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Friday, September 7, 2012

PHOTOS OF THE DAY




A South Korean soldier participates in an anti-terror exercise as part of Ulchi Freedom Guardian at a subway station in Seoul, South Korea. South Korea and the United States have begun annual military drills that North Korea calls a precursor to war.


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Three white Indian tiger cubs were vaccinated, weighted and chipped during a veterinary examination in the Liberec Zoo in the Czech Republic. Two of them are male, one is female. They were born on July 1.




















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Government officials wearing gas masks evacuate a government complex during a civil defense drill against a North Korean attack as part of Ulchi Freedom Guardian exercises in Seoul, South Korea.




















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An man walks with his horse as monsoon clouds hover in Jammu, India.

Channi Anand/AP




















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People start the annual Lake Zurich crossing swimming event in Zurich, Switzerland.





















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A woman rows a small boat on a flood-affected street in the Kyune Kone township delta area in Myanmar. More than 700 villages and 200,000 acres of rice fields were flooded.

Soe Zeya Tun/Reuters




















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A Lebanese Sunni Muslim fighter carries a woman away from clashes in the Sunni Muslim neighbourhood of Bab al-Tebbaneh in Tripoli, northern Lebanon.

Omar Ibrahim/Reuters





















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Supporters applaud as Hong Kong fishing vessel Kai Fung No. 2, which went to the disputed Senkaku or Diaoyu islands, docks at a public pier at Hong Kong's Victoria Harbor. Anti-Japanese protests rocked Chinese cities on Sunday after nationalists from Japan landed on an East China Sea island at the heart of a territorial dispute between the two nations.

Bobby Yip/Reuters




















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Syrian girls hold their relative, Mohammed Mustafa, who was born five days ago in a school where his family took refuge in Kafar Hamra on the outskirts of Aleppo, Syria. The girls and their families fled their home in Anadan due to fighting between the rebels and the Syrian army.

Muhammed Muheisen/AP





















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Beach visitors of different sorts watch the sunset on Dauphin Island, Ala.

Dave Martin/AP




















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Louise Llewellyn pushes the wheelchair of her son Lee, as they arrive at the Olympic park to see the competition during the 2012 Paralympics in London.

Emilio Morenatti/AP




















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A rainbow is seen over the skyline after two days of heavy rainfall in Mumbai, India.

Manish Swarup/AP




















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A Hindu devotee performs evening rituals on the banks of the River Ganges in Allahabad, India. Allahabad, at the confluence of the rivers Ganges, Yamuna and the mythical Saraswati, is an important Hindu pilgrimage center.

Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP




















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A woman wearing a full veil (niqab) plays with her children at a public beach at Abu Qir in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria, Egypt.

Amr Abdallah Dalsh/Reuters




















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A Tasmanian devil cub tries to bite his way out of a small bag during an event marking the National Endangered Species Day in Sydney, Australia. The National Threatened Species Day is a community action and an education event aimed at highlighting vulnerable Australian animals and and what can be done in our daily lives to save them.

Rob Griffith/AP




















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A Belarus' Interior Ministry special forces soldier performs during a military show to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the formation of the unit in Minsk, Belarus.

Sergei Grits/AP




















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Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff stands in a vehicle during a civic-military parade commemorating Brazilian independence Day.

Ueslei Marcelino/Reuters




















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NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) spacecraft took this image showing the Sun being partially blocked by Earth. Twice a year, for three weeks near the equinox, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) moves into its eclipse season -- a time when Earth blocks its view of the sun for a period of time each day.

NASA/Reuters




















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Pengchia Islet, northeast of Taiwan in the East China Sea, is seen under the Taiwanese national flag after a visit by President Ma Ying-jeou. Ma used a high-profile visit to the Taiwan-controlled island to warn Japan against making any attempts to nationalize islands that are part of a disputed chain in the East China Sea.

Wally Santana/AP




















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A Syrian refugee looks at the camera while squatting next to his brothers by their tent at the Bab Al-Salam refugee camp in Azaz, near the Syrian-Turkish border.

Zain Karam/Reuters

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