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Day in Photos: June 26, 2012

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A woman sunbathes on a beach in Nice, southern France.

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A Pakistani official uses a steamroller to crush bottles of liquor during a ceremony to mark International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, in Karachi.

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A woman cries for the four children she lost in a landslide induced by torrential rains. Landslides destroyed three villages in the mountainous district of Bududa in eastern Uganda on Monday.

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A man walks past three paintings of Edvard Munch's "Weeping Woman" series at the Tate Modern in London's Southbank. This is the first time all six paintings of Munch's Weeping Woman series have been shown together in a major exhibition.

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A construction worker smokes near a newly-built residential complex in Wuhan, China.

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A worker takes a nap beside a stack of iron pipes at the construction site of a commercial complex in the southern Indian city of Chennai.

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A coal miner carries a tree trunk to a bonfire built as a barricade on a motorway between Asturias and Leon, during a protest in northern Spain.

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Lifeguard towers on Clearwater Beach are awash in high waters caused from Tropical Storm Debby, in Clearwater Beach, Fla. Debby.

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A C-130 military cargo plane drops thousands of gallons of flame retardant on the Waldo Canyon fire west of Colorado Springs, Colorado. The fast-growing wildfire has forced 11,000 people from their homes and threatened popular summer camping grounds beneath scenic Pikes Peak.

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Dancers perform during a dress rehearsal for "West Side Story" at the German Opera house in Berlin.

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Swimmers warm up in the pool ahead of the start of competition on day two of the 2012 US Olympic Team Trials in Omaha, Nebraska.

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A Colombian anti-drugs police officer stands guard next to marijuana packages in Cali, Colombia. The anti-narcotics unit of the National Police seized two tons of marijuana during the operation in the municipality of Bugalagrande.

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A demolition team uses explosives to blow up this Dodge Caravan off Tamarack Road in Waterford Township, Pa. Students in a summer course conducted by Mercyhurst University's Applied Forensic Sciences program watched the pre-planned explosion as part of a program called "Recovery and Interpretation of the Disaster Scene."

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French President Francois Hollande and Myanmar opposition and pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi walk in the garden of the Elysee palace following a meeting in Paris.

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A Pakistani man controls two oxen during a competition on the outskirts of Rawalpindi, Pakistan.