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Ballerinas take a break during a dress rehearsal before the first official show of "Giselle" on May 6, 2015 in Johannesburg, as the St. Petersburg Ballet Theater kicks off the South African leg of the global season.




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A man tries to help Syrian refugees who were adrift on a dinghy off the coast of the Greek island of Kos on May 6. Greece is one of the main routes into the European Union for tens of thousands of Asian and African migrants fleeing war and poverty every year. According to the Greek coast guard, the number of undocumented migrants entering Greece by sea reached 10,445 in the first quarter of 2015, compared to 2,863 people for the same period last year. The influx is testing the social and economic limits of a country already crippled by financial crisis.




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A riot police officer beats a demonstrator at a rally celebrating May Day in Bogota, Colombia on May 1.




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Military cadets rest on part of the WWII memorial sculpture as they prepare for a parade of military schools timed to celebrate Victory Day at the WWII memorial in Kiev on May 5. Ukraine marks Victory Day on May 9.




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Technician David Kalic cleans one of the sodium golden light bulbs on the Eiffel Tower in Paris on May 5. The 425 golden light bulbs are changed and cleaned every four years.




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Two men wrestle in the infield before the 141st running of the Kentucky Derby horse race at Churchill Downs on May 2, in Louisville.




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Chance Forney (left) kisses Sam Hunsicker as church members wrap them and others in ribbons from a maypole during a Beltaine celebration at Four Quarters Interfaith Sanctuary in Artemas, Pennsylvania, on May 2. The sanctuary, which has hundreds of members, bills itself as a "safe and sacred ceremonial space for the modern practice of ancient religion."




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A child rescued from Boko Haram in the Sambisa forest is treated at a clinic at camp for the displaced in Yola, Nigeria on May 3. Hundreds of traumatized Nigerian women and children rescued from Boko Haram Islamists have been released into the care of authorities at a refugee camp in the eastern town of Yola.




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Jean Claude Niyonzima, a suspected member of the ruling party's Imbonerakure youth militia, pleads with soldiers to protect him from a mob of demonstrators in the Cibitoke district of Bujumbura, Burundi, on May 7. Niyonzima fled from his house into the sewer under a hail of stones thrown by a mob protesting President Pierre Nkurunziza's decision to seek a third term in office.




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A field of dead almond trees is seen next to a field of growing almond trees in Coalinga in California's Central Valley on May 6. Almonds, a major component of farming in California, use up some 10 percent of the state's water reserves according to some estimates. California water regulators on Tuesday adopted the state's first rules for mandatory cutbacks in urban water use as the region's catastrophic drought enters its fourth year. Urban users will be hardest hit, even though they account for only 20 percent of state water consumption, while the state's massive agricultural sector, which the Public Policy Institute of California says uses 80 percent of human-related consumption, has been exempted.




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A woman uses a selfie stick to take a photo of herself next to a bride and groom posing against the replica of Germany's Neuschwanstein Castle at the World Park in Beijing, China, on May 2. Millions of Chinese took advantage of the May Day holidays to visit popular tourist sites.




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A protester wears a mask made from a leaf in the Cibitoke neighborhood of Bujumbura on May 5. Protesters in Burundi dismissed a constitutional court ruling that cleared President Pierre Nkurunziza to run for a controversial third term, as the government offered to release activists if deadly demonstrations stopped.




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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry takes a selfie with a baby elephant while touring the Sheldrick Center Elephant Orphanage at Kenya's Nairobi National Park on May 3. The center hand rears elephant and rhino orphans in a rehabilitation program to help protect Kenya's threatened animal populations struggling against poaching and loss of habitat.




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Nepalese couple Anita Thapa, 22, and Sagar KC, 24, are carried by their respective brothers towards their bus during their wedding in Mahadevisthan temple in Kathmandu on May 3. The wedding had been postponed after the 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck the Himalayan nation.




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The child of a Nepalese earthquake survivor sleeps in a cot in the remote Kerauja village in Gorkha district on May 6. The earthquake that struck Nepal on April 25 killed more 7,600 people and injured another 16,390 across the country, according to the Nepal Emergency Operation Center.




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A 'Maya' girl sits in an altar during the traditional celebration of 'Las Mayas' on the streets in Colmenar Viejo, near Madrid, Spain on May 2. The festivity of the Maya comes from pagan rites and dates to the medieval age, appearing in ancient documents. It takes place every year at the start of May and celebrates the beginning of the spring. Girls between 7 and 11 years old are chosen as 'Maya' and sit still, serious and quiet for a couple of hours in altars on the street decorated with flowers and plants.




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A woman looks on as she waits to disembark from tug boat Asso29 in the Sicilian harbour of Pozzallo, southern Italy, on May 4. Nearly 5,800 migrants were plucked from boats off the coast of Libya and 10 bodies were recovered in less than 48 hours, Italy's coast guard said, in one of the biggest rescue operations this year.




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People watch a shadow play performance at Changgyeonggung Palace in Seoul, on May 6.