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    'Standing Man' goes viral, inspires silent protests in Turkey

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    Erdem Gunduz, center, stands on Taksim Square during a protest that was quickly dubbed "duranadam" or "standing man", in Istanbul, Turkey, early on June 18, 2013. Gunduz was briefly searched and questioned by police, media reports said.

    By Reuters

    A Turkish man has staged an eight-hour silent vigil on Istanbul's Taksim Square, scene of violent clashes between police and anti-government protesters in recent weeks, inspiring hundreds of others to follow his lead.

    Erdem Gunduz said he wanted to take a stand against police stopping demonstrations near the square, Dogan news agency reported.

    He stood silently, facing the Ataturk Cultural Center, which was draped in Turkish flags and a portrait of Turkey's founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, from 6 p.m. (11 a.m. ET) on Monday.

    Marco Longari / AFP - Getty Images

    Erdem Gunduz stood for several hours unnoticed before his presence on the flashpoint square went viral on the social network Twitter. He was then joined by hundreds of others. Turkish police intervened, clearing the square and arresting several demonstrators.

    By 2 a.m. (7 p.m. ET), when the police moved in, about 300 people had joined him. Ten people who refused to be moved on by police were detained.

    Gunduz, swiftly dubbed "Standing Man" on social media in Turkey, inspired similar protests elsewhere in Istanbul as well as in the capital Ankara and the city of Izmir on the Aegean coast. Read the full story.

    Related: Woman in red sprayed with teargas becomes symbol of Turkey protests

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    A man emulating Erdem Gunduz by standing on Taksim Square is arrested by police on June 18, 2013.

    Sedat Suna / EPA

    By Tuesday morning, others had begun to mimic Gunduz' protest in Taksim Square.

    Sedat Suna / EPA

    A protester stands on Taksim Square on June 18, 2013.

    Sedat Suna / EPA

    A protester reads a book (Franz Kafka's "The Metamorphosis") during a 'duranadam' protest in Istanbul on June 18, 2013.

    Sedat Suna / EPA

    Protesters stand on Taksim Square during a 'duranadam' protest on June 18, 2013.

    Slideshow: Anger in Turkey

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    Protests that started as an outcry against a local development project in Taksim Square have snowballed into widespread anger against what critics say is the government's increasingly conservative and authoritarian agenda.

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    Turkish demonstrators held a silent protest in Istanbul's Taksim Square, inspired by a man who staged an eight-hour silent vigil Monday. NBCNews.com's Dara Brown reports.

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    78 comments

    @stan berry - what an idiot you are. We have freedom of speech and have the right to protest peacefully. These people have been sprayed with water cannons, jailed, etc. Just standing there can get one arrested. Making fun of people in a country who probably have less rights than your pet is childish …

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  • 4
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    Derelict Northern Ireland shops get facelift ahead of G8 summit

    Cathal McNaughton / Reuters

    A man walks his dog past a vacant store, with graphics pasted to the outside to make it look like a working butcher's shop -- down to a fake open door --in the village of Belcoo, Northern Ireland.The upcoming G-8 summit will be held at a nearby golf resort. Local councils in Northern Ireland have painted fake shop fronts and covered derelict buildings with huge billboards to hide the economic hardship being felt in towns and villages near the golf resort where world leaders will meet.

    By Shawn Pogatchnik, The Associated Press

    The Northern Ireland border village of Belcoo has never looked so good. And critics say that's just the problem.

    Organizers of the Group of Eight summit of world leaders in Northern Ireland June 17-18 have spent weeks sprucing up the facades of businesses all around the County Fermanagh venue. Their use of window-sized posters on two derelict Belcoo shops, to make them appear like thriving businesses with fully stocked shelves, has proved most eye-catching — indeed, eye-fooling.

    While many in the border village of barely 500 residents and two pubs applaud the novel use of posters to give their home a cheerier look, some complain they've covered up the reality of economic hard times.

