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An aerial view of a boat and a car on a flooded street after heavy rains flooded a large part of the city, is pictured in La Plata. At least 46 people were killed in Argentina on Wednesday after a torrential downpour battered the eastern city of La Plata and forced some 2,200 people to flee their homes in search of dry ground.HANDOUT/Reuters

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A Palestinian throws a stone towards Israeli forces, not pictured, during riots after the death of Maysara Abu Hamdiyeh in Israeli jail, in the West Bank city of Hebron.Bernat Armangue/The Associated Press

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Indians bathe at the River Ganges in Allahabad, India. Allahabad, on the confluence of the rivers Ganges and Yamuna is one of Hinduism's holiest sites.Rajesh Kumar Singh/The Associated Press

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An Eurasian Eagle Owl sits in its enclosure in Munich's Hellabrunn zoo.Frank Leonhardt/The Associated Press

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A fire rages in a high-rise apartment building in provincial capital Grozny, Russia. French actor Gerard Depardieu reportedly received an apartment in the complex of buildings as a gift from Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov. People are not living in the building yet.Musa Sadulayev/The Associated Press

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Brazilian artist Eduardo Kobra poses at the entrance of a house, decorated with an anti-bullfight artwork by him, at Vila Madalena neighborhood of Sao Paulo. The words written on the wall paint read " Applauses" (L) and " It's not Art, nor Culture, is Torture ! " (R).NACHO DOCE/Reuters

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A member of the Free Syrian Army holds his weapon as he sits on a sofa in the middle of a street in Deir al-Zor.STRINGER/Reuters

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A Palestinian protester throws a stone towards Israeli troops during clashes in the West Bank city of Hebron.AMMAR AWAD/Reuters

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Afghan refugee Abdulkareem Khan, 80, smokes a cigarette while watching his sheep, not pictured, feeding in a field on the on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan. Abdulkareem, a shepherd from Afghanistan's north-eastern city of Kunduz, fled the violence in his hometown in 2007 along with 22 members of his family and 60 sheep and took refuge in Pakistan.Muhammed Muheisen/The Associated Press

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