Sugarloaf Mountain is silhouetted during a fiery sunrise in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the host city for the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development.
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A Spanish miner holds a tire next to a burning barricade near Santiago mine in Caborana, Spain. Spanish coal miners are staging a general strike in all mining regions of Spain organized by unions opposed to subsidy reductions.
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A nomadic woman from the desert Indian state of Rajasthan walks a camel carrying her belongings along a road at Biaora in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.
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A man removes garbage from seaweed covering a beach in the coastal city of Qingdao, located in eastern China’s Shandong province.
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A roadside vendor waits for customers at his stall of clocks and watches in the old quarters of Delhi, India.
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Riot police charge at students in Kathmandu protesting against Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai’s trip to Brazil to participate in the Rio+20 summit.
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Smoke billows from the face of a cliff after the detonation of a rock hanging over the railway and the A2 motorway, Switzerland’s main north-south connection through the Alps. The railway was closed after a rock slide trapped workers last month, killing one.
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An Israeli soldier detains an Arab-Israeli after he tries to pass a road block made by the police in the Israeli Negev desert, south of Beer Sheva. Israel was still hunting for up to four gunmen who infiltrated the Egyptian border and staged a deadly ambush.
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A Filipino carries his bicycle through floodwaters after a heavy downpour in Quezon City, Philippines.
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An Indian worker cleans windows of a commercial building in Mumbai, India.
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Farmers herd a flock of ducks toward a pond as residents drive next to them in Taizhou, Zhejiang province China.
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Spain supporters cheer prior to the Euro 2012 soccer championship Group C match between Croatia and Spain in Gdansk, Poland.
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Franco-Portuguese artist Joana Vasconcelos is the first woman to exhibit in the gardens and in the rooms of Versailles Palace, from June 19 to September 30. Vasconcelos seeks to transform everyday objects with inventive techniques in order to create a dialogue between past and present.
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Cheerleaders perform on center court before the women’s beach volleyball final at the 3rd Asian Beach Games in Haiyang, Shandong Province.
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