Smoke clings to the forest as flames burn near the highway in La Jonquera, Spain, near the French border.
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President Obama hugs Stephanie Davies, who helped keep her friend, Allie Young (left) alive after she was shot during the movie theater shootings in Aurora, Colorado.
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Soldiers jump as they take part during a military training session in muddy water at a military base in Jinan, China.
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With a windmill in the foreground, fire engulfs trees in a Niobrara River canyon in Nebraska’s Keya Paha County.
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People inspect the aftermath of a car bomb attack in Baghdad’s Shiite enclave of Sadr City, Iraq. An onslaught of bombings and shootings killed scores of people across Iraq Monday, in the nation’s deadliest day so far this year.
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A boy cools off at a fountain in Gwanghwamun Square in downtown Seoul, South Korea.
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A worker rows a boat in Chaohu Lake, filled with algae, in Hefei, China. The local environmental protection department implemented machines to pump the algae from the lake to a treatment reservoir where it would be decontaminated and recycled.
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A man is gored by a bull during a traditional festival known as “Xiquenada” at the Hidalgo street in Xico, Mexico. The bulls are let loose as part of celebrations to honor Santa Maria Magdalena.
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Women eat ice cream on the Seine river banks in Paris during the 11th edition of Paris-Plage, which takes place from July 20 to August 19. Every July and August, roadways on the banks of the river are blocked off to host various activities, including sandy beaches and palm trees.
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A visitor to the National Mall pushes a stroller as he walks pass sections of the AIDS Memorial Quilt on display, in Washington DC. The AIDS Memorial Quilt is on display this week during the 19th International AIDS Conference.
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Tourists sit in beach chairs on the beach of Travemuende in northern Germany.
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A firefighter tries to extinguish a wildfire in Ller near La Junquera, close to the Spanish-French border. Three people were killed as winds whipped up a wildfire that raged out of control in northeastern Spain, forcing thousands of people to take refuge indoors.
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A house burns in Kachugaon village in Kokrajhar district, northeastern state of Assam during violent clashes. Police issued shoot-on-sight orders on July 23 in a bid to quell violent clashes between Bodo tribal groups and Muslim settlers over land rights in India’s remote northeast that have prompted thousands of villagers to flee their homes and left 19 people dead.
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Riot police clash with protesters as the latter try to get closer to the Philippine Congress to protest the third State of the Nation address of Philippine President Benigno Aquino III at suburban Quezon city, northeast of Manila, Philippines.
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NCAA President Mark Emmert gestures during a news conference in Indianapolis. The NCAA slammed Penn State with a $60 million fine and the loss of all coach Joe Paterno’s victories from 1998-2011, in the wake of the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal.
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Accused movie theater shooter James Holmes makes his first court appearance at the Arapahoe County Courthouse in Centennial, Colorado. Holmes allegedly killed 12 people and injured 58 others during a shooting rampage at an opening night screening of “The Dark Knight Rises” July 20, in Aurora, Colorado.
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A worker puts up tarps on a temporary fence around the statue of the late Penn State football coach Joe Paterno before removing the statue outside Beaver Stadium in State College, Pennsylvania.
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Sayed Mansour Mousavi, left, and Ahmad Abolfathi Mohammad, both Iranian nationals appear in high court in Nairobi at the beginning of their trial after they were found in possession of explosive material to be used in a bomb attacks in Kenya. Mohammed and Mansour, who deny the charges, were arrested last month in the port city of Mombasa, reportedly with 33 pounds of powerful explosives.
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