Traditional Russian Matryoshka wooden dolls depicting Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata, Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin and US astronaut Rick Mastracchio, stand on a table during a welcoming ceremony at the airport in Karaganda, Kazakhstan. The trio, returning from a five-month mission to the International Space Station, landed safely Wednesday in Kazakhstan.
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Director Jane Campion, Jury President of the 67th Cannes Film Festival, holds a film clapper as she arrives before the opening of the festival. The festival will run from May 14 to 25.
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North Korean leader Kim Jong-un inspects the Korean People’s Army (KPA) Air and Anti-Air Force Unit 447, which has been honored with the title of O Jung Hup-led 7th.
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A student supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood and ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi waves the yellow flag bearing the four-fingered Rabaa sign during a demonstration outside Cairo University. The demonstration was held by members of the Muslim Brotherhood and the pro-Mursi Anti-Coup National Alliance against the military, interior ministry and presidential candidate Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the former army chief who deposed the Brotherhood’s Mursi. The “Rabaa” sign is a reference to the police clearing of Rabaa al-Adawiya protest camp in Egypt on August 14, 2013.
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National guards fire pellets at anti-government protesters during a protest against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s government in Caracas. Venezuela’s opposition warned that talks with Maduro’s government are “in crisis” due to repression of student demonstrations and officials’ refusal to grant concessions that could defuse three months of street protests.
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A First Nations protester holds a flag during the “National Day of Resistance” protest on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Canada.
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Former President Bill Clinton spoke on the topic of “Investing in America’s Future: Policy Choices for Shared Prosperity and Growth” at the Peter G. Peterson Foundation’s fifth annual fiscal summit on “Our Economic Future” in Washington.
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A piece titled “Forever” by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei is on display at Art Basel in Hong Kong. Art Basel stages modern and contemporary art shows and is held annually in Basel, Switzerland, Miami Beach, Florida and Hong Kong.
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Sea turtles crawl before being returned to the ocean on a beach in Bali, Indonesia. With the help of tourists, Bali police released about a dozen turtles, which they seized last month from illegal poachers
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Pakistani suspects of a gang rape, center, leave court after outraged citizens pelted them with ink and tomatoes, in Mansehra, Pakistan. Pakistani police have arrested a seminary teacher and two of his friends on charges of gang raping a college girl in a city in the northwest, a police official said Wednesday.
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An elderly Sri Lankan Buddhist devotee holds lotus flowers and attends religious observances on the day of Vesak, or Buddha Purnima, festival at a temple in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The festival marks Buddha’s birth, enlightenment and death.
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People attack the Soma offices of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party during his visit to the coal mine in Soma, Turkey. A violent protest erupted Wednesday after the country’s worst-ever mining disaster. Many in the crowd expressed anger Erdogan’s government. Rocks were being thrown and some people were shouting that Erdogan was a murderer and a thief.
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A gust of wind blows Pope Francis’ mantle as he arrives in St. Peter’s Square for the weekly general audience at the Vatican.
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A helicopter flies over burning vegetation as it nears homes in Carlsbad, California. More wildfires broke out Wednesday in San Diego County — threatening homes in Carlsbad and forcing the evacuations of military housing and an elementary school at Camp Pendleton — as Southern California is in the grip of a heat wave.
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A statue of Christopher Columbus stands beneath Coit Tower in San Francisco. San Francisco’s landmark Coit Tower reopened to the public Wednesday after a six-month, $1.7 million upgrade that included restoration of its famed murals.
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Scott Kregness of Tower, Minnesota, released an eagle at Wakanda Park in Menomonie, Wisconsin. Earlier in the month, the eagle flew into Kregness’ large shrink-wrapped boat near the park as he was transporting it from Florida. The eagle, which was rehabilitated at the Raptor Center in St. Paul, Minn., was transported by volunteer Terry Headley, who held the eagle during the car ride to Menomonie.
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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie answers questions from Bob Schieffer of “CBS News” at the 2014 Fiscal Summit organized by the Peter G. Peterson Foundation in Washington. Lawmakers and policy experts discussed America’s long term debt and economic future.
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Supporters of same-sex marriage hold photos of themselves and their family members or partners on the steps of the Wayne L Morse US Courthouse in Eugene, Oregon. A federal judge will hear arguments Wednesday about whether a national group can defend Oregon’s ban on same-sex marriage because the state’s attorney general has refused to do so.
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From left, Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama walk from Air Force One as they arrive at Kennedy Airport to greet people on the tarmac.
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President Barack Obama speaks in Tarrytown, New York, near the Tappan Zee Bridge, about the need for a 21st century transportation infrastructure.
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