Memorial Day remembrances in the U.S., Fashion Week in Australia, drought conditions in California, a sinkhole in Mexico, sheepshearing in Germany, a post-pandemic concert experiment in Paris, an oil-refinery fire in Iran, a daffodil festival in Austria, and much more
Photos of the Week: Ice Children, Caged Cat, Tango Protest
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Models wait backstage, ready to appear in a show by designer Hu Sheguang, during the 100th-anniversary celebration of the founding of the Communist Party of China, on May 28, 2021, in Wuhan. #
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A man in a protective suit stands next to the burning pyre of a person who died of COVID-19, at a crematorium in Srinagar, Indian-controlled Kashmir, on May 28, 2021. India's death toll is the third-highest reported in the world, after that of the U.S. and Brazil. #
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A staff member poses for a photograph in front of the work "Together," by Prince Nikolaos of Greece and Denmark, at the London Design Biennale at Somerset House in London, England, on June 1, 2021. #
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Lucy Dhegrae and musicians perform during a rehearsal for Death of Classical's new concert series, "The Angel's Share," at Green-Wood Cemetery in New York City on June 2, 2020. #
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A boat carrying an animal sculpture covered in white flowers parades during the 61st Daffodil Festival on the Grundlsee, Ausseerland region, Austria, on May 30, 2021. #
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Thousands of people, masked and tested for the coronavirus, gather in a concert hall as part of a public-health experiment to prepare the country to host big events again, in Paris, France, on May 29, 2021. #
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Austrian entomologist Gernot Kunz uses ultraviolet light to attract insects at the Shushica river, one of the biggest tributaries of the Vjosa river, in Selenica, Albania. on May 31, 2021. #
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A couple performs a tango during a demonstration demanding that dancers be allowed to practice in open spaces amid ongoing restrictions due to surging coronavirus caseloads, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on May 29, 2021. Since the pandemic hit the country, tango, an essential part of Argentine culture, has been suspended to try to stop the wave of infections. #
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Kyle Seager of the Seattle Mariners kisses his daughter Audrey before a game against the Oakland Athletics on Lou Gehrig Day at T-Mobile Park in Seattle, Washington, on June 2, 2021. #
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A girl reaches for bubbles near the Santa Monica Pier. Crowds gathered on Memorial Day as restrictions were relaxed more than a year after COVID-19 pandemic shutdowns began, in Santa Monica, California, on May 31, 2021. #
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People swim in the Sky Pool, a transparent acrylic swimming-pool bridge that is fixed between two apartment blocks, at Embassy Gardens in southwest London, on June 3, 2021. #
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Water lines are visible on the steep banks of Lake Oroville as a fisherman floats by on June 1, 2021 in Oroville, California. As extreme drought takes hold in California, water levels at reservoirs are falling fast. Lake Oroville is currently at 38 percent of its capacity. #
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Sheep graze on the Tibetan Plateau as the sun illuminates a cloudburst in the distance in Namtso, in western China's Tibet Autonomous Region, as seen during a government-organized visit for foreign journalists, on June 2, 2021. #
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Some of 26 ice sculptures of children installed on New Brighton Beach begin to melt. The ice statues were installed as part of a giant sand artwork on the beach to highlight global warming and the forthcoming COP26 global climate conference on May 31, 2021, in Wirral, Merseyside, England. #
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A woman pays her respects as she places American flags at graves ahead of Memorial Day in the Los Angeles National Cemetery, in Los Angeles, California, on May 29, 2021. #
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A visitor points to the names of the fallen soldiers at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial at the National Mall ahead of Memorial Day, in Washington, D.C., on May 30, 2021. #
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