News photos of the day

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Conor McGregor is carried off in a stretcher following an injury suffered against Dustin Poirier during UFC 264 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. Gary A. Vasquez-USA Today Sports
 

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An NH90 "CAIMAN" helicopter flies over the Eiffel Tower and the Seine river during a practice session prior to July 14's Bastille Day Parade in Paris, France.
 
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VERY DETERMINED: Orangemen march past a Parades Commission Determination sign which prevents them from playing music in the Clifton Street area of Belfast as part of 12th of July celebrations marking the victory of King William of Orange over the Catholic King James at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA Wire

The Twelfth (also called the Glorious Twelfth or Orangemen's Day)] is an Ulster Protestant celebration held on 12 July. It was first held in the late 18th century in Ulster.. It celebrates the Glorious Revolution (1688) and victory of Protestant King William of Orange over Catholic King James II at the Battle of the Boyne (1690), which began the Protestant Ascendancy in Ireland. Wiki

 

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LOVE OVER HATE: Locals erect messages of support on pieces of plastic hiding racist graffiti sprayed on a mural of Manchester Utd striker and England player Marcus Rashford on a cafe wall on Copson Street, Manchester, England. Rashford and other black players on England's national football team were the target of racial abuse after the team's loss to Italy in the Euro 2020 final on Sunday night. Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty
 
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Police in central Russia have physically stopped an opposition activist from standing for election by blocking his entrance to a local government building as he arrived to register his candidacy.

Dmitri Krasichkov, an anti-corruption campaigner in Lipetsk, a small city 300 miles south of Moscow, won last year’s elections to the city council but the results were declared void by officials, regional media reported. He had planned to stand in elections this autumn.
 
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Thousands of Cubans have risked jail by joining the biggest protests for decades against the island's Communist government.

"There is no food, no medicine, there is no freedom. They do not let us live," one of Sunday's protesters named only as Alejandro told BBC Mundo.

Over the past six decades most Cubans have made the entirely rational calculation that open criticism of their government is too dangerous. It is not worth it. The Cuban constitution, based on a Soviet blueprint, contains a draconian warning. It spells out that no behaviour, no freedom, will be tolerated if it is deemed “contrary to the existence and objectives of the socialist state, or contrary to the decision of the Cuban people to build socialism and communism”.

 
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Iran dating app Hamdam is part of the Islamic republic’s efforts to tackle declining birth rates and the rising age of marriage. Photograph: Abedin Taherkenareh/EPA

Iran has unveiled a state-sanctioned Islamic dating app aimed at facilitating “lasting and informed marriage” for its youth, state television reported. Called Hamdam – Farsi for “companion” – the service allows users to “search for and choose their spouse. It is the only state-sanctioned platform of its kind in the Islamic republic, all other platforms apart from Hamdam are illegal.

Users have to verify their identity and go through a “psychology test” before browsing. When a match is made, the app “introduces the families together with the presence of service consultants”, who will “accompany” the couple for four years after marriage.
 
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Withington, England
A mural of Marcus Rashford is covered with messages of support after it was defaced following the Euro 2020 final between Italy and England. Photograph: Christopher Thomond/The Guardian
 
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Sisters, US
A firefighting tanker makes a retardant drop over the Grandview fire near Sisters in Oregon. The wildfire doubled in size to 62 sq miles on Monday, forcing evacuations in the area. Photograph: AP
 
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General Charles-Étienne Gudin de La Sablonnière, one of Napoleon's closest generals, who died more than 200 years ago during the Russian campaign, will finally rest in his homeland when Russia handed over his remains to France. “It is planned that 2 December, a ceremony will be held in Les Invalides (in Paris) with the presence of the president of France, Emmanuelle Macron, but we do not know if he will invite President Putin” Peskova pointed out.
 
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South Africa. Unrest continues. A suspected looter is pinned to the ground by an armed private security officer in a damaged shopping mall in Vosloorus, Gauteng, South Africa. Stores in two South African provinces were ransacked for a fifth consecutive day, hours after President Cyril Ramaphosa deployed troops in a bid to quell unrest that has claimed 45 lives, in the wake of the jailing of former president Jacob Zuma for contempt of court. Photograph: Marco Longari/AFP/Getty
 
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Gay Hate in Georgia
Mourners surrounded by TV camera operators take part in an open-casket funeral ceremony for late Georgian cameraman Lekso Lashkarava, in Tbilisi, Georgia. Mr Lashkarava, who worked for Georgia's TV channel TV Pirveli, was beaten by far-right activists during an anti-LGBT rally on July 5th, and died on July 11th. Photograph: Zurab Kurtisikidze/EPA
 
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Sergei Ryabkov, Russia's deputy foreign minister, CHRISTOF STACHE/AFP/GETTY

Russia has warned the United States not to redeploy troops to former Soviet states in central Asia after its withdrawal from Afghanistan. He said that the creation of US military bases in the region would be unacceptable. “We are warning them against such steps,” Ryabkov said. “We have told the Americans about this directly and frankly.”
 
