World News in Pictures

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Shamyer Suddith, left, comforts Tasha Davis as Davis's residence burns on Elm Street in Troy, Ala., Monday, July 4. No injuries were reported in the blaze that destroyed the home

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Prison inmate Juan Ramirez Tijerina is curled inside a suitcase after he tried to escape from prison with the help of his girlfriend following a conjugal visit in Chetumal, Mexico, in this photo taken Saturday, July 2. Ramirez is serving a 20-year sentence for a 2007 conviction for illegal weapons possession. His girlfriend was arrested and charges are pending.

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Fireworks are launched from barges in the Hudson River in New York, Monday, July 4






Fireworks illuminate the night sky and are reflected in the Potomac River with the Washington Monument at right on Monday, July 4, in Washington, D.C.

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Clean up crews use an absorbent boom to collect oil from along side the Yellowstone River in Laurel, Mont., Monday July 4, 2011. An ExxonMobil pipeline near Laurel ruptured and spilled an estimated 1,000 barrels of crude into the Yellowstone.

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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez (C) embraces his daughters Maria (L) and Rosa at Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas on July 4. Chavez returned to Venezuela Monday after spending three weeks in Cuba, where he had a cancerous tumor extirpated.

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Expatriates and southern Sudanese celebrate the Fourth of July at the US consulate in the southern capital of Juba, Sudan on July 4, 2011. The American independence celebration comes just five days before southern Sudan declares its own independence from the north on July 9. The southern government said Monday that 30 African heads of state including Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir will travel to Juba for this weekend's celebrations

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Pittsburgh Pirates' Josh Harrison, left, collides with Houston Astros catcher Carlos Corporan and is tagged out attempting to score in the second inning of a baseball game in Pittsburgh on July 4. Harrison was attempting to score on a single to right field by Pirates' Alex Presley. Harrison was shaken up on the play, and left the game after playing another inning.

[Mr Lick]

Sorry guys, i am away from home and my internet connection is painfully slow. Will try again tomorrow

[spos86]

Hi Mr. Lick,

I really liked the pictures you posted from the Glade Dale tornado. I am writing a short story about for my church website. Do you mind if I use you pictures in the story?

Thanks!!!

[Mr Lick]

No problem spos86. good luck with your story

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A giant dust storm covers Phoenix, Ariz., late on July 5.

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Police try to arrest Bangladesh Nationalist Party chief whip and MP Jainul Abdin Farroque after they charged on a procession by the opposition MP with batons in front of the national parliamentary building in Dhaka on July 6. A nonstop 48-hour countrywide strike is underway Wednesday, and is part of their bid to oust Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina from power and force an early election.

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An emergency response crew hired by Exxon Mobil cleans up an oil spill along the Yellowstone River in Laurel, Montana on July 5. An Exxon Mobil pipeline ruptured on Friday night about 150 miles downstream from Yellowstone National Park near the town of Laurel, just southwest of Billings, dumping up to 1,000 barrels, or 42,000 gallons, of crude oil into the flood-swollen river

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A 3-D view created from NASA imagery shows the space shuttle Endeavour docked to the International Space Station during that shuttle's last mission in May.



This May 2010 photo released by NASA and provided by the Cape Cod Baseball League shows a baseball bearing the logo of the league as it floats in the cabin of the Space Shuttle Endeavour during its mission to the International Space Station. The ball was carried aboard the shuttle as one of the personal effects of its commander, U.S. Navy Capt. Mark Kelly, and will be placed on display at the Cape League's Hall of Fame and Museum, housed in the John F. Kennedy Hyannis Museum in Hyannis Mass

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Performers in historic costumes take part in a procession during the annual medieval festival, the Ommegang, in Brussels' Grand Place July 5. The Ommegang pageant is a re-enactment of celebrations marking the historical entry of Charles the Fifth, his son Don Philip, infant of Spain and Duke of Brabant, and his sisters, Eleanor of Austria, Queen of France and Mary of Hungary into Brussels in 1549.

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The Las Conchas fire near the town of Los Alamos is still smoldering the distance Sunday, July 4 on what was supposed to be a festive Fourth of July. Pictured in the foreground is a fire fighting helicopter grounded at the Los Alamos airport . There were no fireworks for this community on that night. Los Alamos, New Mexico



A worker of Cuba's National Aquarium performs with dolphins in Havana, Cuba, Tuesday, July 5. Since its opening in 1960 Cuba's National Aquarium promotes educational activities aiming to widespread knowledge about the sea and its resources.

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A Canadian Army crewman stands inside a CH-47 Chinook helicopter flying over Kandahar province in southern Afghanistan, July 5, 2011. Canada is winding up combat operations in Afghanistan and all combat troops will leave by the end of July, after nearly ten years fighting in Afghanistan.



Visitors look at water gushing from the section of the Xiaolangdi Reservoir on the Yellow River during a sand-washing operation in Jiyuan, Henan province July 5, 2011. The operation was conducted to clear out silt deposits in the water, China Daily said.

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Fans shelter themselves from rain, prior to the start of the fourth stage of the 2011 Tour de France.



Belgium's Philippe Gilbert rides under the rain in the 172.5 km fourth stage of the 2011 Tour de France cycling race between Lorient and Mur-de-Bretagne, western France, on Wednesday, July 5.

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A girl jogs through a lavender field near the Crimean city of Bakhchisaray, Ukraine, on Monday, July 4.

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People gather in front of a bus burnt by activists of Bangladesh nationalist Party (BNP) in Dhaka on Tuesday, July 5. At least five buses and a van have been set ablaze in Dhaka on the eve of the 48-hour countrywide strike called by the main opposition BNP and its ally Jamaat-e-Islami, a radical Islamist group. The strike is part of their bid to oust Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina from power and force an early election.

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Following decades of civil war, Southern Sudan is set to declare independence from the north on July 9. The Republic of South Sudan, as it will be named on Saturday, will be the world's 193rd country, the AP reported. In the southern capital, Juba, rehearsals for the independence ceremony are at an advanced stage. Let's just hope it doesn't rain on Saturday...

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A man crouches near the scene of a traffic accident in Xiantao, Hubei Province of China, July 4. A bus was hit by a truck and caught fire at Xiantao section of Suizhou-Yueyang freeway on Monday morning, killing 23 and injuring 29.

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Two boys look at the body of a humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) at Toluca beach, 50 km south from San Salvador, El Salvador on July 4.

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A firefighter uses a rope to rescue a group of 36 villagers stranded on a section of road which was destroyed by a mudslide in Yinxiu county, in southwest China's Sichuan province, on July 4. Summer downpours pummelled large swaths of south and central China in June. Chinese authorities said that 279 people died in natural disasters in June and another 93 had gone missing, as the country was hit by floods, mudslides and earthquakes.

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Somali refugees wait in line to recieve aid at a food distribution point at Dadaab refugee camp, Kenya, on July 4.



Sarura Ali covers her eyes from dust as she stands with her six children outside a food distribution point in the Dadaab refugee camp on July 5. Sarura, her husband and their children arrived at the camp early on July 5 after having trekked for eight days from their home in Sakow, Somalia.