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Prince Albert and Princess Charlene of Monaco, dressed in local Lappish clothing of reindeer skins, travel by reindeer sledge in Kautokeino, Norway. Stian Lysberg Solum/Scanpix/Reuters
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Little Azalea Belle Victoria Walsh (l.) and 2012 Mini Miss Wilmington Emma Hansen enjoy the 10th Annual Azalea Festival Children's Tea, Princess and the Pea, Party at the Cape Fear Country Club in Wilmington N.C. Jeff Janowski/Star News/AP
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US President Barack Obama chats with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev during a bilateral meeting at the Nuclear Security Summit in Seoul, South Korea. Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP
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People walk along a tidal causeway in the town of Peel on the Isle of Man. The British Isles have seen a spell of particularly warm weather over the past few days. Raphael Satter/AP
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Dr. Sonia Nagda puts on a pin supporting the health-care reform law signed by President Obama as she gathers with other health care professionals in front of the Supreme Court in Washington. The court is beginning three days of arguments on health-care. Charles Dharapak/AP
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Marine Le Pen (r.), France's National Front head and far right candidate for 2012 French presidential election, hands out flyers as she campaigns in front of an automobile engine factory in Douvrin, France. Pascal Rossignol/Reuters
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Sui Wenjing and Han Cong of China perform during the pairs free skating preliminary round at the ISU World Figure Skating Championships in Nice, France. Vincent Kessler/Reuters
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A child wearing a mask plays with his friend on the outskirts of Yangon, Myanmar. Reuters
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Farmers ride carts loaded with sugarcane on their way to selling it at the Gandavi sugar factory near the Indian city of Ahmedabad. Amit Dave/Reuters
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Cross-country skiers enjoy the view as they stand on top of the Sulzfluh mountain, 9242 feet above sea level, near St. Antoenien-Partnun, Switzerland. Arno Balzarini/Keystone/AP
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Japan's Ai Fukuhara eyes a ball during her match against Poland's Magdalena Szczerkowska at the World Team Table Tennis Championships in Dortmund, Germany. Ina Fassbender/Reuters
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The shadows of a lobbyist and a lawmaker are seen as they talk outside the House Chamber in the State Capitol in Atlanta. David Goldman/AP
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An immigrant walks past a graffiti-covered wall in central Athens. Greece has an estimated 1.5 million immigrants in a country with a population of 11 million. Debt-crippled Greece is known to be the European Union's main point of entry for illegal immigrants, mostly from Africa and Asia. Petros Giannakouris/AP
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Filmmaker and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence James Cameron emerges from the Deepsea Challenger submersible after his successful solo dive to the Mariana Trench, the deepest part of the ocean. The dive was part of Deepsea Challenge, a joint scientific expedition by Cameron, the National Geographic Society and Rolex, to conduct deep-ocean research. Mark Theissen/National Geographic/AP
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People take a stroll in the garden of Schwetzingen Castle in Schwetzingen, Germany. Ronald Wittek/dapd/AP
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Student protesters burn tires during a demonstration against the government's plans to raise fuel prices in Makassar, South Sulawesi, Indonesia. Yusuf Ahmad/Reuters
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Workers from Myanmar (Burma) play a traditional game of chin lone in a park in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Players use their feet, knees, chest, and head to hit the rattan ball in the sport similar to volleyball that is popular in Southeast Asia. Mark Baker/AP
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Lightning strikes during a thunderstorm in central Bangkok. Sukree Sukplang/Reuters
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Pope Benedict XVI wears a sombrero, a traditional Mexican hat, while being driven through the crowd before officiating a mass in Silao, Mexico. Osservatore Romano/Reuters
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Clowns rest on a bench after performing in celebrations during the week of World Theatre Day in Plaza Mayor, Lima, Peru. Enrique Castro-Mendivil/Reuters
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Juventus' Alessandro Del Piero and his son Tobias run on the field after the Italian Serie A soccer match against Inter Milan in Turin, Italy. Alessandro Garofalo/Reuters
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During a training course, police officers with German shepherds line up for a test at a local cynologist police center in Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk. The dogs help police patrol streets and search for drugs, explosives and weapons. Ilya Naymushin/Reuters
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A supporter of New National Democracy Party shows a campaign flyer as he participates in a campaign rally for the April 1 election in Yangon, Myanmar. AP
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A teenager mourns the death of Trayvon Martin in front of the The Retreat at Twin Lakes community in Sanford, Fla., on Sunday. Octavian Cantilli/Reuters
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A woman takes a picture of a couple on a visitor platform beside the Rhine Falls in the town of Neuhausen, Switzerland. The Rhine Falls are the largest falls in Europe. Arnd Wiegmann/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
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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.