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Day in photos: May 23, 2013

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A thunderstorm looms over the wreckage of Plaza Elementary School in Moore, Okla.

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Fuel tanks burn in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, as firefighters work to extinguish the blaze at a fuel storage facility.

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Lebanese soldiers help a group of women escape the Bab Tabbaneh district of Tripoli as both sides of neighboring Syria's civil war traded fire and mortar shells there, leaving five dead.

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Legendary funnyman Jerry Lewis peeks out from behind a program bearing his image during a promotional event for the film 'Max Rose' at the Cannes Film Festival.

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An Indian boy crouches at the spigot of a tanker truck supplying water to residents of New Delhi, India, neighborhood. Many areas of the Indian capital are facing acute water shortages.

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Blood spills from the face of a Vietnam War veteran injured in a scuffle with police during an anti-Japan rally at the Japanese embassy in Seoul, South Korea. Protestors want an official apology for war crimes committed during WWII.

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Beachgoers wade in the waters at Fort Kochi beach as clouds hover over the Arabian Sea. India's monsoon rains may arrive on the southern Kerala coast around June 3, a late debut stoking more drought fears.

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A San Felice sul Panaro, Italy, house built in 1562 awaits its turn as restoration drags a year after an earthquake in the Emilia Romagna. What remains of the old structure sits amid a field of pear trees.

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Keeper Justin Fernandes plants one on Panjo, one of his charges at the Jugomaro Predator Park in Groblersdal, South Africa.

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Police clear a roadblock erected by protestors in Lome, Togo, during the latest confrontation between the ruling party and the nation's increasingly active opposition.

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A woman places flowers outside the Royal Military Barracks in the Woolwich section of London, near the scene where a British soldier was hacked to death in broad daylight Wednesday.

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Pope Francis is dwarfed by the sculptures at St. Peter's Basilica as he meets with bishops of the Italian Episcopal Conference at the Vatican.