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Alexander Snipes of Jessup, Pa. takes a sit down break from walking through piles of pumpkins located at Ritter's Farm Market's in Mount Cobb, Pa. Butch Comegys/The Scranton Times-Tribune/AP
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A devotee pushes a boat carrying idols of the Hindu god Ganesh, the deity of prosperity, into the Arabian Sea on the first day of the ten-day-long Ganesh Chaturthi festival in Mumbai, India. Vivek Prakash/Reuters
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Ayu Rosalina, a two-day old baby Sumatran Elephant, stands near her mother at Conservation Response Unit (CRU) in Ulu Masen, Aceh Jaya, Aceh, Indonesia. Heri Juanda/AP
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A Nepalese devotee takes a holy dip with the help of a friend in the Bagmati River during Rishi Panchami, a purifying and atonement day for women, in Katmandu, Nepal. Niranjan Shrestha/AP
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The 810-square-foot living room atop the Columbus Monument art installation titled 'Discovering Columbus,' by Japanese artist Tatzu Nishi, is seen in Columbus Circle in New York. Shannon Stapleton/Reuters
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Space Shuttle Endeavour sitting atop the shuttle aircraft carrier, flies over downtown Austin, Texas. Marco Hanson/AP
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The wing of Air Force One, with President Barack Obama aboard, is seen en route to Miami International Airport. Carolyn Kaster/AP
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A general view shows the main corridor inside the 'Serapuem' tomb, near the Saqqara or 'Step' Pyramid, south of Cairo. Egypt's antiquities authority reopened the 'Serapeum' and 'Akhethotep & Ptahhotep' after the ancient tombs had undergone ten years of renovations, with an estimated cost of 2 million dollars. Mohamed Abd El Ghany/Reuters
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US Navy personnel leave a military tent set up at the US Navy base in Manama, Bahrain, where a major exercise is under way involving air, sea, and undersea forces from more than 20 nations to respond to simulated sea-mine attacks in international waters. Hasan Jamali/AP
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Children watch as an ultra-Orthodox Jewish man performs the Kaparot ritual in Jerusalem's Mea Shearim neighborhood ahead of Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, which starts at sundown on Tuesday. Ronen Zvulun/Reuters
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A baby girl, which Polish sappers found on Wednesday, was abandoned on the road of an armored patrol in Waghez southern Afghanistan. Named by the troop Pola, for Poland, the infant was examined by military doctors and was to be handed over to Afghan pediatricians and authorities. Marcin Gil/Poland's Defense Ministry/AP
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Rami Shamir, a member of Occupy Wall Street (OWS) and a self-claim writer from New York City, waits in line outside Apple's Fifth Avenue store. Shamir said he is not in line to buy the iPhone 5, which goes on sale tomorrow, but to protest with other OWS about how Apple sells its product. Bebeto Matthews/AP
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A bus driver waits for passengers in Jinggangshan, Jiangxi province, China. Carlos Barria/Reuters
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A view of Mikhail Kalashnikov is seen on a screen near a display of his weapons during an exhibition at the Artillery Museum in St. Petersburg. The museum is showing 160 weapons from the private collection of the 92-year-old inventor of the AK-47, local media reported. Alexander Demianchuk/Reuters
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McLaren Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton of Britain speaks to journalists in the paddock ahead of the Singapore F1 Grand Prix. Pablo Sanchez/Reuters
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An Egyptian man walks past a newly painted mural depicting an Egyptian man who was killed during the revolution, on a newly whitewashed wall in Tahrir Square, Cairo. Nasser Nasser/AP
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A visitor, dressed as a red army soldier, poses for a picture in Jinggangshan, Jiangxi province, China. Carlos Barria/Reuters
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A couple walk past film posters outside the Hotel Maria Cristina, before the arrival of film stars, on the eve of the San Sebastian Film Festival. Vincent West/Reuters
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African penguins gather to keep warm as others are fed sardines by staff at the South African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds after they were recently found covered in oil on Robben Island, Cape Town, South Africa. Schalk van Zuydam/AP
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Fenerbahce fans light flares during the Europa League Group C soccer match between Fenerbahce and Olympique Marseille at Sukru Saracoglu stadium in Istanbul, Turkey. Murad Sezer/Reuters
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An Afghan woman carries her child through the Kati Sakhi cemetery in Kabul, Afghanistan. Dusan Vranic/AP
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An armed guard patrols from a watchtower at the city prison in Tbilisi, Georgia. David Mdzinarishvili/Reuters
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Altaf Ahmad (c.), a Kashmiri participant, looks on during a bodybuilding competition in Srinagar, Kashmir. A total of 70 participants are competing in different bodybuilding categories, organizers said. Fayaz Kabli/Reuters
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Boys observe policemen in line during the inauguration of the Peacekeeping Unit Program (UPP) in Rocinha slum in Rio de Janeiro. Ricardo Moraes/Reuters
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A Cambodian woman walks her cow for feeding in a paddy field at Chreh village, on the outskirts of Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Heng Sinith/AP
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A man clicks his nails as he looks at an electronic board displaying share prices outside a brokerage in Tokyo. Yuriko Nakao/Reuters
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A holy man, or sadhu, stands at the banks of the Bagmati River, during the Rishi Panchami festival, in Kathmandu, Nepal. Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters
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Terrence Ruggiero, a Bruce Springsteen fan, hugs a friend before attending a concert with Springsteen and the E Street Band in East Rutherford, New Jersey, Wednesday. Lucas Jackson/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.
By
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.