People swim in a natural pool
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Melted beer bottles in the back of a burnt-out truck after the Maui wildfires
Swimmers help to unfurl a 78-metre-long national flag in the sea to mark the country’s independence day
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An aerial view of people circling around bonfires to celebrate the city’s torch festival
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Cats dressed like their owners during the city’s cat fashion week
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Riders take part in the historic Tbourida event, in which the race ends with a shot fired into the air
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Participants dressed as Wonder Woman set off on the annual City to Surf fun run
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Seattle Mariners’ Julio Rodríguez laughs as teammate Teoscar Hernández douses him in water
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A charred deer skull on the city’s sea wall after the Maui wildfires
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Shia pilgrims set off on their walk to Karbala for the Arbaeen religious festival
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A newlywed couple pose for a photo at Phrygian valley archaeological site
The Pilon de Falces bull run, which takes place down a narrow 800-metre mountain trail
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Brook Cretton sifts through the rubble of a home that was destroyed by a wildfire
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The country’s national guard intercepts a boat off the city’s coast
A blind Asian elephant feeds from a bucket of fruit at Wildlife SOS’s conservation and care centre
Tourists visit the Xixi wetland
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