Photos of the day 05/20

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Efrem Lukatsky/AP

Volunteers of the Azov Civil Corps hold flares during rally at the Ukrainian Parliament on Friday against holding local elections in the occupied eastern territories of Ukraine.

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Kim Hong-Ji/Reuters

South Korean policemen take part in an anti-terror and security drill at a mall in Seoul, South Korea on Friday.

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Faisal Mahmood/Reuters

A man cools off from the heat in a stream on a hot summer day on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan on Friday.

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David Gray/Reuters

A model presents a creation from the fashion label Kakopieros during Australian Fashion week in Sydney, Australia on Friday.

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Kai Pfaffenbach/Reuters

Gymnasts perform during a ceremony marking the 10th anniversary of the German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB) in Frankfurt, Germany on Friday.

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Rescuers walk with equipment at a site of forest fires in Hulun Buir, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China on Friday.

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Amr Nabil/AP

The Imam of al Thawrah Mosque, Samir Abdel Bary, gives condolences to film director Osman Abu Laban, who lost four relatives, all victims of Thursday's EgyptAir plane crash, following prayers for the dead at al Thawrah Mosque in Cairo, Egypt on Friday.

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A.M. Ahad/AP

Bangladeshi children play at a slum in Dhaka, Bangladesh on Friday.

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Bobby Yip/Reuters

Rescuers search for casualties after the 900-square-metre grass-covered roof of an indoor hall at a City University sports center collapsed in Hong Kong, China on Friday.

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Mahesh Kumar A./AP

A stray dog and a homeless person sleep under bushes on a hot summer afternoon in Hyderabad, India on Friday.

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Patrick Semansky/AP

Fellowship, ridden by exercise rider Brian O'Leary, walks on the track at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore on Friday.

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Jorge Silva/Reuters

People pray and hold candles as they walk around the Marble Temple, or Wat Benchamabophit, during the Buddhist celebration of Vesak in Bangkok, Thailand on Friday.

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Peter Nicholls/Reuters

Britain's Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge, prepares to sail on a catamaran with sailor Ben Ainslie as she visits Land Rover BAR and the 1851 Trust in Portsmouth on Friday.

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Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters

Supporters of Trinamool Congress (TMC) celebrate after learning the initial poll results of the West Bengal Assembly elections, in Kolkata, India on Thursday.

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Stefan Wermuth/Reuters

Israel's Ziv Kalontarov starts in the men's 100m freestyle preliminary event in the European Aquatics Championships in London on Thursday.

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Joel Ryan/AP

Singer Iggy Pop poses for photographers during a photo call for the film Gimme Danger at the 69th international film festival in Cannes, southern France, on Thursday.

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Darren Whiteside/Reuters

Chicks dyed to draw attention are offered for sale at a small poultry market in Jakarta, Indonesia, on Wednesday.

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Laurent Cipriani/AP

A man runs through tear gas during a demonstration against a labor bill on Thursday in Paris. France is facing tense weeks of strikes and other union actions against the law, which would allow longer workdays and easier layoffs, and which has met fierce resistance in Parliament and in the streets.

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Jayanta Dey/Reuters

A woman walks through heavy rains in Agartala, India, on Wednesday.

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Channi Anand/AP

A mother and a child with his head covered with a wet towel to protect it from a heat wave wait for transportation in Jammu, India on Thursday.

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Jason Reed/Reuters

Models pose against the backdrop of an old sandstone chapel during a fashion show for the label Romance Was Born on the waterfront of Sydney Harbor during Australian Fashion Week.

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Rahmat Gul/AP

Laborers uses machinery to fluff raw cotton from a bale to make pillows and mattresses at a traditional shop in Kabul, Afghanistan on Thursday.

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Phil Noble/Reuters

Visitors walk down a staircase at the Museum of Liverpool in northern England on Wednesday.

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Mussa Qawasma/Reuters

Freed Palestinian journalist Mohammad al-Qiq, who was detained by Israel last November and went on 94-day hunger strike to protest against his detention without charge, stands next to his wife upon his release in the West Bank town of Dura, south of Hebron, on Thursday.

