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At a Glance - May 1, 2008
Date: 5/1/2008 Album ID: 507951
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A view from across the nation and around the world, with news pictures from Thursday, May 1, 2008. Photography from the Associated Press and AFP/Getty Images.
Palestinians stand next to cooking gas canisters as they wait to fill them outside a gas station in Gaza City, Thursday, May 1, 2008. Israel began restricting supplies to the Gaza Strip when the militant group Hamas seized control in June 2007. The blockade has caused shortages of fuel, cement and other basic items and has deepened unemployment in the impoverished territory. Israel charges Hamas is holding up fuel supplies and causing an artificial crisis. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)
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Palestinian relatives mourn over the body of Islamic Jihad fighter Awad al-Qiq during his funeral on May 01, 2008 in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah. Qiq was killed and six others were wounded in an Israeli air strike against a mechanic's workshop in the southern Gaza Strip yesterday, a Palestinian medical official said. SAID KHATIB/AFP/Getty Images
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An Iraqi and his sister-in-law grieve outisde Baghdad's Sadr City hospital on May 1, 2008. The woman lost her husband and a son during clashes between militiamen and security forces in Baghdad's Sadr City that began last month and have left at least 925 people dead. AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP/Getty Images
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A man makes a photo of the backyard of the house in Amstetten, Austria, where 73-year-old Josef Fritzl imprisoned his daughter for 24 years in a windowless basement cell and fathered seven children with her, on Thursday, May 1, 2008. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)
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Fireman rescue a victim out of a crashed bus in Sai Kung in Hong Kong Thursday, May 1, 2008. An overcrowded tour bus lost control on a slope and flipped over Thursday in Hong Kong, killing 17 people and injuring 45 others who were members of a local religious group. The driver was arrested on charges of dangerous driving. (AP Photo)
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FARMBOROUGH, UNITED KINGDOM -- Priston Jubilee Morris Men dance at dawn at One Tree Hill on May 1 2008 in Farmborough, Somerset, England. The group, formed in 1977 in honour of Queen Elizabeth II's Silver Jubilee, have an annual tradition of seeing in the dawn on May 1 which is an important date in the traditional English countryside calender. Morris dancing - which some claim dates as far back as the 15th century - is a form of English traditional folk dance, usually accompanied by music with dancers using sticks, handkerchiefs and sometimes swords. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images)
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A roadside watermelon vendor takes a nap in Allahabad, India, Thursday, May 1, 2008. The temperatures in northern India continued to hover over 111 Farenhiet. (AP Photo/Rajesh kumar Singh)
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A driver navigates his truck down a flooded street in Wallagrass, Maine. Homes and businesses were flooded along the Fish River in Wallagrass, south of Fort Kent, where the rain-swollen St. John River crested after hitting a record high, forcing residents to flee to higher ground as more than 100 homes flooded. (AP Photo/Shawn Patrick Ouellette)
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Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., left, and her mother, Dorothy Rodham, right, listen as the senator's daughter, Chelsea, presents her mother's health care proposals during a campaign event in Brownsburg, Ind. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)
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President George W. Bush bows his head in prayer during an event marking the National Day of Prayer in the East Room of the White House May 1, 2008 in Washington, DC. The National Day of Prayer is a day designated by the U.S. Congress when Americans of all faiths are requested to pray together in their own way. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)
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A firefighter looks out of a third story window of Hunter Hall at Central State University in Wilberforce, Ohio, on Thursday, May 1, 2008. Fire sent thick smoke through the CSU dormitory Thursday, injuring five students including one who jumped from a third-story window, officials said. None of the injuries was life-threatening. (AP Photo/Dayton Daily News, Ty Greenlees)
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Carrying a large American flag, participants in an immigration march and protest make their way to the Federal Building in Chicago, Thursday, May 1, 2008. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
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U.S. District Court in Washington Chief Judge Royce C. Lamberth kisses his wife Janis Lamberth after a ceremony where the title of chief judge for the U.S. District Court in Washington was passed from Judge Thomas F. Hogan to Lamberth, Thursday, May 1, 2008, at the federal courthouse in Washington. Lamberth, who was appointed by President Reagan in 1987, will settle grand jury disputes, preside over complex cases and manage courthouse operations. He also served as the top judge on the nation's secret intelligence court, which approved national security warrants following the 2001 terrorist attacks. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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