Troops from the U.S. Army’s 173rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team parachute from a Boeing C-17 Globemaster III during a NATO-led exercise “Orzel Alert” held together with Canada’s 3rd Battalion and Princess Patricia’s Light Infantry, and Poland’s 6th Airborne Brigade in Bledowska Desert in Chechlo, near Olkusz, south Poland.
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A paramilitary policeman crawls under fire obstacles during a drill at a military base in Chaohu, Anhui province, China.
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Israel’s President Shimon Peres lays a wreath during a ceremony marking the Fallen Soldiers Memorial Day held on Mount Herzl Military Cemetery in Jerusalem.
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A well-wisher wears a hat with a picture of Thailand’s King Bhumibol Adulyadej as he joins anti-government protesters gathering outside the Grand Palace on Coronation Day in Bangkok. Thousands of anti-government protesters marched to the historical part of Bangkok to show their loyalty to the revered King Bhumibol on the 64th anniversary of his coronation.
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Members of a laughter club participate in a laughing exercise in Mumbai, India. Hundreds of people, who believe that laughter is the best medicine for a happy and healthy life, took part in an attempt to break a world record of the largest gathering of senior citizens at a laughing exercise on Monday.
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A man walks on the rubble of damaged buildings in Aleppo, Syria.
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A Congolese soldier is stripped of his rank and uniform after the mass trial of 39 soldiers inside a military court in Goma in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. The court martial sentenced the 39 soldiers on counts of rape and murder committed in the course of the 2012 military offensive in North Kivu province. The trial ended with two convicted of rape and 13 others cleared. The remaining soldiers were convicted of lesser crimes.
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Pope Francis poses with Swiss Guards at the Vatican.
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A man walks past the painted wall of a pavilion inside a sports area in Madrid.
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A gray langur monkey is seen in it’s enclosure at the zoo in Berlin.
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Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. In early trading, the Dow dropped 120 points with the S&P 500 and Nasdaq moving lower as well.
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A team roll a wooden “cheese” during the Stilton Village Festival cheese rolling competition in Stilton, England. The Stilton annual cheese rolling competition, which is held annually on every May Day Bank Holiday involves teams of four competing against each other by rolling cheese down the High Street to be crowned the Stilton Cheese Rolling Champions.
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Djibouti President Ismail Omar Guelleh and U.S. President Obama shake hands after making statements to the press before a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House.
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Survivors walk and search for their relatives’ bodies at the site of Friday’s landslide that buried Abi Barik village in Badakhshan province, northeastern Afghanistan.
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A Russian honor guard soldier warms up prior a rehearsal for the Victory Day military parade at Dvortsovaya Square in St.Petersburg, Russia.
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A girl reads messages written on paper ships for the victims of the sunken ferry Sewol at a group memorial altar in Seoul, South Korea.
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Secretary of State John Kerry talks on his cellphone during an airplane refueling stop at Sal Island, Cape Verde.
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The light pole at the corner of Vernor and Ferdinand is wrapped in posters and balloons and surrounded by burning candles during a vigil for Andreas DeJesus, who was shot and killed Sunday afternoon in Southwest Detroit during the 50th annual Cinco de Mayo parade.
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A girl walks near colorful carp streamers fluttering in the air over the Sagami River in Sagamihara, west of Tokyo, 2014 to mark Children’s Day national holiday.
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Steven Sutton stands in front of the Mexican Consulate in Miami, protesting the arrest of his nephew in Mexico. Andrew Tahmooressi, a Marine veteran who was arrested and jailed in Mexico on weapons charges for allegedly bringing guns across the border, says he never intended to leave the country but missed an exit when heading to meet friends in a border town. He told the newspaper that Mexican authorities found three guns inside the truck he had recently driven across the country to make a new start in San Diego.
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Michelle Obama takes honoree Anna Wintour’s hand at a dedication ceremony for the Anna Wintour Costume Center at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
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Michelle Swisher, chief financial officer of Mantoloking N.J., operates a piece of demolition equipment that tears down the building where she once worked before it was damaged by Superstorm Sandy. Mantoloking is one of many New Jersey towns grappling with questions of whether to repair or tear down storm-damaged municipal buildings.
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Rev. Dr. Rob Schenck, of Faith and Action, center, speaks in front of the Supreme Court with Raymond Moore, left, and Patty Bills, both also of Faith and Action, during a news conference in Washington, in favor of the ruling by the court’s conservative majority that was a victory for the town of Greece, N.Y., outside of Rochester. A narrowly divided Supreme Court upheld decidedly Christian prayers at the start of local council meetings on Monday, declaring them in line with long national traditions though the country has grown more religiously diverse.
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