    To passing motorists, the former Flanagan's butcher's shop in Belcoo looks packed to the rafters with fresh cuts of meat. Its locked door even has a poster on it, depicting an open door so convincing that would-be shoppers have nearly strolled into the wall.

    In reality Belcoo, which lies directly on the Republic of Ireland border and about 10 miles south of the luxury golf resort hosting the G8 summit, has been hard hit by the staggering collapse of Ireland's Celtic Tiger economy. Read the full story.

    Peter Morrison / AP

    Women walk past a derelict shop, its windows covered in giant posters to make it look like an inviting cheese shop, in Fivemiletown, a village on the road to Enniskillen, the site of the G-8 summit in Northern Ireland.

     

    Cathal McNaughton / Reuters

    Security fencing covered with scenic pictures of County Fermanagh surrounds an unfinished building site in the village of Irvinestown, June 3, 2013.

    Peter Morrison / AP

    A woman walks past a derelict shop, its windows covered in giant posters to make it look like a cafe, in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland on June 6, 2013.

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    A derelict caravan is seen on June 14 with the letters 'G8 H Quarters' written on it in a field near the Lough Erne Golf Resort, where the G-8 summit will be held.

    Cathal McNaughton / Reuters

    Waste ground is hidden by a protective screen printed with scenic views of Fermanagh, near the Lough Erne Golf Resort on June 10, 2013.

    Cathal McNaughton / Reuters

    A girl runs past anti-G-8 posters stuck to a wall along the Falls Road in West Belfast on June 14, 2013.

    Peter Morrison / AP

    A member of ground staff paints a sign on the 18th tee box at Lough Erne Golf Resort on June 6, 2013. The resort is due to host the G-8 summit on June 17-18.

    Related:

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    Ghost towns tell the story of Ireland's faded dream

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    53 comments

    Giving the place a facelift is slightly defeating the Purpose. The G8 are there to help solve the global finicial crisis - surely the best thing to do is show the REALITY of the situation instead of covering it up........... but then again I suppose if your a local you have your pride

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  • 12
    Jun
    2013
    9:43am, EDT

    Man turns bathtub into boat in flooded German town

    Jan Woitas / dpa via AP

    Uwe Peterle moves across an area flooded by the river Mulde with a boat made out of a bathtub in Niesau, eastern Germany, on June 11, 2013. Residents of Niesau are completely surrounded by the floods.

    Sandor H. Szabo / Hungarian Police ORFK via AFP - Getty Images

    Zichy chapel is surrounded by water from the flooded Danube river on June 9, 2013 near the village of Lorev, Hungary.

    Peter Kohalmi / AFP - Getty Images

    Two deer swim in the flooded Danube river as they look for shelter in the Gemenc Forest, Hungary.

    By Reuters

    Floods that have devastated parts of southern and eastern Germany could briefly impede growth in Europe's biggest economy, an industry body said, while ratings agency Fitch said the economic cost could be as high as 12 billion euros.

    Hundreds of thousands of people in Germany, the Czech Republic and Slovakia have been evacuated from their homes in the last week as floods swept through central European cities and countryside, causing factories to halt production. Read the full story.

    Previous images of the flooding on PhotoBlog:

    • Thousands more displaced as deadly flooding spreads in Europe
    • Floods sweep through Prague, move towards Germany
    • European countries swamped by worst flooding in decades
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  • 11
    Jun
    2013
    11:31am, EDT

    'Flying Pencil' WWII German bomber raised from depths of English Channel

    Iain Duncan / Royal Air Force Museum via AFP - Getty Images

    The wreck of a German World War II Dornier Do 17 plane is lifted on to a ship at Goodwin Sands in the English Channel on June 10, 2013. Experts from the Royal Air Force Museum had spent five weeks preparing to lift the aircraft, which was shot down during the Battle of Britain in 1940. The operation to retrieve it was the biggest of its kind in British waters, the museum said.