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Afolabi Sotunde/Reuters

Members of the #BringBackOurGirls (#BBOG) campaign embrace each other during a sit-out in Abuja, Nigeria, on Wednesday. A Nigerian teenager kidnapped by Boko Haram more than two years ago has been rescued, the first to return from captivity of more than 200 girls seized in a raid on their school in Chibok in 2014.

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John Locher/AP

Cracked and curled mud covers ground that was once under water at the Lake Mead National Recreation Area, near Las Vegas, on Thursday. Lake Mead's surface was at its lowest level Wednesday since the reservoir was created.

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Patrick Pleul/dpa/AP

A red poppy grows in a grain field near Wildau, eastern Germany, on Wednesday.

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Stephen Lam/Reuters

A man covered in face paint waits to see US Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders during a campaign event in Vallejo, California on Wednesday.

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Mark Schiefelbein/AP

Members of the honor guard stand at attention during a welcoming ceremony for visiting Mozambique President Filipe Jacinto Nyusi at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Wednesday.

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Hassan Ammar/AP

Tourists takes a selfie on a rocky coastal area along the Beirut coastline in Lebanon on Thursday.

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David W Cerny/Reuters

Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt poses with children before a news conference in Prague, Czech Republic, on Wednesday.

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Ilya Naymushin/Reuters

Children wearing red neckerchiefs, a symbol of the Young Pioneer Organization, salute during a ceremony for the inauguration of new members on the day of its anniversary in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, Russia on Thursday.

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Frank Augstein/AP

Britain's Queen Elizabeth II travels in a carriage from the Houses of Parliament towards Buckingham Palace in London on Wednesday. The Queen delivered a speech to open Britain's Parliament.

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Darko Bandic/AP

Migrants play soccer at the migrants camp in Idomeni, Greece on Thursday. Thousands of stranded refugees and migrants have camped in Idomeni for months after the border was closed.

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Eduardo Munoz/Reuters

New York Fire Department members attend to a fire call in a Harlem neighborhood in New York on Tuesday. Commuter rail service in and out of Grand Central Terminal was suspended during the evening rush hour on Tuesday due to a fire under a section of elevated tracks. The fire grew to a four-alarm blaze after spreading to multiple construction trailers and debris.

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Aaron Favila/AP

A Filipino worker checks his phone as he waits outside a construction site at a commercial area in suburban Pasay, south of Manila, Philippines on Thursday. The Philippine economy grew faster than expected, at 6.9 percent, in the first quarter, its highest quarterly growth in almost three years, officials said Thursday, as the government prepares to hand over leadership to the incoming administration.

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Jason Reed/Reuters

Models have their hair styled at a salon near the Sydney Harbor Bridge before the Manning Cartel catwalk show at Australian Fashion week on Tuesday.

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Rogelio V. Solis/AP

Emergency lights shine on the cars of Amtrak's 'City of New Orleans' passenger train as they wait following a collision with a pickup truck in Flora, Miss., Wednesday. The Madison County Sheriff's Office confirmed the evening accident, but would not confirm any deaths, saying the Flora Police Department is investigating.

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David Mdzinarishvili/Reuters

US servicemen attend US-led joint military exercise 'Noble Partner 2016' near Vaziani, Georgia, on Wednesday.

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Lucy Nicholson/Reuters

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders announces to the crowd that he just won Oregon during a rally in Carson, Calif., on Tuesday night.

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Anthony Devlin/PA/AP

A man views Jeff Koons' sculpture 'Play-Doh 1994-2014' during the opening of the Newport Street Gallery's new exhibition, 'Jeff Koons: Now,' in London on Tuesday.

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Anjum Naveed/AP

Girls run toward their friends after getting free food from a distribution point at a shrine in Islamabad, Pakistan, on Wednesday.

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Kevin Coombs/Reuters

Photographer Martin Parr looks out of his caravan, which is serving food at the Photo London show in London on Wednesday.

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Eranga Jayawardena/AP

Survivors try to salvage their belongings buried in the mud after a landslide in Elangipitiya village in Aranayaka, Sri Lanka, on Wednesday. Soldiers and police used sticks and bare hands to dig through enormous piles of mud covering houses in three villages hit by massive landslides in central Sri Lanka. Hundreds of families were reported missing.

