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Sun kissed
This couple is enjoying the Glastonbury Festival in South West England.
The event is known for concerts of all kinds of styles of contemporary music.
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Ben Birchall / dpa
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shore leave for the summer
Women dressed as mermaids dance on a parade float, the Coney Island Mermaid Parade welcomes summer like every year in New York.
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Aimee Dilger / ZUMA Wire / IMAGO
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Underwater I
Synchronized swimming made headlines this week after America's Anita Alvarez passed out in the pool.
The Kazakh team shows that underwater aesthetics can also be a beautiful sport during the World Cup final in Budapest.
Photo: Oli Scarff / AFP
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Underwater II
After heavy rains, numerous houses in Bangladesh are flooded.
According to official information, numerous buildings were destroyed, fields devastated - people lost their homes.
According to the government, almost half a million have been taken to emergency shelters.
Photo: Mushfiqul Alam / NurPhoto / IMAGO
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About the disaster
An earthquake has wreaked the worst devastation in Afghanistan.
According to official figures, at least 1,000 people died and 1,500 other residents in the border region with Pakistan were injured.
Authorities fear the death toll is rising.
It is a catastrophe that is further exacerbating the already difficult situation in the country: the militant Islamist Taliban - here one of their helicopters in the earthquake area - restricted freedom rights after taking power in August 2021 and are increasingly excluding girls and women in particular from public life.
The country is also suffering from a humanitarian catastrophe.
Millions of people depend on support and food aid.
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Ali Khara / REUTERS
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Where once the butt flowed
Italy's riverbeds are increasingly drying up - just like the bottom of the Po here. Large fires are now also being reported in many areas.
There are also more fires compared to before, the Association of Independent Farmers warns.
He calls for civil defense to intervene and a state of emergency to be declared in the affected areas.
Photo: Riccardo Dalle Luche / ZUMA Press / IMAGO
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resistance on the ground
Israeli soldiers arrest an activist in the West Bank who, together with like-minded people, was protesting against a military exercise and possible forced evictions.
Israel's highest court in May rejected a petition against an evacuation plan.
According to Palestinian sources, 1,300 people living in the area south of Hebron could be affected.
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Abed Al Hashlamoun / EPA
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Divine makeup
Dancers prepare for their performance at Sakenan Temple.
There, on a small island off Bali, the Kunigan celebrations traditionally take place every 210 days, the conclusion of the Balinese Galungan celebrations in honor of the supreme divine being and creation.
Photo: Firdia Lisnawati/AP
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Hoodie style in pink
American fashion designer Matthew Williams shows off a pink combo during Paris Fashion Week.
The veiled-unveiled model can still see through an eye slit to find her way down the runway.
Photo: Julien de Rosa / AFP
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coroner's name
A disguised member of the Dancing Devils is seen during the Catholic Corpus Christi festival in Naiguata, a popular neighborhood of La Guaira in Venezuela.
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Federico Parra / AFP
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commemoration
Ukrainian soldiers fire a volley at the Bucha cemetery in honor of a comrade who died fighting invading Russian forces in the Donetsk region.
The Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy recently put the number of casualties among his troops at 50 to 100 a day.
Photo: Sergei Supinsky / AFP
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footwork
A doctor helps a man adjust to a new prosthesis in Kyiv.
The little yellow plastic bird attached to the prosthesis has a symbolic meaning: he has to be serious at work, says the patient, "but I'm a child at heart."
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Natacha Pisarenko / AP
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blockade attitude
Activists from the »Last Generation« group want to draw attention to the climate crisis and initiate a change in policy, for example with sit-ins or by sticking themselves to the streets.
During an action in Berlin, police officers carried away this activist.
Photo: Lisi Niesner / REUTERS
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We shall live high
Supporters of the former guerrilla fighter Gustavo Petro are celebrating in Bucaramanga, Colombia: After winning the run-off election against the right-wing millionaire Rodolfo Hernández, Petro is the country's new president.
This is the first time a left-wing politician has taken over the post.
Photo: Ivan Valencia/AP
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Luminous protest
Farmers gather in Schermer, Netherlands, for a light protest.
Farmers plan to illuminate a record number of tractors at dusk in a protest against the government's nitrogen and farm reform plans.
Photo: Olaf Kraak / EPA
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debris field
Countless stones lie in the path of this schoolboy in Soweto, South Africa.
Demonstrators had blocked one of the main streets during a protest over the lack of electricity and other services.
Photo: Siphiwe Sibeko / REUTERS
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Silent Observer
He is part of the inventory at the British seat of government: Larry the cat.
He has long since become accustomed to the hustle and bustle of the media and the hustle and bustle of 10 Downing Street – and has probably gained insights that journalists and the opposition alike envy.
Photo: John Sibley / REUTERS
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art twilight
A skeleton remains behind at Friedrichsplatz in Kassel, where the large painting »People's Justice« by the Indonesian art collective Taring Padi had previously hung.
Because it featured figures in anti-Semitic imagery, the banner was first covered and then taken down.
The reputation of the world art exhibition Documenta »fifteen« seems to have been damaged, and those responsible have been criticized.
Photo: Peter Hartenfelser / IMAGO
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free swimmer
With an outside temperature of five degrees, thousands of naked people on the Australian island of Tasmania plunged into cold water to celebrate the winter solstice.
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Rob Blakers/AAP/IMAGO
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More population
Biologists Tatiana Fernandez and Gabriela Santos collect seahorses for a science project on the beach in Urca, Rio de Janeiro.
According to the project leaders, the seahorse population has increased in recent years despite pollution of the water in Guanabara Bay - since 2014 the capture and sale of seahorses has been banned nationwide.
Photo: Bruna Prado/AP
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Like Icarus, only in reverse
The Swiss extreme athlete Géraldine Fasnacht is not nicknamed »bird woman« for nothing: from a dizzying height she glides towards the valley in her wingsuit.
Over the winter sports resort of Verbier in the Swiss canton of Valais, she is now embarking on a special maiden flight: to demonstrate the power of solar energy, Fasnacht was the first person to jump out of a solar-powered e-plane wearing a special suit.
Photo: Valentin Flauraud / EPA
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A little homecoming
In Brussels, people take part in a memorial march for Patrice Lumumba.
The first democratically elected Congolese head of government in the long-standing Belgian colony is a national hero.
Lumumba was murdered in 1961 a few months after his election. According to eyewitnesses, his body was dissolved in acid.
Now the last mortal remains - a tooth of Lumumba - was handed over to the bereaved and taken to the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Photo: Kenzo Tribouillard / AFP
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The winner of Waterloo
On the anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo this year, hundreds of amateur actors re-enacted the event of June 18, 1815 near the village of Waterloo, around 15 kilometers south of Brussels.
Today's Belgian town belonged to the Kingdom of the United Netherlands and went down in history with Napoleon Bonaparte's last battle.
The French, led by Napoleon, were defeated by the Allied troops under the English General Wellington and the Prussian Field Marshal Blücher.
Napoleon had to abdicate.
Ever since then, the phrase »experiencing one's Waterloo« has stood for a total defeat.
Photo: Juliette Bruynseels / AFP
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Fire in Brandenburg
Large areas of forest burned in Brandenburg this week, and hundreds had to leave their homes.
Many fires have now been extinguished.
But dangerous embers are still smoldering in the forest floor.
Photo:
Christian Guttmann / dpa
