Bahraini protests, lightning over Manhattan, giant warships in Britain

The Christ the Redemer statue is seen atop Corcovado Hill in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on July 3.

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Brazilian football fans crowd outside the gate as their national team arrives for a training session at the President Vargas stadium on the eve of the FIFA World Cup 2014 quarter-final match between Brazil and Colombia in Fortaleza on July 3.

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A Bahraini demonstrator, protecting his face from tear gas, holds a molotov cocktail during clashes with riot police after a protest against the death of a Bahraini man, Abdul Aziz al-Abbar, late on July 3, in the village of Sanabis, west of Manama. Al-Abbar, 27, died from wounds on February 23, after being shot during clashes between police and protesters.

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A hand out picture taken on June 3 and released by the Prime Minister Press Service displays an APC of the Ukrainian forces moving some 20 km from the eastern Ukrainian city of Slavyansk. Ukraine shook up its beleaguered army’s top brass on June 3, as clashes raged in the separatist east despite mounting US and German pressure on Russia to force the rebels to halt fire.

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Belarus troops dressed as Soviet Red Army soldiers of the World War II-era stand in central Minsk, on July 3 , during the Independence Day military parade. The former Soviet nation celebrated yesterday its Independence Day marking of the end of Belarus occupation by Nazi Germany troops during the Red Army main summer offensive in 1944.

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Workers on the flight deck of HMS Queen Elizabeth, the first of two aircraft carriers being built by British defence firm BAE Systems, at Rosyth Dockyard in Fife, Scotland, in this June 17, file photo. Queen Elizabeth will officially name the biggest warship Britain has ever built on July 4, 2014, the latest step in a 6.2 billion pound ($10.6 billion) project to build a new generation of aircraft carriers.

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Entertainer Rolf Harris (C) walks with his niece Jenny (2nd R) as he arrives for sentencing at Southwark Crown Court in London July 4. Harris, a mainstay of family entertainment in Britain and Australia for more than 50 years, was found guilty on Monday of 12 charges of indecently assaulting young girls over a period of nearly 20 years.

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Omega Pharma-Quick Step team riders including Mark Cavendish of Britain cycle during a training session for the Tour de France cycling race near Leeds, July 4. The Tour de France cycling race will start on July 5.

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A firefighter holds a red panda (Ailurus fulgens) from its tail while removing it from a tree at a residential area in Kunming, Yunnan province, July 3. The animal was spotted in the residential area and was brought down from the tree after residents reported its sighting to the police, local media reported. Picture taken July 3, 2014.

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Former senate president Juan Ponce Enrile (R) is escorted to a waiting ambulance after he surrendered to police authorities on corruption charges at Camp Crame, the Philippine National Police headquarters, in Quezon city, Metro Manila, July 4. Enrile, a 90-year-old Philippine senator and a hero of the 1986 People Power uprising that ousted dictator Ferdinand Marcos, surrendered to authorities on Friday after an anti-graft court ordered his arrest for the misuse of congressional funds.

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Eugenie Bouchard of Canada serves during her women’s singles semi-final tennis match against Simona Halep of Romania at the Wimbledon Tennis Championships, in London July 3.

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Men rest after mass Friday prayers inside Istiqlal Mosque during the holy fasting month of Ramadan in Jakarta July 4.

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Palestinian women make their way through the Qalandia checkpoint between Ramallah and Jerusalem, in the occupied West Bank, to reach the al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem’s Old City for traditional Friday prayers, the first of Islam’s holy month of Ramadan on July 4. Israeli authority has forbidden access to Al-Aqsa mosque to muslim men under 50 years old and for muslim women under 40.

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Carter Cromley of Virginia carries the cover for his jet ski that was blown off as hurricane Arthur continues in Nags Head, North Carolina July 4. The first hurricane of the Atlantic season has hit the North Carolina coast, a wet and windy spoiler of the July Fourth holiday for thousands of Americans as authorities ordered them to evacuate exposed areas.

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Lightning strikes in middle Manhattan during the arrival of a summer storm in New York, July 3.

|| PHOTO CREDIT: EDUARDO MUNOZ – REUTERS

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