August 23, 2013

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Smoke is seen above people gathering outside a mosque on the site of a powerful explosion in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli. Two powerful explosions killed several people: one rocked the city center near the home of outgoing Prime Minister Najib Mikati, the second one struck near the port of the restive city with a Sunni Muslim majority.

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An Indian nomad herder leaps off the back of a water buffalo into the flooded waters of the River Tawi on the outskirts of Jammu.

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People struggle as waves from a tidal bore surge past a barrier on the banks of Qiantang River in Haining, Zhejiang province, as Typhoon Trami landed in eastern China.

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Wolodja, a young male polar bear plays in its enclosure at the animal park in Berlin-Friedrichsfelde, Germany.