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Brazil's Italo Ferreira competes during the Outerknown Tahiti Pro 2022, the Men's WSL Championship Tour, in Teahupo'o, French Polynesia, on August 17, 2022.
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A photograph shows at sunset after the rains the bay of Villefranche-sur-Mer, on August 14, 2022.
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A supporter of Kenya's Azimio La Umoja Party (One Kenya Coalition Party) presidential candidate Raila Odinga gestures past a fire during a protest against the results of Kenya's general election in Kibera, Nairobi, western Kenya on August 15, 2022. The head of Kenya's election body on August 15, 2022 declared Deputy President William Ruto the winner of the country's close-fought presidential election, despite several commissioners rejecting the results. Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission chairman Wafula Chebukati said Ruto had won almost 7.18 million votes (50.49 percent) against 6.94 million (48.85 percent) for his rival Raila Odinga in the August 9 vote.
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Taliban fighters and supporters ride in a convoy to celebrate their victory day in Kandahar on August 15, 2022. Taliban fighters chanted victory slogans next to the US embassy in Kabul on August 15 as they marked the first anniversary of their return to power in Afghanistan following a turbulent year that saw women's rights crushed and a humanitarian crisis worsen.
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Part of the Guadiana river has dried up and gives way to dry land under the Puente de la Mesta medieval bridge in Villarta de los Montes, in the central-western Spanish region of Extremadura, on August 16, 2022. Temperatures in Spain have been very high this summer with several unusual heat waves. Scientists say human-induced climate change is making extreme weather events including heatwaves and droughts more frequent and more intense.
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A Ukrainian Emergency Ministry rescuer attends an exercise in the city of Zaporizhzhia on August 17, 2022, in case of a possible nuclear incident at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant located near the city. Ukraine remains deeply scarred by the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe, when a Soviet-era reactor exploded and streamed radiation into the atmosphere in the country's north. The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine was occupied in the early days of the war and it has remained in Russian hands ever since.
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Family members mourn during the funeral ceremony of Ukrainian serviceman Anton Savytskyi at Bucha's cemetery in Kyiv region on August 13, 2022, amid the Russian military invasion of Ukraine.
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A youth participates in a cultural carnival street parade to celebrate the country's 77th Indonesia's Independence Day in Banda Aceh on August 18, 2022.
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