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Protests, floods, prayers for rainfall, and the King of the Sea
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A demonstrator faces water cannon by riot police during clashes after a protest demanding social reforms outside the National University in Bogota, Colombia.
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Indigenous Maya Mam women in Guatemala offer flowers at a 'prayer for rainfall' ceremony at the Chicabal Lagoon, formed in the crater of an extinct volcano and considered by Mayan people as a sacred place.
Patrick Meinhardt/AFP
The Saacuur (C), the 'King of the Sea,' who is a spiritual figure in the Serer ethnic group, during his crowning ceremony in Joal-Fadiouth, Senegal.
Chaideer Mayhuddin/AFP
Palm oil seeds at a plantation in Meulaboh on the west coast of Aceh province, Indonesia.
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Fish float on the surface of the water during a mass die-off at the Ibn Najm marsh, about 25km northeast of Najaf in Iraq.
John Wessels/AFP
Handprints on the wall of a school that was abandoned following attacks by Israeli settlers in the Bedouin village of Khirbet Zanuta in the occupied West Bank.
Biju Boro/AFP
Villagers cross flood waters after heavy rains in Kampur at Nagaon district, in India's north-eastern state of Assam.
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Worshippers pray around the Kaaba, Islam's holiest shrine, at the Grand Mosque in the holy city of Mecca ahead of the annual Hajj pilgrimage.
Jorge Bernal/AFP
Andes villagers who support Bolivian presidential candidate Andronico Rodriguez march in La Paz against rising prices for basic goods and shortages of fuel.
Delil Souleiman/AFP
A shepherd fills up a water tank for his flock of sheep in a drought-affected field on the outskirts of Qamishli, northern Syria.
Earlier this year, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced what many State Department employees had feared since Donald Trump took office in…
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Hezbollah drags Lebanon into war once more
