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Day in Photos: Aug. 22, 2013

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An Indian villager smokes a pipe while sitting in protest during a rally in New Delhi. Protesters are demanding pensions for elderly poor citizens. AP
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Rescuers search for survivors among the wreckage of a casino bus that plunged into a ravine in Bentong, Pahang, Malaysia. As many as 32 people were killed, officials said. ZUMA Press
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Palestinian children clown around with kites on the Gaza Strip’s Bait Lahiya beach during an event organized by the World Vision Foundation. EPA
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Visitors watch the rushing water cascade from the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydro electric power station’s spillway. Reuters
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Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe stoically watches the festivities during his inauguration and swearing-in ceremony at the 60,000-seat sports stadium in Harare. He begins another five-year term now that courts have tossed a challenge to the electoral results. AFP/Getty Images
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A government employee is doused in dyed water by Indian cops tasked with dispersing protestors. The dissidents were seeking to reach the home of Kashmir’s chief minister Omar Abdullah in Srinagar, demanding an increase in retirement age. Reuters
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Fishermen try to snag a catch outside their partially submerged homes in the Chota Baghra District of Allahabad, India. AFP/Getty Images
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An angry viking watches over the crowd at the gamescom video gaming fair in Cologne, Germany. AP
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Chinese paramilitary police help a group of fishermen in Ningde, Fujian province shove their overturned boat to shore after it was upended in Typhoon Trami. Reuters
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Things are so bad in Syria, they’re going to Iraq for help! Here’s the Kawergost refugee camp in Irbil, where around 34,000 mostly Kurdish Syrians have fled to over a five-day stretch. Irbil lies in the self-ruled Kurdish region of northern Iraq. AP
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Members of the movement that helped oust him lie in a Cairo street as ‘victims’ of the newly freed former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. The former autocrat was flown to a military hospital after being released from prison. Reuters
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‘Oil’-soaked Polish Greenpeace activists protest Arctic search drilling in Warsaw. AP