A pink ribbon to recognize breast cancer awareness is being hung on the north portico of the White House in Washington.
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A man is shown with baby pythons in small bags taped to his chest, at the Norwegian Customs office in Oslo. Norwegian customs announced today that they had arrested a man who tried to illegally import 14 pythons and 10 lizards by taping them to his body. The curious cargo was discovered during a body search after customs officers found a tarantula in his bags.
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The body of a victim is carried away from the blast scene after being killed in a suicide bombing in Baghdad, Iraq. A pair of suicide car bombings Sunday devastated the heart of Iraq’s capital in the country’s deadliest attack in more than two years.
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A Pakistani police commando searches an internally displaced Pakistani boy, fleeing from military operations against Taliban militants in South Waziristan, as he arrives at a relief distribution point in Dera Ismail Khan.
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A Pakistani worker arranges buckets to be distributed with other relief material to internally displaced Pakistani civilians fleeing from military operations against Taliban militants in South Waziristan. Pakistan launched a three pronged offensive in South Waziristan region near the Afghan border and the army says 178 militants and around two dozen troops have been killed since then as some 120,000 people have already fled the army offensive in the South Waziristan.
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Rescue teams retrieve the body of a person from a small apartment building that collapsed in Palma de Mallorca, Spain. The accident killed at least five people and injured two.
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An Indian policeman and a Kashmiri protester throw stones at each other during a protest in Srinagar. Indian police in Srinagar fired shots in the air and used tear gas to disperse dozens of protesters who were demonstrating against what they said was the custodial killing of 25-year-old Sajjad Ahmad Ganai by the Indian army in the Watergam village of northern Kashmir. The Indian army spokesman in Srinagar denied the charge and said that Ganai was killed when he attacked a soldier with an axe near a security camp.
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Bono of the rock band U2 performs during a concert at Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California.
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U.N. peacekeepers from Italy board a vessel during an anti-smuggling drill near Naqoura harbour, southern Lebanon. U.N. peacekeepers serving with the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) and Lebanese armed forces conducted a joint exercise aimed at testing command control procedures securing the coastline both on land and at sea.
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An Afghan Spandi burns seeds to drive away the evil eye in the early morning in Kabul, Afghanistan. Spandi is a person who walks around the neighborhood with a burring pot of wild seeds to sprinkle incense.
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Policemen stand silhouetted as they keep guard at a distribution point for internally displaced people (IDP), who were fleeing a military offensive in South Waziristan, in Dera Ismail Khan, located in Pakistan’s restive Northwest Frontier Province. About 150,000 people have fled their homes in South Waziristan but aid officials do not expect the exodus to become a humanitarian crisis, as did a similar offensive in the Swat valley this year.
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People sweep their ancestors’ graves during the Chung Yeung Festival at a cemetery in Hong Kong. Chung Yeung Festival is a day to respect and remember family ancestors in a ritual followed in the territory amongst the Chinese community.
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Two people set out in a boat at sunrise in the port of Kijang on the Indonesian island of Bintan.
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A man fills tanks with water coming from a mountain in Caracas. Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez, called for water conservation, saying low rainfall caused by the El Nino weather phenomenon meant water levels were critically low in the El Guri reservoir, one of the world’s largest dams.
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Youths play soccer in the Morro dos Macacos slum in Rio de Janeiro. Criminals drew international attention last week following bloody shootouts that left more than 40 people dead, just days after Rio was awarded the 2016 Olympic Games.
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