World News in Pictures

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A man rescues a dog during heavy floods in Vojskova May 19, 2014. More than a quarter of Bosnia's four million people have been affected by the worst floods to hit the Balkans in more than a century, the government said on Monday, warning of "terrifying" destruction comparable to the country's 1992-95 war

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A Maccabi Tel Aviv's basketball supporter celebrates the teamâs victory in the European basketball championship in Rabin's square in Tel Aviv, Israel, Monday, May 19, 2014. Tens of thousands of Maccabi Tel Aviv fans thronged a central square in Tel Aviv on Monday to celebrate the teamâs stunning victory in the European basketball championship, capping a national outpouring of joy that went far beyond the boundaries of sports

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Libyan Army Special Forces Commander Wanis Bukhamada (front C) delivers a statement in Benghazi May 19, 2014. Bukhamada has allied with renegade general Khalifa Haftar in his campaign against militant Islamists, highlighting the failure of central government in Tripoli to assert its authority. The announcement gives a major boost to a campaign by Haftar, who has been denounced by the Tripoli government as attempting to stage a coup in the oil producer

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Men search for survivors under the rubble of collapsed houses at a site hit by what activists said was a Scud missile from forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, in the town of Mareh in the countryside north of Aleppo May 19, 2014

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A small monkey sits atop the head of a woman in the Tatuyo indigenous community near Manaus, Brazil, Monday, May 19, 2014. Manaus is one of the host cities for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil

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New York Police Department Officer Rosa Rodriguez, left, receives flowers and a kiss from a police officer as she leaves Weill Cornell Medical Center, Monday May 19, 2014, in New York. Rodriguez was severely injured while responding to a fire which killed her partner. The officers were overcome by smoke at a Coney Island housing project

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People walk past the remains of a car used for a suicide bomb in Kano, Nigeria, Monday, May 19, 2014. A car bomb exploded in the Christian neighborhood of Nigeria's second most populous and mainly Muslim city of Kano Sunday night, killing at least four people, police said. Five people were wounded. Police Superintendent Aderenle Shinaba said the car exploded Sunday night before the bomber reached his target of the busy restaurants and bars lining Gold Coast Street, indicating the casualties could have been much higher. It was unclear if the bomber was among them

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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un smiles during a visit to Taesongsan General Hospital in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in Pyongyang May 19, 2014.

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A baby Yemen chameleon (Chamaleo calyptratus) crawls on the fingers of veterinarian Lidija Stanisic at her house in the outskirts of Zagreb, Croatia, May 19, 2014. Eight baby chameleons came into the world at the veterinarian house a few weeks ago

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Leader of anti-government protesters Suthep Thaugsuban reacts as he is hugged by a supporter during a march in Bangkok, Thailand, Monday, May 19, 2014. Thailand's political crisis deepened last week when the Constitutional Court removed Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra for nepotism along with nine Cabinet members in a case that many viewed as politically motivated. Protesters say Yingluck's removal is not enough, though. She was simply replaced by Niwattumrong, who was a deputy premier from the ruling party



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A woman makes a tower using ice from an overnight hailstorm in the Aclimacao neighborhood of Sao Paulo, Brazil, Monday, May 19, 2014. Some told local media their children hadnât seen hail or played with ice

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A visitor makes notes at a display of lupins during media day at the Chelsea Flower Show in London May 19, 2014

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Palestinians carry a wounded protester during clashes with Israeli troops over the controversial Israeli barrier in Kfar Aqab near the West Bank city of Ramallah May 19, 2014

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A woman with a child looks at a tilted house in the village of Krupanj, west from Belgrade, May 19, 2014. Communities in Serbia and Bosnia battled to protect towns and power plants on Monday from rising flood waters and landslides that have devastated swathes of both countries and killed dozens of people

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Entertainer Rolf Harris leaves Southwark Crown Court in Londo

n May 19, 2014. Harris is charged with indecent assault, and denies the charges.


