A villager displays his hand coated in crude oil during cleanup efforts almost a week after a pipeline, owned by China Nation Petroleum Corp., exploded in Nanhaitun, Weitang Bay, China. China National Petroleum Corp. said Thursday the vital pipeline has resumed operations after an explosion caused the country's largest reported oil spill. Cleanup efforts, marred by the drowning death of a worker, continued over a 165-square-mile stretch of water blanketed in thick, dark oil Thursday, after an official warned the spill posed a severe threat to sea life and water quality. Jiang He/AP
A volunteer cleans up crude oil at a polluted beach in Dalian, in northeast China's Liaoning Province. China and environmental observers said cleanup efforts on the country's largest reported oil spill were progressing Thursday. Lu Wenzheng/Xinhua/AP
A laborer cleans up oil at a site near the port of Dalian, Liaoning Province, China, on July 23. Reuters
A local fisherman cleans up the oil, which has spread from the site of an oil spill, at the fishing village of Nantuo in Daliane, China, on July 22. Jiang He/AP
On July 20, the surface of a beach is covered by the spilled crude oil in Dalian, a coastal city in northeast China's Liaoning Province. The oil had spread over water since a pipeline at the busy northeastern port exploded. Li Gang/Xinhua/AP
A Greenpeace activist surveys the damage caused by the Dalian oil spill at the fishing village of Nantuo, near Dalian, Liaoning Province, China, on July 21. Jiang He/Reuters
A man cleans up the oil at Xingang Port in Dalian, China, on July 22. Jiang He/AP
A worker prepares barriers at a beach near a tourist resort after an oil spill at Xingang Port in Dalian in northeast China's Liaoning Province. China National Petroleum Corp. said Thursday that the pipeline that exploded and caused the oil spill last Friday had resumed operations. AP
Firemen work on a burnt-out oil storage facility in Dalian, in northeast China's Liaoning Province on July 20. AP
A laborer cleans up oil from the oil spill, near the port of Dalian, Liaoning Province, on July 23. China's Xingang oil port has resumed some refined fuel loading for the domestic market, but fuel exports remain temporarily halted, industry officials said, amid continuing efforts to clean up an oil spill at the country's major port of Dalian. Reuters
A firefighter rushes to aid his colleague who ran into trouble amid thick oil as they attempted to fix an underwater pump in Dalian, China, on July 20. Crude oil started pouring into the Yellow Sea out of the busy northeastern port after a pipeline exploded late last week, sparking a massive 15-hour fire. The government says the slick has spread across a 70-square-mile stretch of ocean. Jiang He/AP
A man carries his oil-covered co-worker from the oil slick after attempting to fix an underwater pump during the oil spill cleanup operations at the port of Dalian, China, on July 20. Jiang He/AP
The oil-covered hand of a firefighter who was overwhelmed by the thick oil spill while attempting to fix an underwater pump is seen after he is pulled ashore by his colleagues in Dalian, China, on July 20. Jiang He/AP
Leaked oil floats off the coast of Dalian, in northeast China's Liaoning Province. Efforts were under way to contain and clean up a large oil slick after pipeline explosions at the northeastern Chinese port sent greasy black plumes into the ocean, state media reported on July 17. Tian Jingyue/Xinhua/AP
A view of the oil spill at the port of Dalian in Liaoning Province, China, is seen on July 21. Jiang He/Reuters
Oil is seen washed ashore near the port of Dalian, China, on July 20. Jiang He/AP
A Greenpeace activist surveys the damage of the oil spill at the port of Dalian, China, on July 21. Jiang He/AP
A firefighter who was submerged in thick oil during an attempt to fix an underwater pump is brought ashore by his colleagues in Dalian, China, on July 20. Jiang He/AP
Firefighters walk near an oil pipeline blast site in Dalian, Liaoning Province, China, on July 17. Firefighters extinguished a fire that raged for more than 15 hours after two oil pipelines exploded in the port of Dalian, Xinhua said. China Daily/Reuters
Firefighters try to contain the flames from a pipeline explosion at the Chinese port of Dalian on July 17. AP
Firefighters walk near flames towering from a pipeline explosion at the Chinese port of Dalian on July 17. AP
Smoke billows from an explosion as firefighters work at the oil pipeline blast site in Dalian, China, on July 16. Cai Yongjun/AP
Firefighters rest in front of a burning oil tank after an oil pipeline blast in Dalian, Liaoning Province, China, on July 17. Firefighters have extinguished a fire that raged for more than 15 hours after two oil pipelines exploded in the port of Dalian in northeast China, Xinhua news agency said. China Daily/Reuters
Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan addressed hundreds of thousands of his cheering supporters in Istanbul saying, 'My patience has run out' with anti-government protests.
Turkey’s largest city was divided on Sunday by competing shows of force, between Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who staged a mammoth rally of loyalists, and anti-government demonstrators, who clashed with police on Istanbul's streets once again to protest his rule.
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