Today in photos (Sept. 19)
View a gallery of photos from around the world on Monday, Sept. 19, 2011.
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Activists in solidarity with Irish Travelers who live at the Dale Farm travelers site stand on a van and scaffolding erected as part of a barrier at the main entrance at the site near Basildon, 30 miles (50 kilometers) east of London, England, Monday, Sept. 19, 2011. Local authorities are due to begin evicting families from Dale Farm Monday, after winning a decade-long legal battle to move some 86 families who lived in mobile homes on the site without proper planning permission.
Matt Dunham Associated Press
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Two foreign tourists with Sesame Street's character T-shits on, wait at a crosswalk in Shanghai, China, Monday, Sept. 19, 2011.
Eugene Hoshiko Associated Press
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Protesters hold placards during the anti-nuclear march in Tokyo, Japan, Monday, Sept. 19, 2011. Several thousand people marched in downtown Tokyo calling on the government to abandon nuclear energy in the wake of the Fukushima nuclear accident. The protest was one of the biggest demonstrations since the March 11 accident, in which the tsunami-damaged Fukushima Dai-ichi power plant spewed radiation into the air in the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl.
Koji Sasahara Associated Press
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Protesters in costume perform during the anti-nuclear demonstration in Tokyo, Japan, Monday, Sept. 19, 2011. Chanting "Sayonara nuclear power" and waving banners, tens of thousands of people marched in central Tokyo on Monday to call on Japan's government to abandon atomic energy in the wake of the Fukushima nuclear accident.
Koji Sasahara Associated Press
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Anti-government protestors carry a wounded defected soldier from the site of clashes with security forces to a field hospital in Sanaa, Yemen, Monday, Sept. 19, 2011. Pro-regime forces, including snipers picking off protesters from rooftops, killed several people Monday in a second day of clashes shaking Yemen's capital, medical and security officials said.
Hani Mohammed Associated Press
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Nepalese women remove bricks of the damaged house to make way for pedestrians after an earthquake of magnitude 6.9 shook northeastern India on Sunday night, in Katmandu, Nepal, Monday, Sept. 19, 2011. Rescue workers used shovels and their bare hands to pull bodies from the debris of collapsed buildings Monday, as the death toll from an earthquake that hit northeast India, Nepal and Tibet rises.
Niranjan Shrestha Associated Press
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A Nepalese woman removes bricks of the damaged house to make way for pedestrians after an earthquake in Katmandu, Nepal, Monday, Sept. 19, 2011. Rescue workers raced Monday to clear roads blocked by mudslides as they scrambled to reach remote villages cut off after a powerful earthquake of magnitude 6.9 shook northeast India, Nepal and Tibet.
Niranjan Shrestha Associated Press
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Nepalese woman looks out of a window at debris of collapsed buildings damaged by Sunday's earthquake in Katmandu, Nepal, Monday, Sept. 19, 2011. Rescue workers raced Monday to clear roads blocked by mudslides as they scrambled to reach remote villages cut off after the powerful earthquake shook northeast India, Nepal and Tibet.
Niranjan Shrestha Associated Press
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The street circuit of the Formula One night race is illuminated during a light testing seen from Swissotel The Stamford at dusk on Monday, Sept. 19, 2011 in Singapore which will be the host city for the SingTel Singapore Grand Prix from Sept. 23-25.
Wong Maye-E Associated Press
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A model displays a Spring/Summer design by Montse Bassons during the Pasarela Cibeles fashion show, in Madrid, Monday, Sept. 19, 2011.
Daniel Olza Associated Press