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US Secretary of State John Kerry (C) brings Israeli Justice Minister Tzipi Livni (R) and chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat together for a handshake as they conclude a press conference after Middle East peace talks, at the State Department, in Washington DC, USA. Negotiators for Israelis and Palestinians will meet again in the region within two weeks to continue peace talks
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A child enjoys a fountain shortly before a thunderstorm in Bucharest, Romania. Southern Romania is affected by a massive heatwave with temperatures of up to 40 Centigrade (104 Fahrenheit) in some areas.
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Egyptians supporting ousted president Mohamed Morsi walk across the bridge during their protest in Nasr city in Cairo
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Signed out: New York mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner is surrounded by opposing candidate signs as he speaks to the media after a candidate forum on small business, in the Inwood section of the borough of Manhattan, in New York. Weiner plunged to fourth place among Democrats in a poll taken since he admitted to having illicit online exchanges with women even after he resigned from Congress amid a sexting scandal.
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Revelers wait for the start of the Carnival of Flowers celebrations in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
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A man dressed as Haitian national hero Jean-Jacques Dessalines lies in a coffin during a performance at the Carnival of Flowers.
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A smuggled leopard skin is burnt by Indian officials and activists in Mumbai. Other poached items include tiger skins and bones which are highly prized in traditional Chinese medicine
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The Royal Observatory Greenwich has announced the shortlist for the 2013 Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition. Here is Rogelio Bernal Andreo's entry of 'A Flawless Point': the Milky Way arching over Yosemite Valley in California’s famous national park. See more of the shortlisted images in the gallery here
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The British entry for the clipper round the world yacht race is displayed in Trafalgar Square in London, England. The 70ft long Clipper named 'Great Britain' will compete in the world's longest ocean race which begins in September from St Katharine Docks in London.
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Four friends of Bagno a Ripoli, Florence, have built an aerostatic baloon and sent it up to 32.000 kms into the atmosphere, with Florence flag and a toy astronaut
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The Prince of Wales holds a bald eagle called Zephyr during a visit to the 132nd Sandringham Flower Show at Sandringham House
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Natalie Hind, daughter of singer Chrissie, is arrested by police after chaining herself to the gate to the Fracking site with fellow protestor Simon Medhurst to who she is glued at the hands in the village of Balcombe, West Sussex.
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Pakistani trucks carrying NATO and US military vehicles cross the Quetta Chaman highway at Kojak Pass border area after leaving the southern Afghanistan in Chaman, Pakistan. The trucks head to the port of Karachi, Pakistan as the pullout continues, ending a NATO/USA decade-long military combat involvement in Afghanistan by the end of 2014. There are approximately 60,000 American troops in Afghanistan at present
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The new Clipper racing yacht, Great Britain, travels from Southampton on the M25 motorway en-route the Trafalgar Square in Central London
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A cloud seeding rocket is launched to ease the heatwave in Hangzhou city, Zhejiang province. A summer heatwave sweeping China has brought high temperatures over 35 degrees Celsius, triggering a level two emergency response to heat from the China Meteorological Administration
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A steel worker stands near a pile of guns to be melted at the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department's 20th annual Gun Melt in Rancho Cucamonga, California. According to press releases from the sheriff's office, 5,495 weapons confiscated from criminals in Los Angeles County and collected through a gun buyback program are being melted and reformed as steel rebar at the mill.
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Indigenous soldiers from Australia's North West Mobile Force (NORFORCE) unit, walk through thick bushland during a surveillance and reconnaissance patrol around Astell Island, part of the English Company Islands, located inside Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory. NORFORCE is a surveillance unit that employs ancient Aboriginal skills to help in the seemingly impossible task of patrolling the country's vast northwest coast. NORFORCE's area of operations is about 1.8 million square km (700,000 square miles), covering the Northern Territory and the north of Western Australia. Aboriginal reservists make up a large proportion of the 600-strong unit, and bring to bear their knowledge of the land and the food it can provide. Fish, shellfish, turtle eggs and even insects supplement rations during the patrol, which is on the lookout for illegal foreign fishing vessels and drug smugglers, as well as people smugglers from neighbouring Indonesia.
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Engineered Arts design and production engineer Marcus Hold works on a nearly completed RoboThespian robot in Penryn, England. The Cornish company, operating from an industrial unit near Falmouth, is the world's only maker of commercially available life sized humanoid robots. Now in its third generation, the fully interactive and multilingual RoboThespian robot is sold around the world to science centres and visitor attractions, but increasingly to academic research groups and universities where they are used as research and development platforms.
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A Hindu sadhu - holy man - smears coloured paste onto his body at the Pashupatinath Temple in Kathmandu. Dozens of sadhus live around the temple devoting their life to Lord Shiva, the Hindu god of destruction.
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A baby elephant entertains herself with this rock at Moscow Zoo, Russia.
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Fireworks explode over the 'Croisette' during the 'Pyrotechnic Art Festival' in Cannes, southeastern France
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A diver performs with sardines as part of summer vacation events at an Coex Aquarium in Seoul, South Korea
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A Skopje City zoo employee, unseen, sprays Buco the hippopotamus with a hose to cool him down, as the temperature exceeds 40 degrees Celsius in Macedonia's capital Skopje.
