People walk amid the debris at the site of a plane crash near the village of Grabovo, Ukraine, on Thursday, July 17. A Ukrainian official said a passenger plane carrying 295 people was shot down Thursday as it flew over the country, but both the government and the pro-Russia separatists fighting in the region denied any responsibility for downing the plane.
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People run for shelter from a hailstorm at the Ob River in the Siberian city of Novosibirsk, Russia, on Saturday, July 12.
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A desert fox is seen at a park in Ulsan, South Korea, on Monday, July 14. The animal was confiscated from a smuggler who was detained for illegally bringing the rare animal into the country from Sudan.
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Central American migrants climb on a northbound train in Ixtepec, Mexico, during their journey toward the U.S.-Mexico border on Saturday, July 12.
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President Barack Obama tests a car simulator during a tour of the Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center in McLean, Virginia, on Tuesday, July 15. The President, who hasn't been behind a steering wheel regularly since taking office, said the experience made him a little queasy. "I think I had a little bit of a lead foot; I was starting to hit 90," he told a crowd afterward.
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A Palestinian man carries a child as another lies dead on a beach in Gaza City on Wednesday, July 16. Shells fired by an Israeli gunboat killed four boys between ages 9 and 11, officials said. The Israeli military said the intended target was likely "Hamas terrorist operatives."
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Smoke billows after rockets were launched toward Israel from Gaza City on Tuesday, July 15. People on both sides of the conflict have expressed concerns about the fate of children caught amid the Hamas rocket barrages and Israeli airstrikes.
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An artificial lawn contrasts a dead lawn in San Francisco on Tuesday, July 15. Grappling with severe drought, California officials on Tuesday approved statewide emergency water restrictions.
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Delzie Gamez, 9, barely hangs onto a sheep during the Mutton Bustin' event at the Cinch Pikes Peak or Bust Rodeo on Saturday, July 12, in Colorado Springs.
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A member of the Afghan intelligence force points his pistol toward the body of an alleged insurgent after an attack by the Taliban at Kabul's airport on Thursday, July 17.
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A Filipino father shelters his child from the strong winds and rain brought by Typhoon Rammasun in Manila on Wednesday, July 16. The Philippines' first major typhoon of the season has killed more than three dozen people.
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Switzerland's Geraldine Fasnacht jumps off Brevent Mountain in a wingsuit to fly over the French ski resort of Chamonix on Wednesday, July 16.
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Soldiers use a crane to retrieve parts of a military helicopter from a pond after it crashed on the outskirts of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on Monday, July 14. Four people were killed in the crash and a fifth person was seriously injured, according to media reports.
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Hillary Clinton reacts during an interview with Jon Stewart on "The Daily Show" in New York on Tuesday, July 15. When Stewart gave Clinton a career aptitude test, her answers alluded to a presidential bid.
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A Bosnian Muslim woman mourns while visiting the coffin of a relative at the Potocari Memorial Centre near Srebrenica on Friday, July 11. Bosnian Serb forces massacred nearly 8,000 Muslim men and boys in 1995. The remains of 175 newly identified bodies were found in dozens of mass graves.
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A bolt of lightning strikes the Empire State Building during a summer rainstorm in New York on Tuesday, July 15.
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People sunbathe on rocks facing the wrecked Costa Concordia cruise ship on Sunday, July 13, off the shore of Giglio, Italy. Two and a half years after it ran aground, crews began to raise the ship from the seabed on July 14.
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A Godzilla statue is illuminated at a park in Tokyo on Thursday, July 17, to promote the recent reboot of the movie franchise.
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Two Somalis tied to large wooden stakes wait to be executed by a firing squad on Tuesday, July 15, in Mogadishu. They were convicted of murdering a Somali nurse working with a Turkish medical unit.
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Security guards stop pro-democracy lawmaker Leung Kwok-hung as he throws a plastic hammer toward Hong Kong Chief Secretary Carrie Lam at the Legislative Council in Hong Kong on Tuesday, July 15. Hong Kong's leader formally proposed electoral reforms to Beijing on Tuesday.
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Bob Grutza rides on horseback through a field of sunflowers on his property near Maysville, Kentucky, on Tuesday, July 15.
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Relatives carry the coffin of 15-year-old Gilberto Francisco Ramos Juarez on Saturday, July 12, in San Jose Las Flores, Guatemala. The young Guatemalan migrant was buried in his hometown nearly a month after his decomposed body was found in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas.
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A boy in a traditional outfit holds a bubble gun and stares at a reveler during the San Fermin festival in Pamplona, Spain, on Friday, July 11. The weeklong festival involves letting bulls run loose through the historic heart of the city.
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Jaintia tribesmen carry a "Rath," or chariot, during the Behdienkhlam festival in Jowai, India, on Wednesday, July 16. The annual celebration aims to bring a good harvest season and drive away plague and diseases.
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Carriers of the Great God Power brotherhood unload a Virgen del Carmen statue at the Puerto de la Cruz dock on the Canary island of Tenerife, Spain, on Tuesday, July 15. The procession with the statue of the patron saint of fisherman has taken place since 1921.
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The Moccasin Hill Fire burns northeast of Klamath Falls, Oregon, on Sunday, July 13. Lightning struck the state more than 6,000 times Sunday and Monday, sparking dozens of small fires.
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A "supermoon" rises over houses in Olvera, Spain, on Saturday, July 12. The phenomenon occurs when the moon becomes full on the same day as its perigee: the point in the moon's orbit when it's closest to Earth.
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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is sworn in for a new seven-year term at the Presidential Palace in Damascus on Wednesday, July 16. More than three years into a devastating civil war, Assad won a June election that has been denounced as a "farce" by his detractors.
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Attendees dress up for the 15th annual science-fiction and cosplay Starcon festival in St. Petersburg, Russia, on Saturday, July 12.
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Curtis Walker throws a baton beside a Loyalist pyre before a bonfire in Belfast, Northern Ireland, on Friday, July 11. The 200-foot bonfire will mark the start of the 12th of July Orange parade, celebrating the protestant King William of Orange's victory over the Catholic English King James II at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690.
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Paramedics and firefighters carry an injured man after a metro train derailed in Moscow on Tuesday, July 15. It was not immediately clear what caused the derailment, which took place during morning rush hour in the Russian capital. At least 22 people were killed.
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Fireworks burst around the Eiffel Tower during the annual Bastille Day celebrations in Paris on Monday, July 14. The festivities commemorate the beginning of the French Revolution with the storming of the Bastille in 1789.