Ramadan in India, at the Jama Masjid (Grand Mosque) in the old quarters of Delhi June 30, 2014. REUTERS/Ahmad Masood (INDIA - Tags: RELIGION SOCIETY)

Muslims stand after having their evening meal on the first day of Ramadan in Delhi, India. Reuters

A stranded dog is seen on the roof of a flooded house in Asuncion June 30, 2014. The National Emergency Secretary estimates that about 40,000 families are affected by the flooding of the country's two main rivers, the Paraguay and the Parana. REUTERS/Jorge Adorno (PARAGUAY - Tags: DISASTER ENVIRONMENT ANIMALS TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

A dog waits for aid on the roof of a flooded house in Asuncion, Paraguay. Reuters

An Israeli soldier smokes a cigarette as he stands guard near the West Bank city of Hebron June 30, 2014. Israeli forces found the bodies of three missing teenagers in the occupied West Bank on Monday after a nearly three-week-long search and a sweep against the Islamist Hamas group that Israel says abducted them. REUTERS/Mussa Qawasma (WEST BANK - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST MILITARY)

An Israeli soldier takes a smoke break while on guard at Hebron, West Bank. Reuters

U.S. President Barack Obama arrives to speak about immigration reform in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington June 30, 2014. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS SOCIETY IMMIGRATION)

President Obama prepares to speak about immigration reform in the White House Rose Garden. Reuters

121873, Central Park Zoo welcomes four banded baby mongoose aged two weeks in New York City. Banded mongooses (scientific name Mungos mungo) are a common sight throughout sub-Saharan Africa. They are about the size of a small cat and live in extended family groups of around twenty adults plus their offspring. Each group or family sleeps together each night in a communal underground den, changing between den sites every 3-5 days. New York, New York - Saturday June 28, 2014. Photograph: © Dan Callister, PacificCoastNews. Los Angeles Office: +1 310.822.0419 London Office: +44 208.090.4079 sales@pacificcoastnews.com FEE MUST BE AGREED PRIOR TO USAGE

Four banded baby mongoose nurse on their mother in the Central Park Zoo. Pacific Coast News

TORONTO, CANADA - JUNE 30: Toronto Mayor Rob Ford enters his office at city hall on his first day back to work after taking part in a rehab program June 30, 2014 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. This is Ford's first day back after receiving treatment for about two-months at a substance rehabilitation center and is scheduled to address a small group of media later in the afternoon. (Photo by Brett Gundlock/Getty Images)

He’s baaack: Toronto Mayor Rob Ford returns to work. Getty

Congolese troops pass by during a military parade to celebrate Congo's 54th year of Independence from Belgium, in the city of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, Monday, June 30, 2014. (AP Photo/John Bompengo)

Congolese troops celebrate their Independence Day in a parade in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo. AP

Kashmiri women offer prayers on a stairway outside a Muslim shrine during the holy month of Ramadan in Srinagar, India, Monday, June 30, 2014. Muslims across the world are observing the holy fasting month of Ramadan, where they abstain from food, drink and other pleasures from sunrise to sunset. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)

Kashmiri women pray in Srinagar, India. AP

United States Coast Guard Academy Cadets Second Class Aurimas Juodka, left, and Sheila Bertrand get in the face of "swab" Kevin Lennox as Bravo Company finishes at the barber shop and mailroom during R-Day, the reporting-in day that marks the beginning of the 7-week "Swab Summer" for the class of 2018 Monday, June 30, 2014, in New London, Conn. About 250 prospective cadets, Swabs, start the program designed to indoctrinate them to the military life of the academy and at the end will be accepted into the corps of cadets. (AP Photo/The Day, Sean D. Elliot)

US Coast Guard officers yell at a “swab,” or prospective cadet. AP

Demonstrators carry a banner that reads in Portuguese "Zero Tariff", demanding an end to payment for public transportation, during a protest against the FIFA World Cup soccer tournament at the main bus station in Brasilia, Brazil, Monday, June 30, 2014. Protesters are unhappy about the money spent on the tournament, which they believe would have been better spent on improving the country's basic services. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Demonstrators protest the World Cup at a bus station in Brasilia, Brazil. AP

Secretary of State John Kerry and Chile's Foreign Minister Heraldo Munoz embrace after exchanging documents after signing several Memorandum of Understanding between the two countries, Monday, June 30, 2014, at the State Department in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Secretary of State John Kerry and Chile’s Foreign Minister Heraldo Munoz hug it out in Washington. AP

An Israeli military helicopter flies over the village of Halhul, near the West Bank town of Hebron, where the bodies of the three missing Israeli teenagers were found, Monday, June 30, 2014. The Israeli military found the bodies of three missing teenagers on Monday, just over two weeks after they were abducted in the West Bank, allegedly by Hamas militants. The grisly discovery culminated a feverish search that led to Israel's largest ground operation in the Palestinian territory in nearly a decade and raised fears of renewed fighting with Hamas.(AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

An Israeli military helicopter flies over Halhul, West Bank. AP

A Palestinian youth plays with a homemade sparkler after breaking his fast on the second day of the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Monday, June 30, 2014. Muslims throughout the world are celebrating the holy month of Ramadan, where observants fast from dawn till dusk. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

A boy plays with a sparkler on the second night of Ramadan in Ramallah, Palestine. AP

Pope Francis exchange gifts with King Felipe VI of Spain and and Queen Letizia of Spain, during a private audience in the pontiff's private library at the Vatican, Monday, June 30, 2014. In a statement, the Vatican noted that it was the monarchs' first foreign visit and said the cordial talks focused on church-state cooperation in Spain and unspecified global conflicts. Francis had met Felipe's parents, King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia, on several occasions, the last time during the April 27 canonizations of Saints John Paul II and John XXIII. Juan Carlos abdicated earlier this month. (AP Photo/Alessandro Bianchi, Pool)

Pope Francis exchanges gifts with King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia of Spain at the Vatican. AP

An African painted dog leaps over water in the new Painted Dog Valley exhibit just opened to the public, Monday, June 30, 2014, at the Cincinnati Zoo in Cincinnati. There are only about 3,000 dogs in Tanzania, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Botswana, and South Africa combined, making them one of the rarest species in Africa. (AP Photo/Al Behrman)

An African painted dog plays in the new Painted Dog Valley exhibit at the Cincinnati Zoo. AP

The day in photos

The day in photos