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Yang Bo cleans a window outside the 94th floor of the Shanghai World Financial Center in China. More than 30 people on the window-cleaning team of the skyscraper work in pairs every day. The cleaners have to obtain a license for high-rise operations and must not have high blood pressure or a fear of heights. China Daily/Reuters
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In Belfast, Northern Ireland, the six-floor Titanic Belfast building tells the story of the Titanic from the ship's construction in Belfast to her sinking in the Atlantic on her maiden voyage one hundred years ago. The building opens to the public in April. David Moir/Reuters
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Marissa Shadler kisses boyfriend Cory Dutkiewicz goodbye as he prepares to deploy on The USS New York, an amphibious transport dock ship, from Naval Station Norfolk in Norfolk, Va. This is the first deployment of the ship, parts of which were built with steel from the World Trade Center. Steve Earley/The Virginian-Pilot/AP
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From left: US President Barack Obama, Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbayev and Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev speak during their meeting at the Nuclear Security Summit at the Convention and Exhibition Center in Seoul, South Korea. Larry Downing/Reuters
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Terry Spizer checks the smudge pots burning to try to prevent damage to blossoms on his apple trees in freezing temperatures at Beak & Skiff Apple Farms in LaFayette, N.Y. The cold threatens to freeze trees and vines that budded early amid record-setting warmth. Dick Blume/The Syracuse Newspapers/AP
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Lawyers for embattled former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn attend a news conference at their office in Paris. The lawyers said they would challenge a fresh official investigation into allegations Strauss-Kahn illegally participated in pimping in France. Charles Platiau/Reuters
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Defendants accused of participating in the December 2011 clashes in the oil town of Zhanaozen look out from a glass cubicle during a court session in the Caspian port city of Aktau, Kazakhstan. Angry relatives of the accused burst into the courtroom shortly before 37 people were due to go on trial for their role in deadly oil town riots. Vladimir Tretyakov/Reuters
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US servicemen sit on a transport plane before leaving for Afghanistan from the US transit center at Manas airport, Kyrgyzstan. Vladimir Pirogov/Reuters
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A participant clambers on a rope during a regional tourism competition among school students in a forest in Russia's southern city of Stavropol. Eduard Korniyenko/Reuters
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A child with party-flag stickers on his face rests on his mother's shoulder during the election campaign rally for the National League for Democracy in Yangon, Myanmar. The parliamentary election is scheduled for Sunday. Reuters
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Amy Brighton from Medina, Ohio, who opposes health-care reform, rallies in front of the Supreme Court in Washington as the court continues arguments on the health-care law signed by President Obama. Charles Dharapak/AP
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Jenna McCorkell of Britain performs during the women's free skating preliminary round at the ISU World Figure Skating Championships in Nice, France. Vincent Kessler/Reuters
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Pittsburgh Steelers coach Mike Tomlin talks to reporters during an interview at the NFL owners meeting in Palm Beach, Fla. Luis M. Alvarez/AP
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A stranded passenger uses his mobile device as he sits on stairs in a terminal at the international airport in Frankfurt, Germany. More than 400 flights had to be cancelled when ground staff went on a warning strike for higher wages. Michael Probst/AP
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Officers from the local Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau collect samples from iron ore imported from India to a port in Rizhao in eastern China's Shandong province. AP
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Children try out Samsung laptops at a Samsung D'light showroom in Seoul, South Korea. Bobby Yip/Reuters
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A man arranges his pots on a roadside as he waits for a ride after selling milk in Lahore, Pakistan. Mohsin Raza/Reuters
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A member of the Mara Salvatrucha gang listens to a priest at the prison of Ciudad Barrios in El Salvador. Rival gangs operating in El Salvador have called a truce as the Central American country confronts a plague of violent crime, according to a statement issued on Friday by the gangs and endorsed by local Roman Catholic church leaders. Ulises Rodriguez/Reuters
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Oakland Athletics pitcher Tyson Ross watches during the Baseball Youth Clinic at Ishinomaki Municipal Baseball Stadium in Ishinomaki, northern Japan. The city is one of the places devastated by the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami. Koji Sasahara/AP
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A model presents a creation by Chinese fashion label Doveral during China Fashion Week in Beijing. More than 40 local Chinese brands and six foreign labels will present their designs during the annual week-long event. David Gray/Reuters
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Pro-military Malian youth gather in support of the Army coup d'etat in the capital Bamako, Mali. Five days after an overnight coup, the West African state is in limbo with the putsch leaders disowned by neighbors and world powers, and Malians confused over their country's fate. Malin Palm/Reuters
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People stand on digital flooring during a visit by Britain's Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg at a Samsung D'light showroom in Seoul, South Korea. Clegg visited the Samsung headquarters on the sidelines of the Nuclear Security Summit to view electronic devices containing British design, technology, and components. Bobby Yip/Reuters
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A red carpet leads the way to the UK film premiere of 'Titanic 3D' at the Royal Albert Hall in Kensington, west London. The re-launch of the 3D version comes 15 years after the film was a huge box office hit. Joel Ryan/AP
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Students from the Kings Bridge Middle School of Jackson County, Ga., perform 'Georgia on My Mind' in the State Capitol in Atlanta as part of nationwide Music in Our Schools month. David Goldman/AP
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A cameraman shoots a copy of Leonardo Da Vinci's famous Mona Lisa painting from Madrid's El Prado Museum during the press presentation of the exhibition 'Saint Anne, Leonardo da Vinci’s ultimate masterpiece' at the Louvre museum in Paris. The exhibition will run from March 29 to June 25. Charles Platiau/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.