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A passenger ferry navigates past the Sydney Opera House, as a rainbow is seen in the sky, on a sunny winter afternoon in central Sydney. Sydney has experienced one of the warmest Julys on record with average daytime temperature of more than 19 degrees Celsius (66 degrees Fahrenheit).
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Indian devotees, carrying the Adi Krithikai 'kavadi' or 'burdens' chanting 'Haro Hara' as they walk on people, in Bangalore, India. Hundreds of Kavadis, decorated with flowers, turmeric, shave their heads and others undergoing extreme penance impale their skin, tongue and cheeks with a miniature vel (the deity's weapon) dance to local music in the processions and go to Lord Murgan temples. This festival is celebrated by mostly the Tamil community all over the world.
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A Free Syrian Army fighter takes aims as he sits on a chair in Aleppo's Salaheddine neighbourhood
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Supporters of Egypt's ousted President Mohammed Morsi hold sticks and wear protective gear during a march in Nasr City. The European Union's top diplomat said after meeting with Morsi that he is well, and that she urged all those she met with on the need to move forward peacefully following his ouster nearly a month ago. It was Mr Morsi's first contact with the outside world since he was toppled in a military coup on July 3.
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A child has died and 17 people have been injured after a burst water main flooded the Campo Grande neighbourhood in Rio de Janeiro. Three-year-old Isabela Severo dos Santos was taken to the hospital but did not survive after swallowing large amounts of water.
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Bradley Manning protests
Bradley Manning was found not guilty of aiding the enemy, the most serious charge he faced for handing over documents to WikiLeaks, but was convicted of most of the other criminal counts against him. The convictions were condemned by human rights campaigners, and there were protests by some of Manning's supporters before and after the verdict
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Eight-metres in diameter, weighing in excess of 300 kg and made of over 700 component parts, Conrad Shawcross stands beneath his new installation at the Roundhouse in Camden, London. He has transformed the former steam engine repair shed into a giant clock. Light-tipped second, minute and hour arms cast light and shadow throughout the space, turning viewers into their own sundials. Timepiece is part of Bloomberg's Summer at the Roundhouse, which includes special events by leading performers and musicians such as Wayne McGregor, Siobhan Davie, and the London Contemporary Orchestra, who will each respond to Shawcross's installation
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A group of hamadryas baboons exhibit strange behavior in their enclosure at Emmen Zoo in the Netherlands. The keepers have no idea why they all sit close together in one area of their enclosure, staring into space. A few years back the same group of baboons displayed similar mass apathy
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Demonstrations continue outside the entrance of a drill site operated by Cuadrilla Resources Ltd in Balcombe, southern England. Here Natalie Hynde, daughter of Chrissie Hynde, is detained by police after glueing herself to her friend Simon Medhurst. Protestors fear that Cuadrilla will use the controversial method of hydraulic fracturing or 'fracking' of oil and gas from underground shale rock. Cuadrilla has said it plans to conduct exploratory drilling in a temporary operation which will not include hydraulic fracturing
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It's health check day at Chester Zoo in England when keepers and vets monitor their young charges. Here a cheetah cub is checked.
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A woman takes a rest from the heat outside as she enjoys the air conditioning at a furniture store in Shanghai.
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Sam Rainsy, Leader of the Opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party, greets his supporters at their party's headquarter in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Cambodian opposition leader Sam Rainsy rejected the results of the weekend's elections, calling for an international committee to investigate the ballot.
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A demonstrator of the group called Black Bloc is detained by a military policeman during a protest against Sao Paulo State Governor Geraldo Alckmin, in Sao Paulo July 30, 2013.
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An ethnic Cham Muslim woman holds her child on their boat on banks of Mekong river in Phnom Penh July 27, 2013. About 100 ethnic Cham families, made up of nomads and fishermen without houses or land who arrived at the Cambodian capital in search of better lives, live on their small boats on a peninsula where the Mekong and Tonle Sap rivers meet, just opposite the city's centre. The community has been forced to move several times from their locations in Phnom Penh as the land becomes more valuable. They fear that their current home, just behind a new luxurious hotel under construction at the Chroy Changva district is only temporary and that they would have to move again soon
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Syrians refugees try to enter a truck which will transport them back to their homeland at the Al-Zaatri refugee camp in the Jordanian city of Mafraq, near the border with Syria July 30, 2013.
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Thousands of exploded propane cylinders litter the storage yard of a propane plant following massive explosions overnight in the plant's yard, in Tavares, Florida, July 30, 2013. Dozens of explosions rocked a propane tank servicing plant in central Florida, northwest of Orlando, late on Monday, injuring seven workers, at least three critically, and prompting the evacuation of nearby homes, authorities said
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Residents run through smoke rises after what activists said was an air raid by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in the Duma neighborhood of Damascus July 30, 2013.
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Two men dressed in costumes of characters from the computer game 'Angry Birds' 'Star Wars' edition, sit in the recreation area of the Star Wars Convention Europe, in the western German city of Essen July 26, 2013. Star Wars fans from all over the world met over the weekend to jointly celebrate their passion for the science fiction movie series Star Wars by U.S. director George Lucas.