    Royal Air Force Museum via AP

    An archive photo shows a formation of German WWII Dornier Do 17 bombers.

    By The Associated Press

    Royal Air Force Museum via Reuters

    Alex Medhurst of the RAF Museum lays a wreath at the tombstone of Luftwaffe Cpl. Heinz Huhn at Cannock Chase German war cemetery in Cannock, central England, on June 10, 2013.

    A British museum on Monday successfully recovered a German bomber that had been shot down over the English Channel during World War II.

    The aircraft, nicknamed the Luftwaffe's "Flying Pencil" because of its narrow fuselage, came down off the coast of Kent more than 70 years ago during the Battle of Britain.

    The rusty and damaged plane is believed to be the most intact example of the German Dornier Do 17 bomber that has ever been found. Divers discovered the aircraft submerged in 50 feet of water in 2008.

    There were no human remains aboard the aircraft. Of the four crew, two survived and saw out the war in prisoner of war camps in Canada, according to a blog post on the Royal Air Force Museum website. Bombardier Heinz Huhn was killed and Wireless Operator Helmut Reinhardt died of his injuries. A wreath was laid at Huhn's grave in Cannock, England, on Monday. 

    Related:
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    World War II-era US plane found buried in mud in Thailand
    Tuskegee airman buried in Arlington National Cemetery

    Port Of London Authority via EPA

    An undated sonar image shows the wreck of the Dornier Do 17 bomber lying on Goodwin Sands before it was raised.

    Peter MacDiarmid / Getty Images

    The plane found on Goodwin Sands is believed to be aircraft call-sign 5K-AR, shot down on August 26, 1940 at the height of the battle by RAF Boulton-Paul Defiant fighters.

    Iain Duncan / Royal Air Force Museum via Reuters

    The cockpit of the recovered aircraft, which will be preserved and put on display for the public at the RAF museum in London.

    Peter MacDiarmid / Getty Images

    Salvage workers inspect the aircraft after it was lifted from the English Channel in a project that suffered many delays due to poor weather.

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    8 comments

    It always amazed me that with the success and advanced design by Germany of its fighter planes, why those advances did not also include the bomber class.

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  • 10
    Jun
    2013
    8:06am, EDT

    Tiny figures walk through giant copper mine

    Marko Djurica / Reuters

    Two miners walk through a open copper pit in the Serbian town of Bor on June 8, 2013. In Serbia, foreign companies are picking up a long tradition of prospecting for gold and copper and discovering deposits that could mark a revival of the country's mining sector, Reuters reports.

    Pressured by cautious investors, international mining companies are putting riskier exploration projects in places like Africa on ice and turning to developments where infrastructure and political risk are lower. 

    Previously on PhotoBlog:

    • Powering your electronics: South America's 'lithium triangle'
    • River turns white from pollution in China
    • Utah copper mine suspends operations after large landslide
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  • 6
    Jun
    2013
    11:35am, EDT

    Down and out in Athens: Putting faces on Greece's economic crisis

    Yannis Behrakis / Reuters

    Alexandros, a 42-year-old from Serres in northern Greece, sits in the abandoned car he lives in, at the port of Piraeus near Athens on April 10, 2013. Alexandros owned a plant shop in Athens until 2010 and he became homeless soon after he was forced to close the shop.

    Yannis Behrakis / Reuters

    Marialena, a 42-year-old homeless AIDS sufferer and former drug addict who is on a methadone rehabilitation program, sleeps under a bridge in central Athens on May 13, 2013.

    Yannis Behrakis / Reuters

    Marialena pushes away her boyfriend Dimitrios who is trying to clean up her self-inflicted wounds, under a bridge in central Athens on May 15, 2013. Dimitrios, 51, was a dancer for a famous Greek folk dancing troupe until he lost his job three years ago and became homeless.