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This photo of downtown Cuba is very telling, it looks more like a war zone and tells a story of a regime that has completely neglected their people.

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A special forces vehicle passes by a vintage car in downtown Havana. Photograph: Alexandre Meneghini/Reuters

The US has called for the release of all peaceful protesters detained in Cuba during recent unrest.
Thousands took to the streets on Sunday in protests over food and medicine shortages, price increases and the government's handling of Covid-19.
 
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STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS: Eileen McKeown, daughter of Joseph Corr who was killed in the 1971 Ballymurphy massacre, watching Northern Ireland secretary Brandon Lewis announcing that ministers have introduced a statute of limitations which will bring an end to prosecutions related to the Troubles. This will include the Ballymurphy massacre, during which 10 civilians were killed by the British army over a 3-day period. The decision follows May’s inquest into the shootings, which concluded that the 10 civilians were “entirely innocent of wrongdoing”. Photograph: Charles McQuillan/Getty
 
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Dunstable, UK
One of the new flamingo chicks sits among the older flamingos at ZSL Whipsnade Zoo. The eggs spent a month in an incubator to ensure their survival. Photograph: ZSL Whipsnade Zoo/PA
 
France celebrates Bastille Day

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Soldiers of the French Foreign Legion march on the Champs-Élysées
Photograph: Lewis Joly/AP

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Pupils from Ecole Polytechnique march during the annual parade
Photograph: Lewis Joly/AP
 
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Fruit and vegetables are being left to rot in England as Brexit deters migrants from taking up picking jobs.

Brexit -- the effects of which kicked-in at the start of the year -- means hiring migrant pickers from eastern Europe is now much harder. Barfoots of Botley, a farming company based on England's south coast near Bognor Regis, said 750,000 courgettes were being left to rot. “Restricting free movement has had a devasting impact," said managing director Julian Marks. "But not just on agriculture and horticulture – on pretty much every sector where people from abroad have been working in those sectors for years and now. They’re going home."
 
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Houses are submerged on the overflowed river banks in Erdorf, Germany, as the village was flooded Thursday, July 15, 2021. Continuous rainfall has flooded numerous villages and cellars in Rhineland-Palatinate, southwestern Germany. (Harald Tittel/dpa via AP)
 
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Nice, France
A light for each of the 86 people who were killed in the terrorist truck attack of July 2016 are displayed at night over the Promenade des Anglais to mark the fifth anniversary of the atrocity. Photograph: Nicolas Tucat/AFP/Getty Images
 
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Los Angeles, US
Britney Spears’s newly appointed lawyer, Matthew Rosengart, leaves the Stanley Mosk courthouse following a hearing concerning the pop singer’s conservatorship. Spears was granted permission by a judge to hire a lawyer of her own choice. Photograph: Chris Pizzello/AP
 
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The naturalist Jane Goodall has been announced as the 2021 winner of the Templeton prize in recognition of her life's work on animal intelligence and humanity. ... She said she was “humbled and overawed” to be awarded the Templeton prize, whose previous recipients have included the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
 
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Although there are thought to be 34,000 Australians stuck overseas who are desperately trying to get home, Caitlyn Jenner, the parent of Kendall and Kylie Jenner and step parent to Robert, Kourtney, Kim and Khloe Kardashian, has landed in Sydney to appear on Channel 7’s series Celebrity Big Brother. She is now in hotel quarantine.
 
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California, US
Forest Service firefighters monitor the Tamarack Fire just outside of the centre of Markleeville. Photograph: Jungho Kim/ZUMA Press Wire/REX/Shutterstock
 
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South coast of England, UK
Greenpeace activists on an RIB pass a new Greenpeace ship called Sea Beaver which is patrolling the UK’s marine protected areas (MPAs) off the south coast of England. The six-month exercise, called Operation Ocean Witness, seeks to document and take action to stop destructive fishing practices such as bottom trawlers in the MPAs. As well as engaging with fishing communities to promote a sustainable future for the fishing industry. Photograph: Victoria Jones/PA
 


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