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A California sea lion and a walrus kiss each other during a show at the Hakkeijima Sea Paradise aquarium-amusement park complex in Yokohama, southwest of Tokyo, Sunday. Itsuo Inouye/AP
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A police officer gives orders to Occupy Wall Street protesters during a march from Washington Square Park to the Financial District, in New York, Saturday. Occupy Wall Street marks its first anniversary on Monday. Andrew Burton/Reuters
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Ultra-Orthodox Jews pray at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City, before the start the holiday of Rosh Hashana, early Sunday. Bernat Armangue/AP
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Commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guard Gen. Mohammad Ali Jafari, gives a press conference in Tehran, Iran, Sunday. The top commander in Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guard warned that "nothing will remain" of Israel if it takes military action against Tehran over its controversial nuclear program. Vahid Salemi/AP
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Pope Benedict XVI is helped with his vestments during a mass on the waterfront in Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday. The Pope celebrated an open-air Mass for tens of thousands of pilgrims from across the Middle East. Alessandra Tarantino/AP
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Workers unload gravel from boats at a small port outside Yangon, Sunday. Every morning hundreds of workers unload boats that bring gravel to Yangon, making three US cents per basket. Damir Sagolj/Reuters
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A boy blows a feather from his hand as he plays in the streets of Kathmandu, Nepal on Sunday. Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters
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A striking platinum miner takes part in a march to the Rustenburg, South Africa, police station Sunday to protest the way the police are cracking down on strikers who have been off work since early last month. Denis Farrell/AP
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Britain's Prince William and Catherine, the Duchess of Cambridge, leave the Honiara International Airport Sunday. The royal couple are on their third stop of a nine-day tour of Southeast Asia and the South Pacific on behalf of Queen Elizabeth II to commemorate her Diamond Jubilee. Daniel Munoz/Reuters
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A judge watches the leather ring held by two competitors at the German Finger Wrestling Championships in in Warngau, Germany, Sunday. Competitors battling for the title must pull their opponent over the marked line on the table. Matthias Schrader/AP
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Protesters hold a poster depicting Russia's President Vladimir Putin as they march during a protest rally in St. Petersburg, Russia, Saturday. Dmitry Lovetsky/AP
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Nakoula Basseley Nakoula (c.) is escorted out of his home by Los Angeles County Sheriff's officers in Cerritos, California Saturday. Nakoula, convicted of bank fraud, has been escorted to an interview with federal officers probing possible probation violations stemming from the making of an anti-Islam video. Bret Hartman/Reuters
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A woman attends a rally in central Berlin, Saturday, protesting sexual inequality in general and, in particular, the injustice of blaming the victim rather than the rapist or abuser. Tobias Schwarz/Reuters
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The russian band Buranovskie Babushki (Grandmas from Buranovo) perform for participants of the 9th Yalta Annual Meeting, Ukraine on Saturday. /Efrem Lukatsky/AP
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Apple employees welcome customers outside a new Apple store during its official oppening in Strasbourg Saturday. Vincent Kessler/Reuters
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An artisan applies finishing touches to an idol of Vishwakarma, the Hindu deity of architecture and machinery at his workshop in Agartala, capital of India's northeastern state of Tripura on Saturday. Jayanta Dey/Reuters
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A resident wades through a flooded street following heavy rains spawned by typhoon Sanba (local name "Karen") Saturday at San Juan city, East of Manila, Philippines. Bullit Marquez/AP
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A decorated cow stands on a grassland before walking down from Mutterer Alm, some 10km south of the western Austrian city of Innsbruck on Saturday. Dominic Ebenbichler /Reuters
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France's Ecology and Energy Minister Delphine Batho listens to the closing speech by France's Prime Minister at the end of a two-day environmental conference in Paris, Saturday. Kenzo Tribouillard/Reuters
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Chinese violinist Wang Xiao, joint first prize winner of Szigeti Jozsef International Violin and Viola Competition, consults with Hungarian conductor Andras Ligeti during rehearsal in Budapest, Hungary, Saturday. Noemi Bruzak/AP
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Indian Hindu priests performs evening rituals after taking a dip in the River Ganges, in Allahabad, India on Saturday. Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP
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Pope Benedict XVI waves from his pope mobile Saturday upon arrival at Baabda Presidential Palace near Beirut. Pope Benedict is in Lebanon on a three-day visit. /Mohamed Azaki /Reuters
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The Rev. Hyung-jin Moon, the youngest son of late Rev. Sun Myung Moon, attends his father's funeral at the CheongShim Peace World Center, Gapyeong, South Korea, Saturday. Hye Soo Nah/AP
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Japan's leading opposition Liberal Democratic Party presidential candidates try to hold each other's hands for photo session prior to a debate at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo, Saturday. Itsuo Inouye/AP
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Kashmiri students shout anti-US slogans during a protest against a film they consider blasphemous to Islam, in Srinagar, Saturday. Fayaz Kabli/Reuters
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A protester hits a policeman with a pole in Sydney's central business district. Anger over anti-Islam video "Innocence of Muslims" spread to Australia on Saturday with protesters taking to the streets of Sydney, surprising shoppers and catching police off guard. Tim Wimborne/Reuters
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An activist of India’s main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) shouts slogans as she carries an old cooking stove on her head during a protest Saturday in New Delhi, India. Altaf Qadri/AP
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Leverkusen's Lars Bender (l.) and Dortmund's Mario Goetze challenge for the ball during the German first division Bundesliga soccer match between Borussia Dortmund and Bayer Leverkusen in Dortmund, Germany. Martin Meissner/AP
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South Korean Special Navy seamen hang on the rope from a helicopter during the 62nd Incheon Landing Operations Commemoration ceremony in waters off Incheon, South Korea, Saturday. Lee Jin-man/AP
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A Mexican cowboy or "charro" rides his horse while dressed in his costume during the National Day of the Charro in Guadalajara, September 14, 2012. The National Day of the Charro was established in 1934 to commemorate the independence of Mexico. Alejandro Acosta/Reuters
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A Chinese paramilitary police man reacts as a giant Chinese national flag is pulled towards the Japanese embassy in Beijing, China, Saturday. Tensions between the two countries flared after the Japanese government bought the disputed islands from private owners this week. Ng Han Guan/AP
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Ducati MotoGP rider Valentino Rossi of Italy kneels next to his bike during the third practice session of the San Marino motorcycling Grand Prix at the Misano circuit Saturday. Max Rossi/Reuters
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A girl makes dishes out of palm leaves at Bonegi Beach in Honiara Solomon Islands on Saturday. Daniel Munoz/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.