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The Lady Boys of Bangkok prepare backstage for their cabaret show during the Edinburgh Fringe Festival on Tuesday in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Members of the punk band Pussy Riot (from left) Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Maria Alyokhina and Yekaterina Samutsevich sit inside a glass enclosure during a court hearing in Moscow on Wednesday. They were charged with hooliganism for staging a "punk prayer" against Russian President Vladimir Putin.

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Floodwaters swamp houses in Bulacan province north of Manila in the Philippines on Wednesday. Emergency workers and troops rushed food, water and clothes to nearly 850,000 people displaced and marooned by floods spawned by 11 straight days of southwest monsoon rains.

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A Syrian refugee girl bathes her brother on Wednesday at the Al Zaatri refugee camp in the Jordanian city of Mafraq. The camp is one of many set up along the 53-mile border between Jordan and Syria under the management of the United Nations refugee agency.

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A protester shouts slogans during a demonstration Wednesday outside the Sanaa house of Yemeni President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi. Hadi is restructuring the military in hopes of stabilizing the restive country.

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A pedestrian in a raincoat squats at the Bund near the Huangpu River amid strong winds and heavy rainfall as Typhoon Haikui hit Shanghai, China, on Wednesday. Nearly 2 million people were evacuated and hundreds of flights were canceled.


