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Week in photos: May 27-31

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An ostrich tries to catch a drink from a water spout at the zoo in Haikou, China. Barcroft Media
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Surfers brave the rough waters along Dania Beach, Fla., near where an 18-year-old drowned over the holiday weekend and where dangerous conditions were expected to continue through the week. AP
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A life-sized kaleidescope catches interest at the International Garden Expo Park in Beijing, China. ZUMA Press
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Groundskeepers sweep rainwater from a tarp covering one of the courts at the French Open at Roland Garros stadium in Paris. Reuters
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A young recruit helps Belarussian border guards celebrate their agency’s anniversary in Minsk. AFP/Getty Images
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A young man is soaked by water cannons as riot cops disperse a student protest in Santiago, Chile. The students demanded a ‘free’ and ‘dignified’ education, according to local media. ZUMA Press
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A young student of the MCB Sports Academy plays on the beach at a resort in Port Louis, Mauritius. Getty Images
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David Craig — a former merchant navyman — peeks through a pair of arctic goggles at a preview of the Arctic Convoys exhibition at the National War Museum in Edinburgh, Scotland. Getty Images
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A girl reaches for a giant soap bubble during a charity event for children with autism in a park in Kiev, Ukraine. AFP/Getty Images
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Students cross a flooded road near their middle school on a row of bricks in Shangqiu, China. Reuters
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Smoke from a raging wildfire blocks out the sun over the mountains north of Santa Barbara, Calif., where fire crews are struggling to corral the blaze that sent thousands of campers fleeing the mountains. AP
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A nomadic Kashmiri boy walks with a pair of goats on his back through the outskirts of Srinagar, India. AP
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Inuka, the first polar bear born in the tropics, swims in his new enclosure to the delight of a group of students visiting him at the Singapore Zoo. AP
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A nurse checks in on the newborn baby rescued from a sewage pipe in Jinhua, China, earlier this week. The child is reportedly in stable condition. Reuters
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Palestinians sell corn on the beach at sunset in the central Gaza strip. EPA
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An Iranian girl holds supports the cause of presidential candidate Saeed Jalili — he’s currently Iran’s top nuclear negotiator — at a campaign rally for female supporters, in Tehran. AP
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A Lebanese man removes debris from his damaged home, hit by rockets fired by Syrian rebels according to villagers, in Hermel, Lebanon, where shells fired in their neighbors’ civil war regularly fall. AP
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Marine Pfc. Sebastian Rodriguez fires an M240 machine gun during a night squad-attack exercise at Kangaroo Flats Training Area in Australia. Reuters
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Fog hides the skyline of New York, which would normally dominate the view from the Hudson River promenade in Hoboken, NJ. REUTERS
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A woman and her son are inconsolable as Israeli bulldozers destroy a Palestinian home in east Jerusalem’s Beit Hanina neighborhood. AFP/Getty Images
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Pope Francis waves to the much drier faithful as he arrives for his general audience at the Vatican in a downpour. AP
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This noose-bearing spanish protestor isn’t exactly happy with the EU as he joins a rally outside “bad bank” SAREB in Madrid, Spain, in support of subprime mortgage victims. AP
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Vincent Autin and Bruno Boileau celebrate their marriage a balcony at city hall in Montpellier, France. The couple is the first to officially wed under France’s new law. AFP/Getty Images
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Debris lays scattered across the roadway in Mount Morris, Mich. Powerful thunderstorms — and at least one tornado — caused damage across the state’s lower peninsula. AP
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Isabel Cholbi of San Bernardino cheers her right answer during the semi-final round of the Scripps National Spelling Bee at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center at National Harbor in Maryland. Reuters
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Venezuela’s opposition leader Henrique Capriles speaks to expat Venezuelans in Bogota, Colombia, amid his attempts to build international support to overturn the April 14 presidential election he claims was fraudulent. AP
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Storm clouds gather over over Guthrie, Okla., where tornado warnings stoked fear of a repeat of last week’s deadly weather. AP/KFOR-TV
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A Buddhist monk shares a snack with one of the big cats at the Tiger Temple in Kanchanaburi, Thailand. Paul Brown/Rex / Rex USA
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Stickers and signs stuck to the window of a bank in Pamplona name alleged corrupt politicians amid a general strike in protest of Spain’s planned austerity measures. AP
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Determined spectators attempt to wait out a rain delay in the stands before the match between Rafael Nadal and Martin Klizan at the French Open in Paris. Reuters
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A diapered child and a dog cool off in the fountain at New York City’s Washington Square. Better than in a city pool, we think. Reuters
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Pregnant women paint their bellies at a local hospital’s ‘Healthy Maternity Week’ event in Lima, Peru. Reuters
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Dan Reynolds of Imagine Dragons performs at the Hollywood Palladium. Getty Images
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As the weather starts to heat up, farmers shear an alpaca in its enclosure at a zoo in Shijiazhuang, China. Reuters
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Devi ‘The Devastator’ Kumar from Charterhouse Partnership listens to her coach’s advice during a break in her bout against Eleni ‘Hummingbird’ Himaras from Bloomberg at the Hedge Fund Fight Nite charity event in Hong Kong. Reuters
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It’s been — and will continue to be — a rainy week in central Europe. Here’s an umbrella-toting couple walking together through the Old Town Square in Prague, Czech Republic. Reuters