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A Mexican marine stands guard as 7000 Kg of seized marijuana are incinerated at the naval base in Guaymas, Sonora state, Mexico.
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A local resident gestures as he stands on the debris of his home in Sultanwas, Buner, Pakistan. Sultanwas, a stronghold of Taliban militants, was destroyed during fierce fighting with Pakistani security forces. Pakistan will allow some 2 million people who fled an army offensive against the Taliban in Swat Valley to return home next week.
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A government soldier fires at Islamist fighters on the frontline in Derkenley district in Mogadishu. Some 204,000 people have fled fighting between government forces and hardline militia in Somalia's Mogadishu over the past eight weeks.
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Photo: Peter Redman/The Canadian Press
The casket bearing the remains of Master Corporal Pat Audet from 430 Escadron tactique d'helicopteres, based at Canadian Forces Base Valcartier, is carried from the aircraft during a repatriation ceremony at CFB Trenton Ontario.
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Photo: Peter Redman/The Canadian Press
The casket bearing the remains of Corporal Martin Joannette from the 3e Bataillon, Royal 22e Regiment based at Canadian Forces Base Valcartier, is carried from the aircraft during a repatriation ceremony at CFB Trenton Ontario. CPL Joannette was killed alongside fellow Canadian Master Corporal Pat Audet and a British Soldier when a Canadian CH-146 Griffon helicopter crashed during take-off in Afghanistan.
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Seven-time Tour de France winner and Kazakh cycling team Astana's Lance Armstrong of the United States (R) rides in the pack with teammate and 2007 Tour de France winner Alberto Contador of Spain (L) in the sixth stage of the 2009 Tour de France cycling race between Gerona and Barcelona.
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Iranian women raise their arms in protest as demonstrators burn rubbish in the streets in Tehran, Iran. Following recent unrest in the wake of the disputed presidental elections, demonstrators were met by force and tear gas rounds fired by Iranian police and Basij as they defied government warnings to stage a march in commemoration of the anniversary of bloody student unrest at Tehran University in 1999.
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Participants run ahead of El Ventorrillo fighting bulls on the second day of the San Fermin festival in Pamplona, northern Spain.
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Photo: Jonathan Hayward/THE CANADIAN PRESS
A photographer shoots pictures of Fitzsimmons Creek through the glass floor of the Peak 2 Peak Gondola connecting Whistler and Blackcomb mountains. Whistler mountain is the host mountain for the alpine events at 2010 Winter Olympic Games.
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A replica of the gown worn by former Austrian Empress Elisabeth at her Hungarian coronation ceremony is on display next to a portrait of her husband Emperor Franz Joseph I in the renovated Sisi Museum in the Hofburg Imperial Palace in Vienna.
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Photo: THIERRY ROGE/REUTERS
Russian sand sculptor Wiaczeslaw Borecki carves a figure of Michael Jackson during the Sand Sculptures Festival in Blankenberge, Belgium.
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Photo: Troy Fleece/The Canadian Press
Two men unidentified men walk around the exterior of the former Corner Gas set in Rouleau, Saskatchewan, or Dog River as some may know it from the television show. The exterior set for the show's filling station in Rouleau, near Regina, has been a tourist attraction since Corner Gas started airing in 2004. But now the filling station has fallen into disrepair since production wrapped up last fall.
