17 SHKURT 2014
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A Thai anti-government protester (R) stands next to soldiers during a protest against the government's repeatedly delayed payments for rice submitted to the pledging scheme at the government's temporary office in Bangkok.
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A suspected illegal miner talks to emergency personnel after emerging from an abandoned gold shaft in Benoni, east of Johannesburg.
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A villager walks near houses covered by ash from the eruption of Mount Kelud at Ngantang village in Malang, Indonesia's East Java province, Feb. 16, 2014.
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Tourists sunbathe on the beach in the Red Sea resort city of Eilat, one of Israel's most popular holiday spots.