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A boy has his body painted in black to portray a demon as he prepares to join an annual religious performance of Taziyeh in the Iranian city of Nushabad on July 26, 2023, during the Muslim month of Muharram in the lead-up to Ashura, a 10-day period commemorating the seventh century killing of Prophet Mohammed's grandson Imam Hussein.
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This photograph taken on July 26, 2023 shows homes in the Tono district of Messina, Sicily as a fire rages. At least five people have died in Italy as a result of violent storms in the north and fires in Sicily, which could prompt the government to declare a state of emergency in the worst-hit regions.
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A fireman gestures and holds a cat and two rabbits after rescuing them from a fire between the villages of Kiotari and Gennadi, on the Greek island of Rhodes on July 24, 2023. Firefighters tackled blazes that erupted in peak tourism season, sparking the country's largest-ever wildfire evacuation -- and leaving flights and holidays cancelled. Tens of thousands of people have already fled blazes on the island of Rhodes, with many frightened tourists scrambling to get home on evacuation flights.
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The 'voodoo' wrestler known as Panthère utters incantations above the alter of his shrine in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, on July 27, 2023. In the capital of DR Congo, dozens of men and women - including former wrestlers - practice 'voodoo wrestling', using traditional fetishes and animals. Fights are organised in some of the city's poorest and most densely populated districts.
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France's Maxime Grousset competes in a semi-final heat of the men's 50m butterfly swimming event during the World Aquatics Championships in Fukuoka on July 23, 2023.
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A migrant mother from Africa, stranded on the seashore at the Libyan-Tunisian border in Ras Jedir, cries holding her son on July 26, 2023. African migrants pleaded to be saved from a desert zone between Libya and Tunisia on July 26, weeks after Tunisian authorities allegedly dumped dozens of them there with nothing. The group of about 140 migrants from sub-Saharan Africa are the latest to be taken to Tunisia's borderlands with Libya or Algeria, according to border guards, migrants and NGO workers who reported previous cases.
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Children walk along a sea wall at Navotas in Metro Manila on July 26, 2023, as Super Typhoon Doksuri passes close to the northern tip of Luzon island.
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Villagers try to extinguish a wildfire as it approaches Zambujeiro village in Cascais on July 25, 2023.
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