August 29, 2013

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Israeli soldiers drive a tank at a staging area in the Golan Heights, near the border between the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights and Syria.

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Asha Foundation Animal Shelter and Hospital founder and coordinator Harmesh Bhatt poses with a rescued wine snake and its young at the shelter in the village of Hathijan, some 20 kms from Ahmedabad, India.

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Larisa Bordovskaya, chief curator, right, and Iraida Botti, deputy director of Yekaterininsky Palace Museum, display a portrait of a boy, who is believed to be Prince Alexei Romanov, in Yekaterininsky Palace in the Tsarskoye Selo, suburb of St.Petersburg, Russia.

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A beluga whale sprays water onto visitors at a summer attraction at the Hakkeijima Sea Paradise aquarium in Yokohama, suburban Tokyo, Japan.