The Florida Power & Light Riviera Beach power plant falls is demolished by explosives on Sunday morning, as seen from Lake Trail in Palm Beach. The demolition of the 1960’s-era, oil-fired generating units will make way for construction of a $1.3 billion natural-gas-fired power plant.
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Bosnian Muslim Halida Dudic, 52, gestures as she stands inside her shelter at the collective center for refugees near the northern Bosnian town of Zivinice north of Sarajevo, where she settled after being displaced from her home as a refugee from Srebrenica in eastern Bosnia in 1995. Many refugees and internal displaced persons still live in primitive shelters waiting to return to their destroyed pre-war homes years 16 years after the 1992-95 Bosnian war.
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A Chinese man wades through a flooded street with his tricycle in Lanxi city in east China’s Zhejiang province. Heavy rains pounded Zhejiang province over the weekend and the level of a river that passes through Lanxi city has risen sharply.
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Syria’s President, Bashar Assad delivers a speech in Damascus, Syria. Syria’s embattled president says “saboteurs” are trying to exploit legitimate demands for reform in the country. President Bashar Assad’s speech Monday was only his third public address since the country’s uprising began in March. What is happening today has nothing to do with reform, it has to do with vandalism,” Assad told a crowd of supporters at Damascus University. “There can be no development without stability, and no reform through vandalism. … We have to isolate the saboteurs.”
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Courtney Mitchell, a college professor, (R), offers a wedding ring to Sarah Welton, a lawyer, during their wedding ceremony at a Hindu temple in Katmandu, Nepal. The couple from Denver, Colorado, married in a Hindu Nepalese tradition in the first public lesbian wedding in the Himalayan nation that recently began recognizing gay rights and working to draft laws to end sexual discrimination.
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Students in school uniforms link their arms to form the flag of the Communist Party of China (CPC), in celebration of the party’s upcoming 90th anniversary during a photo call at a primary school in Dexing, Jiangxi province.
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A Eurofighter Typhoon performs its demonstration flight, on the first day of the Paris air show, at Le Bourget airport.
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A tree stands in a field as rain clouds pass by near the eastern German city of Dresden. Germany is experiencing very changeable weather of wet and sunny spells.
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Smoke billows from a burning car at the site of an attack on a French embassy convoy in the Iraqi capital Baghdad.
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A young Afghan refugee holds a water bottle The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) registration centre on the outskirts of Peshawar, prior to returning to her home country Afghanistan, after fleeing civil war and Taliban rule. Pakistan is host a refugee population of 1.9 million.
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A boy jumps into the waters of the Black Sea in the village of Molochnoye outside the town of Yevpatoria, Ukraine.
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People make their way through flood water in Lanxi, east China’s Zhejiang province. Flood-hit areas of central and southern China braced for more heavy rains Monday after millions of people were forced to evacuate or were otherwise affected by the early onset of the rainy season.
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A man runs on a submerged stone bridge at the Donghu Lake in Wuhan, capital of central China’s Hubei Province due the torrential rainfall in recent days.
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A man prepares to walk up stairs at Hie shrine in Tokyo.
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The tall ship ‘Alexander von Humboldt’ sails the Baltic Sea near Kiel, Germany. Rides on tall ships such as the ‘Alexander von Humboldt’ are among the most favorite tourist attraction during the traditional annual ‘Kiel Week’ sailing and maritime event. The ‘Alexander von Humboldt’ will lead this year’s ‘Windjammers’ parade.
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