Photos Of The Week June 5-11
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Brown pelicans found off the Louisiana coast, coated in oil from the BP Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico, wait in a holding pen for cleaning in Buras, Louisiana. Photo by Saul Loeb (AFP)
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An Afghan refugee waits at the UNHCR registration center on the outskirts of Peshawar prior to returning to her home country. About 1.7 million Afghan refugees remain in Pakistan after fleeing civil war and Taliban rule in their homeland. Photo by A. Majeed (AFP)
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Murman Modebadze of Georgia holds a giant chicken egg -- 82mm long, 62mm wide, 170 grams -- next to an average-sized egg in the village of Zestafoni, 200 kilometers west of Tbilisi. The Modebadze family has submitted the egg for inclusion in the "Guinness Book of Records." Photo by Vano Shlamov (AFP)
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Geert Wilders, the leader of the anti-Islam Freedom Party, reacts after his party became the third-largest party in parliament following general elections in the Netherlands. Photo by Robin Utrecht (AFP)