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Soldiers stand guard on top a tank in front of the presidential palace in Cairo, Sunday. Egypt's liberal opposition called for more protests seeking to keep up the momentum of its street campaign after the president made a partial concession overnight but refused its main demand he rescind a draft constitution going to a referendum on Dec. 15. Petr David Josek/AP
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A train on a narrow-gauge railway line, makes its way through the winter landscape near Wernigerode, northern Germany, Saturday. Parts of Europe were hit hard by heavy snow and freezing temperatures. Jens Schlueter/dapd/AP
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Lindsay Campbell, 18, helps Ciara Lane, 7, make her shot during the second annual Big Brothers Big Sister Baseball Softball Bowling Bash at Texas Pro Bowl in Nacogdoches, Texas. Andrew D. Brosig/The Daily Sentinel/AP
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A woman walks past a mural showing former South African President Nelson Mandela in the Soweto area of Johannesburg, South Africa, on Sunday. Mandela, 94, was admitted to a hospital Saturday in the nation’s capital for tests. Jon Gambrell/AP
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Judge Mary Yu, looks on as Brendon Taga (r.) and Jesse Page (l.), of Vashon Island, Wash., sign their wedding certificate after taking their wedding vows in the early morning hours, becoming among the first gay couples to legally wed, Sunday, in Seattle. Elaine Thompson/AP
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Cadets from the United States Military Academy recite a cheer before the start of the Army versus Navy NCAA football game in Philadelphia, Saturday. Tim Shaffer/Reuters
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A man tries to put out fire at a night market in Siem Reap province, Cambodia. The fire ripped through the night market in the early hours of Saturday.
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A woman wearing a niqab passes a group of people dressed as Father Christmas in London, Sunday. Luke MacGregor/Reuters
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Wang An, 18, participates in a Latin dance class in Shanghai, Saturday. Wang An, who was born with Down Syndrome but dreams of being a professional dancer, has been practicing Latin dance for seven years. Wang has gained a silver medal from the International Dance Teachers Association (IDTA), which rates her as a medium-level amateur dancer. Aly Song/Reuters
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Motorists and pedestrian make their way along snow covered St. Germain Street, Sunday, in St. Cloud, Minn. Jason Wachter/The St. Cloud Times/AP
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Syrian refugees cross from Syria to Turkey by the Orontes river, near the village of Hacipasa, Turkey, Saturday. Manu Brabo/AP
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Forest officials on domesticated elephants try to push an injured wild elephant after it was attacked by poachers in Goalpara district of lower Assam, India, Sunday. AP
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A woman dressed with typical clothes of Bolivia takes part during international meeting with social movements of Bolivia in Barcelona, Spain, Sunday. Manu Fernandez/AP
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A hijacked car burns in the Newtownards road area of East Belfast, Saturday. At least eight police officers were injured in Northern Ireland overnight in riots, which followed several nights of violence, provoked by a decision to remove the British flag from Belfast City Hall. Cathal McNaughton/Reuters
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Bangladesh's main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party activist shouts slogans during a protest in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Sunday. Police fired rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse stone-throwing protesters demanding restoration of caretaker administration to oversee upcoming national elections. Pavel Rahman/AP
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A Palestinian member of the Al-Qassam brigades, the armed wing of the Hamas movement, gives a speech during a rally marking the 25th anniversary of the founding of Hamas, in Gaza City, Saturday. Ahmed Jadallah/Reuters
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A woman releases tear gas to disrupt a gay rights rally in Kiev, Ukraine. Members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community clashed with people against them during the rally, held to support LGBT rights. Anatolii Stepanov/Reuters
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Animal rights activists hold dead animal bodies during a street performance in downtown Madrid, Spain, to protest unnecessary cruelty to animals, Saturday. The animals displayed at the demonstration were discarded by animals farms and collected from waste bins. Emilio Morenatti/AP
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Yuko Kavaguti and Alexander Smirnov of Russia perform during the pairs free skating competition at the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final in Sochi, Russia. Grigory Dukor/Reuters
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People wait in line to vote during an unexpected second day of voting, at a polling station in Tesano, Accra, Ghana. About 225 polling stations reopened Saturday for an impromptu second day of voting after there were technical breakdowns on the first day of voting, Ghana voting officials announced. Gabriela Barnuevo/AP
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A boy looks through a hole in a wall near the border with Syria, in the Turkish border town of Ceylanpinar, Sanliurfa province, Saturday. Laszlo Balogh/Reuters
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A pilgrim holding candles crawls outside the Church of the Virgen de lo Vasquez after completing his pilgrimage on the outskirts of Valparaiso City, Chile. Every year, hundreds of thousands of Christians make the pilgrimage to the sanctuary, walking for up to 32 miles to reach the shrine, with some of them covering the final four miles barefoot or on their knees, to celebrate the Feast of the Immaculate Conception and to pay homage to the Virgin with their penances. Eliseo Fernandez/Reuters
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Egyptian riot policemen guard a gate of the presidential palace, background, amid ongoing protests, in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday. Egypt's military has warned of 'disastrous consequences' if the political crisis gripping the country is not resolved through dialogue. " Hassan Ammar/AP
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Juna Akhada Sadhus, or holy men, wash their saffron-colored clothes in the river Ganges in the northern Indian city of Allahabad. Jitendra Prakash/Reuters
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Women take pictures from a window of the Spanish embassy in Piazza di Spagna (Spain's Square) during the Immaculate Conception celebration prayer by Pope Benedict XVI in downtown Rome, Saturday. Alessandro Bianchi/Reuters
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Followers of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez gather to express their support to him and pray for his health at Plaza Bolivar in Caracas, Sunday. Chavez returns to Cuba, naming a successor for the first time in his 14 years in power. Jorge Silva/Reuters
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A boy takes a jump with his toboggan in Riffenmatt about 19 miles south of Switzerland's capital Bern. Pascal Lauener/Reuters
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A presenter at Radio Shabelle reads the news at the station in Mogadishu, Sunday. With a population that is still one of the world's poorest, radio continues to be one of the primary sources of information for many in Somalia. Tobin Jones/AU-UN IST/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.