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Family members react during a funeral for the victims of Monday's shooting in Toulouse at a cemetery in Jerusalem. A rabbi and three children gunned down at a Jewish school in France were buried in a Jerusalem cemetery. The four were killed in the French city of Toulouse when a man on a motorcycle opened fire with two handguns outside the school. Oded Balilty/AP
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An Afghan boy holds a kite on the roof of a house in Kabul. Mohammad Ismail/Reuters
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Members of a local scouts group hold torches and attend a vigil in between the town hall and the Saint Peters church in Leuven, Belgium. Mourners attended a vigil for victims of last week's bus crash in a Swiss tunnel that killed 22 children and six adults. Yves Logghe/AP
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A girl looks at an artist wearing the costume of a dragon during the Nauryz celebration in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Nauryz, an ancient holiday marking the spring equinox, is widely celebrated across Central Asia. Shamil Zhumatov/Reuters
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An indigenous Indian from the State of Minas Gerais, protests in Congress against two proposed constitutional amendment (PEC) presented by parliamentarians that alter the process of demarcation of indigenous lands in Brasilia. Ueslei Marcelino/Reuters
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A visitor looks at jellyfish displayed at an aquarium in Shanghai, China. Eugene Hoshiko/AP
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Hotel guests swim at a swimming pool in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Lai Seng Sin/AP
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Performers dance during Navruz celebrations in the Tajik capital of Dushanbe. Navruz is a traditional Central Asian holiday marking the first day of spring and the beginning of a new year. Nozim Kalandarov/Reuters
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An Edinburgh Zoo keeper moves one of 29 Gentoo penguins from their enclosure to a temporary home while maintenance work is carried out for the next two months in Edinburgh, Scotland. David Cheskin/AP
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Supporters hold the portrait of Independent Hero General Aung San during the election campaign of Myanmar's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi at Seikkan Township in Yangon. Reuters
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A young Indian boy bathes under a public tap in Agartala, India. As the world gears up to celebrate World Water Day on March 22, the UN estimates that more than one in six people worldwide do not have access to 5-13 gallons of safe freshwater a day to ensure their basic needs for drinking, cooking and cleaning. Sushanta Das/AP
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People watch a water fountain on the Swiss Federal square in front of the Swiss Federal Palace (Bundeshaus) in Bern. Michael Buholzer/Reuters
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Sri Lankan Buddhist monks stage a silent protest outside the Indian High Commission, denouncing the proposed U.N. Human Rights resolution on alleged rights abuses during the country's civil war, in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Eranga Jayawardena/AP
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Somali government soldiers look at the wreckage of a car bomb that detonated near the Ambassador Hotel in Maka la Mukarama road in Mogadishu, Somalia. Militants with the group al-Shabab have increased insurgent attacks in recent days. Farah Abdi Warsameh/AP
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Dancers perform in front of the Greek Parliament during a protest by Greek poets, in central Athens. The anti-austerity protest was held on World Poetry Day. Petros Giannakouris/AP
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A soldier of the Special Force Group 'Molusco' kisses his child goodbye after a ceremony prior to a peace mission to the Democratic Republic of Congo, at military base Mariscal Zavala in Guatemala City. The Guatemalan soldiers will be part of a United Nations peacekeeping force in Congo. Jorge Dan Lopez/Reuters
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Demonstrators protest outside the Houses of parliament in central London. Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne delivered his annual budget in the House of Commons, aiming to appease both parties in the ruling coalition and keep financial markets onside. Paul Hackett/Reuters
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Members of the dissolved Haitian army and civilian volunteers parade at the former military base Camp Lamantin, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Haitian authorities are ordering some army veterans and would-be soldiers to clear out of several old barracks they have taken over in recent weeks in hopes the disbanded army will be revived. Ramon Espinosa/AP
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Smoke from burning tires blankets a student protester during a demonstration against the government's plan to raise fuel prices in Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia. The Indonesian government plans to raise fuel prices by about 33 percent next month to avoid a budget deficit due to expensive fuel subsidies. Binsar Bakkara/AP
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Musicians from the Ukrainian border guards' band take part in a show to present a new football anthem in the arrivals area of the Borispol airport, near Kiev. Gleb Garanich/Reuters
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An anti-government protester pushes an armchair to set up a roadblock during clashes with riot police in the village of Sanabis west of Manama, Bahrain. Ahmed Jadallah/Reuters
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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.
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Scott Peterson, Staff writer,
Tom A. Peter, Correspondent /
June 16, 2013
Scott Peterson/Getty Images/The Christian Science Monitor
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.