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Photos of the Week: European Heat Wave, Canoe Journey, Foggy Dinner
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Viacheslav Kolesnikov of Ukraine dives, as seen through a wall filled with holes, during the men's high-diving competition at the World Aquatics Championships in Gwangju, South Korea, on July 24, 2019. #
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An aerial view of a tailings-dam embankment used to store by-products of mining operations—in this case, the extraction of copper—by the Minera Valle Central mining company in Rancagua, Chile, from May 31, 2019. The photo was released by Agence France-Presse on July 23, 2019. #
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People interact with one of the pieces on display at an exhibition by the Argentinian artist Leandro Erlich, titled "The Confines of the Great Void," at the Central Academy of Fine Arts Art Museum in Beijing on July 23, 2019. #
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Justin Wright of the United States competes in the men's 200-meter butterfly heats on day three of the Gwangju 2019 FINA World Championships at Nambu International Aquatics Center in Gwangju, South Korea, on July 23, 2019. #
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A Soyuz-FG rocket booster, with a Soyuz MS-13 spaceship carrying a new crew to the International Space Station, blasts off at the Russian-leased Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on July 20, 2019. The rocket carried the U.S. astronaut Andrew Morgan, the Russian cosmonaut Alexander Skvortsov, and the Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano. #
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A young attendee tries on a glove from a spacesuit during the 50th-anniversary celebration of the Apollo 11 moon landing at Space Center Houston in Texas on July 20, 2019. #
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Demonstrators participate in a march in San Juan on July 25, 2019, the day after the governor of Puerto Rico, Ricardo Rosselló, resigned. Puerto Rico's embattled governor announced his resignation late on July 24, following two weeks of massive protests triggered by the release of a text exchange in which he and others mocked gay people, women, and hurricane victims. #
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The Guatemalan migrant Lety Perez embraces her son Anthony while pleading with a member of the Mexican National Guard to let them pass and cross into the United States, as seen from Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, on July 22, 2019. #
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Blake Aldridge of Britain competes in the men’s 27-meter high-diving rounds at Chosun University in Gwangju, South Korea, during the FINA World Aquatics Championships on July 22, 2019. #
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Canoe pullers and volunteers heft a canoe up a beach in Seattle during a stop on the annual tribal canoe journey through the Salish Sea on July 18, 2019. About 20 canoes from northwestern Native coastal tribes landed at Alki Beach on one of several legs of the canoe journey, which gathers other canoe families from host tribes as it travels to a final landing, this year near Bellingham, Washington, at the Lummi Nation. #
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Tourists eat fruit in a giant ice bucket to cool down on a hot summer day at a tourist attraction in Guilin, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China, on July 25, 2019. #
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The San Francisco Giants' Buster Posey is hit by a throw from the New York Mets pitcher Seth Lugo during the eighth inning of a baseball game in San Francisco on July 21, 2019. #
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People visit Swimming Pool, on display at an exhibition by the Argentinian artist Leandro Erlich titled "The Confines of the Great Void," at the Central Academy of Fine Arts Art Museum in Beijing on July 23, 2019. #
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