A woman runs away from a seal at the beach of Eckernfoerde in the Baltic Sea.
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A Tucano training aircraft speeds through the Dinas Pass – known in the aviation world as the Mach Loop – in Dolgellau, United Kingdom. The Royal Air Force and US Air Force use the valleys of Snowdonia to practice low flying techniques and pilot training. The mountain peak vantage points attract aviation enthusiasts from all over the world who hope for a glimpse of their favorite military aircraft spending days waiting for the un-published and un-scheduled fly pasts.
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A vendor sell fruits at a market in central Kabul, Afghanistan.
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A destroyed car lies in front of a gas station after it crashed into a filling pump at an Agip gas station on Brenner highway in Matrei south of Innsbruck. One person died and one person was injured in the accident.
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Queen Elizabeth II emerges from a wigwam as she attends a Mi’kmaq cultural event in Halifax, Canada. The royal couple are on a nine-day tour of Canada.
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A tourist walks ups the main steps of the Potala Palace in Lhasa, Tibet. The Potala Palace has been the traditional winter palace of Tibet’s Dalai Lamas for centuries. It has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1994.
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Workers chat as they clean the mud left by a flood at a textile mill in Nanping, Fujian province.
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First Class Cadet Ryan Schmid, left, yells at members of Foxtrot Company as members of the U.S. Coast Guard Academy’s Class of 2014 start their indoctrination at the start of Swab Summer on Reporting-In Day at the academy in New London, Conn.
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Employees work on the AlpspiX viewing platform at the southern Bavarian Alps mountain Alpspitze in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. Each arm of the so-called AlpspiX platform is 25 metres (82 feet) long and will end with a glass wall providing panoramas of Hoellental and Garmisch with a spectacular view down 1000 metres below. It is due to open on July 4.
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Protesters beat a riot policeman during a rally against government austerity measures in Athens. Greek riot police fired tear gas at protesters chanting “Burn parliament” in Athens on Tuesday just hours before lawmakers were to begin debating a sweeping pension reform to help tackle the country’s huge debt crisis.
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Hindu priests sit inside cooking pots filled with water as they perform special prayers in order to appease Varun, the Hindu rain god, in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad. India’s annual monsoon rains are expected to return in two days after a 10-day lull, the weather office said on Monday.
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Indonesian police examine a derailed train following an accident in Madiun. A packed passenger train derailed in Indonesia, killing at least eight people, an official said. The train was heading from Purwokerto to Jember in East Java province when it went off the tracks.
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Israeli Air Force cadets throw their caps in the air during their graduation ceremony at Hatzerim airbase in southern Israel.
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A woman watches blue crabs walk along the main seaside avenue of Cancun, Mexico. According to the city’s environmental agency, more than 200 crabs were rescued and another estimated 1,000 are yet to be caught after the crabs came out when ongoing public works along the avenue disrupted their nests.
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Farmers splash mud at each other during Asar Pandra in Patan. Asar Pandra is an auspicious day for rice planting for Nepalese farmers.
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Paraguayan model Larissa Riquelme waves her national flag during a public screening of the World Cup soccer match between Paraguay and Japan in downtown Asuncion.
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Spanish bullfighter Miguel Angel Perera tries to come out from under a bull during the Saint Peter and Paul Fair in Burgos, Spain.
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A worker, top center, cleans the floor of the Danish pavilion prior to the visit of Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark at the site of the World Expo 2010 in Shanghai.
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People rest near a pond in the French southwestern city of Toulouse, where sculptures of Argentinian Pedro Marzorati are displayed in memory of Pierre-Paul Riquet, who built the 17th century Canal du Midi, linking the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean.
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Two sailors hang onto the centerboard of the 420 sailboat they were piloting, which overturned in high winds, on the Charles River in Boston. The two were able to upright the boat and continue sailing after their plunge into the river.
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