Indian Kushti wrestlers warm up for a practice session in the river Ganges in the northern Indian city of Allahabad. Kushti.
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Thousands of South Korean taxi drivers wave red banners reading “price stabilization of LPG, used as an alternative fuel for most taxis,” at a rally staged during a nationwide strike in Seoul.
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A transport truck burns in the southbound lanes of the turnpike near the Beeline Highway in Palm Beach, Florida.
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Tourists take a picture next to a street artist dressed up as Mozart on a hot and sunny day in Vienna.
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Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi leaves through The Great Gate after receiving her honorary degree at Oxford University, in England. Myanmar’s Nobel laureate continued an emotional visit to Britain, where she left her family 24 years ago and took up her famous struggle against the military dictatorship in her homeland.
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A “toddy tapper” walks on a rope as he crosses between coconut trees to collect sap to make palm wine, or toddy as it is known locally, in Wadduwa, Sri Lanka. Toddy is a popular local beverage made by fermenting the sap collectd from coconut trees.
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ATibetan man holds an umbrella in the shape of Tibetan flag inside a Tibetan refugee camp, in Katmandu, Nepal. The camp, which houses around 350 Tibetans who have crossed the border into Nepal from Tibet, was set up in 1960 under the initiative of the International Red Cross and the Swiss Development Corporation.
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The sun rises at the Litzlalm mountain near Weissbach in the Austrian province of Salzburg.
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A man runs on a beach near a huge sculpture made from plastic bottles, backdropped by a silhouette of Sugarloaf mountain in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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An Iraqi security personnel inspects the site of a car bomb attack in Kirkuk, north of Baghdad. A car bomb exploded on Wednesday in the centre of Iraq’s northern oil-rich city of Kirkuk, killing three civilians and wounding nine others.
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A salvage platform floats in front of the wreckage of the capsized cruise liner Costa Concordia near the harbour of Giglio Porto in Tuscany Italy. The salvage operation is to move the capsized ship away from the island of Giglio, where it ran aground three months ago.
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An art installation called “Misconceivable” is fixed onto the roof of a hotel in Vienna. The installation of the lifesize yacht is an arts project by Austrian artist Erwin Wurm.
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Ai Weiwei, third from right, argues with a policeman outside his home in Beijing. Chinese police on Wednesday barred Ai from attending the first hearing of a lawsuit brought by his company against Beijing tax authorities and blocked reporters from filming at the courthouse, part of an intimidation campaign aimed at silencing the prominent artist and outspoken government critic.
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A Kashmiri flower seller rows his boat on the Nigeen Lake on a hot summer day on the outskirts of Srinagar, India. Set in the Himalayas at 5,600 feet above sea level, Kashmir is a green, saucer-shaped valley full of fruit orchards and surrounded by snowy mountain ranges.
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Afghan security officials present seven Taliban members linked to “Quata shura” allegedly involved in criminal activities in the area, after their arrest in Herat, Afghanistan. Media reports said that the Afghan National Police launched various operations against criminals and militants in different parts of the country.
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French police officers are seen during a raid against an alleged member of al-Qaeda who took four hostages in a bank, in Toulouse.
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An elderly man feeds his dog under the shade of trees at a park in Tokyo.
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Participants take part in a mass yoga class to mark the summer solstice in Times Square in New York. Thousands of yogis gathered to celebrate the longest day of the year in an event that featured four free mass yoga session in the heart of Manhattan.
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