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7 June 2018 — 9:15am

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An armed police officer walks past an environmental protester wearing a skeleton costume as she demonstrates outside parliament against recent government plans to mine coal and open a coal-fired power plant, in downtown Nairobi, Kenya.Photo: AP

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An Orthodox priest conducts a blessing service in front of the Soyuz FG rocket at the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan. The new Soyuz mission to the International Space Station (ISS) is scheduled on Wednesday, June 6, with U.S. astronaut Serena Aunon-Chancellor, Russian cosmonaut Sergey Prokopyev, and German astronaut Alexander Gerst. Photo: AP

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South Korean Kim Yoon-ja bows in front of the gravestone of her brother Kim Jun-geun who died during the Korean War, on Memorial Day at the national cemetery in Seoul, South Korea.Photo: AP

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Jose Wesley Campos, who was born with the Zika-caused microcephaly birth defect, sits with fellow students at an early education daycare in Bonito, Brazil.Photo: AP

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Jordanian gendarmes and Jordanian security forces stand alert in the capital of Amman. Jordan's King Abdullah II on Tuesday appointed a new prime minister, naming a leading reformer as head of government in hopes of quelling the largest anti-government protests in recent years. Photo: AP

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An aerial view of the disaster zone, blanketed in volcanic ash after the eruption of the Volcan de Fuego, or "Volcano of Fire" in Escuintla, Guatemala. The fiery volcanic eruption in south-central Guatemala killed scores as rescuers struggled to reach people where homes and roads were charred and blanketed with ash. Photo: Guatemalan National Civil Police

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U.S. President Donald Trump, center, gestures during a Celebration of America event on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.SPhoto: Bloomberg

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The front door of a home blanketed in volcanic ash carries a hand written help sign in the disaster zone near the Volcan de Fuego, or "Volcano of Fire," in the El Rodeo hamlet of Escuintla, Guatemala. Photo: AP

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Healthcare patients in wheelchairs gather in front of the Health Ministry (MPPS) during a protest in Caracas, Venezuela. Patients with chronic illness are protestinng amid the continued shortage of medical supplies and medicine.Photo: Bloomberg

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Tubers float on the cool Comal River as temperatures near triple digit numbers in New Braunfels, Texas.Photo: AP