    By Yannis Behrakis, Reuters

    Marialena’s tears ran down her face onto the dirty mattress where she and her boyfriend Dimitrios have been sleeping day in, day out, for over a year, under a bridge in one of Athens’ most run-down neighborhoods.

    Marialena, 42, is a homeless AIDS patient and a former drug addict on a methadone rehab program.

    Athens is full of sad stories like hers – of once ordinary people with a job and family who have found themselves on the fringes of society after the country’s economic crisis began in 2009. Up until a few years ago, homelessness was relatively unusual in this country of close family ties, but nowadays stories like Marialena’s are increasingly common.

    Editor's note: Photos made available June 6, 2013.

    Yannis Behrakis / Reuters

    Clothes hang on a line in an abandoned warehouse in the central vegetable market in Athens on Jan. 17, 2013.

    Since the debt crisis erupted in 2009, hundreds of thousands of Greeks have lost their jobs and the unemployment rate in the country reached 26.8 percent in March, new figures show. Klimaka, a nongovernmental organization, estimated there were around 20,000 homeless in Greece in 2012

    Yannis Behrakis / Reuters

    Tareq, a 46-year-old unemployed painter, is reflected in a mirror in the shed where he lives at an abandoned factory in central Athens on May 30, 2013. Tareq, a Syrian refugee, who lived in Greece during the 1990s, returned to Syria, but fled back to Greece in 2012, to escape the violence there.

    Yannis Behrakis / Reuters

    A man waits to receive food outside Klimaka, a charity that works with the homeless, in Athens on Feb. 27, 2013.

    Yannis Behrakis / Reuters

    Giorgos, 50, sits with his belongings under a bridge, where he lives with a group of other homeless people, in central Athens on May 25, 2013. Giorgos was forced to close down the billiard hall he owned in 2006 and spent time in prison for not paying his social security debts.

    Yannis Behrakis / Reuters

    Michael, 36-year-old and unemployed, poses by an abandoned open-air cinema in central Athens on Feb. 8, 2013. Michael worked as a hotel clerk for over fifteen years but when the hotel closed he was unable to find work and in late 2011 became homeless. Two months later he was diagnosed with lymph node and thyroid cancer. He now lives outside a church.

    Read full story on Reuters' Photographers Blog

    Related content on PhotoBlog:

    • Desperate Greeks scuffle at free food handout
    • Protesters gather in front of Greece's parliament as lawmakers consider austerity measures
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    2 comments

    Awesome pictures. Poverty art. Shame on the greek politician that for so many years have created a society without social benefits and security net for the most vulnerable. At the same time they live in their luxury homes behind walls in the affluent parts of Athens. Recipe for revolution.

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  • 4
    Jun
    2013
    7:47am, EDT

    Cat detained on clandestine mission at Russia prison

    Press service of the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service for the Republic of Komi via AP

     

    By David R Arnott, NBC News

    Guards patrolling a prison colony in Russia's north saw a cat scaling the fence and noticed something a little fishy, The Associated Press reports.

    On closer inspection, they found several cellphones and chargers taped to the animal's belly.

    The feline's clandestine mission took place at Penal Colony No. 1 in Komi province, some 600 miles northeast of Moscow.

    But was it a copycat crime? Last December, a Brazilian kitty was caught delivering contraband to inmates at a Brazilian prison.

    The fate of the Russian cat is unknown, according to The Moscow Times.

    EDITOR'S NOTE: Photo taken on May 31, 2013 and made available to NBC News today.

     

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    73 comments

    And what became of the cat? Likely nothing good, considering it's Russia and how rough the guard is holding her; she is terrified and can't breathe well. It's okay to pick up a small > 1 lb. kitten that way, but it's dangerous and painful to an adult cat, unless there is also a hand on the shanks …

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  • 3
    Jun
    2013
    7:25am, EDT

    'Moss men' join Corpus Christi procession in Spain

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    'Hombres de Musgo' or 'Moss Men' take part in the Corpus Christi procession on June 2, 2013 in Bejar, Salamanca province, Spain.

