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Previously unissued photo dated 28/6/2025 of Bob Vylan performing on the West Holts Stage, during the Glastonbury Festival at Worthy Farm in Somerset. Glastonbury Festival has said it is "appalled" by the statements made by Bobby Vylan, of punk duo Bob Vylan, during their set on Saturday. The performer led crowds on the festival's West Holts Stage in chants of "death, death to the IDF". Issue date: Sunday June 29, 2025. (Photo by Yui Mok/PA Images via Getty Images)
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4 Jun 1999: A portrait of D. Wayne Lukas, the trainer of Charismatic, taken as he addresses the media after morning workouts in preparation for the 131st Belmont Stakes at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York. Mandatory Credit: Matthew Stockman/ALLSPORT
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TEHRAN, IRAN - JUNE 26: An exterior view shows the extent of damage at a residential building in the Saadat Abad neighborhood of Tehran that was struck by an Israeli attack on June 13, resulting in the death of Dr. Tehranchi, the president of Azad University, and 16 civilians on June 26, 2025 in Tehran, Iran. A cease-fire between Israel and Iran has brought an end to 12 days of daily aerial attacks that started with Israel's strikes on Iranian military and nuclear sites on June 13. (Photo by Majid Saeedi/Getty Images)
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An oil storage facility burns in Tehran, Iran, after being hit by Israeli airstrikes on Sunday, June 15.
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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio hosts a "Declaration of Principles" signing ceremony with Congo's Foreign Minister Therese Kayikwamba Wagner, left, and Rwanda's Foreign Minister Olivier Nduhungirehe, right, on Friday, April 25, 2025, at the US Department of State in Washington, D.C..
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A traditional priest and fisherman was buried inside a giant blue teapot in Ghana’s Central Region in 2009. The teapot was chosen as his coffin as the priest would use a blue teapot in rituals, according to photographer and academic Regula Tschumi, who has spent decades documenting colorful funerals across Ghana.
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Riot police charge protesters at the end of an anti-government rally pressing for an early election after nearly eight months of almost daily anti-corruption demonstrations that have shaken the populist government of President Aleksandar Vucic, in Belgrade, Serbia, Saturday, June 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)
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