Editor's Choice Picture of the Day - June 18, 2013
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A man reads a newspaper in the Royal Enclosure on the first day of the Royal Ascot horse racing festival at Ascot, southern England, June 18, 2013.
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A man reads a newspaper in the Royal Enclosure on the first day of the Royal Ascot horse racing festival at Ascot, southern England, June 18, 2013.
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Demonstrators wear "Free Pussy Riot" balaclavas as they protest at the security fence surrounding the G8 Summit at Lough Erne in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland June 17, 2013.
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A pretzel vendor walks in front of a line of Turkish police cordoning off Taksim Square, in Istanbul, Turkey, Sunday, June 16, 2013. Turkish riot police firing tear gas and water cannon took less than half an hour on Saturday to bring an end to an 18-day occupation at Taksim Square's Gezi Park. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
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People run as riot police fire a water cannon on Gezi Park protesters at Taksim Square in Istanbul on June 15, 2013. Turkish riot police stormed Gezi Park on Saturday firing tear gas and water cannons to evict hundreds of anti-government protesters, hours after an ultimatum was issued from Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan.
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An Iranian elderly lady raises up her ink-stained finger after voting in the first round of the presidential election at a polling station in Shah Abdolazim mausoleum, in southern Tehran, on June 14, 2013. The 10-hour voting period in Iran's presidential election is to be extended because of a "rush of voters," Interior Minister Mostafa Moammad Najar said.
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A house sits undamaged in the aftermath of the Black Forest Fire in Black Forest, Colorado June 13, 2013. Hundreds of firefighters made a determined stand on Thursday to stop the wildfire that has already destroyed some 360 homes from roaring into the outskirts of Colorado Springs after it billowed overnight into the most destructive blaze in state history.
A couple of demonstrators embrace each other as they are hounded by riot police during a student protest against the recent rise in public transportation fares in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on June 13, 2013.
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Palestinian boys take part in a military-style summer camp being held by the Islamic Jihad movement during the youngsters' summer school vacation in Rafah town, in the southern Gaza Strip, on June 12, 2013. Thousands of youngsters between the age of six and 16, can participate in the summer camp where they receive military as well as religious training.
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A protester pulls back the cord on a slingshot in Taksim square in Istanbul on June 11, 2013. Riot police re-entered Istanbul's protest square today, firing tear gas and rubber bullets at firework-hurling demonstrators in a fresh escalation of unrest after Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he would meet with protest leaders. Hundreds of police officers backed by armoured cars moved in on the square in the early morning, saying they wanted to remove makeshift barricades erected by protesters and clear the area of flags and banners.
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Hand crafted bones are laid out on the National Mall, June 10, 2013 in Washington, DC. The "One Million Bones" project collected one million handcafted bones to be laid out for three-days on the National Mall to raise awareness of ongoing genocide and mass atrocities in places Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan, Burma and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
