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Through The Lens: Today in Pictures, May 29, 2014

Spectators watch as the Soyuz TMA-13M rocket is launched with Expedition 40 Soyuz Commander Maxim Suraev, of the Russian Federal Space Agency, Roscosmos, Flight Engineer Alexander Gerst, of the European Space Agency, ESA, and Flight Engineer Reid Wis — Spectators watch as the Soyuz TMA-13M rocket is launched with Expedition 40 Soyuz Commander Maxim Suraev, of the Russian Federal Space Agency, Roscosmos, Flight Engineer Alexander Gerst, of the European Space Agency, ESA, and Flight Engineer Reid Wiseman of NASA from the Cosmodrome Baikonur in Kazakhstan, in the early hours of 29 May 2014. They will spend the next five and a half months aboard the International Space Station. -- PHOTO: EPA

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May 29, 2014, 6:45 pm SGT

Rocket launch in Kazakhstan, protests in Jerusalem, casualties from fighting in South Sudan. These, and more pictures from around the world.

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