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A Palestinian woman fans her daughter with a tray amid a heatwave and lengthy power cuts in Gaza City. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem
U.S. basketball player Brittney Griner, who was detained at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport and later charged with illegal possession of cannabis, looks on inside a defendants' cage before a court hearing in Khimki outside Moscow, Russia....more
Minnesota Twins celebrate after third baseman Gio Urshela (15) hit a home run against the Detroit Tigers in the tenth inning at Target Field in Minnesota. Brad Rempel-USA TODAY Sports
A deer is seen dead by the side of a road after the McKinney Fire affected an area near Yreka, California. REUTERS/Carlos Barria
A young fan watches as Green Bay Packers running back AJ Dillon tries his best to ride her bicycle to training camp at Ray Nitschke Field in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Dan Powers-USA TODAY Sports
A sinkhole is exposed at a mining zone close to Tierra Amarilla town, in Copiapo, Chile. REUTERS/Johan Godoy
A firefighter extinguishes a burning hospital building hit by a Russian missile strike, as Russia's attack on Ukraine continues, in Mykolaiv, Ukraine. REUTERS/Stanislav Kozliuk
ATV drivers ferrying generator fuel and water drive around Jessica Willett's home, which was torn from its foundations during flooding and left in the middle of the road, along Bowling Creek, Kentucky. Chris Kenning/USA Today Network
Cletus Big Throat Jr., of Magrath, Alberta is bucked off Yellow Jacket in the saddle bronc event during the first Writing-On-Stone Rodeo held since the coronavirus pandemic in the World Heritage Site location of Writing-On-Stone Provincial Park,...more
People light flares as they sail on the Vistula river to commemorate the 78th anniversary of Warsaw Uprising against Nazi occupation during World War Two, in Warsaw, Poland. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel
A general view during the men's 100m butterfly semi-final at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, Britain. REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth
A couple looks at each other as smoke rises from a wildfire in Venda do Pinheiro in Mafra, Portugal. REUTERS/Pedro Nunes
Supporters of Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr protest against corruption, inside the parliament in Baghdad, Iraq. REUTERS/Thaier Al-Sudani
A jaguar cub is seen between the legs of a zookeeper at the zoo in Havana, Cuba. REUTERS/Alexandre Meneghini
Scotland's Eilidh Gorrell in action on the balance beam during Artistic Gymnastics Women's Team Final and Individual Qualification at the Commonwealth Games. REUTERS/Hannah Mckay
A visitor walks a bicycle through the newly renovated Korean War Veterans Memorial on the National Mall in Washington. REUTERS/Tom Brenner
A volunteer holds the peak of a flamingo chick after it was fitted with an identity ring at a lagoon in the Fuente de Piedra natural reserve near Malaga, southern Spain. REUTERS/Jon Nazca
A supporter withstands a gust of wind created by the helicopter carrying Kenya's Opposition leader and presidential candidate Raila Odinga of the Azimio la Umoja (Declaration of Unity) party, after a campaign rally ahead of the forthcoming general...more
James Vongue, 8, slides down a marble structure next to stairs at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington. REUTERS/Tom Brenner
An Iraqi security forces officer stands next to a sleeping supporter of Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr during a sit-in, inside the parliament building amid political crises in Baghdad, Iraq. REUTERS/Saba Kareem
A crow sits inside a damaged bus which was set on fire during a clash of pro and anti-government demonstrators near the Prime Minister's official residence amid the country's economic crisis, in Colombo, Sri Lanka. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon
Supporters of Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr protest against corruption, in Baghdad, Iraq. REUTERS/Ahmed Saad
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