July 17 Photo Brief: Congolese refugees, Xilin Gol League race, UN ambassador nominee Samantha Power
Congolese refugees at Bukanga transit camp, Xilin Gol League race in Mongolia, UN ambassador nominee Samantha Power’s confirmation hearing and more in today’s daily brief.
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- An Israeli soldier cleans the barrel of a tank near the border with Syria in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights July 17, 2013. Syria’s civil war has brought an end to decades of calm on the Golan Heights, a strip of land which Israel captured in the 1967 Middle East war. Battles between rebels fighting against President Bashar al-Assad’s forces in Syrian villages nearby are being watched intensely by Israel’s military. (Baz Ratner/Reuters)
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- Congolese refugees, displaced by fighting between the Congo army and rebel group Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) last week, gather around dry water taps at Bukanga transit camp in Bundibugyo town camp, 376km (238 miles) southwest of Kampala July 17, 2013. (James Akena/Reuters)
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- Herdsmen ride during a horse race in Xilin Gol League, in China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, July 16, 2013. The annual two-day event has drawn around 1,000 participants from all over the Inner Mongolian region this year. (Jacky Chen/Reuters)
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- People look at a classroom where contaminated meals were served to children at a school at Chapra in the eastern Indian state of Bihar July 17, 2013. At least 25 Indian children died and dozens needed hospital treatment after apparently being poisoned by a school meal on Tuesday, sparking violent protests and angry allegations of blame. (Stringer/Reuters)
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- Cadets from the Afghan National Police (ANA) look on during their graduation ceremony at a police training centre on the outskirts of Jalalabad on July 17, 2013. Over 224 police officers graduated after a eight -week course. (Noorullah Shirzada/AFP/Getty Images)
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- A Rohingya Muslim illegal immigrant looks out from the Immigration Detention Centre during the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan in Kanchanaburi province in this July 10, 2013 photo. (Athit Perewongmetha/Reuters)
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- A Congolese army soldier reacts to shelling in Kanyarucinya, around 10km from Goma in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo on July 17, 2013. Heavy fighting resumed this afternoon, with artillery shelling and small arms combat in Kanyarucinya, and to the north, around Kibati. (Phil Moore/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Samantha Power, the nominee to be the U.S. representative to the United Nations, testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee July 17, 2013 in Washington, DC. Power has received broad bipartisan support for her nomination. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
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- Indian Muslim girls recite the Holy Quran in their class room during the holy month of Ramadan at Madrasatur-Rashaad religious school in Hyderabad on July 17, 2013. As well as abstinence and fasting during Ramadan, Muslims are encouraged to pray and read the Quran during Islam’s holiest month. (Noah Seelam/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Children play in a water fountain in central London on July 17, 2013. British authorities issued a heatwave alert on Wednesday after the first prolonged period of high temperatures since 2006, following the coldest spring for more than 50 years. (Andrew Cowie/AFP/Getty Images)
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- A Humpback whale jumps in the surface of the Pacific Ocean at the Uramba Bahia Malaga natural park in Colombia, on July 16, 2013. Humpback whales migrate annually from the Antarctic Peninsula to peek into the Colombian Pacific Ocean coast, with an approximate distance of 8,500 km, to give birth and nurse their young. Humpback whales have a life cycle of 50 years or so and is about 18 meters. (Luis Robayo/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Mexico’s Ivan Garcia (R) and German Sanchez perform a dive during a practice for the men’s synchronized 10m platform event with a backdrop of the Sagrada Familia cathedral at the Montjuic municipal pool in Barcelona prior to the World Swimming Championships in Barcelona, July 17, 2013. The World Swimming Championships will take place July 20 to August 4. (Albert Gea/Reuters)
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- Egypt’s team practice their synchronized swimming team performance ahead of the upcoming World Swimming Championships at the Sant Jordi arena in Barcelona, July 17, 2013. The World Swimming Championships will take place July 20 to August 4. (Albert Gea/Reuters)
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- Swiss actress Anne Tismer performs a scene of the play “Non-Tutta” (pas-toute), written and directed by Italy’s Silvia Albarella and Anne Tismer, on July 17, 2013 in Avignon during the 67th International Theatre festival. (Boris Horvat/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Race leader’s yellow jersey holder Team Sky rider Christopher Froome of Britain cycles to win the 32km individual time-trial seventeenth stage of the centenary Tour de France cycling race from Embrun to Chorges July 17, 2013. (Eric Gaillard/Reuters)
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- A trail of headlamps is seen as runners make their way to the finish line in the Badwater Ultramarathon at the foot of Mount Whitney, California July 16, 2013. (Lucy Nicholson/Reuters)
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