A costumed woman performs during the King and Queen Competition and Show of the 45th Toronto Caribbean Carnival in Toronto.
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A sparrow braves an Indian Air Force honor guard standing or a review by visiting Myanmar Army commander at the Defense Ministry in New Delhi.
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Thick fog descends upon the windjammer Angelique during a cruise in Penobscot Bay, Maine.
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A young Free Syrian Army fighter rests on a school bench in a street in downtown Aleppo. Behind him the graffiti reads “Ihsan Sadiq fighting group, Amr bin al-Aas brigade of the Free North.”
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Lita Velasquez feeds cats in the central park of Lima’s upscale seaside Miraflores district, in Peru. About 120 felines populate the park, some descended from a pair authorities introduced in the late 90s to control rats.
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The members of Russian band Pussy Riot, from left, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Yekaterina Samutsevich and Maria Alekhina, sit in a glass cage at a court room in Moscow. Vladimir Putin on Thursday criticized the feminist punk rockers facing trial for performing a “punk prayer” against him at Moscow’s main cathedral, but said their punishment shouldn’t be too severe.
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A man lies on a waterfall along the river Pliva at a village near Jajce, about 87 miles northwest from the capital of Sarajevo.
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Aircraft assist in fighting a forest fire in in Shasta County, Calif. More than 300 firefighters battled a the wildfire, which threatens about 100 homes and other structures in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest.
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Visitors run away from waves whipped up by winds near Qiantang River in Hangzhou, China. Gales and rainstorms lashed coastal regions in east China when two typhoons made landfall in less than 10 hours from Thursday to Friday morning, forcing over 300,000 people to evacuate.
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An Indian model wears a creation by Ritu Beri at the Lakme Fashion Week in Mumbai.
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Illegal migrants rest on a railway line in Huehuetoca. Hundreds of Central American migrants on their way to the United States are now forced to seek shelter in the open air due to the closure of the San Juan Diego shelter in Lecheria. It was temporarily closed earlier this month by church authorities because of complaints by neighbors who said the migrants had become disruptive and were contributing to insecurity in the area, which is located along the train tracks that many migrants use to travel north.
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Children rest on a cot against a backdrop of farmers working at a paddy field on the outskirts of Jammu, India.
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A Femen movement protester is detained by police officers during a naked protest in London. Two topless women painted with the slogans “Olympic shame” and “No Sharia” protested in front of London’s City Hall to draw attention to what they called “bloody Islamist regimes” taking part in the Olympics.
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An aerial view shows illegal deforestation close to the Amazonia National Park in Itaituba, state of Para. In the 19 months since Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff took office, longstanding rules that curtail deforestation and protect millions of square kilometers of watershed have been rolled back. She issued an executive order to shrink or repurpose seven protected woodlands, making way for hydroelectric dams and other infrastructure projects, and to legalize settlements by farmers and miners.
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US Navy Blue Angels pilots Lt. C.J. Simonsen (5) and Lt. David Tickle (6) fly in formation with Team Oracle stunt pilot Sean D. Tucker, over Lake Washington, in Seattle. Tucker and the Blue Angels are in town for the annual Seafair summer festival, which will feature an air show and other events this coming weekend.
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A woman sunbathes by the waters edge at a private beach in Lido di Ostia near Rome during a strike action entitled ” We close the beach umbrellas ” against a new European Union directive that could force many to shut down. Thousands of Italy’s private beaches kept their parasols closed in peak summer season in a symbolic protest against a new European Union directive that could force many to shut down.
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A man bathes in a river at dawn in the Darien province on the border with Colombia, in Union Choco, Panama. Panamanian authorities began noticing five years ago that the Darien Gap, the only interruption in the Pan-American Highway, was being used by migrant smugglers, usually to move people from Asia and Africa.
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Gold medal winner Gabby Douglas holds a Kelloggs Corn Flakes box featuring herself. Douglas will be featured on special-edition boxes of the cereal, which goes on sale in the fall.
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