World News in Pictures

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William and Kate in Canada



Prince William and his wife Catherine, the Duchess of Cambridge look at the damage left after a forest fire in Slave Lake, Alberta July 6, 2011. The Royal couple made a side trip to visit the community that was 30 percent destroyed by the fire earlier this year.



Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, talks with six-year-old Riley Oldford before she boards a plane with her husband Prince William at Yellowknife airport July 6, 2011.

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Prince William checks the sharpness of a Canadian Ranger knife while with his wife Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, at Blatchford Lake, Northwest Territories

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A supporter holds a portrait of Ukraine's former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko during a session outside a court building in Kiev July 6, 2011. Tymoshenko on Wednesday denied attempted theft accusations against her as based on "fakes" as wrangling continued in her trial over earlier abuse of office charges.



A Tibetan child is seen as he sits behind Tibetan women dressed in traditional attire at a Tibetan school in Kathmandu July 6, 2011. The government prevented the Tibetan community in Kathmandu from celebrating the 76th birthday of exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, over fears of anti-Chinese protests.

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Construction workers Shawn Underwood (L) and Neil Hosick (R) walk behind the cement walkway at the Flight 93 National Memorial outside Shanksville, Pennsylvania July 6, 2011. The permanent memorial, will be dedicated this year on September 10, but will not be completed until 2014.



Protesters carrying a Kingdom of Libya flag attend a rally against Libya's leader Muammar Gaddafi in Misrata July 6, 2011.

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Britain's Prince Charles and his wife Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall attend a ceremony to mark the inauguration of a memorial to the British victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami at the Natural History Museum in London July 6, 2011.



Men work inside a coal yard as they clear coal from a railway track on the outskirts of the western Indian city of Ahmedabad July 6, 2011. Coal accounts for more than 60 percent of India's energy need.

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Veterans of the Chernobyl cleanup operation take part in a protest rally in the rain, against a government initiative to cut social benefits for "liquidators" or emergency workers who fought the blaze at the Chernobyl nuclear reactor, near the president's headquarters in Kiev July 6, 2011.



A member of the "Kud Ljud" performs the "Pink Virus" at the Lent festival in Maribor July 6, 2011. The festival, which will have about 5,000 participants taking part in about 500 events, lasts for 16 days.

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Palestinian relatives of militant Mohammed Abu Jazar mourn during his funeral in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip July 6, 2011. Israeli forces fired into the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, killing two gunmen from an al Qaeda-affiliated Palestinian faction, one of them Abu Jazar, who approached the boundary fence, medical officials and militant sources said.



Fans react as a solo home run ball hit by Boston Red Sox Kevin Youkilis off of Toronto Blue Jays starting pitcher Ricky Romero lands in the stands during the second inning of their MLB American League baseball game at Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts, July 6, 2011.

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Members of the group "Ens de nos" from Spain performs at the Lent festival in Maribor July 6, 2011. The festival, which will have about 5,000 participants taking part in about 500 events, lasts for 16 days.



A rebel fighter gives the victory sign as he passes a burning vehicle after the battle to seize control of the village of Al-Qawalish July 6, 2011.

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Air Show
An aerial shot on Wednesday shows a French Rafale jet, right, flying alongside a Mirage 2000-N plane above the Seine River in Paris during a rehearsal for the Bastille Day military parade, which is set for July 14.



Facebook Makes Big Announcement
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, here during a press event at the company's headquarters in Palo Alto, California, on Wednesday, said the social-networking site would offer free video calls through a partnership with Skype.

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Taking Cover in Sudan
During the day, women and children climb rocky hillsides near Kauda in central Sudan's Nuba Mountains to seek cover from government airstrikes. At night, they climb back down from the shelter.



A 4-year-old Somali girl struggles for breath after she and her family finally reached a refugee camp swelling with Somali refugees in Kenya on Wednesday.

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Veil of Tears
A Pakistani man weeps for a relative killed in political and ethnic violence in Karachi on Wednesday after yet another night of fighting that killed 24 people.



Working the Crowd
Britain's Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, greets the crowd on Wednesday during a visit to Slave Lake, Alberta, a city that was devastated by a fire earlier this year. She and Prince William are currently on a tour of Canada.

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They're Lovers, Not Fighters
Students smooch during a "Kiss Party" protest against the education system in Santiago, Chile, on Wednesday



Outta the Way!
A person runs during the San Fermin festival's running of the bulls -- an event made famous by Ernest Hemingway's 1926 novel The Sun Also Rises --

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Car Trouble
An Egyptian man breaks the windows of a car in Suez on Wednesday amid a violent demonstration after a court confirmed the bail of police accused of murdering protesters.



They Have Superfans Down There, Too
A Colombia fan cheers his team on before a match against Argentina during the Copa America soccer tournament on Wednesday in Santa Fe, Argentina.

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Casey Anthony Acquitted in Murder Trial
In Florida on Tuesday, attorney Dorothy Clay Sims, in the gray jacket, hugs her client Casey Anthony, who was found not guilty of murdering her daughter Caylee in a headline-grabbing trial. She was convicted on other lesser counts.



Battling the Flames
Firefighters work to extinguish a blaze near the city of Taillan in southwestern France on Tuesday.

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She's Got to Be a Basket of Nerves
A model presents a creation at the "Schau 11" show during Berlin Fashion Week in Germany on Tuesday.

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Thick black smoke billows from a warehouse that is on fire in Nanchang, east China's Jiangxi Province, July 5, 2011. A fire broke out at a warehouse where plastic products are stored in Nanchang around 6 p.m. on Tuesday

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Yingluck Shinawatra, leader of the Pheu Thai party which won the Thai parliamentary election, holds meetings with her economic team to map out a way to deliver billions of doollars of populist policies without fuelling inflation and pacify critics who fear a return of her powerful brother Thaksin in Bangkok, Thailand, July 6, 2011. (Xinhua/Rachen Sageamsak)

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Armed with 15 cameras, Scott Andrews, his son Philip Andrews and Stan Jirman teamed up to shoot and seamlessly combine a whopping 120,000 still images. The finished product is condensed into a 3-minute time-lapse video that makes the four-day process of preparing the shuttle for its trek to the launch pad look like a cakewalk.

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Supporters demanding a separate Telangana state carved out of the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh unleash buffaloes on police barricades during a protest in Hyderabad on Thursday, July 7. The government's indecision over whether to create a new state of Telangana risks causing more unrest if other regions demand autonomy, and has further exposed the ruling Congress party as divided and rudderless.

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Revelers are surprised by an angry leading ox, used to drive the fighting bulls during the running of the bulls at the San Fermin festival in Pamplona, Spain on July 7.



A 'mozo' or runner is turned round by a young bull at Pamplona's bullring after finishing the first run of the 2011 San Fermines festival on July 7.