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A gold prospector is detained by Brazil’s environmental police during an operation against illegal gold mining on indigenous land.Bruno Kelly/Reuters

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Copacabana Beach, host location for Brazil's Olympic beach volleyball, marathon swimming, road cycling and triathlon.Ricardo Moraes/Reuters

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Syrians help a wounded youth after an air strike on a rebel neighbourhood of Aleppo.Ameer Alhabi/AFP / Getty Images

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A trespasser visits an abandoned amusement park in Pripyat, Ukraine inside the exclusion zone around the damaged Chernobyl reactor.Bryan Denton/The New York Times

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A Tibetan woman gets emotional as the Dalai Lama greets her near Dharmsala, India.Ashwini Bhatia/The Associated Press

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An Afghan labourer works in a chalk factory on the outskirts of Mazar-i-Sharif.Farshad Usyan/AFP / Getty Images

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British astronaut Tim Peake runs a marathon while strapped to a treadmill aboard the International Space Station (ISS).ESA/Reuters

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Photo shows a test fire of a North Korean submarine- launched ballistic missile.KCNA/Reuters

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A Palestinian man touches the Nelson Mandela statue during its inauguration in Ramallah.Mohamad Torokman/Reuters

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Russian President Vladimir Putin is saluted at the Kremlin in Moscow.Maxim Shemevov/The Associated Press

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