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June 21, 2012
People release lanterns in Poznan, Poland. Thousands of lanterns were released to mark the shortest night of the year.
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June 22, 2012
A Chinese child, center, adjusts his rice-dumpling-shaped hat while performing on a stage during the opening of the Duanwu Festival held at Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park in Beijing. Rice dumplings are traditionally eaten during the Duanwu Festival, also known as the Dragon Boat Festival, which falls on the fifth day of the fifth month of the Chinese calendar. It commemorates the death of Qu Yuan, a famous Chinese poet from the Chu kingdom who lived during the Warring States period.
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June 22, 2012
Miami Heat fans, cruising on the Carnival Breeze in the Adriatic Sea off Venice, Italy, join Lebron James in celebrating the Heat’s NBA championship during the final moments of the fifth game of the NBA Finals. About 150 fans lost some sleep to watch the game live aboard the ship. Heat managing partner Micky Arison is chairman and CEO of the line's parent company, Carnival Corp. & plc.
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June 21, 2012
Miami Heat fan Rick Ramirez cheers the team before Game 5 of the NBA Finals. The Heat took the championship later that night with a 121-106 victory over the Oklahoma City Thunder.
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June 21, 2012
Nick McCrory, left, and David Boudia dive in the men's 10-meter platform synchro final at the U.S. Olympic diving trials in Federal Way, Wash. The pair won the event.
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June 21, 2012
Aymara natives raise their hands to get the first sunrays during the celebration of the winter solstice, which marks the Aymara new year, at the Valley of the Moon, near La Paz, Bolivia.
Aizar Raldes
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June 22, 2012
Airlie Dodds, wearing a World War I nurse’s uniform, walks through a display of 110 canvas army tents in central Sydney. The installation is to promote the exhibition "Nurses: From Zululand to Afghanistan," currently on display at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra. The exhibition tells the personal stories of service nurses, from those in the Zulu War of 1879 to the men and women serving in recent conflicts and peacekeeping operations.
Greg Wood
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June 21, 2012
A child stands on a tank painted with flowers near the "Mother of the Fatherland," a monumental statue in Kiev, Ukraine.
Jeff Pachoud
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June 21, 2012
Brazilian natives walk upon arrival at RioCentro for the handing over of the Kari-Oca II Declaration to leaders attending the UN Conference on Sustainable Development, Rio+20, in Rio de Janeiro. World leaders attending the UN summit weighed steps to root out poverty and protect the environment as thousands of activists held protests to denounce Amazon rainforest deforestation, the plight of indigenous peoples and the "green economy" being advocated at the UN gathering.
Christophe Simon
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June 22, 2012
Preparatory and elementary school students eat packaged meals during a feeding program at a slum in Manila. The local government distributed food to the children during the 441th anniversary of the capital city Manila.
Noel Celis
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June 21, 2012
Hurdler Aries Merritt, of Marietta, Ga., practices before the U.S. Olympic track and field trials in Eugene, Ore.
Matt Slocum
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June 21, 2012
A Pakistan man holds his injured children at a hospital following a bomb explosion at a Sufi shrine in Peshawar. The attack killed two people and wounded 16 others, police said. The explosives were planted near the Panj Peer shrine in a densely populated part of the northwestern city, which runs into Pakistan's tribal belt, strongholds of the Taliban and al-Qaeda.
Ahashm Ahmed
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June 22, 2012
An Indian man shouts for water as a shanty town is engulfed in flames in New Delhi. A fire swept through a slum in the capital on Friday, destroying hundreds of shanties where residents had collected scrap plastic and rubber for resale. No one was reported injured or killed, fire department chief A.K. Sharma said.
Kevin Frayer
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June 21, 2012
Security and members of Egyptian presidential candidate Ahmed Shafiq’s party stand in front of a picture of Shafiq during a press conference in Cairo. In his first news conference since the runoff, Shafiq accused the Muslim Brotherhood of "playing games" to put pressure on election authorities before announcement of the official results.
Bernat Armangue
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June 21, 2012
A Portuguese soccer fan waves the national flag as he watches the UEFA Euro 2012 soccer championship match between Portugal and the Czech Republic from Campo Pequeno Square in Lisbon. The game was played at the Warsaw Polish National Stadium in Poland.
Patricia de Melo Moreira
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June 21, 2012
Portuguese forward Cristiano Ronaldo, left, tries to score despite Czech defender David Limbersky’s best efforts during the Euro 2012 quarterfinal match between the Czech Republic and Portugal, at the National Stadium in Warsaw.
Gabriel Bouys
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June 22, 2012
Thousands of Kashmiri Muslims pray as the head priest, unseen, displays a relic of the prophet Muhammad at the Hazratbal shrine following Mehraj-u-Alam, believed to mark Mohammed’s ascension to heaven, in Srinagar, India. The shrine houses a relic believed to be a hair from the beard of the prophet.
Dar Yasin
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June 21, 2012
People release balloons during a ceremony marking the National Day on Enforced Disappearances held in Guatemala City.
Luis Soto
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