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    A detail of the hand of a 'Hombre de Musgo' in Bejar on June 2, 2013.

    Men in camouflage suits made of moss took part in a Corpus Christi procession in the Spanish town of Bejar on Sunday.

    The tradition, which dates back to 1397, originates from a legend involving Christians reconquering the town by entering under cover of darkness covered in moss to hide themselves from Muslim guards. 

    Jon Nazca / Reuters

    People make a 'cachiporra' (a traditional whip made of grass) during Corpus Christi celebrations in Zahara de la Sierra, southern Spain, on June 2, 2013.

    Elsewhere in southern Spain, residents of the village of Zahara de la Sierra celebrated the feast by covering the streets and facades of houses with the branches of trees and grass.

    During Corpus Christi, the Catholic community celebrates the transformation of the body and blood of Christ into the bread and wine that the faithful receive at Communion.

    -- Getty Images, Reuters, The Associated Press

    Emilio Morenatti / AP

    Worshipers pray next to a house decorated with flowers and branches during the Corpus Christi procession in Zahara de la Sierra on June 2, 2013.

    Alvaro Barrientos / AP

    People scatter rose petals during the procession of Corpus Christi in Pamplona, northern Spain, on June 2, 2013.

    Alvaro Barrientos / AP

    A deacon wafts incense smoke during the procession of Corpus Christi in Pamplona on June 2, 2013.

    Jon Nazca / Reuters

    Children wearing first communion dresses wait inside a church after taking part in a procession in Zahara de la Sierra on June 2, 2013.

    Kai Foersterling / EPA

    Residents pour water over participants in the traditional Corpus Christi procession in Valencia on June 2, 2013.

    Emilio Morenatti / AP

    A woman cleans the floor of her house decorated with flowers and branches as she waits for a Corpus Christi procession in Zahara de la Sierra on June 2, 2013.

    Pablo Blazquez Dominguez / Getty Images

    'Hombres de Musgo' take part in the Corpus Christi procession in Bejar on June 2, 2013.

    See more images of Corpus Christi celebrations on PhotoBlog.

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    That is BS. Muslims don't recognize diversity. They kill it!

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  • 31
    May
    2013
    11:07am, EDT

    Dwarves and fire demons light up religious festival in Catalonia

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    Revelers surround the "Nans Vells" - "old dwarves" in Catalan - during the first day of the Patum festival in Berga, Catalonia, Spain, on May 30, 2013.

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    Firecrackers explode as revelers take part in the dance of the 'Plens' - fire demons - during the first day of the Patum festival.

    By David R Arnott, NBC News

    Revelers were greeted by the sight of papier mâché horses, fire demons, dragons and giant-headed dwarves on the streets of Berga, a city in Spain's Catalonia region, on Thursday night.

    The Patum festival, which takes place each year during the week of Corpus Christi, has its roots in the theatrical performances of the Middle Ages, Getty Images reports. 

    In 2005, the event was recognized as part of "the intangible cultural heritage of humanity" by UNESCO.

    David Ramos / Getty Images

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    Revelers hold maces with firecrackers as they dance during the first day of the festival.

    David Ramos / Getty Images

    Revelers gather around the "Nans Vells".

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  • 31
    May
    2013
    7:50am, EDT

    'Blockupy' protesters surround European Central Bank

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    Riot police confront demonstrators in a park next to the headquarters of the European Central Bank (ECB) in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, on May 31, 2013.

    By Edward Taylor, Reuters

    Kai Pfaffenbach / Reuters

    Riot police stand near the euro sign in front of the European Central Bank.

    Thousands of demonstrators from the anti-capitalist Blockupy movement cut off access to the European Central Bank in Frankfurt on Friday to protest against policymakers' handling of Europe's debt crisis.

    The crowd, estimated by police at roughly 2,500 protesters, was met by armed police wearing helmets and riot gear and accompanied by Alsatian dogs. Trucks with water cannons stood by and a helicopter hovered overhead.

