The founder of WikiLeaks Julian Assange, center, gives a statement to the media after his extradition hearing at the High Court in London. Ecuador accused Britain on Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2012, of threatening to storm its London embassy to arrest Assange after the U.K. issued a stern warning to the South American nation ahead of its decision on an asylum bid by the WikiLeaks founder.
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Portland Timbers' Eric Alexnder, right, grabs with Toronto FC's Quincy Amarikwa, center, as Portland's Steven Smith, left, watches during the second half of an MLS soccer match, Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2012, in Toronto.
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A man carries a wounded man at the scene of an explosion in Herat, west of Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2012. More than a dozen people, including four women and a policeman, were injured when explosives set up on a bicycle exploded at a market in the city of Herat while people were shopping for an upcoming Muslim holiday, said Noor Khan Nekzad, a spokesman for the provincial police.
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Syrians stand in rubble after an air strike destroyed at least ten houses in the town of Azaz on the outskirts of Aleppo, Syria, Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2012.
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In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, a Chinese activist, left, yells out as he gets off a Japan Coast Guard patrol boat on arrival at Naha Port in Okinawa, Japan, Thursday, Aug. 16, 2012. He is among the 14 people arrested Wednesday by Japanese authorities who traveled by boat from Hong Kong to a set of uninhabited islands in the East China Sea chain, known as Senkaku in Japanese and Diaoyu in Chinese, controlled by Japan but also claimed by China and Taiwan.
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A boat, center, is surrounded by Japan Cost Guard's patrol boats after some activists descended from the boat on Uotsuri Island, one of the islands of Senkaku in Japanese and Diaoyu in Chinese, in East China Sea Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2012. Regional tensions flared on the emotional anniversary of Japan’s World War II surrender as activists from China and South Korea used Wednesday’s occasion to press rival territorial claims, prompting 14 arrests by Japanese authorities. The 14 people had traveled by boat from Hong Kong to the disputed islands controlled by Japan but also claimed by China and Taiwan.
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This image provided by Bupendra Ram shows Ram demonstrating outside the federal building in the Fall of 2011 in Los Angeles. Hundreds of thousands of young illegal immigrants scrambled to get papers in order, as the U.S. started accepting applications to allow them to avoid deportation and get a work permit, but not a path to citizenship. President Barack Obama announced the program in June after pressure from Hispanic voters and others who said he hasn't fulfilled a campaign promise to overhaul tangled U.S. immigration laws.
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British police officers arrest a protesters in support of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange from the front of Ecuadorian Embassy in central London, London, Thursday, Aug. 16, 2012. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange entered the embassy in June in an attempt to gain political asylum to prevent him from being extradited to Sweden, where he faces allegations of sex crimes, which he denies.
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Boxers Vijendra Singh, L Devendro and MC Mary Kom pose for a photo during a felicitation function in New Delhi on Thursday.
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President Pranab Mukherjee exchanges greetings with BJP leaders during an ‘At Home’ organised on the occasion of 66th Independence Day at Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi on Wednesday.
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Army Chief Gen Bikram Singh promoting Olympic silver medallist Vijay Kumar the rank of Subedar Major at a ceremony in New Delhi on Thursday.
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Members paying tribute to Union Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh, who passed away on Tuesday, in the Rajya Sabha in New Delhi on Thursday.
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BJP leader Sushma Swaraj along with party's MP from Guwahati Bijoya Chakraborty and students from North Eastern states addressing the media at Parliament House during the monsoon session in New Delhi on Thursday.
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A security jawan guards near the site of a violence at Bhatkuchi where protestors burnt and destroyed several vehicles in Kamrup district on Thursday.
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People of North Eastern states at a meeting at Karnataka Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar's residence in Bengaluru on Thursday. People from the North Eastern states met the Chief Minister over rumours of attacks targeting the community in retaliation for communal violence in the state of Assam.
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Karnataka Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar along with Dy CM R Ashok meeting people of North Eastern states at his residence in Bengaluru on Thursday after rumours of attacks targeting the community in retaliation for communal violence in the state of Assam.
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Union Minister for Steel Beni Prasad Verma poses with medal winners of London Olympics during a felicitation function in New Delhi on Thursday.
