
The Month in World Photos
Ravaging floods in Europe and Asia, a wave of unrest in South Africa, and a young speller’s triumph in the United States.
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Police officers detain Tibetan demonstrators outside the Chinese Embassy in New Delhi on July 1 during a protest against the Chinese Communist Party’s 100-year anniversary celebrations.
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The remaining section of Champlain Towers South is demolished in Surfside, Florida, on July 4. The controlled explosion brought down the unstable remains of the collapsed condo block ahead of a threatening tropical storm as rescuers prepared to resume the search for victims.
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People protest against Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro in Sao Paulo on July 3.
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Firefighters work at the scene of a blaze that broke out at a Hashem Foods factory in the Narayanganj District of Bangladesh on July 9.
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Members of the Chamonix mountain guides company take part in a special hike between France and Italy near the Mont Blanc on July 10 to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the association.
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Traders unload cattle at a market set up for the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha in Karachi, Pakistan, on July 6.
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Cars sit in floodwaters following heavy rains in Zhengzhou, China, on July 22.
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A diver experiences Deep Dive Dubai, the deepest swimming pool in the world reaching 197 feet, in the United Arab Emirates on July 10.
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A medical worker walks through a disinfection cabin in the COVID-19 unit of Mariinsky Hospital in St. Petersburg, Russia, on July 7.
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Debbie Carroll Boyce, Ms. Senior America 2011, pulls back the stage curtains at the Ms. Texas Senior America Pageant in Dallas on July 24.
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Workers throw mud out of a damaged house in Dernau, western Germany, on July 22 about a week after heavy rain and floods caused major damage in the region.
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People watch from nearby windows as Pope Francis leads the Sunday’s Angelus prayer from Gemelli Hospital in Rome, where he was recovering from colon surgery, on July 11.
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People gather on the Mexican side of the border in Playas de Tijuana, Baja California state, to watch the Independence Day fireworks being launched from San Diego Bay on July 4.
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A low-shutter-speed photograph shows cars driving in front of Abu Ali’s cafe, which was set up on the ground floor of a building heavily damaged during the civil war, in Ariha, Syria, in the rebel-held northwestern Idlib province, on July 11.
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Dark smoke drifts over a hotel complex during a massive forest fire on Turkey’s southern coast near the town of Manavgat on July 29.
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A protester runs through tear gas during a demonstration against COVID-19 precautions in Paris on July 24. People who want to visit most public spaces in France must show proof of vaccination or a negative test.
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A protester asks South Africa Police Service officers not to shoot in Johannesburg on July 11 following a wave of unrest.
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Demonstrators and families of Beirut blast victims chant slogans during a protest outside the residence of Lebanon’s interior minister in western Beirut on July 13. Protesters accuse Mohammad Fahmi of stalling a probe into last summer’s port blast.
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A pro-democracy protester throws an object as others take cover from a police water cannon behind a derogatory poster of Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha as they call for his resignation in Bangkok on July 18.
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A Palestinian woman reacts outside a building that belonged to Montasser Shalabi—who was arrested in May on suspicion of carrying out a drive-by shooting on an Israeli student—after it was demolished by Israeli forces in the village of Turmus’ayya in the occupied West Bank on July 8.
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A peanut vendor works during the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on July 20.
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Captive Ethiopian soldiers walk toward the Mekele Rehabilitation Center in the capital of the Tigray region on July 2.
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A woman infected with COVID-19 receives oxygen at Ibn al-Jazzar hospital in Kairouan, Tunisia, on July 4.
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A Haitian National Police officer guards a street in the Petion-Ville neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on July 13, almost a week after the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse.
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Police officers and a rescue dog search the area around a landslide in Atami, Shizuoka, Japan, on July 4.
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Overturned police cars remain on a street in Havana following demonstrations against Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel on July 1.
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COVID-19 patients receive treatment in an emergency tent at Dr. Sardjito General Hospital in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, on July 16.
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A man reacts at the ravaged coronavirus isolation ward of Al-Hussein Hospital in Nasiriyah, Iraq, on July 13 after a massive fire killed nearly 100 people.
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A deer jumps onto a business property as the Dixie Fire approaches downtown Greenville, California, on July 23.
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A young resident helps clean up outside his home following heavy rains and floods in Rochefort, Belgium, on July 17.
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A South African Police Service officer searches for stolen goods and weapons in the house of a suspected looter as his daughters sit on a bed in Jeppestown, Johannesburg, on July 11.
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Paramedics treat men injured during fighting between Afghan forces and Taliban fighters at a hospital in Chaman, a Pakistani town on the border with Afghanistan, on July 16.
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A man jumps from hoardings around the Eros statue in Piccadilly Circus ahead of the Euro 2020 final football match between England and Italy in central London on July 11.
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A young festivalgoer pops a bubble at the Latitude Festival in Henham Park, Britain, on July 22.
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A person’s shadow is projected on a hot air balloon being inflated during the 25th European Hot Air Balloon Festival in Igualada, Spain, on July 9.
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Zaila Avant-garde, 14, from New Orleans, Louisiana, wins the 2021 Scripps National Spelling Bee Finals at the Walt Disney World Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, on July 8.
Joe Skipper/REUTERSThe Month in World Photos
Ravaging floods in Europe and Asia, a wave of unrest in South Africa, and a young speller’s triumph in the United States.