U.S. President Barack Obama, center, walks with the parents of Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl after making a statement about Bergdahl's release Saturday, May 31, at the White House in Washington. Bergdahl had been held captive in Afghanistan for nearly five years, and the Taliban released him in exchange for five U.S.-held prisoners.
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An egret preens itself Wednesday, June 4, as it stands on a branch along the Brahmaputra River in Gauhati, India.
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People try to escape from an Istanbul cafe after tear gas seeped into the building on Saturday, May 31. Outside, police fired tear gas and water cannons to disperse demonstrators looking to mark the one-year anniversary of mass protests in the Turkish capital.
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A man in Aleppo, Syria, holds an injured child at a site that activists say was bombed Tuesday, June 3, by forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Civil war still rages in the country more than three years after an uprising in March 2011.
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World War II veteran Jim Martin, 93, completes a tandem parachute jump on a beach in western France on Thursday, June 5, a day before the 70th anniversary of D-Day. D-Day was the largest seaborne invasion in history. More than 150,000 Allied troops -- about half of them Americans -- invaded Western Europe, overwhelming German forces in an operation that proved to be a turning point in World War II.
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A man in Hong Kong takes a picture with his cell phone as people hold up candles Wednesday, June 4, to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown in China. In 1989, after several weeks of demonstrations, Chinese troops entered Beijing's Tiananmen Square and fired on civilians.
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Britain's Prince Charles and his wife Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, reach toward a pageboy who fainted as Queen Elizabeth II, far right, delivers a speech to Parliament on Wednesday, June 4, in London. A House of Lords spokesman later said the boy was OK.
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A pro-Russian rebel fires a rocket-propelled grenade on the rooftop of an apartment building during clashes with Ukrainian troops Monday, June 2, on the outskirts of Luhansk, Ukraine. The fighting is intensifying in eastern Ukraine, where a large separatist movement has arisen following Russia's takeover of the Crimean peninsula.
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A grand piano sits by the East River, underneath the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City on Saturday, May 31. Locals aren't sure how it got there, and the mystery has inspired many to post pictures of it online. Did the piano wash ashore like that, perfectly upright? Or did someone place it there?
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Hand-painted models depict a lion's head Tuesday, June 3, in London's Carnaby Street. The Zoological Society of London was opening its first shop on the famous street, and the colorful display was part of a campaign to expose the plight of the endangered Asian lion.
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Briana Clarke, a student at Seattle Pacific University, cries as she talks on her phone at the scene of a shooting Thursday, June 5. A gunman entered the school's science and engineering building, shot three people and was reloading a shotgun when a student subdued him, Seattle police said.
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Flames and smoke rise from a residential area in Imperial, California, where a Marine jet crashed on Wednesday, June 4. The pilot, who was on a training flight, ejected safely and suffered only minor injuries, the Marines said. There were no reports of civilian injuries on the ground, but two homes were destroyed and one was severely damaged.
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A woman looks at a replica of Vincent van Gogh's severed ear Wednesday, June 4, at the ZKM museum in Karlsruhe, Germany. The ear is part of the "Sugababe" exhibition by Diemut Strebe. Strebe, who specializes in artwork using biological material, collaborated with scientists to reconstruct the legendary painter's ear using 3-D printers and DNA from one of van Gogh's relatives.
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Israeli soldiers in the West Bank town of Tulkarem detain a Palestinian who was protesting land expropriation on Saturday, May 31.
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A young boy wearing a military helmet poses with Thai soldiers as they block a road to prevent protests Friday, May 30, in Bangkok, Thailand. The Thai military carried out a coup on May 22 after months of unrest had destabilized the country's elected government and caused outbursts of deadly violence in Bangkok. But the sudden intervention has been criticized by human-rights activists and foreign governments.
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A woman and her dog walk through Gorliz Beach in Plentzia, Spain, on Friday, May 30. The piles of sand were brought to the beach in preparation for the swimming season, which started a couple of days later.
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U.S. soldiers transfer the remains of Army Pfc. Jacob H. Wykstra after arriving at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware on Sunday, June 1. Wykstra, a 21-year-old from Thornton, Colorado, died in an aircraft accident in Afghanistan.
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Supporters of Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah are seen through a broken window during a campaign event in Qala i Naw, Afghanistan, on Monday, June 2. The second round of the presidential election will take place on June 14.
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Bello Nock, a seventh-generation circus performer, sits on a chair 27 feet above New York's Times Square on Tuesday, June 3, as he sets an unusual record -- balancing on a wire while giving eight hours of continuous interviews.
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A young boy wheels his bicycle past a burning vehicle in Karachi, Pakistan, after Altaf Hussain, leader of one of Pakistan's most powerful regional parties, was arrested in London on Tuesday, June 3. Hussain, leader of Pakistan's Mutahida Qaumi Movement, was arrested in connection with a money laundering probe, officials of his party said. After news of the arrest, MQM called for protests in Karachi, which turned violent. The party condemned the violence.
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People decorated in body paint use sign language to communicate with each other Friday, May 30, during the International Fonambules Body Paint Festival in Mexico City. This year, the festival focused on language motifs.
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An official with the National Transportation Safety Board looks through the wreckage where a private plane crashed during takeoff Saturday, May 31, in Bedford, Massachusetts. Seven people were killed, including prominent businessman and philanthropist Lewis Katz.
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A man works at a metal factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on Thursday, June 5.
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A sick child is carried to her mother Saturday, May 31, at a village between Bambari and Grimari in the Central African Republic.
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A supporter of Raila Odinga, a former Kenyan prime minister, listens to Odinga speak Saturday, May 31, during a rally in Nairobi, Kenya. Odinga's political party is the Orange Democratic Movement.
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Kashmiri Muslims pray Friday, May 30, at the Hazratbal Shrine near Srinagar, India, as a head priest -- not in the picture -- displays a holy relic believed to be hair from the Prophet Mohammed's beard. Devotees flocked to the shrine for the Muslim festival Mehraj-ul-Alam, which is believed to mark Mohammed's ascension into heaven.
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Outside the shrine of Ayatollah Khomeini, on the outskirts of Tehran, Iran, women hold up their hands and pledge to offer their lives, if needed, for the Islamic Revolution on Wednesday, June 4. It was the 25th anniversary of Khomeini's death. Thousands of Iranians gathered to hear speeches to mark the event.
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The father of one of the two teenage girls who were raped and hanged in India's Katra village weeps at his home Saturday, May 31. At least five people have been arrested.
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A boy waves to a relative Thursday, June 5, as he boards a bus in Luhansk, Ukraine, to leave to a safer region. Pro-Russian separatists continue to battle Ukrainian troops in the country's east.
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Women flash three-finger signs at a shopping mall in Bangkok, Thailand, signaling their opposition to the country's recent military coup on Sunday, June 1. The fingers are said to stand for freedom, equality and brotherhood.
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Graeme Alexander, a keeper at the Blair Drummond Safari Park in Stirling, Scotland, passes a rhinoceros at the park Wednesday, June 4, as he trains for a Tough Mudder obstacle race.
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