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Day In Photos: April 30, 2012

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Beth Haist-Sindo checks the fluids on the fleet of school buses at at Clarence Central School District in Clarence, N.Y. Most school districts in New York have complied with new state-imposed taxing limits in the budgets they’ll put before voters in May. AP
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One World Trade Center, rises above the lower Manhattan skyline and the National September 11 Memorial, lower right, in New York. One World Trade Center, the giant monolith being built to replace the twin towers destroyed in the Sept. 11 attacks, will lay claim to the title of New York City’s tallest skyscraper on Monday. AP
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Illegal immigrants stand at the fence of a detention center at Amygdaleza, on the northern fringes of Athens. Greek authorities have opened the first detention center for illegal migrants, under a new anti-immigration drive launched shortly before Sunday’s national election. AP
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In this photograph taken by AP Images for AIDS Healthcare Foundation, Los Angeles City Council members Paul Koretz and Bill Rosendahl are seen with President of AIDS Healthcare Foundation, Michael Weinstein, during the AIDS Healthcare Foundation’s 25th Anniversary Celebration at The Ebell of Los Angeles. AP IMAGES FOR AIDS HEALTHCARE FO
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A Nepalese policeman takes a picture of a bomb explosion victim who was brought to Teaching Government hospital in Katmandu, Nepal. According to police a bomb exploded in a busy market area in Janakpur about 125 miles southeast of the capital killing at least four people and injuring at least ten. AP
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Supporters of President Obama hold signs near a campaign stop for Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. AP
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Danny Spreitler, executive director of the Gilmore Foundation in Amory, Miss., discusses the success of the Gilmore Early Learning Initiative (GELI), a comprehensive program focusing on the development of children from birth until five with a wide variety of preschool partners in Monroe County. AP
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Eugenia Tymoshenko daughter of jailed former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko prior to a press conference in Prague, Czech Republic. Eugenia Tymoshenko thanked European leaders for their support for her mother. AP
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An anti-Syrian regime mourner shouts slogans during the funeral procession of the activist Nour al-Zahraa, 23, who was shot by Syrian security forces on Sunday, in the Kfar Suseh area, in Damascus, Syria. AP
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An arm prosthesis with a gun is on display at the new spy museum in Oberhausen, Germany. The exhibition “Top Secret” explains the work of secret services and shows unique original details from the Russian KGB, the CIA or the east German STASI during the cold war. AP
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Trainer Larry Jones gestures as he holds the reins of Kentucky Derby hopeful Mark Valeski, retired jockey Larry Melancon up, before a workout at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky. AP
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President Obama gestures while speaking to the Building and Construction Trades Department Legislative Conference. AP
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In this photo released by the African Union-United Nations Information Support Team, a Ugandan soldier serving with the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) patrols the main road on the northern edge of Maslah Town, north-west of the Somali capital Mogadishu. AP
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Seven candles are lit Monday, April 30, 2012, in the Bronx as part of a memorial to the five family members who died the previous day in a horrifying crash when the SUV carrying three generations of family plunged more than 50 feet off a highway overpass and into a ravine on the grounds of the Bronx Zoo. The memorial, which includes photos of family members, was at the home on Taylor Ave., where the woman driving the van lived. AP