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Regis Duvignau/Reuters

Cast member Kristen Stewart arrives at a news conference for the film 'Personal Shopper' in competition at the 69th Cannes Film Festival in France on Tuesday.

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Gene Blevins/Reuters

A paddle boarder makes his way to the water as the space shuttle fuel tank ET-94 arrives by barge for its eventual placement at the California Science Center in Marina del Rey, Calif., on Wednesday.

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Stephane Mahe/Reuters

People react to tear gas and percussion grenades during a demonstration in Nantes, France, on Tuesday against French labor law reform.

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Mike Groll/AP

A construction worker works on the convention center project on Wednesday in Albany, N.Y. The new facility is expected to open in early 2017.

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Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters

Devotees dance to the beat of traditional drums in front of the chariot of Rato Machhindranath (unseen) during the chariot festival in Lalitpur, Nepal, on Tuesday. Both Hindus and Buddhists worship Machhindranath for good rain to prevent drought during the rice harvest season.

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Fareed Khan/AP

Boys cool themselves off during a heat wave in Karachi, Pakistan, on Wednesday.

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Gleb Garanich/Reuters

A journalist inspects a metro train painted by Spanish artist Kenor in Kiev, Ukraine, on Tuesday. The painting is a gift to the Ukrainian capital.

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Anders Wiklund/TT/AP

The new E version of the Swedish JAS 39 Gripen multi-role fighter is rolled out at SAAB in Linkoping, Sweden, on Wednesday. The E fighter is slightly bigger than previous versions, and has a stronger engine and updated radar systems. It has been in development for about 10 years. The first test flight is expected later this year.

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Darren Staples/Reuters

Britain's Queen Elizabeth II attends the dedication of The Lancaster's Regimental Memorial at the National Memorial Arboretum in Alrewas, central England, on Tuesday.

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Alastair Grant/AP

Ben Spiers serves a customer at his salad bar, based in a British red telephone box, near the British Museum in London on Tuesday. Spiers works part time as a lawyer. He opens the salad bar two days a week at lunchtime as he starts the business up in this iconic and unusual setting.

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Mike Hutchings/Reuters

Party leader Julius Malema and members of his Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) clash with and pour a bottle of water on Parliamentary security as they are evicted from the chamber in Cape Town, South Africa, on Tuesday.

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Ng Han Guan/AP

Performers prepare backstage for rehearsals on Tuesday ahead of the First World Conference on Tourism for Development to be held this week in Beijing. State leaders and tourism ministers from various countries are expected to attend the four-day conference.

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Liselotte Sabroe/Scanpix Denmark/Reuters

Participants watch the virtual reality movie 'Born into Exile' during Women Deliver, a major women's health and rights conference, in Copenhagen, Denmark, on Tuesday. The film is about two pregnant women who are due to deliver in Za'atari refugee camp in Jordan.

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Shizuo Kambayashi/AP

Saori Kimura of Japan spikes against Lee Hyo-hee of South Korea during their Women's Volleyball World Olympic Qualification Tournament in Tokyo on Tuesday.

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Charles Bertram/Lexington Herald-Leader/AP

Courtnie Coulson votes in the Democratic presidential primary in the Embrace Epworth Campus church in Lexington, Ky., on Tuesday, with her 2-year-old daughter, Molly, in her arms.

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Mike Segar/Reuters

Toast the dog, an Internet celebrity, arrives for the 20th Annual Webby Awards in New York on Monday.

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Sergei Grits/AP

A gull rests on driftwood in a pond near the village of Svisloch, Belarus, on Tuesday.

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Andrew Matthews/PA/AP

A tug boat leads the way for the world's largest passenger ship, Harmony of the Seas, owned by Royal Caribbean, as she makes her way up Southampton Water into Southampton, England.

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Mary Altaffer/AP

High-wire artist Nik Wallenda is framed by the Met Life building as he walks a tight rope in honor of National Amazing Month, in midtown Manhattan on Tuesday in New York.

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Kyle Terada/USA TODAY

Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green (23) shoots the basketball against Oklahoma City Thunder forward Kevin Durant (35) and forward Serge Ibaka (9) during the second half in game one of the Western Conference finals of the NBA Playoffs at Oracle Arena in Oakland, Calif., on Monday. The Thunder defeated the Warriors 108-102.

