Photos of the day - May 5, 2016
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Protesting refugees and migrants are pushed back by Greek police during a protest at a makeshift camp at the Greek-Macedonian border near the village of Idomeni, Greece, May 5, 2016. (Alexandros Avramidis/REUTERS)
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A fisherman walks past a barricade blocking a road during a protest calling on the government to help ease the economic effects of a harmful algal bloom that had affected their livelihoods at Ancud on Chiloe island in Chile, May 5, 2016. (Pablo Sanhueza/REUTERS)
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A horse is ridden to the track for a workout at Churchill Downs, May 5, 2016, in Louisville, Ky. The 142nd running of the Kentucky Derby is scheduled for Saturday, May 7. (Charlie Riedel/AP)
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Lovi Poe, center, the sister of presidential candidate Grace Poe, leads the symbolic throwing of colored powder as her sister is endorsed by “Kabataan” party-list group, a youth organization trying to campaign for a seat in the Lower House, May 5, 2016, at suburban Quezon city northeast of Manila, Philippines. Poe is running second to front-running candidate Rodrigo Duterte in recent poll surveys leading to Monday’s Presidential elections. (Bullit Marquez/AP)
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A woman is carried away in a stretcher by medics as she is rescued after being trapped for six days in the rubble of a collapsed building, in the Huruma area of Nairobi, Kenya, May 5, 2016. After discovering the woman alive and conscious, rescuers administered an IV and oxygen but then had to work for a number of hours to free her from the rubble she was trapped in, before taking her away to hospital. (Ben Curtis/AP)
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A Houthi supporter looks at pictures during a picture exhibition of late Houthi fighters allegedly killed in Yemen’s ongoing conflict, in Sana'a, Yemen, May 5, 2016. According to reports, Yemen?s warring factions involving in UN-led peace talks in Kuwait have reached an agreement to form joint committees, focusing on disarmament and the withdrawal of militia forces and the rehabilitation of state institutions and political dialogue, in an attempt to bring a permanent end to the ongoing conflict in the troubled Arab state. (YAHYA ARHAB/EPA)
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Russian military helicopters fly over Ivan the Great bell-tower and Moscow’s Kremlin during a general rehearsal for the Victory Day military parade which will take place at Moscow’s Red Square on May 9 to celebrate 71 years after the victory in WWII in Moscow, Russia, May 5, 2016. (Ivan Sekretarev/AP)
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A police officer wears a mask while controlling a roadblock near a wildfire in Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada on May 5, 2016. Raging wildfires in the Canadian province of Alberta have moved south, forcing three more communities to evacuate and an emergency operations center to move again , aking it far from the devastated oil sands city of Fort McMurray. (Jason Franson/The Canadian Press via AP)
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People wave Israeli flags in front of a gate with the words “Arbeit macht frei” (Work sets you free) in the former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz as thousands of people, mostly youth from all over the world gathered for the annual “March of the Living” to commemorate the Holocaust in Oswiecim, Poland May 5, 2016. (Kacper Pempel/REUTERS)
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Ambassador for the Freedom artist Nielson performs during Liberation Day at a festival in Zwolle, the Netherlands, May 5, 2016. Liberation Day (Bevrijdingsdag) is celebrated each year on 05 May in the Netherlands to mark the end of the Nazi occupation during World War II. (REMKO DE WAAL/EPA)
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A man uses a cellphone to take pictures of a burning school office in Mashau Dolly village, in South Africa’s Limpopo province, May 5, 2016. (Siphiwe Sibeko/REUTERS)
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A man uses a cellphone to take pictures of a burning school office in Mashau Dolly village, in South Africa’s Limpopo province, May 5, 2016. (Siphiwe Sibeko/REUTERS)
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Dancers are a blur of color as they perform during Cinco de Mayo celebrations in Portland, Ore., May 5, 2015. Ballet Folklorico Mexico En La Piel performed at the annual Portland event accompanied by the band Mariachi Guadalajara from Jalisco, Mexico. (Don Ryan/AP)
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In this photo taken with a slow shutter speed, Andy Murray, from Britain, returns a ball against Gilles Simon, from France, during a Madrid Open tennis tournament match in Madrid, Spain, May 5, 2016. Murray won 6-4 and 6-2. (Francisco Seco/AP)
