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Yanghee Lee, the U.N. special rapporteur on Myanmar, pictured on March 11.
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A cocuy drink made with pepper sauce and fruit juice on a local bar in Barquisimeto.
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Have you been conned or scammed? We want to talk to you.
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Rescue workers and local residents watch the Wada River, which has been swollen due to heavy rain in Kagoshima, Japan. More than a million people in southwestern Japan are under evacuation orders due to torrential rains.
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A woman picks up her belongings from among the rubble Wednesday, after an airstrike hit a detention center for mainly African migrants in the Tajoura suburb of Tripoli.
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Airstrike On Migrant Detention Center In Libya Kills At Least 44 People[hhmc]
In Utuado, Puerto Rico, construction work is still going on to replace a bridge destroyed in Hurricane Maria.
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'I Don't Feel Safe': Puerto Rico Preps For Next Storm Without Enough Government Help[hhmc]
July 2's total solar eclipse as seen from La Silla Observatory in Chile.
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Russia's Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu delivers a speech in Moscow last month. Shoigu is leading an investigation into an explosion on board a Russian navy research vessel.
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The road in Clapham, south London, where a body fell from a passenger plane and was found in a garden. Police say the victim may have been a man who stowed away in the plane's landing gear.
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U.S. forward Megan Rapinoe celebrates after scoring her team's second goal during Friday's quarterfinal match against France. The Americans now face an England squad that brings confidence and defensive power.
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A destroyed white van sits at the site of an explosion in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday. A powerful bomb blast tore through the capital, rattling windows, sending smoke billowing from Kabul's downtown area and wounding more than a hundred people.
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Sudanese protesters flash the V-sign during a mass demonstration in Khartoum on Sunday against Sudan's ruling generals.
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An honor guard stands at the coffin of assassinated German politician Walter Lübcke at his memorial service on June 13 in Kassel, Germany. Lübcke, a Christian Democrat, was outspoken in his pro-immigration views. His confessed killer is an avowed neo-Nazi with a 20-plus-year history of violence against immigrants.
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A German Politician's Assassination Prompts New Fears About Far-Right Violence[hhmc]
Cocoa producers of the Yakasse-Attobrou Agricultural Cooperative gather cocoa pods in a certified Fair Trade-label cocoa plantation in Adzope, Ivory Coast.
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Vehicles were buried in hail on Sunday in eastern Guadalajara, Jalisco state, Mexico. The accumulation of hail buried vehicles and damaged homes.
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