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REWIND: Top PHOTOS of the last 24 hours
A collection of some of the best photos from around the world in the last 24 hours.
French CRS riot police clash with anti-nuclear demonstrators during a protest in Lieusaint near Valognes as protesters try to enter on the tracks before the departure of the train convoy of CASTOR containers which carry radioactive nuclear waste.
The train convoy is scheduled to leave Valognes for the interim nuclear waste storage facility in the northern German village of Gorleben.
Photograph: Benoit Tessier/Reuters
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A veterinarian places a monkey on the table for sterilisation inside an operation theatre at a monkey rescue centre run by forest and wildlife department Tutikandi in Shimla.
The Himachal Pradesh state government is offering a reward of Rs 500 for every monkey caught by a member of the public in an effort to control their numbers.
Monkeys are increasingly seen as a nuisance in places like the capital Shimla, where they harass people and other animals on the roads and rifle through garbage bins looking for food. Monkeys caught are taken to one of four sterilisation centres, where they are neutered before being released back into the same area they were trapped in.
There were at least 317,000 monkeys in Himachal Pradesh according to the most recent survey of the primates, which was conducted in 2004-05.
Photograph: Mukesh Gupta/Reuters
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A man shouts from a tree as police walk through St James park after they moved in to evict protesters during the Occupy Toronto movement in Toronto.
Backed by a court order, police arrived at the downtown park at dawn and began removing unoccupied tents and garbage, while some protesters screamed at them, some sang and played guitar, and others dug in for an expected stand-off and forcible removal.
Protesters first set up shop in Toronto's St James Park in mid-October, following the lead of Occupy Wall Street protesters in New York's Zuccotti Park.
Photograph: Mark Blinch/Reuters
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Inhabitants of Faroe Islands catch and slaughter pilot whales (Globicephala melaena) during the traditional 'Grindadrap' (whale hunting in Faroese) near the capital Torshavn.
Residents of the Faroe Islands, an autonomous province of Denmark, slaughter and eat pilot whales every year. The Faroese are descendents of Vikings, and pilot whales have been a central part of their diet for more than 1,000 years.
They crowd the animals into a bay and kill them. 'Grindadrap' whaling is not done for commercial purposes, the meat can not be sold and is divided evenly between members of the local community.
Photograph: Andrija Ilic/Reuters
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A Buddhist monk cleans up a temple after flood waters recede in Ayutthaya province in Thailand.
The deluge has killed more than 500 people and affected about 2 million since late July, with tens of thousands relocated or sheltering in evacuation centres after their homes and businesses were engulfed by water.
Photograph: Sukree Sukplang/Reuters
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United States Army soldiers sit behind a wall as others search for explosives after an improvised explosive device blast damaged one of their armoured vehicles during a road clearance patrol in Logar province, eastern Afghanistan.
Photograph: Umit Bektas/Reuters
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Anti-government protesters react as they celebrate the signing by Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh of a deal to step down in.
Saleh signed a deal on Wednesday under which he stepped down from 33 years in power and 10 months of protests against his rule that have brought the country to the edge of civil war.
Photograph: Khaled Abdullah/Reuters
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Vehicles drive through a flooded highway in the municipality of Chia, near Bogota.
Heavy rains have caused floods in the Andean nation, where more than a hundred people have died since last September, authorities said.
Photograph: Felipe Caicedo/Reuters
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Andalusian horsemen wait with horses before competing in a morphological contest during the Sicab International Pre Horse Fair in the Andalusian capital of Seville.
The show runs until November 27 and is dedicated exclusively to Spanish thoroughbreds.
Photograph: Marcelo del Pozo/Reuters
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A riot policeman fires a shotgun at protesters during clashes at a side street near Tahrir Square in Cairo.
Photograph: Goran Tomasevic/Reuters
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U S President Barack Obama pardons the 2011 Thanksgiving Turkey, Liberty, alongside his daughters Sasha (2nd L) and Malia on the North Portico of the White House in Washington.
Since 1989 every U S President has pardoned the Thanksgiving Turkey. Holding Liberty is Richard Huisinga, Chairman of the National Turkey Federation.
Photograph: Jason Reed/Reuters
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Middleweight champion Sergio Martinez from Argentina works out during a boxing training session in Madrid.
Martinez believes his most realistic chance of winning recognition as the world's best boxer lies in a bout with American Floyd Mayweather Jr.
Photograph: Juan Medina/Reuters