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A boy covers himself with a cloth while walking along a street, as it rains in Chennai on June 19, 2023.
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Revellers sing as they stand by the stones and wait for the sun to rise at Stonehenge, near Amesbury, in Wiltshire, southern England on June 21, 2023, to celebrate the celebrate the Summer Solstice festival, which dates back thousands of years, celebrating the longest day of the year when the sun is at its maximum elevation. The stone monument -- carved and constructed at a time when there were no metal tools -- symbolises Britain's semi-mythical pre-historic period, and has spawned countless legends.
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A Ukrainian soldier of the 28th Separate Mechanized Brigade looks on as he holds his positions at the front line near the town of Bakhmut, Donetsk region, on June 17, 2023, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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A mourning relative is conforted during the funeral of Florence Masika and Zakayo Masereka in Mpondwe on June 18, 2023. Florence and Zakayo have been killed near the border with the Democratic republic of Congo by fleeing assaliants who the authorities believe to belong to the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a militia based in DR Congo. Grieving families prepared to bury their dead in western Uganda on Sunday while others desperately searched for loved ones still missing after militants killed dozens of students in a school attack. Officials say at least 41 people, mostly students, were massacred on Friday in the worst attack of its kind in Uganda since 2010. Victims were hacked, shot and burned in the late-night raid on Lhubiriha Secondary School in Mpondwe, which lies less than two kilometres (1.2 miles) from the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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Aerial view of a destroyed car on top of tombstones at the cemetery after a cyclone in Caraa, Brazil on June 19, 2023. A cyclone which tore through southern Brazil has killed at least 13 people and forced thousands from their homes, authorities said Sunday. Torrential rain and strong winds on Thursday and Friday caused damage in dozens of towns in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, including its capital Porto Alegre -- the latest in a string of weather-related disasters to hit South America's biggest country. Two more bodies were discovered in the coastal town of Caraa, one of the hardest hit, bringing the death toll from the storm to 13, the state civil defense agency said.
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A man in the driver's seat looks on as calfs peek out from a window behind in a vehicle at a livestock market in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron on June 23, 2023, as Palestinians prepare for the upcoming Muslim feast of Eid al-Adha. Known as the "big" festival, Eid al-Adha (Feast of Sacrifice) is celebrated each year by Muslims sacrificing various animals according to religious traditions, including cows, camels, goats, and sheep.
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Smoke billows from rubbles of a building at Place Alphonse-Laveran in the 5th arrondissement of Paris, on June 21, 2023. A major fire of unknown origin broke out on June 21, 2023 in a building in central Paris, part of which collapsed, injuring at least one person, according to sources and AFP images.
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A man uses water bottles for flotation as he cools off in a canal in Beijing on June 22, 2023. Swathes of northern China sweltered in 40-degree heat on June 22, weather data showed, as parts of Beijing and the nearby megacity of Tianjin recorded their highest temperatures for years.
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