Afghan farmers load a donkey as they harvest wheat on the outskirts of Herat, Afghanistan on June 23.
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Israeli soldiers of a Merkava tank unit rest near the Quneitra checkpoint on the border with Syria in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights, on June 22.
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The mother of Mohammed Tarifi, a 30-year-old Palestinian man who was shot dead during clashes with Israeli troops, grieves outside a hospital on June 22 in the West Bank city of Ramallah. Israeli forces shot dead two Palestinians in the West Bank as they continued a search for three missing Israeli teens, the Washington Post reported.
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U.S. supporters celebrate advancing to the round of 16 after their loss to Germany while watching the match at FIFA Fan Fest on June 26 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The United States lost 1-0 but will advance to the knockout stage of the 2014 FIFA World Cup based on goal differential. Andrea Canales writes for Foreign Policy's World Cup blog Midfield General on national team allegiance of immigrants to the United States.
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Volunteers dressed in green Chinese military uniforms stand outside before Chinese philanthropist Chen Guangbiao hosted a lunch for several hundred homeless people from the New York City Rescue Mission on June 25 at The Boathouse restaurant in New York's Central Park. Foreign Policy's Isaac Stone Fish reported on the event -- and Chen's reputation -- in his piece, "The Mogul Takes Manhattan."
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A horse rears in the crowd during the annual San Juan's festival in Ciutadella, on the Balearic Island of Menorca, on June 23.
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French arts workers attend a rally at Marseille's harbor to protest against the government's measures to cut the workers' benefits, on June 26 in Marseille, France. Theater workers, singers, and actors across France have been holding rolling strikes and similar demonstrations.
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Supporters of Indonesian presidential candidate General Prabowo Subianto, leader of the Gerindra Party, wait for a speech during an election rally at Gelora Bung Karno stadium in Jakarta, on June 22. Indonesians will elect a new president on July 9.
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School children from eight states in Malaysia took part in the "Skipping for Health" event Kuala Lumpur on June 22 aimed at highlighting the importance of exercise and general health.
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Indian grooms carry their brides as they arrive for a multi-faith mass wedding in Mumbai on June 22. Over 50 underprivileged couples from different communities were wedded according to the traditions of their faith.
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A man dressed up as the devil jumps over babies lying on a mattress in the street during El Colacho, the "baby jumping festival" on June 22 in the village of Castrillo de Murcia, near Burgos, Spain. Baby jumping is a traditional Spanish practice dating back to the 17th century. It takes place annually to celebrate the Catholic feast of Corpus Christi.
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Residents walk near demolished houses in the Metro Mangueira favela, near Maracana stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The site was supposed to be a parking lot for the stadium, but it has yet to be built.
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A man wears the Brazil flag as he passes riot police during a protest against the cost of the FIFA 2014 World Cup, in Sao Paulo on June 23. The protests took place on the same day that Chile played Uruguay in Sao Paulo, and again in Brasilia while Brazil played Cameroon.
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Muslim Indian children participate in a special prayer for better rainfall in Mumbai on June 26. The India Meteorological Department recently declared the start of the monsoon season, predicting below-average rainfall.
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A young woman says goodbye to her boyfriend, a new volunteer recruit of the Ukrainian army "Azov" battalion, after a military oath ceremony in Kiev on June 23. Some 600 new volunteer recruits of the battalion, mainly representatives of the eastern Donbass region of Ukraine, who followed combat training during three weeks will take part in the military operation against armed pro-Russian militants in the east of the country, according to the Kyiv Post.
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A fireman works to put out a fire at the site of a car bomb attack in the mainly Shiite populated Shayyah neighborhood of southern suburb of Beirut, on June 24. The explosion, likely carried out by a suicide attacker, happened around midnight local time on June 24 near an army checkpoint and a cafe where football fans were watching the World Cup.
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An Iraqi family waits by the roadside outside of a displacement camp for Iraqis caught in the fighting in and around the city of Mosul on June 24, in Kalak, Iraq. Some 500,000 people have fled Iraq's second largest city of Mosul after it was overrun by the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) militants, according to CNN. Jenna Krajeski reported on the refugee camps in her dispatch for Foreign Policy, "ISIS is not ISIS."
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A woman sits on a swing in front of a screen featuring New York scenes during the new Air France Exhibition called "Air France, France is in the Air" in New York on June 25. Air France held a news conference unveiling the new "Upscale Experience" on the Paris-New York route with new economy, premium economy, and business cabins on board Boeing 777's.
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Palestinians, exhausted from hot weather, rush into the seaside to cool off, in Gaza City on June 26.
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An elderly man in a Soviet military uniform attends a mourning ceremony to mark 73rd anniversary of the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, in Brest, Belarus on June 22.
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Tourists board a boat as they enjoy the sunshine and the sea at a beach on Zakynthos island, Greece, on June 23.
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Polar bear Giovanna and her 6-month-old old polar bear twins play in their new outside pool enclosure at the Hellabrunn Zoo in Munich, Germany, on June 26. The two polar bear cubs, Nobby and Nela, were born in the zoo on Dec. 9, 2013.
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Indian Hindu devotees walk through a dust storm at the Sangam, the confluence of the rivers Ganges, Yamuna, and mythical Saraswati, in Allahabad on June 23.
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