A boy held on to a hen as a member of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia frisked another man at a checkpoint at the entrance to San Isidro, Colombia, Wednesday, May 30.
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An Israeli soldier scuffles with a Palestinian farmer as villagers are prevented from working on their lands in the West Bank village of Tuqua, east of Bethlehem, near the Jewish settlement of Tekoa on May 30, 2012. Palestinians need permission from Israeli authorities in order to be able to access their own lands located near Jewish settlements.
A boy pushed a wheel along the Naderkhan hill in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, May 30, 2012.
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A Syrian woman, cries as she carries her injured son who was shot in his hand by the Syrian border guard when they were crossing a river from Syria to Lebanon, at the northern Lebanese-Syrian border town of Wadi Khaled, in Akkar, north Lebanon, Wednesday, May 30. U.N. observers have discovered 13 bound corpses in eastern Syria, many of them apparently shot execution-style, the monitoring mission said Wednesday. The announcement comes days after a massacre in Houla, in the central Homs province, which killed more than 100 people and prompted worldwide condemnation against the regime of President Bashar Assad.
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A mahout crosses a busy road with his elephant in New Delhi, India, May 30, 2012.
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A child peaks out from between a group of women as refugees from northern Mali wait for treatment at a refugee camp in Niger, May 29, 2012. Thousands have people have fled Mali to neighbouring countries following conflict over the formation of a breakaway state.
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An Indian mahout washes his elephant in the Yamuna river in New Delhi on May 29.
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Women and girls dressed in traditional “Gailtaler” costumes are pictured during village celebrations in Feistritz an der Gail, in the Austrian province of Carinthia, May 28, 2012. The annual celebrations are centered around an alpine farming custom called “Kufenstechen” which, according to the first written records, dates back to 1630. In turn the unmarried young men ride bareback on Noriker horses, beating a wooden barrel with an iron club until the last wooden splinter has fallen down, followed by a dance “under the lime trees” with the unmarried women.
A woman holds her malnourished child at a therapeutic feeding center at al-Sabyeen hospital in Sanaa, Yemen, May 28, 2012. Yemen is facing a food crisis of “catastrophic proportions”, with almost half the population going hungry and a third of children in some areas severely malnourished, aid agencies have warned.
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An Afghan labourer takes a nap at a shop in Kabul, on May 27, 2012.
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Protesters shout during a demonstration against presidential candidates Mohamed Mursi and Ahmed Shafiq at Tahrir Square in Cairo May 28, 2012. Egypt will hold a run-off next month in its first truly contested presidential election in which the Muslim Brotherhood’s Mursi will face Shafiq, the last prime minister of deposed leader Hosni Mubarak.
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A woman lies on the floor of her home, a tent provided by the United Nations’ refugee agency, UNHCR, in Mbera refugee camp, Mauritania, May 23, 2012. Mbera, a refugee camp set up for people fleeing violence in northern Mali, is home to more than 64,000 people, according to the United Nations’ refugee agency UNHCR. While most live in UNHCR-donated tents, hundreds of families living outside the official camp grounds reside in informal structures built by whatever materials they can find, including sticks, blankets, towels and empty cement bags.
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Anti-war protesters gather outside The Royal Courts of Justice as former Prime Minister Tony Blair started to give evidence to the Leveson Inquiry on May 28, 2012 in London, England. Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair was accused of being “a war criminal” by a heckler who burst into a court room during his testimony at a UK inquiry into media ethics Monday. The protester shouted for Blair to be arrested - shortly before he was himself bundled away by security staff.
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Coal shop workers take a break in Rangoon, Burma on May 27, 2012.
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A Lesotho man walks to the polling station at the Mpho primary school in Maseru, Lesotho, May 26.
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