    "The aim of this blockade is to prevent normal operations (at the ECB)," said Blockupy spokesman Martin Sommer, adding that some people who had tried to come to work had been sent home by the protesters. Read the full story.

    Kai Pfaffenbach / Reuters

    Riot police scuffle with protesters in front of the European Central Bank headquarters.

    Kai Pfaffenbach / Reuters

    Protesters try to stop a man from entering the blockade around the European Central Bank headquarters during an anti-capitalism "Blockupy" demonstration.

    Protesters from the "Blockupy" anti-capitalist movement surrounded the headquarters of the European Central Bank in Frankfurt today. NBCNews.com's Dara Brown reports.

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    2 comments

    Peace through equality. It's the only way.

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  • 30
    May
    2013
    10:51am, EDT

    Catholics celebrate feast of Corpus Christi

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    Women in traditional costumes chat under a dark sky after a Corpus Christi mass in Appenzell, Switzerland, on May 30, 2013.

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    Members of the minority Sorb community take part in a Corpus Christi procession in Crostwitz, Germany, on May 30, 2013.

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    Participants wearing traditional Bavarian folk costumes visit the local cemetery under drizzling rain after attending the annual Corpus Christi ('Fronleichnam' in German) mass at St. Michael's Church in Seehausen am Staffelsee, Germany, on May 30, 2013. The Seehausen Corpus Christi celebration usually includes a procession to a chapel across the nearby Staffelsee lake, though rain forced organizers to cancel the lake procession this year.

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    Girls and young women attend the Fronleichnam mass at St. Michael's Church in Seehausen am Staffelsee, Germany, on May 30, 2013 .

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    A woman leads a boy through the nearby cemetery during the annual Fronleichnam mass at St. Michael's Church in Seehausen am Staffelsee, Germany, on May 30, 2013.

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    Today, we Catholics celebrate the Solemnity of Corpus Christi. The Body and Blood of Christ.The Holy Food, instituted by Christ at the last supper and given to his Believers not only as a rememberance, but as real food for the Soul.

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  • 23
    May
    2013
    10:58am, EDT

    Britons react with horror and anger to London attack

    Facundo Arrizabalaga / EPA

    A woman bows her head after leaving flowers outside Royal Artillery Barracks, Woolwich Headquarters, on May 23, close to the scene where a soldier was murdered in Woolwich, southeast London.

    By Alastair Jamieson and F. Brinley Bruton, NBC News

    LONDON -- A man was killed by knife-wielding assailants on a London street Wednesday, and a bloodstained suspect at the scene holding a meat cleaver was captured on video telling passers-by: "We swear by the almighty Allah."

    Eyewitnesses said the two attackers were later shot by officers, and described the victim as being chopped like a "piece of meat." Those two men were taken to a hospital where they were later arrested. Read full story

    Facundo Arrizabalaga / EPA

    Members of the public shout racist slogans as the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, (unseen) arrives on May 23 at the scene where a soldier was murdered in Woolwich, southeast London.

    Facundo Arrizabalaga / EPA

    British police officers work close to the scene on May 23, the day after a soldier was murdered in Woolwich, southeast London.

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    A woman carries flowers May 23 close to the scene of the attack.

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    British Prime Minister David Cameron, left, leaves after visiting Woolwich Barracks in southeast London on May 23. Cameron vowed that Britain would be resolute against violent extremism following the gruesome murder of a soldier by two suspected Islamists on a London street.

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    Women bring flowers to the Royal Artillery Barracks, Woolwich Headquarters, close to the scene where a soldier was murdered.

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    A British police officer carries a knife in an evidence bag on May 23 close to the scene of the attack.

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    104 comments

    Another horrifying act from the "Religion Of Peace". And yes, an immediate freeze on visas to be issued in Muslim countries. If you're not a child coming here for life saving treatment, no visa for you.

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