Recovering from COVID-19 in Mexico City, a midday cannon in St. Petersburg, protests in Minneapolis, tennis training in France, giraffes in Nairobi, sunrise at the Grand Canyon, a drive-in concert in Copenhagen, Tokyo Tower’s reopening in Japan, and much more
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Italy’s national aerobatic team, Frecce Tricolori, flies over Milan's Duomo Square as part of celebrations for the 74th anniversary of the proclamation of the Italian republic, on May 25, 2020, in Milan, Italy. #
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A worshipper offers Eid al-Fitr prayers, marking the end of the Islamic fasting month of Ramadan, outside a shrine, to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus in Tehran, Iran, on May 24, 2020. #
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The co-director of the intensive-care unit at CommonSpirit's Dignity Health California Hospital Medical Center, Zafia Anklesaria, who is seven months pregnant, intubates a COVID-19 patient, in Los Angeles, California. #
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The NASA astronauts Bob Behnken (right) and Doug Hurley (left) leave the Operations and Checkout Building on their way to the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon spacecraft on launch pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center on May 27, 2020, in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The launch was postponed because of bad weather. NASA tried again on Saturday for the first manned mission since the end of the space-shuttle program in 2011 to be launched into space from the United States. #
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A person dressed as the mascot of Tokyo Tower wears a face shield while waiting to greet patrons at the entrance of the 1,092-foot-high tower on May 28, 2020, as the city's landmark reopened, following the lifting on May 25 of Japan's nationwide state of emergency. #
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The Filipino artist, Leeroy New, poses with a makeshift mask he designed with recycled materials, as he adapts to the effects of the coronavirus pandemic on the art industry, in his studio in Quezon City, Philippines, on May 28, 2020. #
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A student's image is seen on a tablet that has been placed on a robot during a "cyber-graduation" at a school in Taguig in Manila, Philippines, on May 22, 2020. Robots were used to represent some 179 high-school students during an online graduation ceremony that was live-streamed on Facebook to avoid mass gatherings. #
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Nurses participate in a Zumba aerobic-fitness program as a way to help them cope with working situations during the coronavirus outbreak, on the infectious-disease unit grounds of the Kenyatta National Hospital in Nairobi, Kenya, on May 28, 2020. #
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The Danish rapper and songwriter, Liam O'Connor, performs on a stage in parking lot P19 at Copenhagen Airport during a drive-in concert in Copenhagen, Denmark, on May 27, 2020. #
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Patrick Hand affixes a cross to the outdoor Chapel of a Thousand Crosses and a Million Tears at Balally Parish Church of the Ascension of the Lord, following the coronavirus outbreak in Dublin, Ireland, on May 27, 2020. The outdoor chapel's wall of crosses has become a shrine, and each cross represents a person in Ireland who has died from the coronavirus. #
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John Bickler visits the Los Angeles National Cemetery on May 25, 2020. The annual Memorial Day commemoration was held without the public in attendance because of the coronavirus outbreak. #
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DirecTV satellite dishes dot the facade of the Great Mission public-housing project in Caracas, Venezuela, on May 22, 2020. Venezuela’s high court ordered on Friday the immediate seizure of all DirecTV property, days after the U.S. firm abandoned its services in the South American nation, citing U.S. sanctions. #
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Visitors sit after sunrise on Memorial Day along the South Rim of Grand Canyon National Park, which has partially reopened on weekends amid the coronavirus pandemic, on May 25, 2020, in Arizona. #
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A man jumps from Durdle Door against the backdrop of a cruise ship as tourists enjoy the hot weather at Durdle Door Beach on May 25, 2020, in West Lulworth, England. #
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The aerial-straps artist and dancer, Denis Bazhenov, from the WOW - The Vegas Spectacular show at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino trains for his act, using a tree, at Sunset Park in Las Vegas, Nevada, on May 25, 2020. #
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A photo taken on May 21, 2020 shows iCub, an open-source cognitive humanoid robot, at the Italian Institute of Technology in Genoa, Italy. The iCub robot has 53 motors that move its head, arms, hands, waist, and legs. It can see and hear. #
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A restorer cleans Michelangelo's David statue while preparing for the reopening of the Galleria dell'Accademia, which was closed for almost three months because of the coronavirus, in Florence, Italy, on May 27, 2020. #
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People enjoy the sun at Carcavelos Beach in Cascais on the outskirts of Lisbon, Portugal, on May 26, 2020, as temperatures rise and the Portuguese government loosened its lockdown measures. #
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Protesters are pepper-sprayed as they confront police outside the Third Police Precinct on May 27, 2020, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The station has become the site of an ongoing protest after the police killing of George Floyd. Four Minneapolis police officers have been fired after a video taken by a bystander was posted on social media showing Floyd's neck being pinned to the ground by an officer as he repeatedly said, "I can’t breathe." Floyd was later pronounced dead while in police custody, after being transported to Hennepin County Medical Center. #
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A fire burns inside an Auto Zone store near the Third Police Precinct in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on May 27, 2020. Businesses near the precinct were looted and damaged as the area became the site of ongoing protests after the police killing of George Floyd. #
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An orphan plays with her new Hula-Hoop during a food-and-toy-distribution event for about 500 orphans in 11 orphanages, conducted by the National Muslim COVID-19 Response Committee, to celebrate Eid al-Fitr at the Good Hope Markazil Banatil Islamia Orphans Centre in Nairobi, Kenya, on May 25, 2020. #
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Maria Del Carmen Acero Camacho, 48, (center) flanked by her daughter Ana (right) and her sister Margarita (left), offers thanks to God for bringing her back to her family, as they sit down to a meal after Maria was released from the hospital following a 21-day struggle against COVID-19, in Iztapalapa, Mexico City, on May 25, 2020. Acero returned home weak but vivacious, recounting to her family the kindness and encouragement of the nurses who cared for her, as well as the devastation that came from watching fellow patients dying around her. #
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