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Britain's Prince Charles and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, sign the guest book at their official welcome ceremony in Halifax, Nova Scotia, May 19, 2014. The royal couple are on a four-day visit to Canada that begins in Halifax and includes stops in Pictou, Nova Scotia, the Prince Edward Island towns of Charlottetown, Bonshaw and Cornwall and concludes in Winnipeg

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A diver is dwarfed by a green humphead parrotfish on the Layany Atoll in Malaysia

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A little brown bat pursues a forest moth, the predator's mouth is open to allow the bat to echolocate. When a moth is caught, it is scooped up in the wing and then delivered to the mouth

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Visitors to Cebu City Zoo in the Philippines can undergo the snake massage treatment from four giant Burmese pythons, which measure up to sixteen feet (5m) long. Each python is fed 10 or more chickens prior to each massage, to curb any hunger pangs. The treatment is free for visitors brave enough to try it out

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Labour leader Ed Miliband struggles with a bacon sandwich at New Covent Garden Market in London as he kicks off a day of campaigning on the eve of the local and European elections

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The northern lights dance above a calm sea in Keflavik, Iceland

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Spanish bullfighter Jimenez Fortes is tossed by a Los Chospes ranch fighting bull during a bullfight at Las Ventas bullring in Madrid, Spain

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Sudanese Armed Forces and Rapid Support Forces personnel ride on a tank after recapturing the Daldako area, outside the military headquarters in Kadogli

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RNLI volunteers saved OAP Tony Gibson from his blazing boat, minutes before the the on-board gas canisters exploded. Smoke started pouring from below the deck of his 26ft cabin cruiser a mile off the coast near Aberystwyth, mid-Wales. Tony, 71, couldn't reach the boat's radio but phoned HM coastguard to raise the alarm

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The Queen poses for a photograph with the crew of HMS Lancaster in Portsmouth. The monarch met crew members and was given a tour of the ship at Portsmouth Naval Base

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A sloth peeks out from behind a door on a floating house in the 'Lago do Janauari' near Manaus, Brazil

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Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott was caught on camera winking and smiling when asked a question about the budget from a grandmother who said she had been forced to work on an adult sex line to make ends meet

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A yellow bike in Harrogate heralds the arrival of the Tour De France, which will be passing through the Yorkshire town on July 5 and 6

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The clean-up begins: residents clean streets of mud and rubble after a landslide at the village of Topcic Polje in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Bosnia, Serbia and Croatia have been hit by the worst flooding in more than 100 years

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A flood-damaged Opel Astra lies in the mud in Topcic Polje. The flooding in the Balkans has forced half a million people out of their homes, the death toll is currently around 50

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A police officer (top) grabs a man who was trying to jump off the seventh floor of a hotel in Chengdu, China. The 32-year-old man attempted to commit suicide after a failed relationship. Police and his ex-girlfriend managed to talk him down 3 hours later, local media reported

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Riot police carry a passerby who fainted, overcome by tear gas sprayed by police as they dispersed a group of hooded students who were shouting slogans and distributing pamphlets to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, FARC

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Giant pandas from China, Feng Yi (female) and Fu Wa (male) arrive inside their cages at the MASkargo Complex in Sepang, outside Kuala Lumpur. China is loaning Malaysia the pandas for ten years to commemorate the 40th anniversary of diplomatic ties between the two countries.The pandas will be quarantined for a month before they are made available for public viewing

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Sophia Loren poses for amassed photographers at a photocall for the film Voce Umana at the Cannes film festival.

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A protester is arrested after lighting a flare as thousands of students demonstrated against the Abbott government's budget measures in Sydney, Australia


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Water is sprayed over thatched roof farmhouses during the biannual fire exercises at Kayabuki no Sato, Kyoto, Japan.

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Men search the debris of houses destroyed by landslides caused by the floods in the village of Donja Tresnjica 150 kilometers southwest of Belgrade, Serbia

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An Ukrainian soldier reads a book at a temporary camp near a checkpoint in Mariupol, Ukraine after President Putin ordered all troops stationed along the border with Ukraine to withdraw.

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A riot policeman uses a baton to hit a rioting University of Nairobi student in Kenya's capital Nairobi May 20, 2014

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Fata Kovacevic reacts near her flood-damaged house in Topcic Polje, Bosnia and Herzegovina, May 20, 2014

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Employees conduct a final check to fix any cavities in the seams of balls inside the soccer ball factory that produces official match balls for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, in Sialkot, Punjab province, Pakistan, May 16, 2014

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Retired bus driver Glenn Williams, dressed as Captain America, greets civil rights activist Rev. Al Sharpton after Sharpton's remarks to a rally by Amalgamated Transit Union workers to urge investment in public transit at the U.S. Capitol in Washington May 20, 2014.

