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Supporters of the BJP celebrate vote counting results for India's general election in New Delhi. AFP
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A model presents a creation for Dior during the 2025 Dior Croisiere (Cruise) fashion show on June 3, 2024 at Drummond Castle, in Crieff, in Scotland. (Photo by ANDY BUCHANAN / AFP)
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A woman holds a Brazilian flag in the middle of a flooded street in Porto Alegre, Brazil. EPA
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A spectator smiles after catching Novak Djokovic's towel during his fourth-round match against Francisco Cerundolo at the French Open in Roland Garros, Paris. AP
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Activist Alexandra Wong is led to a police van after being detained at Causeway Bay near Victoria Park in Hong Kong, China. EPA
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A man salvages a corrugated iron sheet from destroyed houses in the aftermath of a tornado in Tongaat, north of Durban. AFP
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Salt evaporation ponds near the Manzala salt lake in Egypt's northern province of Daqahliya. AFP
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Fans watch the Mekelle 70 Enderta and Raya Azebo football match at Mekelle Stadium, Ethiopia. AFP
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A flooded street and buildings in Passau, Bavaria, southern Germany. AFP
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An Indigenous Guna woman waits for her transfer from Carti Sugtupu island to the mainland, in Guna Yala Comarca, on the Caribbean coast in Panama. AFP
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D-Day veterans in the map room at Southwick House, the nerve centre of D-Day operations 80 years ago, during a gathering of World War II veterans near Portsmouth. AFP
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Police stand guard during the 'Ni una menos' demonstration in front of the National Congress in Buenos Aires, Argentina. EPA
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An explosion following an Israeli air strike on Al Bureije refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip. EPA
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A coot swims with her chicks on the surface of a lake during a sunny day in Tallinn, Estonia. AP
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Supporters of the BJP celebrate vote counting results for India's general election in New Delhi. AFP
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A model presents a creation for Dior during the 2025 Dior Croisiere (Cruise) fashion show on June 3, 2024 at Drummond Castle, in Crieff, in Scotland. (Photo by ANDY BUCHANAN / AFP)
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A woman holds a Brazilian flag in the middle of a flooded street in Porto Alegre, Brazil. EPA
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A spectator smiles after catching Novak Djokovic's towel during his fourth-round match against Francisco Cerundolo at the French Open in Roland Garros, Paris. AP
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Activist Alexandra Wong is led to a police van after being detained at Causeway Bay near Victoria Park in Hong Kong, China. EPA
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A man salvages a corrugated iron sheet from destroyed houses in the aftermath of a tornado in Tongaat, north of Durban. AFP
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Salt evaporation ponds near the Manzala salt lake in Egypt's northern province of Daqahliya. AFP
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Fans watch the Mekelle 70 Enderta and Raya Azebo football match at Mekelle Stadium, Ethiopia. AFP
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A flooded street and buildings in Passau, Bavaria, southern Germany. AFP
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An Indigenous Guna woman waits for her transfer from Carti Sugtupu island to the mainland, in Guna Yala Comarca, on the Caribbean coast in Panama. AFP
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D-Day veterans in the map room at Southwick House, the nerve centre of D-Day operations 80 years ago, during a gathering of World War II veterans near Portsmouth. AFP
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Police stand guard during the 'Ni una menos' demonstration in front of the National Congress in Buenos Aires, Argentina. EPA
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An explosion following an Israeli air strike on Al Bureije refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip. EPA
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A coot swims with her chicks on the surface of a lake during a sunny day in Tallinn, Estonia. AP
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Supporters of the BJP celebrate vote counting results for India's general election in New Delhi. AFP
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