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Day in Photos: June 25, 2012

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A firefighter works the scene of a home being consumed by flames in Estes Park, Colo. As many as 21 structures were destroyed by the fire on Saturday. Eight separate wildfires are burning across Colorado, which is seeing record-breaking heat.

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A Belarus woman sets a wreath afloat on a river as she celebrates Ivana Kupala night, an ancient heathen holiday, in the countryside near Minsk.

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South Korean Marine Corps' amphibious vehicles take part in a landing operation in the sea off Taean southwest of Seoul. The exercise was timed to mark the 62nd anniversary of the start of the Korean War.

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A laborer sits among building debris at a construction site which was damaged by a storm in Luoyang, China.

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Women carry pitchers filled with drinking water to their homes against the backdrop of pre-monsoon clouds at Nani Shinoli village in the western Indian state of Gujarat.

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Russia's President Vladimir Putin and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speak after a meeting and lunch in the Israeli leader's Jerusalem residence. Putin is on a rare trip to Israel where he is expected to hold talks on the situation in Syria and Iran's nuclear program.

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Kashmiri residents watch as firefighters try to extinguish a fire at the nearly 200-year-old Sheikh Abdul Qadir Jeelani Shrine, popularly known as Ghaus-e-Azam, or Dastgeer Sahab, in downtown Srinagar, India. Anti-India clashes erupted after the highly revered Muslim shrine was destroyed in the fire.

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People take photographs as confetti falls on the Miami Heat NBA Finals championship parade in Miami.

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A girl works during the harvest of rice crops in a field in Faisalabad, Pakistan.

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People gather around ''Levitated Mass'', artist Michael Heizer's art exhibit which features a 340-ton megalith rock at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in Calif. The massive granite rock made headlines in March when it was slowly carted along a winding, 105-mile journey from Riverside County to the museum.

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Stranded vehicles, trapped between two flooded sections of CR 95 in Palm Harbor following a day and night of heavy rain as Tropical Storm Debby hangs out in the Gulf of Mexico and takes a slow, uncertain track.

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A rider prepares to spear a suspended ring as he races through a cheering crowd during the Fiesta of San Joan (Saint John) in the Balearic Islands town of Ciutadella. The riders represent the different classes of ancient Ciutadella society -- nobility, clergy, craftsmen and farmers.

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Kenny Riedmann, (R) collides with Fernando Amantini during an AMA SportBike motorcycle race at the Barber Motorsports Park in Birmingham, Ala. as part of the Triumph SuperBike Classic.

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A Pakistani carpenter works on a fishing boat at the harbor of Karachi, Pakistan.

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People look at an old-fashioned tall ship on the Neva River in St. Petersburg, during the "Scarlet Sails," a romantic holiday with laser show to honor high schools graduates. "Scarlet Sails" is the title of a story by Alexander Grin, the story of a young girl, who never gave up on her dreams and they finally arrived on the tall ship with the scarlet sails. According to the Head of Tourism in St. Petersburg, Marianna Ordzhonikidze, an average of 5 million tourists flock each year to watch the White Nights phenomenon from late May to mid-July.