Chancellor Angela Merkel is obscured by a bystander as she arrives for the weekly cabinet meeting at the chancellery in Berlin, Wednesday, July 1, 2015. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
Pensioners try to get a number to enter inside a bank in Athens, Wednesday, July 1, 2015. About 1,000 bank branches around the country were ordered by the government to reopen Wednesday to help desperate pensioners without ATM cards cash up to 120 euros ($134) from their retirement checks. Eurozone finance ministers were set to weigh Greece’s latest proposal for aid Wednesday. (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza)
Greece’s Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis answers questions from the media as he prepares to ride his motorbike as he leaves his office in Athens, Wednesday, July 1, 2015. About 1,000 bank branches around the country were ordered by the government to reopen Wednesday to help desperate pensioners without ATM cards cash up to 120 euros ($134) from their retirement checks. Eurozone finance ministers were set to weigh Greece’s latest proposal for aid Wednesday. (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza)
A street performer in a Mickey Mouse costume rests on a bench in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico, Wednesday, July 1, 2015, the day a 11.5% sales tax went into effect, the highest of any U.S. state. The island’s administration has been pushing for Congress to let the government and public agencies seek bankruptcy protection, while the White House has said no one is contemplating a federal bailout of Puerto Rico. (AP Photo/Ricardo Arduengo)
Pakistani children suffering from the extreme weather wait for medical attention outside a local hospital in Karachi, Pakistan, Wednesday, July 1, 2015. Pakistan’s government said the brutal heat wave that hit the port city of Karachi and the country’s southern province of Sind in June killed 1,250 people before subsiding. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)
Tubers float on the Comal River, Wednesday, July 1, 2015, in New Braunfels, Texas. Both the Comal, with was closed briefly Tuesday due to weather, and Guadalupe river, which has been closed to tubers for several weeks, are scheduled to be open for water recreation for the holiday weekend. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
Tribal dancers entertain Burundians in Bujumbura, Burundi, Wednesday July 1, 2015. Burundi celebrated its 53rd Independence Day on Wednesday, as the country awaits results of parliamentary elections marked by an opposition boycott and the threat of violence in the capital. (AP Photo/Berthier Mugiraneza).
Soccer fan Paulo Valdes, who has an image of Chile’s Gary Medel tattooed on his right leg, stands outside the Juan Pinto Duran sporting complex, in hopes that he will be able to obtain a free ticket to the Copa America final, in Santiago, Chile, Wednesday, July 1, 2015. (AP Photo/Luis Hidalgo)
Kaveri, eight-year-old hippopotamus, right, plays with her yet to be named three-day-old baby hippo inside their enclosure at the Bannerghatta National Park, 25 kilometers (16 miles) south of Bangalore, India, Wednesday, July 1, 2015. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)
The sun sets behind people on a ride at the State Fair Meadowlands, Wednesday, July 1, 2015, in East Rutherford, N.J. The fair closes on Sunday. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
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