A firearms course for teachers in Colorado, Saudi Arabia lifts its ban on women drivers, immigration-policy protests in Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles, the World's Ugliest Dog Competition in California, a spider hunts along a Russian river, Fashion Week in Dakar, Banksy surfaces in Paris, a dramatic moonrise above a burning moorland in England, and much more.
Photos of the Week: Wild Horses, Scarlet Sails, Sun God
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Military aircraft enthusiasts watch as a United States Air Force F-15 fighter jet travels at low altitude through the "Mach Loop" series of valleys near Dolgellau, Wales, on June 26, 2018. The Mach Loop valleys are regularly used by the military for operational low-flying training, which can take place as low as 250 feet (76 meters) from the nearest terrain. #
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The full moon rises behind burning moorland as a large wildfire sweeps across the moors between Dovestones and Buckton Vale in Stalybridge, Greater Manchester, on June 26, 2018, in Stalybridge, England. #
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A vintage ship with scarlet sails passes on the Neva River in central Saint Petersburg, Russia, on June 23, 2018, during the "Scarlet Sails," a romantic holiday with a laser show to honor high school graduates. #
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A horse rears in the crowd during the traditional San Juan festival in the town of Ciutadella, on the Balearic Island of Menorca, on the eve of Saint John's Day on June 23, 2018. During the island's San Juan festival, held each year on June 23 and 24, Minorcan racehorses gallop and prance on their hind legs through the streets of Ciutadella to honor the town's patron saint. As the caixers (horse riders) ride together in a parade, spectators attempt to pat the horses' chests to get good luck. #
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A woman walks past artwork attributed to the street artist Banksy, in Paris, on June 25, 2018. Banksy is believed to have taken his message on migration to Paris. Seven works attributed to the graffiti artist have been discovered in recent days, including one near a former center for migrants at the city's northern edge, according to the art website Artistikrezo. #
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Mares cross through the village of Rocio, Spain, during the annual Saca de las Yeguas (round up of the wild mares) on June 26, 2018. Annually in late June, large herds of free-roaming horses are rounded up from the marshes and forests near the Coto Donana National Park to be driven past the hermitage in El Rocio, where they are blessed before heading on to run through the crowded streets of Almonte. #
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Indigenous men in traditional costumes dance on the road to Cotacachi, Ecuador, to take over the town's main plaza, celebrating the Festival of the Sun on June 24, 2018. Across the Andes, from the tip of Argentina as far north as Colombia, indigenous communities are gathering for the southern hemisphere's winter solstice to honor the ancient sun god. #
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Mapuche Indian activists fight with riot police inside of a pool in front of the government palace during a protest to demand justice for indigenous Mapuche inmates in Santiago, Chile, on June 27, 2018. #
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Members of the clergy from different denominations are arrested in an act of civil disobedience in Los Angeles, California, on June 26, 2018. Demonstrators had gathered in front of the Federal Courthouse to protest the visit to Los Angeles by U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, as well as the Trump administration's hard-line immigration policies. #
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Shua Rich, 6, holds his sign as he protests with his mother during a rally against U.S. immigration policies outside an office of Representative Kevin Yoder in Overland Park, Kansas, on June 22, 2018. #
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Catalina Gonzalez Ortiz, of the Raramuri or Tarahumara ethnic group in Mexico, poses for a photograph in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua state, Mexico. Gonzalez said she hoped the new government would "help us deal with all the violence happening here" ahead of the country's July 1 presidential election. #
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A mother migrating from Honduras holds her one-year-old child while surrendering to U.S. Border Patrol agents after illegally crossing the border on June 25, 2018, near McAllen, Texas. #
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People stand at the base of The Motherland Calls monument at the Mamayev Kurgan World War II memorial complex in Volgograd (formerly Stalingrad), Russia, on June 26, 2018. #
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Thai soldiers relay electric cables deep into the Tham Luang cave at the Khun Nam Nang Non Forest Park in Chiang Rai on June 26, 2018 during a rescue operation for a missing children's football team and their coach. Desperate parents led a prayer ceremony outside a flooded cave in northern Thailand, where the 12 children and their football coach have been trapped for days, as military rescue divers packing food rations resumed their search on June 26. #
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Tee Tee, a Chinese crested, is shown to judge Brian Sobel during the World's Ugliest Dog Competition in Petaluma, California, on June 23, 2018. Zsa Zsa the English bulldog won first place and was awarded $1500, a trophy, and will be flown to New York for media appearances. #
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After the Turkish State Meteorological Service issued a warning of possible damaging hailstorms, a deliveryman covered himself for protection while on the job, in Istanbul, Turkey, on June 26, 2018. #
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Protesters hold up their hands as they fill the center atrium and upper levels lining the Hart Senate Office Building in protest of the separation of immigrant families on June 28, 2018, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. #
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez celebrates with supporters at a victory party in the Bronx after upsetting incumbent Democratic Representative Joseph Crowley in New York City on June 26, 2018. Ocasio-Cortez upset Rep. Joseph Crowley in New York’s 14th Congressional District, which includes parts of the Bronx and Queens. #
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Lewis Hamilton of Great Britain drives the Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 Team Mercedes WO9 during final practice for the Formula One Grand Prix of France at Circuit Paul Ricard on June 23, 2018, in Le Castellet, France. #
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Hessah al-Ajaji drives her car down the capital's busy Tahlia Street after midnight for the first time in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on June 24, 2018. Saudi women are in the driver's seat for the first time in their country, and steering their way through busy city streets just minutes after the world's last remaining ban on women driving was lifted on Sunday. #
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John MacFarlane, a Colorado Springs high school physics teacher from Colorado School District 20 participates in an Airsoft active shooter drill during a three-day firearms course sponsored by FASTER Colorado at Flatrock Training Center in Commerce City, Colorado, on June 28, 2018. FASTER Colorado has been sponsoring firearms training to Colorado teachers and administrators since 2017. Over 100 Colorado teachers and administrators have participated in the course. Colorado is one of approximately 30 states that allow firearms within school limits, and an estimated 25 school districts in Colorado allow teachers and administrators to carry concealed firearms. #
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Steve Schuh, county executive of Anne Arundel County, holds a copy of The Capital Gazette near the scene of a shooting at the newspaper's office, on June 29, 2018, in Annapolis, Maryland. A man armed with smoke grenades and a shotgun attacked journalists in the building Thursday, killing five people before police quickly stormed the building and arrested him, police and witnesses said. #
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