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Firefighter Ricardo Gomez, of a San Benito Monterey Cal Fire crew, sets a controlled burn with a drip torch while fighting the Creek Fire, in Shaver Lake, California.Credit:AP
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People are seen at the beach during a heat wave, in Huntington Beach, California.Credit:AP
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Dump trucks stand among piled sand and gravel at the construction site of the new Tesla Gigafactory stands near Berlin near Gruenheide, Germany. Tesla is planning to begin electric car production at the site by the summer of 2021 with 12,000 employees and an output of at least 100,000 cars annually. Credit:Getty
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Jennifer Brady, of the United States, serves to Angelique Kerber, of Germany, during the fourth round of the US Open tennis championships, in New York. Credit:AP
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The roofs of an auto repair garage are fallen on pedestrian sidewalk after a typhoon hit Fukuoka, southwestern Japan. The second powerful typhoon to slam Japan in a week left people injured, damaged buildings, caused blackouts at nearly half a million homes and paralyzed traffic in southern Japanese islands before headed to South Korea.Credit:AP
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People watch a flooded road near a river following heavy rain in Ulsan, South Korea. Credit:AP
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An Indian homeless boy sits on a stray dog as he waits in a queue to receive free food distributed by the Sikh community near a railway station in Gauhati. India's coronavirus cases have crossed 4 million, leading the world in new infections and deepening misery in the country's vast hinterlands where surges have crippled the underfunded health care system.Credit:AP
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A spectator in a face mask watches a match between Denis Shapovalov, of Canada, and David Goffin, of Belgium, during the fourth round of the US Open tennis championships, in New York. Credit:AP
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Protesters light torches during a rally in Podgorica, Montenegro. Several thousand protesters waving Montenegro flags gathered in the state capital in support of the ruling pro-Western party which could lose power if the pro-Serb and pro-Russian groups manage to form a ruling coalition.Credit:AP
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Fireworks explode over the Cathedral of Russian Armed Forces during the Spasskaya Tower military music festival in Kubinka, outside Moscow, Russia. Due to coronavirus, the annual international music festival in Red Square was canceled, an online festival without spectators took place Sunday on the Cathedral Square in Patriot Park, outside Moscow. Credit:AP