Ongoing anti-government protests in Colombia, stage four of the Tour de France, the Museum of the Future in Dubai, wildfires in California, Pride marches in New York and Pristina, a Chinese Communist Party anniversary gala, lightning in Arizona, ice-bath therapy in the United Arab Emirates, and much more
Photos of the Week: Heat Wave, Paddy Day, Big Buddha
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In this aerial view, low water levels are visible at Lake Powell on June 24, 2021, in Lake Powell, Utah. As severe drought grips parts of the western United States, a below-average flow of water is expected to move through the Colorado River Basin into two of its biggest reservoirs, Lake Powell and Lake Mead. Lake Powell is currently at 34.56 percent of capacity, a historic low. #
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Monsoonal moisture brings lightning and rain to the eastern Lake Mead and western Grand Canyon area, which has been hard-hit by the drought, on June 29, 2021, near Meadview, Arizona. #
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Plebes participate in the Oath of Office ceremony at the end of Induction Day at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, on June 30, 2021. More than 1,100 new midshipmen arrived to take part in Induction Day, the official first day of Plebe Summer. #
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People gather in Washington Square Park for the third annual Queer Liberation March in New York on June 27, 2021, one of many Pride marches that took place in cities around the world over the weekend. #
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A participant with her face painted looks on during the Pride parade in Pristina, Kosovo, on July 1, 2021. Hundreds of Kosovo people walked in the march demanding freedom and equal rights in the patriarchal and Muslim-majority country. #
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A participant sits in an ice bucket during an ice-bath-therapy session in the desert near Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, on June 25, 2021. The high temperature in Sharjah on that day hit 113 degrees Fahrenheit (45 degrees Celsius). #
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Israeli settlers and supporters in the newly established wildcat outpost of Eviatar look as Palestinian protesters flash laser beams toward them from the nearby Beita village, near the northern Palestinian city of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, on June 28, 2021. Jewish settlers agreed to leave a new outpost in the occupied West Bank that has stirred weeks of Palestinian protests following a deal with Israel's government, in an agreement confirmed by the interior ministry and settler leaders. #
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The shadow of the Willis Tower, left, falls on passing storm clouds above Lake Michigan as the setting sun lights up the Chicago skyline, as seen from the Willis Tower on June 29, 2021. #
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An aerial view of a golf course situated in a desert landscape as the state of California faces its worst drought since 1977, in Palm Desert, California, on June 29, 2021 #
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Demonstrators tear down a statue of Italian explorer Cristobal Colon, also known as Christopher Columbus, during protests in Barranquilla, Colombia, on June 28, 2021. #
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An aerial photograph of the Big Buddha and Kata Beach behind it, a day before the Phuket Sandbox tourism scheme that allows visits by vaccinated people was set to launch, in Phuket, Thailand, on June 30, 2021 #
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A view of the 266-foot-tall (81 meters) Museum of the Future, currently under construction, amid skyscrapers along the Sheikh Zayed Road in the gulf emirate of Dubai, photographed on June 30, 2021. #
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Hundreds of people gather for a vigil in a field where human remains were discovered in unmarked graves at the site of the former Marieval Indian Residential School on the Cowessess First Nation in Saskatchewan on June 26, 2021. More than 750 unmarked graves have been found near a former Catholic boarding school for Indigenous children in western Canada, a tribal leader said on Thursday, the second such shocking discovery in less than a month. #
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Family members hold a vigil for the missing victims of the Surfside condo collapse in Surfside, Florida, on June 30, 2021. #
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A young girl holds her nose before splashing through a waterfall at a park in Washington, D.C., on June 28, 2021, as a heat wave moved over much of the United States. #
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Mud-covered farmers play in a rice paddy during National Paddy Day, which marks the start of the annual rice-planting season, in Tokha village on the outskirts of Kathmandu, on June 29, 2021. #
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Deceuninck–Quick-Step rider Mark Cavendish of Britain becomes emotional while celebrating after winning stage four of the Tour de France, Redon to Fougères, on June 29, 2021. #
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A demonstrator wearing a mask stands behind a column during clashes with riot police that erupted during a protest against the government of Colombian President Ivan Duque, in Bogota's Suba neighborhood, on June 29, 2021. Anti-government protesters and police traded blows on several days this week, in demonstrations across Colombia that marked two months of unrest in which more than 60 people have died. Colombia has been rocked by protests since April, following opposition to a proposed tax hike that morphed into a mass movement against the right-wing administration of Duque. #
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