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Photos Of The Week #27
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Amin Shirzad poses for photographs with his pet scorpions at his home in Mazar-e Sharif, Afghanistan. (epa/Sayed Mustafa)
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An athlete pulls a 15-ton truck during a truck-pull event marking Belarus's upcoming Independence Day in the capital, Minsk, on July 3. (AFP/Sergei Gapon)
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An engineer of the Russian Cosmonaut Training Center hangs out to dry the pressure suits of the members of the Expedition 48/49 to the International Space Station after their water-landing simulation during preflight training in Noginsk, Russia. (epa/Maxim Shipenkov)
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Kosovar Bosnian woman Arleta Sahiti poses after her face was painted by a woman during a presentation of the traditional wedding ceremony of Bosnian women from the Zhupa region at the Ethnological Museum in Pristina. (AFP/Armend Nimani)
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Riders from a joint team of the Presidential Regiment Cavalry Escort and the Kremlin Horse Riding School perform during a horse stunt show at the All-Russian Exhibition Center in Moscow. (ITAR-TASS/Sergei Savostyanov)
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Members of Hamas's armed wing are seen inside a lift after attending a news conference in Gaza City. (Reuters/Mohammed Salem)
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A member of Pakistan's Fishermen Awareness Forum collects live shell fish, after they have washed ashore, to put them back in the sea off Karachi's Clifton beach. (Reuters/Akhtar Soomro)
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Egyptian riot policemen douse burning tires thrown by supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood during their rally to mark the first anniversary of the military ouster of Mohamed Morsi. (AFP/Khaled Desouki)
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Local resident Tatyana Markova walks inside a house damaged by shelling in the eastern Ukrainian city of Slovyansk on July 1. (Reuters/Shamil Zhumatov)
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Commuters pass plates of food, placed for passersby to break their fast during the holy fasting month of Ramadan, along a road in Karachi, Pakistan, on July 1. (Reuters/Akhtar Soomro)
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An Afghan burqa-clad woman waits to break fast during the holy month of Ramadan at the Hazrat-e Ali shrine, or Blue Mosque, in Mazar-e Sharif on June 30. (AFP/Farshad Usyan)
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Afghan children hold dishes as they wait to receive food donated by a private charity during the holy month of Ramadan in Jalalabad on June 30. (AFP/Noorullah Shirzada)
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A U.S. Army soldier, part of the NATO-led peacekeeping mission in Kosovo , KFOR, parachutes as others throw smoke grenades during a U.S. military exercise near the town of Gjakova, Kosovo. (AFP/Armend Nimani)
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Kurdish female fighters of the Women's Protection Unit (YPJ) perform a folkloric dance at a military camp in the Syrian city of Ras al-Ain in Hasakah Province. (Reuters/Rodi Said)
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Militant Islamist fighters ride horses as they take part in a military parade along the streets of Syria's northern Raqqa Province on June 30. (Reuters)
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Firefighters exstinguish a smoldering house, which was destroyed by shelling in Slovyansk in Ukraine's Donetsk region on June 30. (epa)
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Afghan children read the Koran in a madrasah, or religious school, during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan in Kabul on June 30. (Reuters/Mohammad Ismail)
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North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un inspects a tactical rocket firing drill by the Korean People's Army Strategic Force at an undisclosed location. (AFP/KCNA via KNS)
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Iraqi soldiers fire artillery during clashes with the Sunni militant group, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in the town of Jurf al-Sakhar, south of Baghdad on June 30. (Reuters/Alaa Al-Marjani)
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Russian sailors look through the porthole as they arrive aboard the "Smolny" in Saint-Nazaire on June 30. (AFP/Jean Sebastien-Everard)
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Children run by a mammoth sculpture at the newly opened Mammoth Park near the town of Kostolac, some 100 kilometers south east of Belgrade, Serbia, on June 30. (AFP/Andrej Isakovic)