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People walk past flowers left in memory of those killed in Monday's blast at Moscow's Domodedovo Airport. Russia's president, Dmitry Medvedev, ordered investigators on Tuesday to root out the culprits behind a deadly bombing at Russia's busiest airport and threatened sackings over security lapses he said had aided the attack. Denis Sinyakov/Reuters
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Hindu devotees crowd around a tractor trolley on their way home from the annual Magh Mela festival at the Sangam, the confluence of the Ganges and Yamuna rivers, in Allahabad, India. Hundreds of thousands of Hindu pilgrims take dips during the month-long festival in the hope that it will wash away their sins. Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP Photo
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Actors dressed as Batman, the Joker, and Harley Quinn stand in a queue for the "Batman Live" stage show open auditions in London. The show is neither a musical nor a Broadway-bound theatrical production but rather an elaborate arena production aimed at kids and families. Suzanne Plunkett/Reuters
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Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyon (l.) gestures in greeting as he walks along with Indian President Pratibha Patil (c.) and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh (r.) during a ceremonial reception at the Presidential Palace in New Delhi, India. Yudhoyono's visit to India is expected to focus on increasing trade and energy security between the two large Asian nations. Gurinder Osan/AP Photo
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A trade union member employed at the partly French owned Dacia-Renault automobilemaker blows a whistle during a protest in Mioveni, northwest of Bucharest, Romania. About 3,000 people joined a protest against the austerity measures of Romania's government. The measures, taken to meet International Monetary Fund budget deficit requirements to get loans, include significant cuts in salaries in the state sector, and pensions and child care benefits. AP Photo
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A worker arranges decorative red lanterns before hanging them for the Chinese lunar New Year celebrations in Zouping, Shandong Province. The lunar New Year begins on Feb. 3 and marks the start of the Year of the Rabbit, according to the Chinese zodiac. Reuters
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Workers clean the tree-like stainless steel sculpture 'Inversion' by American artist Roxy Paine, installed in the Art Garden of the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. The 42-foot-high and 35-foot-wide sculpture was hand-wrought through a fabrication process that welded together more than 7,000 metal plates, pipes, and rods, the museum's press officer said. Baz Ratner/Reuters
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A protester carries a picture of outgoing Prime Minister Saad Hariri and a Lebanese flag as he walks in front of burning tires in Lebanon's southern port city of Sidon. Sunnis protested the rising power of the Shiite militant group Hezbollah on Tuesday, burning tires and torching a van belonging to Al Jazeera as Lebanese lawmakers gave the militant group's pick for prime minister enough support to form the next government. Mohammed Zaatari/AP Photo
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Novak Djokovic of Serbia plays a shot to Tomas Berdych of the Czech Republic during the men's quarter-final match at the Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne. David Gray/Reuters
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Phillip Headdon (l.) and Gordon Cameron walk English foxhounds from the Chagrin Valley Hunt Club in Gates Mills, Ohio. Tony Dejak/AP Photo
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An Afghan man walks his camels in the desert near Marjah in south Afghanistan's volatile Helmand Province. Kevin Frayer/AP Photo
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A woman demonstrates a toy based on Lady Gaga's outfits, including her meat dress, replicated here with parma ham, at a toy fair in London. Andrew Winning/Reuters
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A boy carrying bread runs away from a column of riot policeman during antigovernment protests in downtown Cairo. Egyptian police fired tear gas at protesters gathered in the center of the capital, part of a countrywide demonstration against President Hosni Mubarak and his government. Amr Abdallah Dalsh/Reuters
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A resident rides a horse along a flooded street in Manati, in Colombia's Atlantico Province. Downpours caused by La Nina weather phenomenon have battered Colombia since last year, damaging infrastructure, submerging houses, and killing crops and animals in what the government calls the nation's worst natural disaster in its history. Jairo Castilla/Reuters
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Sgt. Quincey Northern of Lousiana, (l.), a medic with the United States Army's Task Force Shadow 'Dust Off,' Charlie Company 1-214 Aviation Regiment leads marines as they carry an Afghan civilian wounded by insurgent gunfire on a stretcher to a waiting medevac helicopter in southern Helmand Province, Afghanistan. Kevin Frayer/AP Photo
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A boy hangs from the door as he shouts slogans during an anti-government demonstration in central Tunis. Protesters demonstrated in the capital on Sunday to demand that the revolution they started should now sweep the remnants of the fallen president's old guard from power. Zohra Bensemra/Reuters
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Afghan refugee girl Pasmeena Basheer poses for a photograph at the entrance of a house in a slum on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan. The Pakistani government and the United Nations refugee agency reached an agreement in March 2009 to allow some 1.7 million registered Afghan refugees living in Pakistan to continue sheltering there until at least 2012. Thousands of them still live without electricity, running water, and other basic services. Muhammed Muheisen/AP Photo
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Fans of Germany and Norway pose for a picture before the start of the main round match between Germany and Norway at the Men's Handball World Championship in Jonkoping. Umit Bektas/Reuters
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Burmese are celebrating an end to their long international isolation with the first state visit to the US by a Myanmar president in almost 50 years.
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Simon Roughneen, Correspondent /
May 21, 2013
Jacquelyn Martin/AP
Myanmar President Thein Sein's historic Monday meeting with US President Obama has been well-received at home, with Burmese seemingly happy that the country is gaining some positive recognition on the world stage after decades of isolation.