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Hong Kong design student Jonathan Mak poses with a symbol he designed as a poignant tribute to Apple founder Steve Jobs. His design became an internet hit today with its minimalist, touching symbolism and brought a job offer and a flood of commemorative merchandise using his design. Bobby Yip/Reuters
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Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez greets workers during the inauguration of a new science and technology complex in Buenos Aires. Fernandez is seeking a second presidential term in the upcoming general elections scheduled for Oct. 23. Victor R. Caivano/AP
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An Ultra-Orthodox Jewish boy performs the Tashlich ritual on the shore of the Mediterranean Sea in the city of Ashdod, Israel, ahead of Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, which starts at sundown Friday. Tashlich is a ritual of casting away sins of the past year into the water. Amir Cohen/Reuters
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Archbishop Desmond Tutu dances during his book launch in Cape Town, South Africa. The release of 'Tutu: The Authorized Portrait' comes a day before the anti-apartheid hero's 80th birthday. Schalk van Zuydam/AP
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A devotee is seen with a lighted oil lamp on his shoulders while offering prayers during the tenth day of the Hindu festival Dasain in Bhaktapur, Nepal. Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters
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A puppet of US President Barack Obama is seen on display at the international puppet exhibition in Moscow. Mikhail Metzel/AP
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Naked model Kate is painted by artist Emma Hack, a leading skin illustrator, in front of visitors at the Art London fair in central London. Kate is camouflaged against a wallpaper background that was designed by Australian interior designer Florence Broadhurst. Toby Melville/Reuters
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Libyan revolutionary fighters react during an attack on the city of Sirte, Libya, the home town of ousted leader Muammar Qaddafi. /Bela Szandelszky/AP
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Elephants from the Swiss national circus, Knie, walk out of Lake Leman during an organized bathing session in Lausanne, Switzerland. Each year the three elephants, Dehli, Ceylon and MaPalaj, enjoy a refreshing bath in the lake during warm late summer days. Denis Balibouse/Reuters
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A young man makes a gesture in the shape of a gun while visiting an outdoor art exhibit at the Art Banka Museum of Young Art in Prague, Czech Republic. An art display by the artist Davida Cerneho of four guns, each over six feet long, hangs in the courtyard of the museum. Jon Gambrell/AP
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Boys play with a ball on top of the remains of a Russian armored vehicle in Kabul, Afghanistan. Ahmad Jamshid/AP
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A girl holds a banner that reads 'Raped does not equal guilty' during the Romanian version of the Slut Walk march in Bucharest. The Slut Walk, a protest against harassment of women initiated by the outfits they wear or their behavior in public, was the first of it's kind in Romania. Vadim Ghirda/AP
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Tributes to the late Steve Jobs are left outside the Apple Store in London. Technology and design admirers flocked to Apple stores worldwide to express their sorrow at the death of Steve Jobs, the visionary who transformed the daily lives of millions. Suzanne Plunkett/Reuters
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy (l.) and Armenian President Sersh Sargsyan light candles in the Etchmiadzine Cathedral after a meeting with Apostolic Church Catholicos Karekin II in Yerevan, Armenia. Eric Feferberg/Pool/Reuters
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Villagers displaced by floods stand in a queue to receive relief in Hyderabad, Pakistan. Pervez Masih/AP
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A Palestinian woman gestures next to a damaged olive tree in the village of Qusra in the northern West Bank. According to Palestinian residents, about 180 olive trees were uprooted by Jewish settlers from a nearby settlement. Nasser Ishtayeh/AP
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Pictures of bomb victims sit outside the US Interests Section in Havana, Cuba, before a ceremony honoring those who died on Oct. 6, 1976 when a Cubana Airlines plane flying from Barbados to Havana exploded in the air. Javier Galeano/AP
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Arrested Indian fishermen sit under police custody in Karachi, Pakistan. The Pakistan marine authority has arrested 36 Indian fishermen and seized their 11 boats for allegedly fishing in Pakistani waters. Shakil Adil/AP
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A pair of Great Grey Owls sits inside an open-air cage at the Royev Ruchey Zoo in Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk. Ilya Naymushin/Reuters
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The presence of an Al Qaeda-linked group among Syria's rebels and past US prosecutions of those who've supported groups it deems terrorists has slowed the flow of food and medical aid to Syria.
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Tom A. Peter, Correspondent /
May 16, 2013
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Members of Abu Sayeed’s grassroots aid group were en route to the Turkish border to pick up a shipment of food when the leader of Jabhat al-Nusra announced that his group was loyal to Al Qaeda.