Boston Red Sox designated hitter David “Big Papi” Ortiz takes a selfie with President Obama, who’s holding a Boston Red Sox jersey. President Obama honored the 2013 World Series champions Tuesday during a ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House.
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A man takes a photo of fish-shaped balloons floating above water fountains in Nice, France, to mark April Fools Day, or “Poisson d’Avril.”
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France’s outgoing Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault and his wife Brigitte leave newly-named Prime Minister Manuel Valls to his work after the official handover ceremony at Hotel Matignon, the French prime minister’s official residence, in Paris.
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A young Balinese couple kisses during Omed-Omedan (the Kissing Festival) in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia. The kissing festival is held annually on the day after Balinese Hindus celebrate the Nyepi Day of Silence.
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A child pulls a rope meant to corral Afghan women in line for their registration card on the last day of voter registration for the upcoming presidential elections Tuesday in Kabul, Afghanistan. Elections are set to take place April 5.
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A protester hoists a puppet depicting Chris Grayling, Britain’s Justice Secretary, at a rally — to protest legal aid cuts — near the Houses of Parliament in central London.
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Volunteers from Taiwan’s Buddhist association offer prayers for the Chinese passengers aboard the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 at a hotel in Beijing.
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Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin signs a bill into law on the back of dairy farmer Seth Gardner on Tuesday in East Montpelier. The new law expands Vermont’s “net metering” program, making it easier for small electricity producers to sell their power back to the power grid.
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Massachusetts Sen. Edward Markey holds up a General Motors ignition assembly during a news conference with family members of victims of the part’s failure on the steps of the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Tuesday.
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Environmental activists wear caricatures of German Environment Minister Barbara Hendricks, German Chancellor Angel Merkel and Economy and Energy Minister Sigmar Gabriel during a protest outside the Chancellery in Berlin ahead of a meeting between Merkel and premiers of Germany’s 16 federal states on energy reforms.
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Members of the Novaya Opera Theatre of Moscow perform the Polovtsian dance sequence during a rehearsal of “Prince Igor” by Alexander Borodin at the Coliseum theatre in London on Tuesday. They are the first ever Russian company to perform the classic opera at the Coliseum.
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Protesters in San Francisco block the path of a Google commuter bus to Mountain View. Demonstrators attempted to highlight many residents’ growing concern that an influx of affluent technology workers drives up costs in the city.
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Israeli Antiquities Authority archaeologist Daniel Varge works on a Byzantine-period monastery mosaic near the village of Hura, Israel. The Authority unveiled a monastery dating back about 1,400 years that sheds new light on the time.
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Riot police walk through tear gas clouds as they try to disperse protesters in Athens, Greece. Authorities banned all protests in a large section of central Athens because of a meeting of EU finance ministers. Nevertheless, some 7,500 anti-austerity demonstrators held three separate protests outside the exclusion zone, and some tried to break through a riot police cordon blocking their way to Parliament.
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Businessman Carl Paladino speaks during a pro-gun rally against the NY SAFE Act at the Empire State Plaza in Albany.
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Immigration rights activists protest as citizens prepare to cross into Mexico legally after Boston Archdiocese Cardinal Sean O’Malley led Mass Tuesday, in Nogales, Ariz. A delegation of Roman Catholic leaders celebrated Mass along the U.S.-Mexico border to raise awareness about immigration and to pray for policy changes.
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Models strut in creations from Patricia Motta’s Summer 2015 collection at Sao Paulo Fashion Week in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
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Captain America may be saving the American economy: As a trader looks on, Cap posed for photographers on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange after ringing the opening bell. The Dow Jones industrial average and the Nasdaq were both higher in early trading Tuesday.
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Venezuela opposition leader Maria Corina Machado inhales tear gas after she tried to take a seat at the national assembly in Caracas. Venezuelan troops dispersed opposition demonstrators with teargas on Tuesday and blocked anti-government activist Corina Machado, recently stripped of her seat in the National Assembly, from reaching the legislature.
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Kenyan police put the lifeless body of slain Muslim cleric Abubakar Shariff Ahmed into the back of a police pickup truck on a highway in Mombasa, Kenya. Mbugua Mureithi, attorney for the radical Islamic leader, who had been sanctioned by the United States and the United Nations for supporting the al-Qaida-linked Somali militant group al-Shabab, said his client has been assassinated Tuesday along with another man whose identity has not yet been established, near the Shimo la Tewa prison in Mombasa.
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State Sen. Tyson Larson rests his head on the desk of Sen. Lydia Brasch behind him during debate in Lincoln, Neb., on Tuesday. Lawmakers debated whether or not to override many of Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman’s $65 million worth of budget vetoes, including money for courtyard fountains and a new heating and air conditioning system at the Nebraska Capitol.
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Ahmad al-Jarba, the head of a delegation of the Syrian National Coalition, listens to a rebel during a visit to the front lines, where the rebels are fighting against the Syrian government troops in the coastal province of Latakia.
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A woman looks at portraits of people killed in recent clashes in the Euromaidan protest camp at Independence Square in Kiev, Ukraine.
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Connecticut Rep. Rosa DeLauro high fives Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) before a press conference to urge Congress to pass the Paycheck Fairness Act on Capitol Hill. The act would ensure equal payment for equal work for both women and men.
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