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Bangalore, India
Pigeons fly over the Mahatma Gandhi statue at the seat of the state legislature of Karnataka as India commemorates the 152nd anniversary of his birth
Photograph: Jagadeesh Nv/EPA
 

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Somerset, UK
A rare 15th-century tapestry, the oldest owned by the National Trust, has returned to display at Montacute House after four years of conservation work, including nearly 1,300 hours of hand sewing. The tapestry was woven in 1480 in what is now Belgium, however more than 400 years of its history remains unknown.
Photograph: James Dobson/National Trust
 

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Bamyan, Afghanistan
People sit on paddle boats for a ride at the Band-e-Amir lake
Photograph: Bülent Kılıç/AFP/Getty Images
 
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California, US
The sun rises over a vast network of roads cut in the Mojave desert, intended for a massive suburban paradise that was never built, approximately 100 miles north of Los Angeles
Photograph: Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images
 
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Beverly Hills, US
Amal and George Clooney attend Variety’s 2021 Power of Women event at the Wallis Annenberg Center
Photograph: Mario Anzuoni/Reuters
 
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Migrants expelled from the US and sent back to Mexico under Title 42, walk toward Mexico at the Paso del Norte International border bridge, in this picture taken from Cludad Juarez, Mexico. Reuters/Jose Luis Gonzalez
 
West Malling, UK
People queue for fuel at a BP station in Kent. The Petrol Retailers Association, which represents almost 5,500 of the UK’s 8,000 filling stations, said about 20% of forecourts in London and the south-east were out of fuel on Monday
Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images

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Perth, Australia
Family and supporters demonstrate outside the district court of West Australia where a police officer is charged with murder over the shooting of an Aboriginal woman
Photograph: Richard Wainwright/AAP
 
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Australia must be ready for the “possibility” of a major international conflict between western and eastern powers should Xi Jinping’s China decide to take Taiwan, according to ASPI Senior Analyst Dr Malcolm Davis. It comes as tension has further escalated between China and Taiwan after Chinese fighter jets were seen off the island’s coast. Dr Davis said China fully expects to face US and allied nations in conflict should it attempt to take Taiwan. “I think they’re quite ready for that” he said.
 
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A dead guitar fish on the beach after an oil spill believed to have originated from a pipeline
Photograph: Allen J Schaben/Los Angeles Times/Rex/Shutterstock
 
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Eisenhuttenstadt, Germany
A girl from Iraq poses for a photo next to a holding facility. Police have been detaining a growing number of migrants, many from Iraq, who have been arriving at the German border from Poland
Photograph: Maja Hitij/Getty Images
 
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Hundreds of Afghans gathered outside the passport office in Kabul today after the Taliban announced that tens of thousands of people would be allowed to leave the country. From the early morning hundreds gathered waving paperwork at guards as crowds surged towards a concrete barrier outside the passport office. The crowds began to form after the Taliban announced that 25,000 passports were ready to be issued.
 
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Adrian James 2, who tested positive for the coronavirus, breathes with the help of a ventilator at SSM Health Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital in St Louis, Missouri. Reuters/Callaghan O’Hare
 
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"I-70 reopens after closure between Loveland Pass and Silverthorne​

SUMMIT COUNTY, Colo. — The westbound lanes of Interstate 70 reopened Wednesday between the Loveland Pass and Silverthorne exits after a deadly crash involving five vehicles late Tuesday night, according to the Colorado State Patrol (CSP).

CSP received a call for the crash around mile marker 207 around 10:47 p.m. Tuesday night. The crash involved at least one semi-truck and left at least one person dead, according to Trooper Josh Lewis."

https://www.9news.com/article/traffic/interstate-70-closure/73-f9bf606f-2098-4437-9198-877ba8f1cde4
 
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A US special operations unit and a Marine contingent have been secretly operating in Taiwan to train the army there, The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday (Thursday). About two dozen members of the United States’ special operations and support troops are training small units of ground forces in Taiwan. The United States Marine Corps is collaborating with local maritime forces on small-boat training. According to officials, American forces have been operating in Taiwan for at least a year. Taiwan’s defence minister claimed this week that China is capable now, but will be much more easily capable of launching a “full-scale invasion” by 2025.
 
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Kabul, Afghanistan
Drug users detained during a Taliban raid walk to the detoxification ward of the Avicenna medical hospital. Phjotograph: Felipe Dana/AP
 
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Brandenburg, Germany
Josef S, a 100-year-old former security guard at Sachsenhausen concentration camp, appears in court with his lawyer. He is accused of complicity in shooting Soviet prisoners of war and the murder of others with Zyklon B gas
Photograph: Annegret Hilse/Reuters
 
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Brandenburg, Germany
Leon Schwarzbaum, a 100-year-old Holocaust survivor, shows a family picture in court at the trial of the former Sachsenhausen guard. Schwarzbaum survived Auschwitz, Buchenwald and Sachsenhausen
Photograph: Annegret Hilse/Reuters
 
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English Channel
Australian swimmer Chloe McCardel approaches France at sunrise as she completes her 43rd cross-Channel swim, before attempting her record-breaking 44th crossing due on Sunday
Photograph: Gareth Fuller/PA
 

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Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes leaves the Robert F. Peckham US Courthouse with her mother Noel Holmes during her trial in San Jose, California

Theranos’s business model was based around the idea that it ran blood tests using technology that required only a tiny blood sample from a pinprick of your finger. She said the tests would be able to detect medical conditions like cancer and high cholesterol. She took investors’ money on the condition that she wouldn’t have to reveal how the technology worked. Plus, she would have final say over everything having to do with the company.
 
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Crowds of people in restaurants and bars in Soho, London, where outdoor seating is allowed
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London, England
No new deaths from Covid-19 were first recorded in May, a positive milestone that comes as the country continues to ease long-lasting lockdown restrictions.
 
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Australia will allow 2000 overseas nurses and doctors to enter the country for work under a plan being finalised by the Commonwealth and states to ease a healthcare staffing crisis. With Melbourne and Sydney’s hospital beds jammed with covid patients and the health systems of other states also under strain, the reinforcements will be flown in over the next six months and predominantly dispatched to outer suburban and regional hospitals and GP clinics.

The airlift is likely to be made up largely of migrants from Britain, Ireland and other countries where nursing and medical qualifications are recognised by regulators as being equivalent to those in Australia. This means they can start working shifts as soon as they arrive. Health Minister Greg Hunt said doctors and nurses who had already applied to come to Australia would be able to sidestep travel restrictions to secure flights and take up critical jobs in our pandemic response.
 

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