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Photos of the day Mount Sinabung erupts, Soyuz launch, Prince Charles and Camilla in India, Jordan River baptism and more.
Nov. 5, 2013
Mount Sinabung erupts and throws hot smoke into the air in Karo, North Sumatra, Indonesia. Hundreds of residents have been evacuated to safer areas as the volcano erupted anew Tuesday following September activity.
Ade Sinuhaji
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AFP/Getty Images
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Students take part in morning exercises at a school in the village of Berastepu, Indonesia, as Mount Sinabung spews ash in the background. Thousands of residents were in temporary shelters, fearful of more volcanic activity. Mount Sinabung's eruption Tuesday lasted about 20 minutes and sent volcanic ash 9,800 feet into the sky from its crater, authorities said.
Tarmizy Harva
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Reuters
Nov. 6, 2013
A student walks on a road covered with volcanic ash in Tiga Nderket, North Sumatra, Indonesia. Authorities said that as of Thursday, there had been no casualties. They recommended that people not be within 1.9 miles of the crater.
Binsar Bakkara
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AP
Nov. 6, 2013
Participants fire their infantry and assault rifles during the traditional Ruetlischiessen (Ruetli shooting) competition at the Ruetli meadow in central Switzerland. About 1,150 people took part in the annual shooting event, a tradition since 1860.
Arnd Wiegmann
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Reuters
Nov. 6, 2013
Shooters watch referees checking the targets at the traditional Ruetlischiessen (Ruetli shooting) competition at the Ruetli meadow in central Switzerland.
Arnd Wiegmann
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Reuters
Nov. 6, 2013
Horse riders perform with guns to celebrate the 38th anniversary of the now-famous Green March near city of Fes, Morocco. In 1975, 350,000 Moroccans took part in the Green March, a nonviolent demonstration that forced Spain to relinquish control of the now-disputed Western Sahara.
Youssef Boudlal
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Reuters
Nov. 7, 2013
People take photos as Russia's Soyuz TMA-11M spacecraft — carrying a crew including Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata, Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin and U.S astronaut Rick Mastracchio, as well as an unlit Olympic torch for the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi — blasts off from the Russian-leased Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Two astronauts will take the unlit torch on a space walk Saturday before it returns back to Earth on Monday.
Kirill Kudryavtsev
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AFP/Getty Images
Nov. 7, 2013
The Soyuz spacecraft prepares to dock with the international space station in this image taken from video. A three-man crew successfully blasted off into space with the Olympic torch on Thursday, ready to take it on its first space walk in what they said would be a "spectacular" showcase for the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi, Russia.
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NASA TV via Reuters
The Galactic supernova remnant 3C 397 (also known as G41.1-0.3) is seen in this undated NASA photo released Wednesday. Researchers think its boxlike appearance is produced as the heated remains of the exploded star — detected by Chandra in X-rays (purple) — runs into cooler gas surrounding it.
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NASA via Reuters
Nov. 7, 2013
Junior high school students cheer seniors taking a college entrance exam outside a high school in Seoul. South Korea has rescheduled flights and imposed traffic and noise restrictions as 650,000 students take the test.
Jung Yeon-je
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AFP/Getty Images
Nov. 6, 2013
Wang Jinxiang, center, the mother of Chinese political dissident Chen Guangcheng, hugs her family members after arriving at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York. Chen, a legal advocate who campaigned against forced abortions, made headlines last year when he escaped house arrest and found refuge at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing. Wang flew to the United States with her eldest son to meet up with Chen.
Carlo AllegrI
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Reuters
Nov. 6, 2013
Britain's Prince Charles, second from right, and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, center, attend a Hindu ceremony at a temple on the banks of the Ganges River in Rishikesh, India. The royal couple is on a nine-day visit to India, which is their third official visit to the country together.
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European Pressphoto Agency
Nov. 7, 2013
Prince Charles meets troops during a visit to the Indian Military Academy in Dehradun during Day 2 of an official visit to India.
Chris Jackson
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Getty Images
Nov. 7, 2013
Students salute at a monument of Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin at Independence Square in Minsk, Belarus. Several dozen people gathered in Minsk to mark Revolution Day, the holiday commemorating the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution.
Vasily Fedosenko
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Reuters
Nov. 7, 2013
Russian soldiers in historical winter uniforms with skis march during a military parade on Red Square in Moscow. The event marked the 72nd anniversary of a parade in 1941, when Soviet soldiers marched through the square to the front lines of World War II.
Maxim Shipenkov
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European Pressphoto Agency
Nov. 7, 2013
Kyrgyz Communist Party supporters hold red flags and portraits of Lenin in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan during a rally to mark the 96th anniversary of Russia's Bolshevik Revolution.
Vyacheslav Oseledko
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AFP/Getty Images
Nov. 7, 2013
Relatives of missing garment workers mourn at a mass graveyard where the unidentified victims of the Rana Plaza building collapse were buried, in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The National Forensic DNA Profiling Laboratory announced Monday that the identities of 157 people, out of 322 unidentified victims, have been ascertained through DNA tests, local media reported.
Andrew Biraj
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Reuters
Nov. 6, 2013
Christian pilgrims from the United States form a circle as they dip in the water of the Jordan River during a ceremony at the Yardenit baptismal site near the northern Israeli city of Tiberias. Yardenit is one of the sites along the river where it is believed Jesus was baptized.
Nir Elias
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Reuters
Nov. 6, 2013
Super Boat Extreme class boats make a turn during the first of three race days at the Key West World Championships in Key West, Fla. More than 40 high-speed powerboats from the United States and other countries are entered in the annual competition.
Andy Newman
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Florida Keys News Bureau via Reuters
Nov. 6, 2013
A 3-month-old Sumatran tiger cub named Bandar shows his displeasure after being dunked in the tiger exhibit moat for a swim reliability test at the National Zoo in Washington. All cubs born at the zoo must take a swim test before being allowed to roam in the exhibit. Bandar passed the challenge.
Manuel Balce Ceneta
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AP
Nov. 7, 2013
An animal keeper rounds up flamingos at the Zoom Erlebniswelt zoo in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. The birds must leave their artificial lake for winter.
Roland Weihrauch
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Euroepean Pressphoto Agency
Nov. 5, 2013
A farmer looks at scarecrows made in the images of animals and the Chinese god of longevity on a rice field in Yongjia county, in China's Zhejiang province. Artists created the straw sculptures in an effort to attract tourists to the region.
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AP
Nov. 7, 2013
An ex-soldier places a poppy at the field of remembrance at Westminster Abbey in London on Britian’s “Poppy Day.” The red poppy is a symbol of remembrance and is displayed to remember the men and women who have given their lives or been injured in the line of duty.
Danny E. Martindale
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Getty Images
Nov. 7, 2013
Britain's Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, left, and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, second from right, join actress Barbara Windsor, right, in a public bus in London. The royal couple surprised commuters as they traveled on a 1960s Routemaster bus to High Street Kensington station to meet military personnel and volunteers supporting Poppy Day.
Carl Court
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PA Wire via European Pressphoto Agency
Nov. 7, 2013
The honor guard of the HMS Daring, adorning their sailor caps with Flanders poppies, stand at ease during a remembrance service at Singapore's Kranji War Memorial.
Edgar Su
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Reuters
Nov. 6, 2013
A giant Christmas tree stands in the middle of the Galeries Lafayette department store in Paris.
Charles Platiau
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Reuters
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