Thursday: The Day In Photos
A Chinese man wipes his brow as he takes a break while carrying a mattress salvaged from buildings damaged by the May 12 earthquake in Hanwang, China. Survivors of the quake are scavenging what they can from damaged buildings as they begin to rebuild their lives. (Ng Han Guan / Associated Press)
Palestinian demonstrators throw stones at an Israeli army vehicle during a protest against Israel’s separation barrier in the West Bank village of Kafin near Tulkarem. (Mohammed Ballas / Associated Press)
Israeli soldiers lift a blindfolded Palestinian detainee into a truck following a military operation on the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip. Hamas militants fired a barrage of mortar shells into southern Israel, killing one person and wounding four others on a communal farm near the border with the Gaza Strip. The attack dealt a new setback to Egyptian efforts to mediate a truce between Israel and Gaza’s Hamas rulers and raised the likelihood of a tough Israeli military reprisal. (Yehuda Lahiani / Associated Press)
An injured Israeli man is evacuated into the Beer Sheva hospital after he was wounded by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip in the southern Israeli kibbutz of Nir Oz. (Israel Yosef / AFP/Getty Images)
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A Palestinian woman sits outside a family house that was destroyed in an Israeli army operation near Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip. (Eyad Baba / Associated Press)
Nepalese police officers arrest exiled Tibetan protesters during an anti-China protest outside the Chinese embassy in Kathmandu, Nepal. (Narendra Shrestha / EPA)
A Kenyan reads a newspaper about U.S. Democratic presidential hopeful
An Indian man wraps himself with a plastic sheet during a rain shower in the eastern Indian city of Calcutta. (Kaushik Sarkhel / EPA)
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A soldier gasps for air after crawling through tear gas in an obstacle course outside Minsk to qualify to become a member of the Belarus special forces. (Viktor Drachev / AFP/Getty Images)
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Members of the ethnic Gujjar community sit during a protest for better wages and schools in New Delhi, India. (Money Sharma / EPA)
This provisional jail was built in Geneva, Switzerland, to keep hooligans in custody during the Euro 2008 soccer tournament hosted by Switzerland and Austria from June 7 to June 29. (Fabrice Coffrini / AFP/Getty Images)
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Polish players fight for the ball during a training session in Bad Waltersdorf, Austria, for the Euro 2008 soccer tournament. (Janek Skarzynski / AFP/Getty Images)
Indian boys enjoy a soccer match on a waterlogged playground in the eastern Indian city of Calcutta. (Kaushik Sarkhel / EPA)
Dinara Safina of Russia celebrates after defeating compatriot Svetlana Kuznetsova in their semi-final match in the French Open tennis tournament in Paris. (Philippe Perusseau / EPA)
A Japanese woman relaxes in a new “salt studio” in Tokyo. The studio is covered with pure-white hexagon salt tiles with climate-controlled temperature and humidity designed to induce comfortable sweating. The room also has space for yoga as well as soothing music and colors -- all intended to improve circulation and reduce the effects of aging. (Everett Kennedy Brown / EPA)
