Seahorse collection in Brazil, a heat wave in Texas, bison-watching in Yellowstone National Park, a swimming competition in Budapest, a kite festival in Denmark, an earthquake in Afghanistan, a motorcycle race in Austria, widespread flooding in Bangladesh, and much more
Photos of the Week: Stonehenge Solstice, Boxing Record, Torch Battle
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Firefighters operate at the site of a wildfire in Pumarejo de Tera, near Zamora, Spain, on June 18, 2022. Firefighters continued to battle multiple fires in Spain, one of which ravaged nearly 50,000 acres of land, on the last day of an extreme heat wave that crushed the country. #
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People attend a massive boxing class trying to set a new Guinness World Record for people taking a class at the same time for 30 minutes at Zócalo square, in Mexico City, Mexico, on June 18, 2022. #
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An octopus-shaped kite flies among others during the Fanoe International Kite Festival in Rindby on Fanoe, an island off the southwestern coast of Denmark, on June 16, 2022. #
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"Blinky," a giant puppet of a half-burned skeletal koala, is wheeled down a street outside the Victoria state Parliament during a protest in Melbourne, Australia, on June 21, 2022. Members of environmental groups gathered to call on MPs to reject proposed new laws that include harsh penalties for citizens who enter logging sites to protest. #
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Activists wearing masks depicting large eyeballs attend a protest against planned updates of the country's national-security laws, after a draft was leaked to the media earlier this month, in Bucharest, Romania, on June 22, 2022. #
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U.S.A. coach Andrea Fuentes swims to rescue U.S.A.'s Anita Alvarez from the bottom of the pool during an incident in the women's solo free artistic swimming finals, during the Budapest 2022 World Aquatics Championships, at the Alfred Hajos Swimming Complex in Budapest on June 22, 2022. Alvarez had fainted in the pool and was recovering after her rescue. #
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Team Italy competes in the preliminaries of the women's team highlight artistic swimming event during the FINA World Championships at the Alfred Hajos Swimming Complex in Budapest on June 23, 2022. #
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Security forces block protesters from marching to the presidential palace in Quito, Ecuador, on June 22, 2022. Protests by Indigenous people demanding a variety of changes, including lower fuel prices, have paralyzed Ecuador's capital and other regions, but the government on Wednesday rejected their conditions for dialogue. #
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Josh Donaldson of the New York Yankees gets hit by a pitch during a game with the Toronto Blue Jays at the Rogers Center on June 19, 2022, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. #
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A Ukrainian service member with a dog observes part of the industrial area of the city of Sievierodonetsk, as Russia's attack on Ukraine continues, on June 20, 2022. #
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A view shows residential boat docks on dry land at Medina Lake outside of San Antonio, as Texas experiences drought amid an extreme heat wave hitting the state, on June 18, 2022. #
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A bison walks past people who just watched the eruption of Old Faithful Geyser in Yellowstone National Park, which has been closed for more than a week, on June 22, 2022. #
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Biologists Tatiana Fernandez (right) and Gabriela Santos collect seahorses from the water off Urca beach as part of the Rio de Janeiro seahorse project run by Santa Ursula University, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on June 20, 2022. According to project leaders, there has been an increase in the seahorse population in recent years in Guanabara Bay since the 2014 nationwide ban of their capture and sale to aquarium hobbyists. #
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