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Syrians peer at cars damaged by an explosion Thursday afternoon in Damascus near the capital's famous Hamidiyeh Market and the Palace of Justice. State TV reported at least three people were wounded and about 20 cars damaged. (Associated Press)
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The Truman model has an octagonal family room that is open to the center-island kitchen and breakfast area.
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K. Hovnanian Homes is building 46 single-family homes on 1-acre sites at Belle Haven in Woodbine in Howard County. The Truman model, with 4,283 square feet, is priced from $809,990.
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A plume of smoke rises behind homes from the Waldo Canyon Fire west of Colorado Springs on Wednesday. "It was like looking at the worst movie set you could imagine," Gov. John Hickenlooper said after flying over the 9-square-mile fire late Tuesday. (Associated Press)
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Indian ringneck parakeets fly over Le Jardin du Roi spice garden at moonrise on the main island of Mahe in the Seychelles, and one rests on a bamboo branch there. The birds, which first appeared in the Seychelles in the 1970s, are pretty to see but are marked for eradication because they carry a disease that could be fatal to native black parrots. (Associated Press)
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Indian ringneck parakeets fly over Le Jardin du Roi spice garden at moonrise on the main island of Mahe in the Seychelles, and one rests on a bamboo branch there. The birds, which first appeared in the Seychelles in the 1970s, are pretty to see but are marked for eradication because they carry a disease that could be fatal to native black parrots. (Associated Press)
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A boat carrying asylum seekers is pictured 120 miles north of Australia's Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean hours before it capsized on Wednesday, June 27, 2012. (AP Photo/Australian Maritime Safety Authority)
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Homes in the Mountain Shadows area of Colorado Springs, Colo., go up in flames from the Waldo Canyon fire on Tuesday, June 26, 2012. (AP Photo/The Gazette, Jerilee Bennett)
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A mannequin is positioned with its head over the tube of a firework to illustrate what not to do after lighting a firework. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission held a safety demonstration on Tuesday on the grounds of the Washington Monument to illustrate the perils. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson gives an interview to The Associated Press at the agency's headquarters in Washington on Tuesday, April 17, 2012. (Associated Press)
