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BANGKOK: Thai customs officials show confiscated elephant tusks during a press conference at the customs office of Suvarnabhumi airport in Bangkok on July 17, 2012. Thai authorities seized more than 456 kgs of tusks worth some 722,212 USD which had arrived from Kenya. -AFP ...
WASHINGTON: U.S. President Barack Obama shares a laugh with his wife Michelle, as the US Senior Men's National Team and Brazil play during a pre-Olympic exhibition basketball game at the Verizon Center on July 16, 2012 in Washington, DC. -AFP ...
DAMASCUS: Vehicles drive around a water fountain in Sabaa Bahrat square in central Damascus, on July 17, 2012, after heavy machinegun fire rocked the area witnesses told AFP. -AFP ...
JERUSALEM: Hungarian President Janos Ader looks at pictures of Jewish Holocaust victims at the Hall of Names on July 17, 2012, during his visit to the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial museum in Jerusalem commemorating the six million Jews killed by the Nazis during World War II. -AFP ...
MONACO: Princess Caroline of Hanover (L) and German designer, Chanel's art director, Karl Lagerfeld (R), pose for photographers during the opening ceremony of the new Chanel jeweller's shop, on July 16, 2012, in Monaco. -AFP ...
LA BOISSIÈRE-DU-DORÉ: Sebastien Laurent (R), manager of the zoo, gives a slice of cake to Major, the holdest captive Orang-Outang in the world, as part of its 50th birthday ceremony, on July 17, 2012, at the La Boissiere-du-Doree zoo near Nantes, western France. -AFP ...
YAME: A collapsed house lies in the Hoshino River in Yame City, Fukuoka prefecture on July 16, 2012 following four days of torrential rainfall. Flood victims in Japan began a full-scale clean-up operation July 16 after record rainfall forced hundreds of thousands to flee and left at least 32 dead or missing. -AFP ...
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- YOKOHAMA: Japan's auto giant Nissan Motor chief operating officer (COO) Toshiyuki Shiga displays the company's global compact car 'Note' in Yokohama, suburban Tokyo on July 16, 2012. The new global compact car, equipped with a 1.2-litre super charged engi
- KHANPUR: A large number of youngsters jumping and bathing in water channel to get some relief from hot and humid weather at Khanpur Dam. -APP
- SILIGURI: Indian residents wade through flood waters at Milanmore village on the outskirts of Siliguri on July 16, 2012. Continuous rainfall in the past 48 hours has caused flooding and the collapse of an under-construction dyke on the river Mahananda,
- ATHENS: A woman tries to cool herself in a park in central Athens, on July 16, 2012. Temperatures in Athens were set to exceed 42 degrees Celsius (107.6 Fahrenheit) at the close of this year's hottest week that earlier forced authorities to make
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