May 7 Photo Brief: Explosion in Mexico, Victory Day in Russia, and a reunion in Cleveland
Explosion in Mexico, Victory Day in Russia, a reunion in Cleveland and more in today’s daily brief.
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- Burned cars are pictured in a highway in Ecatepec near Mexico city. A gas tanker exploded in a Mexico City suburb on Tuesday, killing at least 18 people and damaging several homes and cars, an official said. (Victor Rojas/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Firefighters try to extinguish a fire caused by the explosion of a gas tanker truck in San Pedro Xalostoc, on the outskirts of Mexico City. A gas tanker truck exploded on a highway north of Mexico City, killing at least 20 people and injuring 36 others as a fireball tore through cars and homes. (Reuters photo)
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- Firefighters and rescue workers stand amidst the rubble of destroyed houses after the explosion of a gas tanker truck in San Pedro Xalostoc, on the outskirts of Mexico City. A gas tanker truck exploded on a highway north of Mexico City, killing at least 20 people and injuring 36 others as a fireball tore through cars and homes. (Reuters photo)
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- A World War Two veteran dances with a girl dressed in a Red Army uniform during a street performance ahead of Victory Day in the Russian Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk. Russia marks its victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two every year on May 9. (Ylia Naymushin/Reuters photo)
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- Military helicopters fly over an Orthodox Christian church during a rehearsal for the Victory Day parade in Moscow. Russia marks victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two every year on May 9. (Mikhail Voskresensky/Reuters photo)
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- Amanda Berry (Center) reunited with her sister (Left) in Cleveland, Ohio after Berry and two other women who had been missing for a decade were found alive in a house not far from where they were last seen. The dramatic discovery drew hundreds of cheering people to the usually quiet, residential street to celebrate that girls, long feared dead, were very much alive. Three men have been arrested in the case. (WOIO TV”/AFP/Getty Images)
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- A broken screen door is pictured at the house where three women who vanished as teenagers about a decade ago were discovered alive, in Cleveland, Ohio. The three women who vanished as teenagers about a decade ago were discovered alive in the house in Cleveland, and the home’s owner and his two brothers were arrested, police said. (Aaron Josefczyk/Reuters photo)
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- Bangladeshi rescue personnel carry stretchers with the remains of garment workers from the site of a collapsed building as heavy machinery clear the debris in Savar on the outskirts of Dhaka. Hundreds of survivors of Bangladesh’s worst industrial disaster have received wages on Tuesday as the death toll from the collapse of a nine-story building passed 700, officials said. (Munir uz Zaman/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Belarus honour guards take part in a rehearsal of the annual Victory Day parade in central Minsk. Belarus celebrates the 1945 Soviet victory over Nazi Germany on May 9. (Viktor Drachev/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Kazakhstan’s troops march during a parade of the armed forces on Fatherland Defender’s Day at Otar military range. (Shamil Zhumatov/Reuters photo)
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- Volcano Mount Mayon spews a thick column of ash 500 metres (1,600 feet) into the air, as seen from the city of Legazpi, albay province, southeast of Manila. Five people are feared dead after one of the Philippines’ most active volcanoes spewed a giant ash cloud, with foreign tourists on its slopes during the eruption, authorities said. (Phivolcs-Dost/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Israeli soldiers of the Golani brigade pray while taking part in a military exercise near the border with Syria, in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights. Syria has accused Israel of launching a series of airstrikes on targets near the Lebanon/Syria border, including an arms shipment and the Jamraya research centre, that was thought to produce chemical weapons. (Uriel Sinai/Getty Images)
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- A picture taken from the Israeli side of the border shows a Syrian woman waking near the Syria-Israel boundary fence in the Israeli annexed Golan Heights near the southern Syrian village of Ar Rafide as fighting continues to ravage Syria. The number of Syrians displaced within their homeland by the vicious civil war has reached 4.25 million, the UN humanitarian office. (Menahem Kahana/AFP/Getty Images
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- An ETA suspected member (Left) shouts as he is arrested at his home in the Figuerolles neighbourhood of Montpellier, southern France, as five other suspect were arrested today by French police in Blois, a city in central France, Brive-la-Gaillarde and Montpellier. This arrests of six ETA suspects in France broke up the Basque armed separatist group’s “logistical core” and have made its total dissolution inevitable, Spain’s interior minister said. (Sylvain Thomas/AFP/Getty Images)
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- A bull figure is pictured in front of the German share price index DAX board at the German stock exchange in Frankfurt. Germany’s top stock index hit a record high on Tuesday, the first major European market to top peaks hit before the financial crisis hammered share values. The blue-chip DAX, packed with in-demand international exporters, hit an intraday high of 8,160.14 points, passing its previous best of 8,151.57 points for the first time since mid-2007. (Lisi Niesner/Reuters photo)
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- Supporters wave towards a helicopter transporting Nawaz Sharif, leader of political party Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), as he leaves after his election campaign rally in Peshawar. Pakistan’s general elections will be held on May 11. (Fayaz Aziz/Reuters photo)
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- A fork lift raises party members up to a stage as people wait for Imran Khan, chairman of the Pakistan Tehrik e Insaf (PTI) party, to arrive for an election campaign rally in Lahore, Pakistan. PTI chairman Imran Khan was injured at the previous rally in Lahore today after falling while departing the stage. Pakistan’s parliamentary elections are due to be held on May 11. Imran Khan of Pakistan Tehrik e Insaf (PTI) and Nawaz Sharif of the Pakistan Muslim League-N (PMLN) have been campaigning hard in the last weeks before polling. (Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images)
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- A worker cleans a window displaying a banner for “The One Fund, Boston” , the name of the fund for the victims of the Boston Marathon bombings, in Boston, Massachusetts. (Brian Snyder/Reuters photo)
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- A boy jumps into a swimming pool to cool himself on a hot day in the southern Indian city of Chennai. (Babu/Reuters photo)
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- Chicago Bulls power forward Taj Gibson (22) is fouled as he goes to the basket between Miami Heat small forward LeBron James (6) and center Chris Bosh (1) during Game 1 of their NBA Eastern Conference semi-final basketball playoff in Miami, Florida. (Joe Skipper/Reuters photo)
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