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Step leaders branch out from cloud to ground lightning strikes, as an early morning storm rips across the Santa Rosa plain near Healdsburg, California.Credit:Kent Porter/The Press Democrat
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A farmer harvests her hay on a farm near Cremona, Alberta.Credit:Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press
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A helicopter carries water to drop onto the River fire near Salinas, California.Credit:AP
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Motorcyclists wear protective masks while transporting a big tree in the Old Quarter in Hanoi. Vietnam's virus resurgence underscores the difficulties governments face not only in battling waves of the stealthy pathogen but doing so while trying to preserve economic growth. Credit:Bloomberg
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Rock falls continue to pummel Glenwood Canyon as the Grizzly Creek fire moves away, near Glenwood Springs, Colorado. With the vegetation burned away, nothing is there to anchor the rocks to the mountainside. Credit:Chris Dillmann/Vail Daily
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Heavy smoke from the River fire obscures the sun, near Salinas, California.Credit:AP
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A Kashmiri municipal worker sprays disinfectants as a precautionary measure against coronavirus as a devotee ducks to avoid it inside a Muslim shrine in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir. Shrines and other religious places across the Jammu and Kashmir reopened for devotees on Sunday after remaining closed for almost five months due to the COVID-19 outbreak.Credit:AP
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Choir members wear face masks as they sing at Westminster Abbey in London, England. Six members of the Westminster Abbey were allowed back to sing at the 11:15 Eucharist service for the first time since Coronavirus lockdown. The four-month hiatus is the longest the Abbey choir has been silent since the Second World War. Credit:Getty
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Lightning forks over the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge as a storm passes over Oakland, California. Numerous lightning strikes early Sunday sparked brush fires throughout the region.Credit:AP