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Primary school students in Yongchuan District hold boards of smiling faces to welcome the upcoming World Smile Day on May 5, 2016 in Chongqing, China. (VCG/VCG via Getty Images)
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Men dressed as samurai warriors in armor parade during the Kachiya Festival at Katori Shrine in Tokyo, May 5, 2016. The festival celebrates that the warlord Fujiwara Hidesato made for victory over warlord Taira no Masakado’s revolt in 940 during the Heian Period (794-1185) and then, Fujiwara dedicated a “kachiya” or victory arrow to the shrine. (Eugene Hoshiko/AP)
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Kashmiri Muslim women pray as a head priest displays the holy relic believed to be the whisker from the beard of the Prophet Mohammed on the occasion of the Muslim festival Mehraj-u-Alam, which marks ascension day, the journey from earth to heavens of the Prophet Mohammed, at the Hazratbal Shrine on May 5, 2016 in Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian administered Kashmir, India. (Yawar Nazir/Getty Images)
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A soldier from the South Korean army special forces breaks stone plates with his hand during a martial arts demonstration for Children’s Day at the War Memorial of Korea in Seoul, South Korea, May 5, 2016. In South Korea May 5 is celebrated as Children’s Day, a national holiday. (Ahn Young-joon/AP)
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An elderly Indian villager, centre, smokes as he participates in a protest demonstration to highlight the water shortage across the country in New Delhi, India, May 5, 2016. Much of India is reeling under a heat wave and severe drought conditions that have decimated crops, killed livestock and left at least 330 million Indians without enough water for their daily needs. (Altaf Qadri/AP)
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A follower of the Legio Maria church prays in the street next to a waiting ambulance, as rescuers nearby work to free a woman who had been trapped for six days in the rubble of a collapsed building, in the Huruma area of Nairobi, Kenya, May 5, 2016. After discovering the woman alive and conscious, rescuers administered an IV and oxygen but then had to work for a number of hours to free her from the rubble she was trapped in, before taking her away to hospital. (Ben Curtis/AP)
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A North Korean traffic police woman directs vehicles at a street junction while behind her the sidewalk is decorated with flags of the ruling party, the Workers’ Party, May 5, 2016, in Pyongyang, North Korea. Members of North Korea’s ruling party have gathered in Pyongyang ahead of their biggest political conference in decades. Foreign experts say North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un will likely use the meeting to place his loyalists into key positions, strengthen his push to upgrade his country’s nuclear arsenal and cement his grip on power. (Wong Maye-E/AP)
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Former Cleveland Browns quarterback Johnny Manziel sits at the back of the courtroom while his defense attorneys confer with the prosecution during his initial hearing, May 5, 2016, in Dallas. The Heisman Trophy winner and former Texas A&M star was indicted by a grand jury last month after his ex-girlfriend alleged he hit her and threatened to kill her during a night out in January. No plea was entered, but defense attorney Robert Hinton says Manziel plans to plead not guilty. (Smiley N. Pool/The Dallas Morning News via AP)
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Kashmiri Muslims pray as the head priest displays a relic of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad at the Hazratbal shrine following Mehraj-u-Alam, believed to mark the ascension of the prophet to heaven, in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, May 5, 2016. Thousands of Kashmiri Muslims gathered at the Hazratbal shrine, which houses a relic believed to be a hair from the beard of the prophet. (Dar Yasin/AP)
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A woman peeps through a window to see the rescue operation to pull a woman out of the rubbles of a collapsed building in the Huruma estate of the Mathare slum in Nairobi, Kenya, May 5, 2016. A woman was pulled out of the rubbles alive after being trapped in a collapsed building for six days, two days after a seven-month-old baby was rescued. The death toll has risen to 36 while 70 people are still unaccounted for, according to the Kenya Red Cross. (DAI KUROKAWA/EPA)
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Protesting refugees and migrants are pushed back by Greek police during a protest at a makeshift camp at the Greek-Macedonian border, a fisherman walks past a barricade blocking a road during a protest on Chiloe island in Chile and a horse is ridden to the track for a workout at Churchill Downs in Louisville are some of the photos of the day. (AP/EPA/Getty/Reuters)
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