Historic-battle reenactments in England, ruins of war in Ukraine, the reemergence of a flooded village in Portugal, a beagle-rescue operation in Virginia, sledding at a mountain ski resort in Lesotho, scenes from the Commonwealth Games in England, a fashion carnival in Indonesia, a general election in Kenya, a rave at a former missile base in Germany, and much more
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Melissa Guerrero, a U.S. citizen of Mexican origin, wearing traditional wedding makeup and clothing, is prepared for her wedding ceremony in the village of Donje Ljubinje, near Prizren, Kosovo, on August 5, 2022. #
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Members of the National Modern and Folkloric Ballet of Guatemala perform the traditional Mayan Q'eqchi' dance "El Paabanc" at the Miguel Angel Asturias Cultural Center in Guatemala City, on August 7, 2022. #
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Kenya's former Vice President Stephen Kalonzo Musyoka delivers a speech during a campaign rally for the Azimio La Umoja Party (One Kenya Coalition Party) in Jomo Kenyatta International Stadium in Kisumu, on August 4, 2022, ahead of the country's general election. #
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In an aerial view, boats are seen docked in the Feather River branch of drought-stricken Lake Oroville on July 6, 2022, near Oroville, California. Scientists are calling the current mega-drought the driest 22-year stretch in more than 1,200 years, with major California reservoirs dwindling to a fraction of their capacity, and no predictions for when, or if, a normal snowpack or winter rain could return to refill them. Photo released on August 6, 2022. #
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A man takes a picture of black smoke rising from burning from oil tanks near Matanzas Bay, Cuba, on August 7, 2022. Firefighters and specialists from Mexico and Venezuela traveled to Cuba to help put out the fire that burned for five days after lightning struck one of the oil tanks. #
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Ott Tanak and Martin Jarveoja of Estonia compete in their Hyundai i20 N Rally1 during day two of the FIA World Rally Championship Finland, in Jyvaskyla, Finland, on August 5, 2022. #
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Ryan Henderson of Ireland competes in the Men's Park Qualification Heat 5 during the cycling BMX Freestyle competition on day one of the European Championships Munich 2022 at Olympiapark in Munich, Germany, on August 11, 2022. #
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Jamaica's Elaine Thompson-Herah, Remona Burchell, Kemba Nelson, and Natalliah Whyte celebrate after winning bronze in the Women's 4 x 100m Relay Final at Alexander Stadium, during the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England, on August 7, 2022. #
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A fireball erupts as a result of an Israeli air strike on a building in Gaza City on August 6, 2022. Israel hit Gaza with air strikes, and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad militant group retaliated with a barrage of rocket fire, in the territory's worst escalation of violence since a war last year. #
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Workers carry a coffin with the unidentified remains of a civilian murdered by Russian troops during the Russian occupation in Bucha, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, on August 11, 2022. Eleven unidentified bodies exhumed from a mass grave were buried in Bucha on Thursday. #
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Bears enjoy themselves in an animal shelter that belongs to Natalia Popova, 50, in Ukraine's Kyiv region on August 4, 2022. Popova, in cooperation with the animal protection organization UA Animals, has already saved more than 300 animals from the war. Two hundred of them were sent abroad, and 100 found a home in western regions of Ukraine, which are considered safer. #
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Beyonce, a rescue beagle with one ear from the Envigo breeding and research facility, sniffs a toy during while resting with volunteers at Homeward Trails Animal Rescue on August 7, 2022, in Fairfax, Virginia. Homeward Trails has been working to find homes for 500 of the 4,000 beagles recently rescued from the Envigo breeding and research facility in Cumberland, Virginia, after the facility had violated dozens of federal regulations. Staff and volunteers have worked to help spay and neuter the beagles and socialize them with people before they are sent to foster homes or adopted. #
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Migrants swim next to their overturned boat during a rescue operation by Spanish NGO Open Arms in the Mediterranean Sea, south of Lampedusa island, on August 11, 2022. Forty migrants from Eritrea and Sudan were rescued by crew members after their boat overturned and started to sink. #
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People navigate a small boat through the ruins of the flooded village of Vilarinho da Furna in Campo do Geres, Portugal, on August 8, 2022. At the end of 1960, the historic village was flooded after the construction of a dam, but during recent years, rains have decreased and temperatures have risen, bringing almost all of the village back above water in the summertime. #
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A performer on horseback reenacts a battle scene as he takes part in the season-opening performance of Kynren—An Epic Tale of England, at Flatts Farm in Bishop Auckland, England, on August 6, 2022. #
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Lily Owsley of Team England misses a shot in the penalty shoot-out during the Women's Hockey Semi-Final match between Team England and Team New Zealand on day eight of the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games at University of Birmingham Hockey & Squash Center on August 5, 2022. #
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