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London, UK
Performers in costume arrive to take part in the main Parade Day of the Notting Hill Carnival
Photograph: Henry Nicholls/AFP/Getty Images
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Rostov region, Russia
A Cossack slashes a watermelon with a sabre during a sabre-cutting competition in the village of Novosvetlovsky
Photograph: AFP/Getty Images
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Caracas, Venezuela
A pick-up game of basketball in the San Agustin neighbourhood
Photograph: Matias Delacroix/AP
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Edinburgh, Scotland
Earl Stephens (who has the Nisga’a cultural name Chief Ni’is Joohl) and Pamela Brown join delegates from the Nisga’a nation at the National Museum of Scotland ahead of the return of an 11-metre tall memorial pole to what is now British Columbia
Photograph: Andrew Milligan/PA
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Naples, Italy
A person flashes a victory sign to migrants onboard the Ocean Viking, the SOS Méditerranée ship that rescued 439 migrants between Lampedusa and Tunisia
Photograph: Ciro Fusco/EPA
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Kandahar Province, Afghanistan
A farmer dries figs at a house in the Shah Wali Kot district
Photograph: Sanaullah Seiam/AFP/Getty Images
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Bogotá, Colombia
A clown artist at the Festival of Theater and Circus of Bogotá
Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
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Sicily, Italy
A Canadair aircraft drops flame retardants on burning vegetation in Trapani
Photograph: Antonio Cascio/Reuters
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Hubei Province, China
An aerial view of the green-yellow Han River after heavy rain
Photograph: VCG/Getty Images
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California, US
Mannequins at Patina V, which has been creating mannequins for store windows since 1987
Photograph: Gabriel Bouys/AFP/Getty Images
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Manila, Philippines
A man riding a makeshift raft collects washed up materials at a fishing village in Paranaque city
Photograph: Francis R Malasig/EPA
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Bekaa Valley, Lebanon
Birds at Ammiq wetlands
Photograph: Issam Abdallah/Reuters
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Texas, US
A mother helps her child over the barbed wire fence after crossing into the US from Mexico
Photograph: Suzanne Cordeiro/AFP/Getty Images
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Rades, Tunisia
Taxidermist Abdessalem Trabelsi in his workshop
Photograph: Jihed Abidellaoui/Reuters
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Colombo, Sri Lanka
Union members and civil society activists stage a protest over government debt restructuring, at the Colombo Fort railway station
Photograph: Pradeep Dambarage/NurPhoto/Shutterstock
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Gloucestershire, UK
The Bourton Rovers create a splash as they play in the River Windrush football match, which has been taking place for over 100 years in the Cotswolds village of Bourton-in-the-Water
Photograph: Ben Birchall/PA
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