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Nov. 5 Photo Brief: Million Muppet March, Peruvian shaman predicts election outcome, Obama, Romney, and The Boss

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Million Muppet March, Peruvian shaman predicts U.S. election outcome, Barack Obama, Mitt Romney and The Boss on the campaign trail and more in today’s daily brief.

Protesters with puppets walk in the Million Muppet March in support of federal funding for public television, in Washington, November 3, 2012. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) Protesters wearing Cookie Monster and Miss Piggy costumes walk in the Million Muppet March in support of federal funding for public television, in Washington, November 3, 2012. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) Eric Cardwell wears a costume depicting Big Bird carrying U.S. Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney in a trash can during a Million Muppet March in support of federal funding for public television, in Washington, November 3, 2012. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) U.S. Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney holds a rally at Orlando Sanford international airport in Orlando, Florida, November 5, 2012. (Emmanuel Dunand/AFP/Getty Images) U.S. President Barack Obama and rocker Bruce Springsteen wave to a crowd of 18,000 people during a rally on the last day of campaigning in the general election November 5, 2012 in Madison, Wisconsin. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) A Peruvian shaman performs rituals to predict the winner of the 2012 U.S. election, at San Cristobal hill in Lima, on November 05, 2012. The shaman prognosticated that Obama will succeed. (Ernesto Benavides/AFP/Getty Images) Former steel factory worker Zarko Hrgic, 57, smokes in front of his cave near Babina river in Babino village, near the central Bosnian town of Zenica. Hrgic has been living there since he was deported five years ago for staying illegally in Germany. His day starts with searching for food discarded in garbage bins in cities, as well as cigar butts, from which he makes improvised cigars. Picture taken November 3, 2012. (Dado Ruvic/Reuters) Blue bolt shrimps (Caridina Cantonensis) are displayed during a news conference before the 2012 Taiwan International Aquarium Expo in Taipei November 5, 2012. Blue bolt shrimp raised in Taiwan are selling for as much as NTD $100,000 (about USD $3,420) a piece to overseas collectors, according to the aquarium owner. (Pichi Chuang/Reuters) A therapist hypnotizes students retaking college entrance exams, during a meditation session at Deung Yong Moon Boarding School in Kwangju. South Korea's exam hell is an annual event so full of pressure that many students are driven to despair, with some even taking their own lives. Some 140,000 of the test takers signed up for this year's entrance exam on November 8, 21 percent of the total, are high school graduates, according to government data. The really determined, or desperate, may decide to spend nine months at one of 40 private boarding schools like Deung Yong Moon ("Gateway to Success") to dedicate their waking hours for the test. Picture taken October 30, 2012. (Kim Hong-Ji/Reuters) Vladimir Franz, university teacher, painter and composer who has tattoos covering 90 percent of his body attends a rally in Prague November 5, 2012, after he collected more then 50,000 supporting signatures which put him into the official race for the Czech Presidency. The first ever direct presidential election in Czech Republic takes place in January 2013 to replace the outgoing president Vaclav Klaus. (David W. Cerny/Reuters) A woman paints a dried clay lamp at her workplace on the outskirts of Jammu November 5, 2012. Earthen lamps are sold in large numbers during Diwali, the annual Hindu festival of lights, when people buy these for decorating their homes. The Diwali festival will be observed this year on November 13. (Mukesh Gupta/Reuters) A crowd gathers in front of a building and car damaged after a bomb explosion in the Mezzeh 86 area in Damascus, in this handout photograph released by Syria's national news agency SANA, November 5, 2012. A bomb attack in a western district of Damascus killed 11 people and wounded dozens more, including children, on Monday, Syrian state media and an activist group reported. (Sana/Reuters) An Afghan refugee looks on at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) registration center on the outskirts of Peshawar on November 5, 2012, as she and others prepare to return to their home country after fleeing civil war and Taliban rule. About 20 percent of the population in Afghanistan are refugees. Of those abroad, there are 1.7 million Afghans in Pakistan and a million in Iran. (A. Majeeda/AFP/Getty Images) An Afghan child sits next to a puppy at a brick factory in the outskirts of Herat on November 5, 2012. Over a third of Afghans are living in abject poverty, as those in power are more concerned about addressing their vested interests rather than the basic needs of the population, a UN report said. (Aref Karimi/AFP/Getty Images) Russian soldiers wearing Soviet Union WWII military uniforms take part in a rehearsal of a military parade on the Red square in Moscow on November 5, 2012. The event will take place on November 7, marking the 71st anniversary of a historical parade of 1941, when soldiers left for a front line just after marching here, as Nazi German troops were fighting with Soviet soldiers a few kilometers from Moscow. (Natalia Kolesnikovana/AFP/Getty Images) Pakistanis gather on Sea View Beach during sunset in Karachi on November 5, 2012. The beach, which overlooks the Arabian sea, is a popular attraction for families and tourists. (Asif Hassan/AFP/Getty Images) The pack gathers near a dead stag caught during a stag-hunting, on November 3, 2012 in Amboise. (Alain Jocard/AFP/Getty Images) English skipper Mike Golding poses aboard his monohull "Gamesa" on November 5, 2012 in Les Sables-d'Olonne, western France.Golding is taking part in the 7th edition of the Vendee Globe solo round-the-world race which will start on November 10, 2012. (Jean-Sebastien Evrard/AFP/Getty Images) Members of the phoenix Bonfire Society walk to join a procession ahead of the Bonfire Night celebrations on November 5, 2012 in Lewes, Sussex in England. Bonfire Night is related to the ancient festival of Samhain, the Celtic New Year. (Dan Kitwood/Getty Images) A woman walks past a wall decorated with a giant painting on November 5, 2012 in Moscow. (Andrey Smirnov/AFP/Getty Images) Naked volunteers perform for U.S. photographer and artist Spencer Tunick (out of frame) at Los Senderos Villages in San Miguel de Allende municipality, Guanajuato State, Mexico on November 4, 2012. Tunick is in Mexico for one day to make this performance commemorating the Day of the Dead. (Alfredo Estrella/AFP/Getty Images) A woman is reflected in a puddle of water as she makes her way at Tienanmen Square in Beijing on November 5, 2012. The Communist Party's Central Committee convened behind closed doors, state media said, with 500 senior members to debate key issues ahead of a congress which will open on November 8 to usher in leaders for the next decade. (Wang Zhao/AFP/Getty Images)

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