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Goran Tomasevic/Reuters

A man stands in a building earmarked for demolition in the Mathare neighborhood of Nairobi, Kenya, on Tuesday. Kenya's authorities tore down a badly-built residential block. More than 250 shoddy buildings could now face demolition after a six-story structure collapsed this month, killing 51 people.

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Eranga Jayawardena/AP

Sri Lankans wade through flood waters on a submerged road in Colombo on Tuesday. The Disaster Management Center said that 114 homes have been destroyed and more than 137,000 people have been evacuated to safe locations as heavy rains continue.

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Mike Groll/AP

A cat named Rubio walks in front of the podium during a news conference on Tuesday in Albany, N.Y. New York would be the first state to ban the declawing of cats under a legislative proposal that has divided veterinarians.

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Mohammad Ismail/Reuters

Men watch demonstrators from Afghanistan's Hazara minority during a protest in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Monday.

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Goran Tomasevic/Reuters

Protesters run away from police during clashes in Nairobi, Kenya, on Monday.

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Aly Song/Reuters

Workers move a rhino sculpture on a street in Shanghai, China, on Monday.

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K.M. Chaudary/AP

A lioness cools off by licking a slab of ice during hot weather at a zoo in Lahore, Pakistan, on Monday.

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Alessandra Tarantino/AP

A bishop takes a photo of Pope Francis during the opening session of the CEI, Italian Episcopal Conference, at the Vatican on Monday.

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Jens Meyer/AP

Sorb believers in traditional clothes carry the statue of the Virgin Mary during a procession near Rosenthal, eastern Germany, on Monday. Traditionally on Whit Monday, Catholic faithful Sorbs, a Slavic minority near the German-Polish border, celebrate an open-air mass in the small village east of Dresden.

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Reuters

Paramilitary policemen train in Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China, on Monday.

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Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters

A laborer (l.) and a shopkeeper read newspapers at a wholesale market in Kolkata, India, on Monday.

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Jason Reed/Reuters

Ushers wait to seat guests before a fashion show by designer Yeojin Bae during Fashion Week in Sydney, Australia, on Monday.

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Sebastian Scheiner/AP

Austrian Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz rekindles the eternal flame at the Hall of Remembrance during his visit to the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem on Monday.

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Thibault Camus/AP

Actors Edgar Ramirez and Ana De Armas pose for photographers during a photo call for the film 'Hands of Stone,' scheduled for release in August 2016, at the 69th International Cannes Film Festival in France Monday.

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A police dog jumps through a burning ring during a show in Guiyang, Guizhou province, China, on Sunday.

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Andrew Harnik/AP

People look through a window as Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton greets patrons at the Lone Oak Little Castle Restaurant in Paducah, Ky., on Monday.

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Thomas Peter/Reuters

A worker is silhouetted in a building that is under construction in Tokyo on Monday.

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Baz Ratner/Reuters

Items recovered from a merchant ship in the ancient harbor of Caesarea National Park in Israel are on display Monday. Israel's Antiquities Authority estimates the items to be about 1,600 years old.

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Susana Vera/Reuters

A member of the 'Villa de Madrid' folk association waits to go on stage to perform traditional dance and music during celebrations for Madrid's patron saint San Isidro, in Madrid Monday.

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Jonathan Ernst/Reuters

Deputy Joey Tortorella of the Niagara County (N.Y.) Sheriff's Office returns to his seat after being awarded the Medal of Valor by President Obama at the White House in Washington on Monday. Mr. Tortorella was honored for his actions in subduing a gunman.

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Samrang Pring/Reuters

A fisherman poses on his boat at a Bak Angrout dried-up pond in the drought-hit Kandal province in Cambodia.

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Niranjan Shrestha/AP

A supporter of Nepal's minority ethnic group tries to break through a police cordon leading to the prime minister's office in Kathmandu on Monday. Hundreds of supporters scuffled with police, restarting protests against the government and the Himalayan nation's new constitution.

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Steven Senne/AP

Mary Fernandes (l.) and Nancy Shilts and other parishioners at the church of St. Frances X. Cabrini react in the church Monday while talking about its closing in Scituate, Mass. The Supreme Court has refused to hear an appeal from parishioners who are occupying the church, which the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston closed more than a decade ago.