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Anti-government protest leader Suthep Thaugsuban gives a traditional greeting to media before leaving Government House in Bangkok, Thailand, May 20, 2014.

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Russia's President Vladimir Putin and China's President Xi Jinping review an honor guard contingent during a welcoming ceremony at the Xijiao State Guesthouse ahead of the fourth Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA) summit, in Shanghai, China, May 20, 2014.

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Hero cat Tara, held by owner Roger Triantafilo, licks its whiskers as it is surrounded by news media after throwing the ceremonial first pitch before the Bakersfield Blaze and Lancaster Jayhawks Single A baseball game at Sam Lynn Ballpark in Bakersfield, California May 20, 2014.

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Riot police charge past a burning barricade as they engage in running battles with protesting Kenyan students on the highway next to Nairobi University's main campus in downtown Nairobi, Kenya Tuesday, May 20, 2014. Kenyan university students on Tuesday carried out demonstrations over a proposed increase in student fees, but the protests quickly turned into hours of running battles between students throwing rocks and security forces firing tear gas, before riot police chased the students inside their campus and cornered them in a building into which they fired dozens of tear gas grenades and for a while prevented anyone from leaving

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Photojournalists run away from a flare after police released teargas in a bid to disperse rioting university students in Kenya's capital Nairobi May 20, 2014. Public university students started their protests, which are against the planned hiking of fees and lowering of maximum loan awarded to students by the Higher Education Loans Board, where police engaged the students in running battles at the main campus, local media reported.

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Sixty-three-year-old Beatles fan Hitoshi Sekiguchi sings a Beatles song in front of a truck decorated with an advertisement for singer Paul McCartney's "Out There" tour, after the cancellation of McCartney's concert at the Nippon Budokan in Tokyo May 20, 2014

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel walks up the stage to join Bernhard Gerwert (L), CEO of Airbus Defence and Space, followed by Turkey's Transport, Maritime Affairs and Communications Minister Lutfi Elvan for the ceremony opening the ILA Berlin Air Show in Selchow near Schoenefeld south of Berlin May 20, 2014. The ILA runs from May 20 till 25

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Credit Suisse chairman Urs Rohner speaks a the Swiss Finance Forum in Bern May 20, 2014. Credit Suisse and the U.S. government announced that the bank had agreed to pay a $2.5 billion fine after pleading guilty to helping Americans evade taxes

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Dutch far-right Freedom Party (PVV) leader Geert Wilders cuts a star from the European Union flag during a demonstration in front of the EU Parliament in Brussels May 20, 2014. It was meant to be the campaign launch of a new Eurosceptic alliance, but the planned April 16 meeting starring France's Marine Le Pen and Dutchman Geert Wilders in Strasbourg, home of the European Parliament, never took place.

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A train conductor stands at a door of a damaged railway car at the site of train collision near the city of Naro-Fominsk outside Moscow Tuesday May 20, 2014. The Interior Ministry said the accident happened when several cars of a cargo train derailed and hit a passenger train near Naro-Fominsk, a town 50 kilometers (30 miles) southwest of Moscow

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A student or member of university staff tries to escape from a tear-gas-filled building, before being chased back inside by riot police, inside Nairobi University's main campus in downtown Nairobi, Kenya, Tuesday, May 20, 2014. Kenyan university students on Tuesday carried out demonstrations over a proposed increase in student fees, but the protests quickly turned into hours of running battles between students throwing rocks and security forces firing tear gas, before riot police chased the students inside their campus and cornered them in a building into which they fired dozens of tear gas grenades and for a while prevented anyone from leaving.

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A court in Egypt has sentenced former President Hosni Mubarak to three years in prison after finding him guilty of embezzling public funds. The 86-year-old is also on trial for abuse of power and conspiring in the killing of protesters during the 2011 uprising that forced him to resign

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The presidential election in Guinea-Bissau was won by Jose Mario Vaz (right) after votes were counted from Sunday's run-off, election officials say.

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