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Aboriginal art, tattoos, Rolling Stones exhibit, Irish nationalists and more in the day in photos News and feature images from around the world.
July 12, 2012
People talk about the painting “Minna Minna” by Lady Gordon Napanangka of Australia in the exhibition “Pro Community Warlayirti Artists — Aboriginal Art of Balgo Hills” during the media preview in Leipzig, Germany.
Jens Meyer
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July 12, 2012
A woman admires the painting “Kukatja” of Helecopter Tjungurrayi of Australia, in the exhibition “Pro Community Warlayirti Artists — Aboriginal Art of Balgo Hills” in Leipzig. Warlayirti Artists of Balgo Hills is the third major Australian art center, with Papunya Tula Artists and Warlukurlangu Artists, to promote the artwork of Australia’s aboriginal people since the late 1980s. The Leipzig exhibition runs through Aug. 26.
Jens Meyer
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AP
July 2, 2012
Dancer Tim Bishop, center, performs during the opening of NAIDOC Week in Sydney.
Greg Wood
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AFP/Getty Images
July 2, 2012
Dancers from the Jannawi Dance group perform during the opening of NAIDOC Week in Sydney. The festivities organized by the National Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance Committee are held across Australia each July, celebrating the history, culture and achievements of aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
Greg Wood
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AFP/Getty Images
July 12, 2012.
The tattooed leg of a man is pictured during Mula Fest, a street art festival, in Madrid.
Dominique Faget
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AFP/Getty Images
July 12, 2012
French tattooist Chime applies a tattoo during Mula Fest.
Dominique Faget
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AFP/Getty Images
July 12, 2012
Gonzalo Basile, bodyguard of union leader Hugo Moyano, laughs as he attends a labor union meeting in Buenos Aires during which Moyano was reelected as general secretary of Argentina’s General Labor Confederation. Moyano, who was once a close ally of Argentinian President Cristina Fernandez and her late husband, former president Nestor Kirchner, has clashed recently with Fernandez. The tattoo reads in Spanish “My family is sacred.”
Natacha Pisarenko
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AP
July 13, 2012
An employee poses next to photographs of the Rolling Stones during a preview for an exhibition, “The Rolling Stones: 50” at Somerset House in central London. The exhibition celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Rolling Stones and runs through Aug. 27.
Carl Court
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AFP/Getty Images
July 12, 2012
Nationalist rioters clash with police in the Ardoyne area of North Belfast, Northern Ireland. Trouble broke out after an Orange Order march passed through the area. The Twelfth of July is the busiest day of the marching season in Northern Ireland, with thousands of Ulsterites partaking, often resulting in clashes with Irish nationalists. The Orange Order holds its main Belfast event, which commemorates King William III's 1690 Battle of the Boyne victory over Catholic King James II.
Peter Morrison
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AP
July 12, 2012
An animal rights activist carries a dead duck as part of a protest against cruelty to farm animals in front of the regional agriculture counselling office in Barcelona.
Albert Gea
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Reuters
July 12, 2012
A baby gorilla lays on its mother Rebecca at the zoo in Frankfurt, Germany. The baby gorilla, born July 10, is still nameless.
Fredrik von Erichsen
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AFP/Getty Images
July 12, 2012
A South African scientist in Johannesburg shows the tooth hidden in a rock that was excavated from an archeological site three years ago. The remains of a juvenile hominid skeleton, of the new Australopithecus (southern ape) sediba species, are the “most complete early human ancestor skeleton ever discovered.”
Alexander Joe
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AFP/Getty Images
July 12, 2012
An Army team moves a transfer case containing the remains of Pfc. Alejandro J. Pardo at Dover Air Force Base, Del. According to the Department of Defense, Pardo, 21, of Porterville, Calif., died July 8 of wounds sustained when enemy forces attacked his unit with an improvised explosive device in Maidan Shahr in Afghanistan’s Wardak province.
Steve Ruark
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AP
July 12, 2012
This photo released by the Kumamoto Fire Department is an aerial view of a residential area affected by a landslide triggered by torrential rain at Aso on Japan's southern island of Kyushu. Southwestern Japan was bracing for more torrential rain in addition to “unprecedented” downpours that left at least 19 people dead and eight missing as whole neighborhoods were swamped.
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JiJi Press via AFP/Getty Images
July 12, 2012
Residential streets are submerged after a river overflowed its banks in Kumamoto on Japan's southern island of Kyushu. Heavy rains hit southern Japan, triggering flashfloods, mudslides and destroying dozens of homes.
Masanobu Nakatsukasa
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Yomiuri Shimbun via AP
July 12, 2012
President Obama addresses the NAACP annual convention in Houston via video message. Vice President Biden spoke in-person at the convention.
Richard Carson
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Reuters
July 12, 2012
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates attends the Allen & Co. Media Conference in Sun Valley, Idaho.
Jim Urquhart
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Reuters
July 12, 2012
A fan attends Comic-Con International 2012 at the San Diego Convention Center.
Frazer Harrison
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Getty Images
July 12, 2012
A rebel fighter rides on a motorcycle in Karambi, Democratic Republic of Congo, near the border with Uganda. Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda and neighboring states are calling for the creation of an international military force to eliminate armed rebels in turbulent eastern Congo.
James Akena
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Reuters
July 13, 2012
A handout picture released by the Syrian opposition's Shaam News Network purports to show destruction in Homs. The information cannot be verified because the Syrian government is not allowing access to the media.
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AFP/Getty Images
July 12, 2012
Erik Peitersen, left, and Kaare Wad, members of the Danish Bunker Love Association, paint a pair of bunkers named Sperbatterie North MKB 4/509 on Furreby beach, at Lokken in Denmark’s Northern Jutland. The association will host the opening of an exhibition at Lokken Beach on Sunday, where the bunkers, some of them painted in gold by artist Erik Pietersen, are turned into artworks. The association wants to turn 14,000 bunkers from France's southern coast to northern Norway into artwork.
Henning Bagger
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Scanpix via Reuters
July 12, 2012
A journalist crawls in a cross-border tunnel located by the Mexican army at a warehouse in Tijuana, Mexico. The army located the tunnel, running 383 yards into California, and seized about 50 tons of marijuana, local media reported. The newly discovered tunnel was still under construction but had ventilation and lighting.
Jorge Duenes
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For Reuters
July 12, 2012
A Russian soldier burns wild cannabis during a raid near the settlement of Yemelianovo, outside Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk.
Ilya Naymushin
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Reuters
July 12, 2012
Dates are displayed during the eighth round of the Liwa Date Festival, at the western region of Liwa in the United Arab Emirates. The annual date festival runs through July 18, with prizes totalling $1.15 million for the dates, which will be judged based on their weight and quality as well as the overall hygiene of their farms.
Jumana El Heloueh
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Reuters
July 12, 2012
A man performing as a “kiliki,” or big head, looks on during the giants and big heads parade of the San Fermin festival, in Pamplona, Spain.
Daniel Ochoa de Olza
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AP
July 12, 2012
This color-enhanced image provided by NASA shows a solar flare, lower center, erupting from the Sun. Space weather scientists said there should be little impact to Earth. The flare erupted from a region which rotated into view on July 6.
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AP
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