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A kiwi chick hatches at Auckland Zoo in Auckland, during its spring breeding season. The chick, a flightless bird that will grow to about the size of a domestic fowl, is the fifth born this season and has been named Nick 1. Greg Bowker/New Zealand Herald/AP
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Pakistani devotees burn lamps at a shrine to get their wishes fulfilled in Islamabad, Pakistan. B.K. Bangash/AP
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A boy plays a flute as he participates in a fair during a traditional boat race on the Kaliganga River in Manikganj. Andrew Biraj/Reuters
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Two North Korean girls pose for a photograph, under portraits of the late North Korean leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, after playing a duet on the piano at a school for the performing arts in Pyongyang, North Korea. David Guttenfelder/AP
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Visitor gather inside the EADS booth during the ILA Berlin Air Show in Selchow near Schoenefeld south of Berlin. Tobias Schwarz/Reuters
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Iranian police officers stand guard in front of the Swiss Embassy in Tehran, which represents US interests in Iran, during a demonstration against a film ridiculing Islam's Prophet Muhammad. Vahid Salemi/AP
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Spectators stand on a hill to watch the Women’s British Open golf championships at Royal Liverpool Golf Club, Hoylake, England. Jon Super/AP
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A new species of monkey found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and identified as Lesula (Cercopithecus lomamiensis) is seen in this undated photograph from an article published September 12, 2012 in the science journal PLOS One. Hart JA, Detwiler KM, Gilbert CC/PA/Reuters
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A man strolls by a cut-out of a cancan girl in Tokyo. Junji Kurokawa/AP
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A Nepalese artist appears with his face painted during a protest outside the Katmandu District administration office in Katmandu, Nepal. Niranjan Shrestha/AP
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A Syrian Brown bear licks honey off a fruit at the Ramat Gan Safari park outside Tel Aviv, Israel. Ariel Schalit/AP
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(L-r.) Christina Korp, astronaut Buzz Aldrin, Annie Glenn, astronaut John Glenn, and singer Diana Krall watch a bagpiper during a tribute to US astronaut Neil Armstrong during a service at the National Cathedral in Washington. Gary Cameron/Reuters
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Detroit Tigers first baseman Prince Fielder walks to first base against the Chicago White Sox during his MLB baseball game in Chicago, September 12, 2012. Jeff Haynes/Reuters
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A woman ploughs on a paddy field beside a mining dump for the Lebadaung copper mine project at Sarlingyi township, Myanmar. Soe Zeya Tun/Reuters
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Artisans work on mud idols of Hindu elephant-headed God Ganesha at a workshop in Allahabad, India. The idols will be immersed in water bodies at the end of the ten-day long Ganesh Chaturthi festival which begins on Sept. 19. Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP
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Andre Benton of New York attends New York Fashion Week September 12, 2012. He has been attending the event for twelve years. Keith Bedford/Reuters
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Yemeni protesters break a window of the US Embassy during a protest about a film ridiculing Islam's Prophet Muhammad, in Sanaa, Yemen. Hani Mohammed/AP
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A protester throws a tear gas canister, which was earlier thrown by riot police, during clashes along a road which leads to the US embassy, near Tahrir Square in Cairo. Amr Abdallah Dalsh/Reuters
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A man looks up from behind a boat at an inter-island transport wharf in Honiara, Solomon Islands. Daniel Munoz/Reuters
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An Afghan military officer salutes after receiving her certification, unseen, during a graduation ceremony at the Kabul Military Training Center in Kabul, Afghanistan. Musadeq Sadeq/AP
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Mahouts, or elephant riders, rest with their their elephants before a match during the 11th King's Cup Elephant Polo Tournament in the resort town of Hua-Hin, some 160 km (99 miles) south of Bangkok. Sukree Sukplang/Reuters
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A disabled man chants slogans using a loudspeaker, outside the Finance Ministry in Athens. Disabled groups are angry at likely benefit cuts under a major new austerity program demanded by international rescue creditors. Petros Giannakouris/AP
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European Council President Herman Van Rompuy waits for the arrival of Egypt's President Mohamed Mursi (unseen) in Brussels. Francois Lenoir/Reuters
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Primary school student Mia stands at a classroom in an empty school, closed during a one-day strike by local teachers seeking higher salaries and better work conditions, in Bratislava, Slovakia. Radovan Stoklasa/Reuters
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An actor playing a Communist soldier leans on his rifle as he waits with other actors during a break from filming of the Chinese television program called 'Chu Guan', meaning 'To Get Out of the Stronghold', at an outdoor film studio located on the outskirts of Beijing. David Gray/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.