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e.jpg "A participant runs in the Color Run, a five-kilometre race in which the runners receive coloured powder to spray on each other, in Manaus in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon on May 19, 2013. An estimated 7,000 runners used blue, pink, orange and green powders as they ran in the second Color Run ever held in Brazil. -- PHOTO: REUTERS")
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e.jpg "Members of the Palestinian security forces take part in a training session in the West Bank city of Jericho on May 19, 2013. -- PHOTO: REUTERS")
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e.jpg "The peloton climbs during the 146km 15th stage of the Giro d'Italia, from Cesana to Col du Galibier on May 19, 2013. Italy's Giovanni Visconti won the stage while his compatriot Vincenzo Nibali retained the leader's pink jersey. -- PHOTO: REUTERS")
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e.jpg "People cycle on the tracks of Quito's Old Mariscal Sucre International Airport, in Tababela on May 19, 2013. Over a hundred thousand people have visited the former airport every weekend for sports and recreational activities ever since the city turned it into an 126-acres (51ha) long city park, Quito's mayor said. The old airport is now the biggest urban park in Quito after air transport operations shifted to a new airport two weeks ago. -- PHOTO: REUTERS")
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e.jpg "Participants wearing traditional Korean Hanbok costumes attend a traditional coming-of-age day ceremony at Namsangol Hanok Village in Seoul on May 20, 2013. The ceremony marks the entrance of boys and girls into adulthood at the age of 19, and reminds them of their individual responsibilities as young men and women. -- PHOTO: REUTERS")
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e.jpg "Marine One, with President President Barack Obama on board, prepares to land on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington on Sunday, May 19, 2013. Obama was returning after delivering the commencement address at Morehouse College earlier in the day in Atlanta. -- PHOTO: AP")
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e.jpg "Memphis Grizzlies' Mike Conley (right) crashes into San Antonio Spurs' Tony Parker of France, during the second half in Game One of a Western Conference Finals NBA basketball play-off series in San Antonio on Sunday, May 19, 2013. -- PHOTO: AP")
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e.jpg "A girl is raised as she listens to a mass during an event to celebrate the arrival of the World Youth Day cross in Icarai beach in Niteroi, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil on Sunday, May 19, 2013. Pope Francis will travel to Brazil and participate in World Youth Day events in July, 2013. -- PHOTO: AP")
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e.jpg "A horse cart drives through the water past fishing boats lining an oceanside beach, in Saint-Louis, Senegal on Sunday, May 19, 2013. Saint-Louis, once the capital of colonial French West Africa, is hosting the 21st edition of its annual Jazz Festival from May 15 to 19. -- PHOTO: AP")
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e.jpg "Graduate Leland Shelton (centre), is congratulated as he is acknowledged by President Barack Obama during the 129th commencement ceremony address at Morehouse College in Atlanta on Sunday, May 19, 2013. After a difficult childhood Shelton graduated Phi Beta Kappa and is on his way to Harvard Law School. -- PHOTO: AP")
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e.jpg "Ottawa Senators' Zack Smith (left), trips over Pittsburgh Penguins' Matt Niskanen during the first period of Game Four of their NHL Stanley Cup Eastern Conference semi-final NHL hockey series in Ottawa on Sunday, May 19, 2013. -- PHOTO: AP")
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e.jpg "A Cambodian woman stands with burning incense sticks as she visits a memorial holding skulls of the Khmer Rouge victims at Choeung Ek \"Killing Field\" in Phnom Penh, Cambodia on Monday, May 20, 2013. Cambodian Buddhist monks, nuns, civil servants, students attend the annual Day Of Anger events to remember the atrocities and killings committed under the Khmer Rouge's 1975-79 rule. -- PHOTO: AP")
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e.jpg "Members of a Chinese guard of honour rehearse before a welcome ceremony held outside the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Monday, May 20, 2013. -- PHOTO: AP")
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e.jpg "A wrecked truck is removed from the site of a car bomb attack in front of a crowded popular restaurant in Basra, 340 miles (550km) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq on Monday, May 20, 2013. Two car bombings in the southern city of Basra, killing and wounding dozens of people, police said. Iraq has seen a spike of attacks, including bombings hitting both Sunni and Shiite civilian targets over the last week. -- PHOTO: AP")
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e.jpg "A woman touches a wax figure of football superstar David Beckham at the Madame Tussauds Tokyo on Monday, May 20, 2013. -- PHOTO: AP")
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e.jpg "A group of Rohingya children play by a relief tent at Bawdupah's Internally Displaced People (IDP) camp on the outskirts of Sittwe on May 18, 2013. Myanmar's victims of sectarian strife were spared the full force of Cyclone Mahasen, but many are now returning to flimsy tents in flood-prone camps with the monsoon just weeks away. -- PHOTO: AFP")
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e.jpg "A Sri Lankan family ride a motorcycle through a downpour of heavy rain in Colombo on May 20, 2013. The Sri Lankan capital has been lashed by heavy rains causing major traffic jams throughout the city. -- PHOTO: AFP")
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e.jpg "Thai hostesses in traditional costumes welcomes heads of delegations at the 2nd Asia-Pacific water summit in Chiang Mai on May 20, 2013. Asia's flood-prone megacities should fund major drainage, water recycling and waste reduction projects to stem deluges and secure clean supply for their booming populations, experts said. -- PHOTO: AFP")
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e.jpg "An Indian policeman walks near Tibetan national flags during a protest prayer against the visit of Chinese Premier Li Keqiang by exile Tibetan demonstrators in New Delhi on May 20, 2013. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said he had agreed with his Chinese counterpart to make a new push to settle a long-running border row, pledging his commitment to \"peace and tranquillity\". -- PHOTO: AFP")
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e.jpg "Afghan schoolboys and a woman walk past a traditional oven factory in Herat on May 20, 2013. Some nine million Afghans or 36 percent of the population are living in \"absolute poverty\" while another 37 percent live barely above the poverty line, according to a UN report. -- PHOTO: AFP")
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