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    JUNE 7: This taunting note was left on an opening in a pipe that two inmates cut open to escape from Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, New York. The two convicted murderers used power tools to break out of the maximum security prison and may have had help, authorities said. Hundreds of police conducted a massive manhunt through the week, but the killers were still at large on Friday.

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    JUNE 7: Britain's Sir Bradley Wiggins rides on his way to breaking cycling's prestigious Hour Record at the Olympic Velodrome in Lee Valley Velopark, London. The former Tour de France winner set a new record, covering 54.526 kilometers (33.88 miles) in 60 minutes.

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    JUNE 7: Prince George and Princess Charlotte are seen in this undated handout photo taken by the Duchess in mid-May at Anmer Hall in Norfolk and released by the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.

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    JUNE 8: German Chancellor Angela Merkel speaks with President Barack Obama at Schloss Elmau hotel near Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, during the G-7 summit.

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    JUNE 8: A U.S. Marine Osprey sends up a big wash of rain as as it lands near the Bavarian town of Kruen, Germany. The Ospreys provided transport to Air Force One in Munich for members of President Barack Obama's staff, Secret Service, White House press corps and other personnel at the conclusion of the G7 Summit.

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    JUNE 8: Malaysia's Ooi Tze Liang performs during the men's 10-meter platform diving competition at the 28th SEA Games in Singapore.

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    JUNE 9: Cleveland Cavaliers guard Matthew Dellavedova falls into the crowd during the third quarter of game three of the NBA Finals against the Golden State Warriors at Quicken Loans Arena.

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    JUNE 9: A fight breaks out between defense lawyers and family members of victims outside a court in Cairo, Egypt. An Egyptian court sentenced 11 men to death on Tuesday for their part in the country's worst violence at a football stadium, which killed more than 70 fans and injured at least 1,000 in 2012.

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    JUNE 9: Former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert arrives for an appearance in federal court in Chicago to be arraigned on charges of trying to hide large cash transactions and lying to the FBI about it. According to an indictment, Hastert, 73, was trying to evade detection of $3.5 million in payments he had promised to make to someone from his hometown of Yorkville, Illinois, to conceal past misconduct against the person.

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    JUNE 9: Battle of Waterloo re-enactors march near the Lion's Mound during an historical walk for journalists in Waterloo, Belgium. On June 19 and 20, the bicentenary of the battle will be commemorated with a re-enactment of the battle with 5,000 re-enactors.

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    JUNE 9: People ride the installation "Isometric Slides" at an exhibit at the Hayward Gallery in central London.

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    JUNE 9: U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry speaks with National Security Adviser Susan Rice from his room at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. Kerry was doing well and receiving physical therapy at a Boston hospital after surgery on a broken right leg but it was unclear when he would be released, the State Department said.

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    JUNE 10: Pope Francis meets Russian President Vladimir Putin for a private audience at the Vatican.

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    JUNE 11: A church is partially submerged by flooding from the Red River in Shreveport, Lousiana. The flooding put hundreds of homes and farms underwater in rural the state's rural northwest, and Louisiana officials said Thursday that they would seek a federal disaster declaration to get help for residents.

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    JUNE 11: Russian Soyuz TMA-15M space capsule carrying a three-person crew from the International Space Station lands safely in a remote area of the Kazakhstan steppes after a longer-than-expected orbital stint.

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    JUNE 11: U.S. astronaut Terry Virts, left, Russian cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov and Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti rest outside the Soyuz TMA-15M space capsule after they landed in a remote area outside the town of Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, on Thursday.

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    JUNE 11: A couple wearing masks to prevent contracting Middle East Respiratory Syndrome ride an escalator in Seoul, South Korea. The outbreak of MERS forced South Korea to cut interest rates on Thursday in the hope of softening the damage to the economy from people staying home and not shopping.

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    JUNE 11: Children walk outside the Heydar Aliyev Center, ahead of the European Games in Baku, Azerbaijan.

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    JUNE 11: Andalusia's regional government president Susana Diaz speaks with journalists after her investiture in the Andalusian capital of Seville, southern Spain.

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    JUNE 12: Henri Leclerc, center, lawyer of former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, answers journalists' questions at a Lille courthouse, in northern France. Strauss-Kahn was cleared of pimping charges on Friday, putting an end to four years of legal drama that began with a sexual assault charge in a New York hotel room.

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    JUNE 12: Actor Peter Fonda attends the premiere of "Jurassic World" in Hollywood. The movie opened in the U.S. on Thursday.

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    JUNE 12: Firefighter John Fusco gives a drink of water to a dog he rescued from a structure fire in Manchester, Connecticut. Fusco rescued the dog from a bedroom on the second floor. The dog was taken by an animal control officer to a veterinarian to be checked out. No one was home at the time of the fire and it was quickly extinguished.

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    JUNE 12: Four albino sisters, from left, Iveily, Donilcia, Jade and Yaisseth Morales, who are part of the albino or "Children of the Moon" group in the Guna Yala indigenous community, pose for a photograph with their mother, brothers and sisters outside their house on Ustupu Island in the Guna Yala region, Panama. Alabaster-skinned people born on a sun-scorched group of islands off Panama's Caribbean coast are venerated as Children of the Moon. Albinos make up between 5 and 10 percent of the roughly 80,000 indigenous Gunas. With their sensitive skin and eyes, young Guna albinos must be shuttled to and from school, avoiding the baking heat, while they watch their friends play in the streets. Saturday is International Albinism Awareness Day.

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