Today in photos (May 15)

View a gallery of photos from around the world on Wednesday, May 15, 2013.

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Wed., May 15, 2013

An Afghan National Police officer mans a checkpoint on the outskirts of Maidan Shahr, Wardak province, Wednesday, May 15, 2013. The National Police and Army are providing security unaided by international troops now in most of Afghanistan.

Anja Niedringhaus Associated Press
Jury president Steven Spielberg, left, and Nicole Kidman pose for photographers during a photo call for the jury at the 66th international film festival, in Cannes, southern France, Wednesday, May 15, 2013.

Francois Mori Associated Press
An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man bleeds after he was hit by a stone during clashes as Palestinians mark Nakba Day in Jerusalem, Wednesday, May 15, 2013. Palestinians annually mark the "nakba," or "catastrophe" -the term they use to describe their defeat and displacement in the war that followed Israel's founding in 1948.

Mahmoud Illean Associated Press
Internally displaced Rohingya people taking refuge in a building belongs to a mosque are silhouetted in Sittwe, northwestern Rakhine State, Myanmar, ahead of the arrival of Cyclone Mahasen, Wednesday, May 15, 2013. A massive evacuation to clear low-lying camps ahead of a cyclone has run into a potentially deadly snag as members of the displaced Rohingya minority living there have refused to leave because they don't trust Myanmar authorities.

Gemunu Amarasinghe Associated Press
Law enforcement officers salute as President Barack Obama arrives at the 32nd annual National Peace Officers' Memorial Service, Wednesday, May 15, 2013, on Capitol Hill in Washington.

Carolyn Kaster Associated Press
In this photo provided by the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, Pope Francis frees a dove during his weekly general audience in St. Peter Square at the Vatican, Wednesday, May 15, 2013. As Francis toured the square in his open-topped popemobile at his Wednesday audience with the public, someone at the edge of the crowd thrust a white bird cage at him. Looking puzzled, his security detail took the cage, containing a pair of white doves, and handed it to Francis. Without hesitation, the pope opened the cage door, thrust a hand inside and extracted one dove, and with a flick of his hand, sent the bird flying over the square.