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South Korean Defense Minister Kim Kwan-jin, (l.), and US Gen. James D. Thurman, the commander of US Forces Korea, (r.), attend a monument dedication ceremony to honor US Forces Korea and Korean augmentees who were killed in the line of duty while stationed in Korea following the 1953 Armistice, at the US military base in Seoul, South Korea. Lee Jin-man/AP
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Afghan men ride horses on Nader Khan hill overlooking Kabul, Afghanistan. The sign in background in Pashtun reads, 'long live Afghanistan.' Ahmad Jamshid/AP
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Scottish actor James McAvoy holds the London 2012 Olympic torch in Glasgow, Scotland. David Moir/Reuters
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Supporters of Greece's national team wait for the start of the Euro 2012 soccer championship Group A match between Poland and Greece in Warsaw, Poland. Matt Dunham/AP
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Manolo, the octopus, predicts Spain's victory against Italy in their first Euro 2012 soccer match by choosing a sardine from a plastic canister decorated with Spain's flag instead of the plastic canister with Italy's flag, at the Sealife Benalmadena aquarium in the southern Spanish city of Benalmadena. Jon Nazca/Reuters
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Supporters of Nepali Congress and Communist Party of Nepal along with other political parties participate in a mass protest rally in Katmandu, Nepal. Thousands of opposition supporters gather in Nepal's capital to demand Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai resign. Niranjan Shrestha/AP
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Corn poppy blossoms are photographed In a field near Ried im Innkreis, Upper Austria. Kerstin Joensson/AP
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German Oracle cow Yvonne (r.) and son Orki run directly to the Portugal feeding trough at Gut Aiderbichl in Deggendorf Eichberg. Yvonne, the 'runaway' cow, gave her tip about the first German national soccer team match against Portugal during the Euro 2012. Michaela Rehle/Reuters
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Pakistani fruit vendor Suhail Reza, uses a lamp to light his cart on the side of a dark street as he waits for customers on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan. Muhammed Muheisen/AP
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Spectators watch a motocross rider during the first run of the Iron Road Prologue race of the Erzberg Rodeo near the village of Eisenerz, in the Austrian province of Styria. Lisi Niesner/Reuters
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Kashmiri Muslims belonging to nomadic Gujjar tribe pray at a forest shrine of Miyan Peer, in Baba Nagri, northeast of Srinagar, India. Thousands of devotees thronged the shrine of Miyan Peer, a revered Muslim saint of the nomadic Gujjar tribe, to observe his death anniversary in Baba Nagri. Dar Yasin/AP
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Ethnic minority students study in class as they sit in front of a blackboard at a preschool in Aksu, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region. An emblem of the Chinese Communist Party and part of a slogan which reads: 'Great earth is the flowers' cradle, great motherland is our cradle' are seen on the blackboard. Reuters
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A protester writes a message using sand and bottle caps that reads in Arabic 'The revolution continues, free Egypt, down with military rule' after Friday prayers in Cairo's Tahrir Square. Amr Abdallah Dalsh/Reuters
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Riders await the start of the fifth stage of the 64th Dauphine cycling race, at Saint-Trivier-sur-Moignans-Rumilly, central France. Claude Paris/AP
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel walks behind a window with reflections of the honor guards, on her way to welcome John Key, the Prime Minister of New Zealand, at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany. Markus Schreiber/AP
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Female Muslim worshipers offer Friday prayers inside Kashmir's Jamia Masjid in Srinagar, India. Ahmad Masood/Reuters
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A traveler man rides his horse in the River Eden prior to the Appleby Horse Fair in Appleby, Westmorland, northern England. Appleby Horse Fair has existed under the protection of a charter granted by King James II since 1685. Scott Heppell/AP
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A Syrian living in Malaysia holds a placard during a protest rally against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime outside the Syrian embassy in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Vincent Thian/AP
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A masked Palestinian demonstrator uses a slingshot to return a tear gas canister towards Israeli troops during a protest against the expansion of the nearby Jewish settlement of Halamish, in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh, near Ramallah. Majdi Mohammed/AP
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A man sits in front of mannequins on display at a shop in Shanghai, China. Eugene Hoshiko/AP
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Pakistani drivers play cards on top of an tanker, which was used to transport NATO fuel supplies to neighboring Afghanistan, parked in Karachi, Pakistan. Fareed Khan/AP
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A boy caresses a horse before taking part in the 1st Summer Children's Paralympic festival outside an arena at the horse racing school in the suburbs of Krasnoyarsk, in Siberian Russia. Ilya Naymushin/Reuters
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A competitor fishes in River Sava during the World Fly Fishing Championship in Bohinjska Bistrica. One hundred and eighty participants from 30 countries took part in the competition on four different rivers in Slovenia, according to event officials. Srdjan Zivulovic/Reuters
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An Indian Myna holds a grasshopper in its beak to feed chicks in a nest built inside the wall of an underpass in Greater Noida on the outskirts of New Delhi. Parivartan Sharma/Reuters
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On Saturday, Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi announced Egypt was cutting all diplomatic ties with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's government and backing a no-fly zone over Syria. Mursi also called on Hezbollah to leave Syria.
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Tom Perry, Reuters /
June 16, 2013
Reuters
Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi said he had cut all diplomatic ties with Damascus on Saturday and backed a no-fly zone over Syria, pitching the most populous Arab state more firmly against President Bashar al-Assad.