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Snapshots: The world in 24 hours, June 17

Updated: 2011-06-18 15:58

(chinadaily.com.cn)

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Snapshots: The world in 24 hours, June 17
Ghayyaz-Uddin, 52-year-old ear cleaner, wears his tools as he waits for customers along a sidewalk in Karachi June 17, 2011. [Photo/Agencies] 

Snapshots: The world in 24 hours, June 17
Floodlights illuminate the sky over Athens' Panathenaic Stadium, during a rehearsal for the opening ceremony of the Special Olympics late June 17, 2011. Home of the first modern Olympics in 1896, the Panathenaic is the only major stadium in the world built entirely of white marble. [Photo/Agencies] 

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