Archaeological inspections with a robot in Italy, fighting in Ukraine, tennis trophies in France, Queen Elizabeth's Platinum Jubilee in London, cliff diving in Boston, cheese-rolling in England, fireflies in a Thai forest, and much more
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An Indian Rabha tribal Hindu priest runs barefoot through burning charcoal, as part of rituals during the Baikho festival at Gamerimura village, along the Assam Meghalaya border, west of Gauhati, India, on June 4, 2022. #
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Asuka Kashiwabara of Japan hits her tee shot on the 12th hole, during the final round of Richard Mille Yonex Ladies at Yonex Country Club in Nagaoka, Niigata, Japan, on June 5, 2022. #
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The pack rides in the third stage of the 74th edition of the Criterium du Dauphine cycling race, 169 km between Saint-Paulien and Chastreix-Sancy, France, on June 7, 2022. #
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Jordan Costa, Giffords community violence initiative project manager, walks through a field of flowers representing deaths from gun violence at the Giffords Gun Violence Memorial in front of the Washington Monument on June 7, 2022, in Washington, D.C. #
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NASA's Artemis rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard leaves the Vehicle Assembly Building, moving slowly to pad 39B at Kennedy Space Center, on June 6, 2022, in Cape Canaveral, Florida, While at the pad the rocket and Orion spacecraft will undergo tests to verify systems and practice countdown procedures. #
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Contestants in the men's downhill race chase the cheese down the hill in Gloucester, England, on June 5, 2022. The Cooper's Hill Cheese-Rolling and Wake annual event returned this year after a break during the Covid pandemic. Participants race down the 200-yard-long hill after a 3.6kg round of Double Gloucester cheese. #
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Alex Rins of Spain and Takaaki Nakagami of Japan fall after crashing during the Moto GP of Catalunya at Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya in Barcelona, Spain, on June 5, 2022. #
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Rhiannan Iffland of Australia dives from the 21 meter platform during the final competition day of the first stop of the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series in Boston, Massachusetts, on June 4, 2022. #
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A worker with the Jardim Gramacho landfill collects garbage in the red mangrove seedlings area, once the site of South America's largest open-air landfill, at the recovering mangrove forest in Duque de Caxias in Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil, on June 1, 2022. #
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Spain's Rafael Nadal poses with The Musketeers' Cup as he celebrates after his victory over Norway's Casper Ruud during their men's singles final match on day fifteen of the Roland-Garros Open tennis tournament at the Court Philippe-Chatrier in Paris on June 5, 2022. #
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Japan's Shingo Kunieda celebrates with the trophy after winning the men's French Open wheelchair singles final against Argentina's Gustavo Fernandez in Paris, France, on June 4, 2022. #
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Colourful butterflies fly around a tourist as around 150 million caterpillars begin to emerge from their cocoons in the Butterfly Valley in Jinping Miao, Yao and Dai Autonomous County, Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China, on June 7, 2022. #
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A technician drives "Spot," a quadruped robot developed by Boston Robotics, while it inspects a tunnel during a presentation to the media at the Archaeological Park of Pompeii, near Naples, Italy, on June 9, 2022. #
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A passenger train passes through the Mae Klong railway market in Samut Songkhram province, Thailand, on June 4, 2022. Six times a day at the market, local customers and foreign tourists scramble into nooks and crannies while vendors calmly move their woven baskets of goods away from the tracks and close their umbrellas. #
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Jon Greene, defense advisor to New Hampshire Senator Jeanne Shaheen, carries Kodak the bear, to decorate the senator's office on Capitol Hill to raise awareness about New Hampshire, while intern Roderck Emley takes calls, in Washington, D.C., on June 7, 2022. #
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