A midsummer sunset in Denmark, a COVID-19 memorial on a Brazilian beach, the Foo Fighters in New York’s Madison Square Garden, Pope Francis and Spider-Man in the Vatican, Olympic swimming trials in Nebraska, fawn tagging in Ireland, yoga practitioners in Venezuela, and much more
Photos of the Week: Rain Vortex, Floating Flowers, Fire Dancing
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Pikachu mascots are seen during the unveiling of new Pokemon-themed designs on a Skymark Airlines Boeing 737-800 aircraft at Tokyo's Haneda international airport on June 21, 2021. #
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Zoology students at University College Dublin restrain a fawn during a fawn-tagging program, in which they catch, weigh, measure, and tag fawns, as well as sample their DNA, as part of the annual June stocktake of each of the Phoenix Park's newborn fallow-deer fawns in Dublin, Ireland, on June 22, 2021. #
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Mitch Evans of New Zealand drives in the ninth round of the ABB FIA Formula E Championship—Puebla E-Prix at Autódromo Internacional Miguel E. Abed in Puebla, Mexico, on June 20, 2021. #
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Brock Harrell rings a bell during a reenactment to celebrate Juneteenth, which commemorates the end of slavery in Texas two years after the 1863 Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves elsewhere in the United States, in Galveston, Texas, on June 19, 2021. #
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A statue of George Floyd is unveiled at Flatbush Junction in the Brooklyn borough of New York City on June 19, 2021. Floyd's murder, at the hands of Minneapolis police last year, fueled a global movement for racial justice. The unveiling of the statue happened just days after Juneteenth was declared a federal holiday. #
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The aircraft carrier U.S.S. Gerald R. Ford completes the first scheduled explosive event of the Navy's Full Ship Shock Trials in the Atlantic Ocean, on June 18, 2021. The U.S. Navy conducts shock trials of new ship designs using live explosives to confirm that its warships can operate under harsh conditions they might encounter in battle. #
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Caeleb Dressel of the United States reacts after setting an American record in the men's 50-meter freestyle final during day eight of the 2021 U.S. Olympic Team Swimming Trials at CHI Health Center on June 20, 2021, in Omaha, Nebraska. #
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An Ethiopian Orthodox devotee waits to attend the Saint Michael's anniversary celebration at St. Michael Church in Mekele, the capital of Ethiopia's Tigray region, on June 19, 2021. #
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Yemeni fighters backed by the Saudi-led coalition ride on the back of an armored vehicle as they leave the front lines near Marib, Yemen, on June 19, 2021, during the ongoing Yemeni civil war. #
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A demonstrator throws a chair toward riot police during a protest to mark the second anniversary of the death of Steve Maia Canico, a Frenchman who died after falling in the river following a police raid during France's annual nationwide Fête de la Musique celebrations in 2019, in the city of Nantes on June 21, 2021. #
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Oisin Murphy falls after being unseated from Alcohol Free, following their Coronation Stakes win on day four of the Royal Ascot Meeting, at Ascot Racecourse, on June 18, 2021, in Ascot, England. #
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Pope Francis shakes hands with a man wearing a Spider-Man costume at the end of the weekly general audience on June 23, 2021, at San Damaso courtyard in The Vatican. #
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Dave Grohl performs onstage as the Foo Fighters reopen Madison Square Garden on June 20, 2021, in New York City. The concert, whose attendees had all been vaccinated, is the first in a New York arena to be held at full capacity since March 2020, when the pandemic led to the closure of live-performance venues. #
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A teamLab staff member works inside the "Floating Flower Garden," which consists of a three-dimensional mass of flowers, at teamLab Planets, an art facility in Tokyo, Japan. #
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Two people hug behind roses placed by the NGO Rio de Paz on Copacabana beach, Rio de Janeiro, in memory of Brazil's half a million COVID-19 victims, on June 20, 2021. #
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People are removed by police officers after a crowd entered the closed site at Stonehenge in Amesbury, England, on June 21, 2021. The planned summer-solstice celebrations at Stonehenge were canceled this year. #
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