Mourners in Columbia, South Carolina, pay their respects to state Sen. Clementa Pinckney as his body lies in the South Carolina State House on Wednesday, June 24. Pinckney, 41, was one of the nine people killed in a church shooting June 17 in Charleston, South Carolina.
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A Belgian Navy sailor passes life jackets to migrants during a search-and-rescue mission Tuesday, June 23, in the Mediterranean Sea. Calm seas and good weather have been prompting a wave of migrant ships to attempt the crossing from Libya to Italy, the International Organization for Migration said earlier this month.
A reveler in Alcobendas, Spain, jumps over a bonfire during the Night of San Juan on Wednesday, June 24. The annual festival welcomes the summer season in Spain and takes place on the shortest night of the year.
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Police in Yerevan, Armenia, use water cannons to disperse people who were blocking a central avenue Tuesday, June 23, while protesting an increase in electricity prices.
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Police visit a bingo hall in Friendship, New York, on Sunday, June 21, as they continue to search for two convicted murderers who escaped from prison earlier this month.
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A raccoon takes a nap in a breezy rafter during a hot day in Durham, North Carolina, on Friday, June 19.
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Students slide under the main access gate of the U.S. Embassy in Bujumbura, Burundi, after police threatened to break up their camp outside the compound on Thursday, June 25. The camp was established outside the embassy after violent protests began in the country in late April. The protests happened after Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza expressed his intention to run for a third term. There was also a failed coup attempt.
A Confederate flag is reflected in a gift shop window Sunday, June 21, in Seligman, Arizona. The June 9 church shooting in Charleston, South Carolina, has tipped the balance in a decades-old tug of war over the meaning of the flag. Its champions have argued it's a symbol of Southern culture, the historic flag of the South. Critics say it's a racist symbol that represents a war to uphold slavery and, later, a battle to oppose civil-rights advances.
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People in New York look up Sunday, June 21, at the Sky Reflector-Net, a 79-foot-high sculpture of aluminum panels and stainless steel cables that is in the atrium of the Fulton Center transit hub.
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Erika Brannock, a victim of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, walks with her mother, Carol Downing, outside federal court in Boston on Wednesday, June 24. Brannock and many other victims spoke in court before convicted bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev received his formal death sentence from a judge.
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Striking taxi drivers block the Boulevard Peripherique in Paris as they protest the online ride service UberPOP on Thursday, June 25. UberPOP, which operates in more than a dozen cities across Europe, gives passengers a cheaper alternative to traditional taxis by letting private drivers offer rides. The UberPOP app was ruled illegal by the French government last year, but the company hasn't yet exhausted all legal recourse.
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A man carries a boy to a safer place after their neighborhood was flooded in Srinagar, India, on Thursday, June 25.
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A woman wears a mask at an underground shopping district in Seoul, South Korea, on Friday, June 19. An outbreak of MERS -- Middle East Respiratory Syndrome -- has killed two dozen people in the country, officials said.
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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, center, toasts Treasury Secretary Jack Lew during a joint banquet with Chinese officials Tuesday, June 23, in Washington. Next to Kerry are Chinese Vice Premier Liu Yandong, left, and Chinese State Councilor Yang Jiechi.
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A flag covers an honor guard soldier in Bejiing during a welcoming ceremony for Belgium's King Philippe on Tuesday, June 23.
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Hundreds of people in Paris attend a yoga session at the foot of the Eiffel Tower on Sunday, June 21. It was the first-ever International Yoga Day.
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Young Palestinians from the West Bank climb over an Israeli barrier Friday, June 19, as they try to make their way to Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque to attend the first Friday prayer of Ramadan.
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A giraffe named Ellie kisses her newborn calf at the Oklahoma City Zoo on Tuesday, June 23. The young female has not been named yet.
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Mariana Garcia, 6, listens to instructions Friday, June 9, during a rehearsal of Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake" ballet in Camaguey, Cuba.
