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Italian airshow and Nepal flash flood
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Frecce Tricolori, the aerobatic team of the Italian Air Force, performs on the first day of the BIAS International Air Show, in Bucharest, Romania, on 28 August 2026.
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A drone view of the aftermath of flash flooding at the confluence of the Trishuli and Tadi rivers in the Devighat area of Nuwakot district, Nepal, on 29 August 2026.
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A recent graduate prepares to pose for a photograph in front of the ruins of the Roman Temple of Bacchus in the historic town of Baalbek, Lebanon, on 29 August 2026.
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Pedestrians walk past a wall mural along a street in downtown Tehran on 31 August 2026. Iran attacked US military targets in the Middle East in retaliation for US strikes on Larak Island in the Strait of Hormuz.
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A powerful branching bolt of lightning flashes across the nighttime landscape, illuminating a wind farm in Sieversdorf, Germany, on 31 August 2026.
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Atlantic puffins gather among the grassy nesting burrows on the coastal cliffs of Heimaey, part of Iceland’s Westman Islands (Vestmannaeyjar), on 26 August 2026.
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A full moon is seen behind a collapsed residential building in Catia La Mar, La Guaira State, Venezuela, on 28 August 2026, more than two months after earthquakes of magnitudes 7.2 and 7.5 struck the area.
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Performers wave Malaysian flags during the 69th National Day celebration in Putrajaya, Malaysia, on 31 August 2026.
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Palestinian men work on pots at a traditional pottery workshop in the West Bank city of Hebron, on 26 August 2026.
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Humanoid robots fight in a kickboxing match during the 2nd World Humanoid Robot Games at the National Speed Skating Oval in Beijing on 26 August 2026.
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