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A supporter of Mohammed Mursi, the Muslim Brotherhood's candidate in Egypt's presidential election, at the party's last campaign rally for the presidential election in Cairo on May 20, 2012, the final day of campaigning.

Reuters reports — Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood showed off its ability to rally support with choreographed campaign events throughout the nation on Sunday in a final push to clinch victory for its candidate in this week's presidential election.

Egypt's first televised presidential debate thrills viewers

With official campaigning ending on Sunday, fireworks cracked in the night air and flames flared from the front of the stage as Brotherhood candidate Mohamed Mursi arrived to address the audience of several thousand gathered in central Cairo, outside Abdeen palace. 

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Several hundred imams listen to Mohammed Mursi at a rally in Cairo on May 20, 2012. The May 23-24 presidential election is the first since last year's ouster of longtime authoritarian ruler Hosni Mubarak.

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Supporters of Mohammed Mursi attend the party's last campaign rally in Cairo on May 20, 2012.

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Felix Girola waves to people as he takes his self-made bicycle for a spin through downtown Havana, Cuba on Friday. Girola says his bike measures 3.45 meters (11 feet) tall.

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Felix Girola climbs up his self-made bicycle as people help steady it as he prepares to take it for a ride in Havana.

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Felix Girola leads his self-made bicycle to take it for a ride in Havana, Cuba.

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Felix Girola welds a bicycle that he says will measure 5.5 meters (18 feet) tall as he works on it at a friend's iron workshop in Havana, Cuba.

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Felix Girola checks the alignment of a bicycle he is building that he says measures 5.5 meters (18 feet) tall.

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Rudimentary weapons confiscated by the police are displayed during a news conference in Caracas. Venezuela's Interior and Justice Minister Tareck El Aissami said about 1,800 firearms were seized this year in various operations in the Caracas metropolitan area as part of police efforts to combat crime.

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A worker destroys a weapon confiscated by the police during a news conference in Caracas.

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Weapons confiscated by the police are displayed during a news conference in Caracas.

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Migrants from Central America wait for a freight train after taking part in a protest in Lecheria, in Tultitlan, Mexico on May 17, 2012.

A group of migrants from Central America took part in a protest Thursday to demand that the Mexican government stop kidnappings, robberies and crimes committed by organised criminal groups against migrants.

Child actors shame Mexico's politicians with mockumentary

More than 200 illegal immigrants have been killed in Mexico in the last 10 months, according to the Casa del Migrante in Saltillo, northern Mexico, which coordinates several shelters for the homeless run by the Catholic Church.

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Some 140,000 Central Americans, according to government figures, enter Mexico illegally each year in the hope of reaching the northern border to cross into the United States. 

-- Reuters and Agence France Presse contributed to this report

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A Central American immigrant waits for a chance to board a train in Tultitlan on May 17, 2012.

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Honduran Reina Jackeline, who is six months pregnat, rests near a passing train in Tultitlan on May 17, 2012.

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A student protester in a panda suit confronts a policeman in downtown Montreal on May 17, 2012. The students are striking over a planned tuition hike of 82 percent or over $1,700 as part of the government's efforts to rein in a budget deficit.

Reuters reports — Quebec's government moved late on Wednesday to end a sometimes violent 14-week mass student strike in the Canadian province that officials fear could harm the economy and deter tourists.

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Policemen aim a teargas gun.

Premier Jean Charest said his government would shortly unveil legislation to ensure students could freely attend classes, although he did not give details. He did not address speculation that the bill would allow strikers to be fined.

"It is time calm was restored ... the current situation has gone on for too long," Charest said in a late-night statement to reporters.

Some 155,000 people - more than a third of the college and university students in the predominantly French-speaking province - are striking to protest against a steep rise in what are some of the lowest tuition fees in north America. Read the full story.

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Policemen restrain a student protester.

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A set of images released by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency show a scale model of the compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, where Osama bin Laden was killed, The Associated Press reports.

The model was built by the agency and used by military and intelligence leaders to plan the raid. The once-classified model is scaled at 1 inch to 7 feet and each object in the model existed at one time at the original compound.

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National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency via AP

Slideshow: After the raid: Inside bin Laden's compound

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U.S. forces found and killed the al-Qaida leader in the affluent Pakistani town of Abbottabad, where he had been living in a large compound.

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A man salvages his belongings after a fire in a slum at Shyamoli in Dhaka, the Bangladeshi capital, on May 16, 2012.

At least 10 people were injured, including a firefighter who sustained burns, and more than 150 shanties were burned down as a blaze swept through a Dhaka slum, Reuters reports. The local fire department said the cause of the blaze had yet to be ascertained.

Bangladeshi photographer Abir Abdullah, who took the photo below, has been documenting the havoc created by Dhaka's frequent fires for several years. He spoke to The New York Times about the project last month.

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A woman cries holding her child after she lost her shanty house in the fire.

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Firefighters work to control the blaze.

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German riot police carry a demonstrator covered in paint as police clear the camp of a group of occupy protestors in front of the European Central Bank in Frankfurt on May 16, 2012.

More on the European financial crisis:

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Afghan cardiologist Rahima Stanikzair, 43, travels to her private clinic after finishing work at the French Medical Institute for Children (FMIC) in Kabul on May 13, 2012.

Agence France Presse reports — Afghan cardiologist Rahima Stanikzair works 14 hours a day serving dozens of patients with heart problems at a private clinic as well as at the French Medical Institute for Children in Kabul.

When the Taliban ruled Afghanistan between 1996 and 2001, she continued working as a doctor as male medical personnel were banned from examining women.

Previously on PhotoBlog:

• In rural Afghanistan, the doctor arrives on the back of a donkey
• Childbirth in the country that is statistically the worst place to be a mother

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Rahima Stanikzair monitors an infant's heart at the French Medical Institute for Children (FMIC) in Kabul on May 13, 2012.

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Rahima Stanikzair leaves her office during her lunch break on May 13, 2012.