Indian youths perform karate moves during a summer training camp in Hyderabad.
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A pilgrim makes her way to the shrine of El Rocio on a horse, during the annual El Rocio pilgrimage, in Seville. The pilgrimage to Almonte which houses the Virgin del Rocio is the largest in Spain with hundreds of thousands of devotees in traditional outfits converging in a burst of color as they make their way on horseback and decorated carriages across the Andalusian countryside.
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A fish jumps out of the water near a water bird, seen in front of a cargo ship sailing to an industrial port in Tokyo. Japan’s exports rose in April from a year before at the fastest pace in more than a year, helped by a recovery in overseas demand.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel reacts at a news conference after an energy “summit” with German state premiers at the Chancellery in Berlin.
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Ships float up the Hudson during the start of Fleet Week in New York.
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Special team officers stand guard around boxes with 1,030 pounds of cocaine prior to incinerate it in Kiev. Cocaine was confiscated from international criminal group in July 2010 by the Ukrainian Security Service in close collaboration with the special services the U.S. and Germany.
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Students of the Krasnoyarsk choreographic college prepare backstage before a dress rehearsal of an annual graduate ballet performance at the Opera and Ballet State Theatre in Russia’s Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk.
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Riot police arrest a demonstrator during a general strike and protest against cuts in government spending on education in Madrid. Tens of thousand of striking teachers and students and their supporters demonstrated across Spain to protest deep government cuts to education spending.
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A new wax figure of Spanish tennis player Rafael Nadal is unveiled during a photocall in Regents Park, central London. The waxwork will later take up residence amongst other sporting stars at the Madame Tussauds museum in London.
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Pakistani drivers stand on top a fuel tanker, used to transport fuel to NATO forces in Afghanistan, parked near oil terminals in Pakistan’s port city of Karachi. US missiles killed four militants in a Taliban stronghold of Pakistan on May 23, officials said, amid increasing strains with the West over a six-month blockade on NATO supplies into Afghanistan. Relations plummeted into deep crisis after US air strikes killed 24 Pakistani soldiers on November 26, prompting Islamabad to shut its Afghan border to NATO supplies and evict US personnel from an airbase reportedly used as a hub for drones.
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Former President Jimmy Carter, (C), observes the election process inside a polling station in the Sayeda Aisha neighborhood of Cairo, Egypt.
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Pakistani paramilitary soldiers put out a fire on a blocked street during a demonstration against the killing of protesters by gunmen at a rally, in the troubled Lyari area in Karachi.
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A protester throws a stone during an anti-immigration rally outside of the former Piraiki-Patraiki factory, where immigrants are staying, in the port city of Patra, Greece. The anti-immigration rally was held by angry residents and supporters of the extreme far-right party Golden Dawn due to the fatal wounding of a 30-year-old local man by three Afghans.
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A couple of pilgrims kiss on a horse on the route to the shrine of El Rocio in Donana national park during the annual El Rocio pilgrimage in Sanlucar de Barrameda, near Cadiz, in southern Spain.
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An AN-30 military aircraft lies off the runway at the Czech air force base in Caslav, east of Prague. An official says the Russian military plane caught fire after problems during the landing maneuver, injuring at least six people on board.
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President Barack Obama (C) walks to greet a crowd upon arriving at the Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, Colorado, to deliver the commencement address at the US Air Force Academy.
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Adventurer Ben Fogle stands in the shallows of the Serpentine lake in London’s Hyde Park, where he announced his attempt at swimming across the Atlantic Ocean. Fogle will have to spend up to 12 hours a day in the water, swimming the equivalent of the English Channel, to make it in his target of 100 days.
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A girl sun bathes in a field of daises in Regent’s Park in London. Britain’s met office has forecast temperatures of 80 Fahrenheit in London Wednesday, making it the hottest day the capital has experienced so far this year.
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