Cosplay in Australia, the brutal Calcio Storico Fiorentino in Florence, a hyperrealistic animatronic baby in Spain, the Golden State Warriors win the NBA Finals in California, protests in Moscow, a terrible tower fire in England, and much more
Photos of the Week: 6/10–6/16
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Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green, left, and guard Stephen Curry celebrate during the second half of Game 5 of basketball's NBA Finals against the Cleveland Cavaliers in Oakland, California, on June 12, 2017. The Warriors won 129-120 to win the NBA championship. #
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A resident in a nearby building watches smoke rise from Grenfell Tower in London, as it burns on June 14, 2017. A massive fire raced through the 24-story high-rise apartment building in west London early Wednesday. #
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Emergency workers are raised up to work around the fire-gutted Grenfell Tower in London, on June 16, 2017, after a fire engulfed the 24-story building. London firefighters combed through the burned-out public housing tower Thursday in a grim search for missing people as police and the prime minister launched investigations into the deadly inferno, with pressure building on officials to explain the disaster and assure that similar buildings around the country are safe. #
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Firefighters stand amid debris in a children's playground near Grenfell Tower, after it was severely damaged by a serious fire, in north Kensington, on June 14, 2017. #
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Dancers perform during a general rehearsal of "Kreatur" (creature) by German choreographer Sasha Waltz in collaboration with artist and fashion designer Iris van Herpen and light designer Urs Schoenebaum in Berlin, Germany, on June 8, 2017. #
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Paper sculptures in the shape of handgun, part of Chinese artist Li Hongbo's work "Ocean of Flowers" ahead of the exhibition at Eight One Art Museum in Beijing, China, on June 13, 2017. According to Li, nearly 2,000 sculptures in shape of different weapons, made of hundreds of pieces of brightly coloured paper, reflect his thoughts about desire, destruction, hatred, and war. #
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A "recortador" jumps over a bull during a recortadores festival at Las Ventas bullring in Madrid, on June 11, 2017. Recortadores is a performance consisting of leaping over a bull daringly and acrobatically, in which the ones who dare to get closer to the bull and show less fear are the winners. #
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Firefighters in protective clothing walk away after putting out a fire that broke out in a truck loaded with what is suspected to be toxic chemicals on a highway in Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China, on June 9, 2017. There were no casualties and the cause of fire is under investigation, local media reports. #
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Migrants and refugees stand on the deck of the rescue vessel Golfo Azzurro after being rescued by workers from Spanish NGO Proactiva Open Arms in the Mediterranean Sea on June 16, 2017. A Spanish aid organization Thursday rescued more than 600 migrants who were attempting the perilous crossing of the Mediterranean Sea to Europe in packed boats from Libya. #
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A protester holds a national flag as a bank branch housed in the magistracy of the Supreme Court of Justice burns, during a rally against Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro, in Caracas, Venezuela, on June 12, 2017. #
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Members of the Pittsburgh Penguins celebrate with their teammates after they defeated the Nashville Predators 2-0 to win the 2017 NHL Stanley Cup Final at the Bridgestone Arena on June 11, 2017, in Nashville, Tennessee. #
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Protestors are blocked during a demonstration in downtown Moscow, Russia, on June 12, 2017. Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, aiming to repeat the nationwide protests that rattled the Kremlin three months ago, had called for a last-minute location change for a Moscow demonstration that provoked confrontations with police. #
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An official carries a fire extinguisher as train carriages burn at Cape Town station, South Africa, on June 12, 2017. Protesters torched trains and smashed windows at Cape Town's central station on Monday in frustration over delayed travel services. #
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A picture of the Mona Lisa hangs on the side of the Louis Vuitton Store on 5th Avenue in New York on June 15, 2017 to promote the Women's Da Vinci in the Masters LV X Koons collections. #
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Calcianti (players) of the Santa Maria Novella Rossi Team celebrate beating the San Giovanni Verdi Team during the semi-final match of the Calcio Storico Fiorentino at Piazza Santa Croce on June 10, 2017 in Florence, Italy. Calcio Storico Fiorentino is an early form of football, originating in the 1500's, which is still played today in Florence, Italy. The official rules of calcio were written for the first time in 1580 by Giovanni de Bardi, a count from Florence. Originally the calcio was played for rich aristocrats, and even popes were known to play. Four teams representing the neighborhoods of Florence face each other in the first semi-finals. The winners go to the final, played every year on June 24. The winner is honored with a cow. The teams are formed by 27 players and the ball can be played either with feet or hands. They can fight using tactics such as punching, elbowing and all martial arts techniques, but kicks to the head are forbidden, as are fights of two or more against one. A game lasts 50 minutes, and the winning team is the one who scores most points. The playing field is a giant sand pit with a narrow slit constituting the goal running the width of each end. Calcio Storico was not played for 200 years, until its revival in 1930. #
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A Babyclon Animatronic baby has its batteries recharged during the Bilbao Reborn Doll Show, a trade fair featuring hyperrealistic silicone and vinyl babies, known as "Reborns", in Bilbao, Spain, on June 11, 2017. #
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In this photo taken on June 10, 2017, the body of one of four suspected Maute members, who were killed by unidentified gunmen in an ambush on the police convoy they were being transported in at the boundary of Pantar and Balo-i, is seen on a stretcher at a hospital in Iligan on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao. Thirteen Philippine marines were killed in fresh gunbattles with Islamist militants who have overrun parts of a southern city, a military spokesman said June 11, in a dramatic surge in the death toll from two weeks of fierce fighting. #
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Members of the Republican and Democratic congressional baseball teams gather for a bipartisan prayer before the start of the Congressional Baseball Game at Nationals Park on June 15, 2017 in Washington, DC. U.S. House Majority Whip Rep. Steve Scalise is in critical condition following a shooting on Wednesday during a Republican congressional baseball team practice. #
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A rescue worker carries a young boy at the site of a collapse building in Nairobi, Kenya, on June 13, 2017. Rescuers pulled a child and mother from the rubble of an eight-story building Tuesday that had collapsed in a low-income part of Kenya's capital, while three people were thought to remain trapped in the debris. #
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Reporters wait for Publicist Andrew Wyatt to speak after more than 30 hours of deliberations by a jury in Bill Cosby's sexual assault trial in Norristown, Pennsylvania, on June 15, 2017. #
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