From a colourful race at the Luzhniki Olympic Complex and the 75th anniversary of D-Day to the Global Ballet Holidays Festival in Moscow and a protest against gender violence in Buenos Aires, from the Eid al-Fitr to the annual tomato fight festival in Colombia — 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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A pitch invader interrupts the Champions League final between Tottenham Hotspur and Liverpool at the Wanda Metropolitano Stadium in Madrid on 1 June 2019.
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Participants of the protest on Trafalgar Square in London against the official visit by US President Donald Trump to the UK.
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Participants attend an outdoor ballet lesson during the Global Ballet Holidays Festival in Moscow, Russia, on 1 June 2019.
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Participants in a colourful race around the Luzhniki Olympic Complex in Moscow.
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Visitors take pictures of a fox in the abandoned city of Pripyat, near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, Ukraine 2 June 2019.
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A fiery assault obstacle course during qualification tests for the right to wear a maroon beret among military personnel and employees of special forces units of the Siberian District of the National Guard of Russia at the training centre "Gorny" in the Novosibirsk region.
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Participants during SPIEF Race at the St. Petersburg Economic Forum (SPIEF).
© Sputnik / Vladimir Astapkovich
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Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping during an official meeting in the Kremlin.
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Women play the drums during a protest against gender violence in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The grassroots movement "Ni una menos," or Not One Less, is marking its fourth anniversary by remembering the hundreds of women who have been murdered since its founding and demanding laws to curb the gender violence that continues to permeate Argentine society.
© AP Photo / Natacha Pisarenko
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A young rider from the "Kremlin Riding School" during the ceremony of changing the foot and horse guards of the Presidential Regiment at the Kremlin's Cathedral Square.
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Taylor Swift kicks a beach ball while performing at the iHeartRadio Wango Tango concert in Carson, California, US, on 1 June 2019.
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Palestinians shop at a market ahead of Eid al-Fitr, celebrating the end of the Muslim holy month of fasting Ramadan, in Gaza City on 2 June 2019.
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US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump walk off of Marine One to board Air Force One before departing from Southampton Airport, in Southampton, southern England on 5 June 2019, after attending an event to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings.
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Participants in a colourful race around the Luzhniki Olympic Complex in Moscow.
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Kedy the Security K9 meets robotic dogs called Spot and built by Boston Dynamics during the Amazon Re:MARS conference on robotics and artificial intelligence at the Aria Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Actress Kota Eberhardt attends the premiere of 20th Century Fox's "Dark Phoenix" at TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, California.
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Participants in the project "Yoga in the parks" during a training session in the "Museon" Park of Arts in Moscow.
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University students clean the "Pillar of Shame" statue, a memorial for those killed in the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown, at the University of Hong Kong.
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Girls ride on swings near a damaged building during the first day of the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr in Raqqa, Syria.
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A girl is seen inside the Serayu train to Purwokerto as people head to their hometowns to celebrate Eid al-Fitr at Senen station in Jakarta, Indonesia.
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A breeder heards deer at "Alatau Maraly" farm in Kasymbek gorge, Almaty region, Kazakhstan. Maral stags at this private farm undergo an annual procedure to cut off their antlers to be sold to pharmaceutical companies.
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Participants in a carnival procession in Gelendzhik in honour of the opening of the new holiday season.
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Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev during an interview with Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company “Vesti on Saturday” programme host Sergei Brilev (right) on the eve of his participation in the meeting of the Council of CIS Heads of Government held in Ashgabat on 31 May.
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Muslims during the namaz on Uraza Bayram (Eid al-Fitr) at the Cathedral Mosque in Moscow.
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North Korean leader Kim Jong-un (centre R) and his wife Ri Sol-ju (centre L) visiting the performance given by amateur art groups of the wives of officers of units of the Korean People's Army (KPA) at an undisclosed location.
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Participant in the "Green Marathon Running Hearts" in Moscow.
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Fishermen pull a boat ashore on the coast of the Arabian Sea ahead of monsoon rains in Thane District near Mumbai, India.
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People participate in the tenth annual tomato fight festival, known as "Tomatina", in Sutamarchan, Boyaca department, Colombia.
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Performers are seen on stage during an event to commemorate the 75th anniversary of D-Day, in Portsmouth, Britain.
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A Central American child plays in a hallway of the Catholic shelter "San Francisco Javier Church", which gives temporary shelter to asylum-seekers from Central American countries released by ICE and US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) due to overcrowded facilities, in Laredo, Texas US.
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