1. Pa Pa of Myanmar (center) stands barefoot on the starting line with Triyaningsih Triyaningsih of Indonesia (right) and Mary Grace Santos of the Philippines (left) in the women's 10,000m final athletics event during the 28th Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games) in Singapore on June 11, 2015.
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2. A motorcyclist's face is covered by ash spewed by the Mount Sinabung volcano as he rides his vehicle in the Karo district, North Sumatra province, on June 13. Nearly 3,000 people have been evacuated from their homes after Indonesia upgraded the threat posed by a volcano on Sumatra island to the highest possible level, an official said on June 4.
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3. Italo Ferreira of Brazil flies through the air after pulling out of a wave as his opponent Kelly Slater of the United States of America paddles past during Round 5 of the World Surf League Fiji Pro at Cloudbreak off Tavarua island, Fiji on June 15.
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4. A migrant sleeps covered by a Union Jack flag on the rocks of the seawall at the Saint Ludovic border crossing on the Mediterranean Sea between Vintimille, Italy and Menton, France, on June 17. On Saturday, some 200 migrants, principally from Eritrea and Sudan, attempted to cross the border from Italy and were blocked by Italian police and French gendarmes.
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5. A law enforcement officer walks through a backyard as authorities conduct a house-to-house search for escaped prisoners David Sweat and Richard Matt on Sunday, June 14, in Cadyville, N.Y. Law enforcement personnel were in the ninth day of searching for Sweat and Matt, two killers who used power tools to cut their way out of the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora in northern New York.
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6. Kenny Serrano cools off in water spraying from a fire hydrant on June 12, in Philadelphia. Officials said Philadelphia's public schools closed early due to heat.
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7. A Haitian woman peeks through a fence surrounding the Ministry of Interior and Police while waiting to register in Santo Domingo, on June 16.
Hundreds of thousands of Haitian migrants and Dominicans of Haitian descent faced the risk of deportation from the Dominican Republic on Wednesday as a deadline for enforcement of a new immigration law approached.
Dominican officials say anyone lacking identity documents or who has not registered for a so-called "regularization" program before the Wednesday night deadline could face deportation.
The Dominican government says the changes to its nationality and immigration laws aim to tackle illegal migration from neighboring Haiti.
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8. A Syrian refugee holds onto his daughter as he waits to cross into Turkey at the Akcakale border gate in Sanliurfa province, Turkey on June 15.
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9. Pope Francis, right, blesses a baby as he arrives for a convention with Rome's diocese in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, on June 14.
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10. A baby koala holds on to his mother as she undergoes surgery at Australia Zoo Wildlife Hospital in Queensland in a photo released on June 11. Koala mother Lizzy and koala joey Phantom were brought in after Lizzy was hit by a car on a highway near Coominya.
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11. A woman cries as she holds her baby, near her house that was damaged by shelling, in Horlivka, eastern Ukraine, on June 11. At least four people including a child were killed by shelling in east Ukraine on Thursday.
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12. An excavator removes a dead bear at the zoo in Tbilisi, Georgia, on June 17. Tigers, lions, bears and wolves were among more than 30 animals that escaped from a Georgian zoo and onto the streets of the capital Tbilisi on Sunday during floods. The flooding, triggered by torrential rains over the weekend, killed at least 19 people, destroyed houses and tore up roads.
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13. Ousted Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi reacts inside the defendants cage in the courtroom as a judge reads a verdict against him in Cairo, Egypt on June 16. An Egyptian court on Tuesday confirmed the death sentence of Morsi over a mass prison break during the country's 2011 uprising, making him the first leader in Egypt's modern history to potentially face execution.
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14. South Korean workers wearing protective gear fumigate a theater at the Sejong Culture Center in Seoul on June 16. South Korea reported three more fatalities from MERS on June 16, taking the country's death toll from the outbreak to 19 as four new cases were confirmed, the health ministry said.
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15. A wounded child looks on after receiving treatment at a make-shift medical center in Douma on the northeastern outskirts of the Syrian capital Damascus on June 17, following reported heavy shelling and air strikes by government forces on the rebel-held town.
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16. A guard sits on the rubble of the house of Brigadier Fouad al-Emad, an army commander loyal to the Houthis, after air strikes destroyed it in Sanaa, Yemen on June 15. Warplanes from a Saudi-led coalition bombarded Yemen's Houthi-controlled capital Sanaa overnight as the country's warring factions prepared for talks expected to start in Geneva on Monday.
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17. A Syrian migrant holds up his daughter as lifejackets float on the water after their arrival from Turkish coasts at a beach in Mytilene, on the northeastern Greek island of Lesvos, early on June 16. Lesvos has been bearing the brunt of a huge influx of migrants from the Middle East, Asia and Africa crossing from the Turkish coast to nearby Greek islands. More than 50,000 migrants have arrived in Greece already this year, compared to 6,500 in the first five months of last year. |