More airstrike victims, a DSK acquittal, two runs | June 12
The day in photos from around the world.
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People carry the body of a man they uncovered from under the rubble of houses destroyed by Saudi airstrikes in the old city of Sanaa, Yemen, Friday, June 12, 2015.
|| CREDIT: HANI MOHAMMED – AP PHOTO
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Henri Leclerc, right, lawyer of former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, answers journalists at a Lille courthouse, northern France, Friday, June. 12, 2015. Former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn was cleared of pimping charges on Friday in France, putting an end to four years of legal drama that began with a sexual assault charge in a New York hotel room.
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Young Indian garbage collectors unload waste at a roadside garbage dumping site overflowing with filth on World Day against Child Labor in New Delhi, India, Friday, June 12, 2015. Despite the country’s rapid economic growth, child labor remains widespread in India, where an estimated 13 million children work, with laws meant to keep kids in school and out of the workplace routinely flouted.
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Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos Calderon drinks during a visit at the Universal Exhibition 2015 (Expo Milano 2015 or World Exposition 2015) on the sidelines of the Italy-Latin America conference on June 12, 2015 in Milan.
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A Kashmiri Muslim man stands outside the 14th-century shrine of Mir Ali Hamdani, Khanqah e Moula in old town Srinagar on June 12, 2015 after offering Friday prayers. Hamdani, originally from Persia, is credited by historians to have introduced Islam into Kashmir.
|| CREDIT: TAUSEEF MUSTAFA – AFP/GETTY IMAGES
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Repsol Honda Team’s Spanish rider Marc Marquez leaves the pits during the first free practice sessions at the MotoGP at the Barcelona-Catalunya racetrack in Montmelo, near Barcelona, on June 12, 2015 ahead of the Catalunya Moto Grand Pix.
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A curator from Christie’s auction house poses for photographs in front of “The Death of Republic Soldiers” a painting by Chinese artist Zeng Fanzhi which features in their “Christie’s Curates: Past Perfect/Future Present” annual exhibition in London, Friday, June 12, 2015. The five-day exhibition running from June 12 to June 16 features works celebrating 2,000 years of art history from 1st century BC to the 21st century.
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A man plays with his kite in Beijing on June 2, 2015.
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Activists hold a protest in front of the Chinese Consular Office in Manila on June 12, 2015, as the country commemorates the 117th anniversary of the Philippines’ declaration of independence from Spain. The protesters shouted slogans against China’s reclamation and construction activities on islands and reefs in the Spratly Group of the South China Sea that are also claimed by the Philippines.
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Sanyu, (R) a five-day old Rothschild’s giraffe, is pictured with other members of the group during a photocall at Chester Zoo in north-west England, on June 12, 2015. Sanyu is the second Rothschild’s giraffe to be born at Chester Zoo in the last six months.
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The Netherlands’ Desiree Van Lunteren prepares for a throw in during their Group A football match against China at the FIFA Women’s World Cup at Commonwealth Stadium in Edmonton, Canada on June 11, 2015. China defeated the Netherlands 1-0.
|| CREDIT: GEOFF ROBINS’S PLAYERS – AFP/GETTY IMAGES
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A man walks past a wall decorated with the image of Argentine-born revolutionary Ernesto Che Guevara in downtown Buenos Aires, Argentina, on June 11, 2015.
|| CREDIT: EITAN ABRAMOVICH – AFP/GETTY IMAGES
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Artists perform during the Copa America inauguration ceremony at the Nacional stadium in Santiago, on June 11, 2015. Chile will face Ecuador in the inauguration match.
|| CREDIT: PABLO PORCIUNCULA – AFP/GETTY IMAGES
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Participants dressed in white enjoy their meal during a Diner en Blanc (‘Dinner in White’), at the gardens of the Palais-Royal in Paris on June 11, 2015. The “Diner en Blanc” is a chic secret pop-up style picnic phenomenon originally started in France.
|| CREDIT: DOMINIQUE FAGET – AFP/GETTY IMAGES
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Competitors run the men’s 4×100-meter relay at the SEA Games in Singapore, Friday, June 12, 2015.
|| CREDIT: JOSEPH NAIR – AP PHOTO
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Actor and comedian Kevin Hart, center right, leads an impromptu 5K run he organized on social media through Piedmont Park Friday, June 12, 2015, in Atlanta. Hart is in town to perform at Philips Arena Friday.
|| CREDIT: DAVID GOLDMAN – AP PHOTO
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A women walks amid thousands of dresses hanging on clotheslines set-up at the Pristina Stadium on June 12, 2015 as part of an installation “Thinking of You” by Kosovo born artist Alketa Xhafa Mripa dedicated to the 20,000 woman victims of Sexual Violence during dhe 1998-1999 Kosovo War.
|| CREDIT: ARMEND NIMANI – AFP/GETTY IMAGES
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An inmate in custody of the Bossier Parish Sheriff’s Office looks at a submerged home caused by flooding from the Red River, Friday, June 12, 2015, in Bossier City, La. Damage has been spreading as floodwaters from storms in neighboring Oklahoma and Texas overwhelm the river.
|| CREDIT: JONATHAN BACHMAN – AP PHOTO