From the beach festival "Yellow Bathyscaphe" and the annual cheese rolling competition in Gloucestershire to Peru's Clown Day celebrations and the Dachshund Parade, from the European Parliament elections to the World Fencing Championships and tornadoes in Linwood, Kansas — these are just some of the important and spectacular events that have been taking place around the globe over the past week.
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Participants at the beach festival "Yellow Bathyscaphe" in the city of Saki in the Crimea.
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US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump are accompanied by Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his wife Akie Abe (centre row) as they watch a sumo demonstration during the Summer Grand Sumo Tournament in Tokyo on 26 May 2019.
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Participants take part in the women's race during the annual cheese rolling competition at Cooper's Hill in Brockworth, Gloucestershire, England, 27 May 2019.
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Models demonstrate clothes from Black Star Wear's new collection together with the Army of Russia stores, which premiered on 27 May at the National Defence Management Centre on Frunze Embankment in Moscow.
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Czech national hockey team player Dominik Simon (centre) in a World Hockey Championship match between the Russian and the Czech national teams. From left to right, Russian national team goalkeeper Andrei Vasilevsky and Russian national team player Mikhail Sergachev, right: Russian national team player Vladislav Gavrikov.
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Heavy mountain climbing traffic at the summit of Mount Everest. - Three more climbers have died on Everest, expedition organisers and officials said on 24 May, bringing the toll from a deadly week on the world's highest peak to seven.
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A dachshund at the "Dachshund Parade", dedicated to the Year of Theatre, on Vasilyevsky Island in the garden of the Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg.
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Antonio Banderas, who won the Best Actor Award for his role in the film "Pain and Glory" (Dolor y Gloria), during the winners' photo session at the closing ceremony of the 72nd Cannes International Film Festival.
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Women wearing folk costumes cast their vote during the European elections at a polling station in Bujak, Hungary, 26 May 2019. The European Parliament election was held by member countries of the European Union (EU) from 23 to 26 May 2019.
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Sofya Velikaya (Russia) rejoices after winning the final match against Yatsi Shao (China) during the women's individual competition at the World Fencing Championships "Moscow Sabre 2019".
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Debris is scattered in the front yard of a damaged home, after several tornadoes touched down in Linwood, Kansas on 29 May 2019.
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Clowns prepare to take part in a parade during Peru's Clown Day celebrations in Lima, Peru on 25 May 2019.
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A European "yellow vests" protester is detained by police during the last day of the European Parliament elections in Brussels, Belgium.
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African National Congress (ANC) supporters gather for South African President Cyril Ramaphosa's swearing-in ceremony at Loftus Versfeld stadium in Pretoria, South Africa.
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Former Georgian president and former governor of the Odessa region of Ukraine Mikhail Saakashvili during a meeting at Kiev's Borispol Airport. President of Ukraine Volodimir Zelensky has restored Saakashvili's Ukrainian citizenship.
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Members of the Durga Vahini, the women's wing of Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP), a Hindu nationalist organisation, show their self-defence skills with firearms at the concluding ceremony of a weeklong women's training camp on the outskirts of Ahmedabad, India.
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A diver inflates a lifting bag attached to a fishing net on the seabed in the village of Stratoni near Halkidiki, Greece.
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French President Emmanuel Macron smiles with a supporter after voting in the European parliamentary elections in Le Touquet, northern France.
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A sheep looks on as it stands in a meadow over the Inn river valley near Innsbruck, Austria.
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A soldier from the French Republican Guard takes part in a welcoming ceremony for Madagascar President Andry Rajoelina at The Elysee Palace in Paris.
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Participants at the Sochi carnival in honour of the official opening of the holiday season.
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