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Ricardo de Castro Monteiro performs on a hanging piano during the annual Virada Cultural event Sunday, June 21, in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
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White House guests hold up cell phones Wednesday, June 24, as Megan Smith, the United States' chief technology officer, greets President Barack Obama as he arrives for a reception to celebrate LGBT Pride Month.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin takes part in a wreath-laying ceremony at Moscow's Tomb of the Unknown Soldier on Monday, June 22. The ceremony marked the 74th anniversary of the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union.
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People traveling across London Bridge on Monday, June 22, walk on a 300-meter (984-foot) carpet designed by Gemma Cairney. The installation, "Love Mondays," was created as part of the "Spark Your City" project.
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A Syrian refugee carries mattresses as he re-enters his country from Turkey on Monday, June 22. Hundreds of refugees who fled fighting in the Syrian town of Tal Abyad were returning home after Kurdish forces there ousted the ISIS militant group, a Turkish official said.
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Harvesters pick strawberries in Regensburg, Germany, on Monday, June 22.
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Members of Afghanistan's Parliament are led to safety after an attack on the parliament building Monday, June 22, in Kabul. Afghan security forces managed to fend off six Taliban attackers, all of whom were killed in a firefight, police spokesman Ebadullah Karimi said.
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Britain's Queen Elizabeth II smiles as a robot waves to her during a reception at the Technical University in Berlin on Wednesday, June 24.
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Roman Catholic nuns in Kolkata, India, participate in the funeral ceremony of Nirmala Joshi on Wednesday, June 24. Joshi, the nun who succeeded Mother Teresa as head of the Missionaries of Charity, died a day earlier at the age of 80.
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Police talk to people on a porch in New Orleans as they search for the person who fatally shot a New Orleans police officer on Saturday, June 20. A suspect was taken into custody 24 hours after the shooting death of Officer Daryle Holloway.
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A basking shark measuring nearly 21 feet was accidentally caught by a trawler off the coast of Victoria, Australia, on Monday, June 22. The basking shark is the second-biggest fish species in the world after the whale shark, but it a seldom-seen giant: It has only been caught three times since 1880.
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Muslims in New Delhi walk outside the Jama Masjid mosque on June 19 after the first Friday prayers of Ramadan.
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A woman kisses a suspected gang member as he is arrested during a police and army operation in San Salvador, El Salvador, on Sunday, June 21. The operation took place after two soldiers were killed by gang members, local media reported.
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A Brazilian theater group called Desvio Coletivo performs its piece "Blind" in the streets of Sao Paulo, Brazil, on Saturday, June 20. The performance was said to address the facade of modern life.
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Damaged homes are seen on a flooded street in Coal City, Illinois, one day after a tornado hit on Monday, June 22.
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NASA astronaut Scott Kelly tweeted this photo from the International Space Station on Monday, June 22. "The red curtain of an #aurora closes on another day," he wrote.
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A horseman aims his lance during the San Juan festival in Ciutadella, Spain, on Wednesday, June 24.
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Tunisian diplomatic staff who were kidnapped in Libya a week ago arrive at the airport in Tunis, Tunisia, on Friday, June 19.
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A migrant sits under the trailer of a truck as he attempts to cross the English Channel in Calais, France, on Wednesday, June 24.
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A man carries butchered dogs ahead of a local dog meat festival in Yulin, China, on Sunday, June 21. The festival has become a battlefront in China's nascent animal rights movement.
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Men and women at a stadium in Pyongyang, North Korea, pump their fists in the air and chant "Defend!" on Thursday, June 25, during the "Pyongyang Mass Rally on the Day of the Struggle Against the U.S." The rally was attended by approximately 100,000 North Koreans to mark the 65th anniversary of the outbreak of the Korean War.
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Britain's Prince Charles visits the Glasgow School of Art's historic Mackintosh building Wednesday, June 24, in Glasgow, Scotland. The building was damaged in a fire last year. See last week in 38 photos
