June 11, 2013

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China's astronauts from left, Wang Yaping, Zhang Xiaoguang and Nie Haisheng wave as they leave the Jiuquan satellite launch center near Jiuquan in western China's Gansu province. Three astronauts took flight aboard the spacecraft to the dock with China's Tiangong 1 space lab.

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Protesters react after an explosion on a barricade during clashes in Istanbul's Taksim square, Turkey.

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French Army soldiers of the 2nd Regiment of dragoons help a fellow soldier who fainted during a ceremony to pay tribute to late former French Prime Minister Pierre Mauroy in the courtyard of the Invalides in Paris.

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Afghans rush a wounded man to receive treatment after a suicide car bomber struck outside the Supreme Court in Kabul, Afghanistan. The suicide car bomber killed more than a dozen and wounded tens of people, police and health officials said.