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**FILE** White smoke rises Aug. 7, 2012, from the Chevron oil refinery in Richmond, Calif., during a controlled burn conducted the morning after a toxic fire at the refinery. (Associated Press/The Contra Costa Times)
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The shell of a burnt-out car is seen Aug. 14, 2012, in a neighborhood of Amiens, France. Dozens of young men rioted in a troubled district in northern France after weeks of tensions, pulling drivers from their cars and stealing the vehicles, and burning a school and a youth center. (Associated Press)
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Syrians inspect a hole allegedly made during an airstrike by government forces in the town of Marea, some 21 miles north of Aleppo, Syria, on Monday, Aug. 13, 2012. (AP Photo/ Khalil Hamra)
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associated press A North Korean man cooks at a makeshift shelter set up in a riverbed in Songchon County, North Korea, on Monday. He and others from his village are working to rebuild the road and riverbank that was destroyed by July flooding. Floods killed at least 169 North Koreans nationwide and destroyed tens of thousands of homes. Corn, rice and soybean plants lay withered and stunted a month before harvesting season is set to begin.
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This image purports to show Col. Rafik Mohammed Suleiman, a Syrian pilot, being interrogated by a rebel officer after his Soviet-made MiG warplane was apparently hit by ground fire over Deir el-Zour province in Syria on Monday. (Associated Press)
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On Sunday, Aug. 12, 2012, an Iranian woman grieves for loved ones who were killed in Saturday's earthquake in the village of Bajebaj in northwestern Iran. (AP Photo/ISNA, Arash Khamoushi)
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A wildfire advances Aug. 12, 2012, on the residential area in the evacuated Village of Valle Hermoso in La Gomera, Spain. Wildfires spurred by high temperatures raged across Spain's Canary Islands of La Gomera and Alicante. (Associated Press)
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associated press Jamaica’s Usain Bolt finished 6 for 6 in Olympic finals, with victories in the 100 meters, 200 meters and 400-meter relay in each the London and Beijing Games. In the process, he became the first to win the 200 meters twice.
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The USS Porter, a U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyer, was damaged in a collision with a Japanese-owned oil tanker just outside the strategic Strait of Hormuz on Sunday, Aug. 12, 2012. The collision left a gaping hole in the starboard side of the Porter, but no one was injured on either vessel, the Navy said. (AP Photo/U.S. Navy, Jonathan Sunderman)
