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View of a hot-air balloon at the annual European Balloon Festival in Igualada, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, 09 July 2021. EPA-EFE/Susanna Saez
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View of a hot-air balloon at the annual European Balloon Festival in Igualada, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, 09 July 2021. EPA-EFE/Susanna SaezSome volunteers free the specimens of Tawny Owl (Strix aluco), a specimen of Barn Owl (Tito alba), a Long-eared Owl (Asio otus), a specimen of Kestrel (Falco tinnuculus) after being found in difficult conditions in the months of May and June, as immature, in the Capodimonte Park in Naples, Italy, 08 July 2021. EPA-EFE/CESARE ABBATEThis handout photo taken and released by Sotheby’s auctioneers on July 7, 2021 shows a pair of ‘prototype logo’ track spikes running shoes handmade by Nike co-founder Bill Bowerman for Canadian Track and Field sprinter and Olympian Harry Jerome in the 1960s and modified by Bowerman in the early 1970s, displayed prior to auction in New York. – The spikes are expected to fetch between 800,000 to 1.2 million US dollars. (Photo by Handout / SOTHEBY’S / AFP)An aerial photo taken with drone shows workers burying the coffins of Covid-19 victims during a funeral at Rorotan Covid-19 dedicated cemetery in Jakarta, Indonesia, 09 July 2021. Indonesia imposed emergency restrictions amid new surge of COVID-19 in Java and Bali island. The country has recorded more than 2,400,000 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases with over 64,000 deaths since the beginning of the pandemic. EPA-EFE/MAST IRHAMA Thai elderly woman undergoes a COVID-19 swab test in Bangkok, Thailand, 09 July 2021. The Thai government is set to impose stricter health measures to contain the rapidly rising new cases of COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. EPA-EFE/RUNGROJ YONGRITPeople who were displaced from restive Ghor district, wait for government assistance at a temporary shelter in neighboring Herat province in Qaderabad village, Herat, Afghanistan, 08 July 2021. The Afghan government on 08 July urged the international community to respond to the needs of five million people internally displaced by war and drought in the last two years amid a worsening situation due to a spike in violence. The displacement has intensified after the Taliban launched a major offensive coinciding with the withdrawal of United States and NATO began on 01 May. EPA-EFE/JALIL REZAYEEFirefighters try to extinguish a fire at the Hashem Foods Limited factory in Narayanganj district, on the outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh, 08 July 2021. According to the Ruoganj Fire Service, at least three people died and ten workers injured in the fire that broke out at the six-story building in Narayanganj. EPA-EFE/MONIRUL ALAMA balloon seller boy waits for customers on the banks of Dal Lake in Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian Kashmir, 08 July 2021. All the paid and unpaid parks and gardens in Srinagar were reopened for people after a consistent drop in Covid-19 cases and deaths. The parks and gardens have been re-opened nearly two months after being closed following the outbreak of the second Covid-19 wave. EPA-EFE/FAROOQ KHANThe pack rides during the 13th stage of the 108th edition of the Tour de France cycling race, 219 km between Nimes and Carcassonne, on July 09, 2021. (Photo by Anne-Christine POUJOULAT / AFP)(FromL) US actor Matt Damon, US actress Abigail Breslin, US director Tom McCarthy and French actress Camille Cottin pose as they arrive for the screening of the film “Stillwater” at the 74th edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southern France, on July 8, 2021. (Photo by John MACDOUGALL / AFP)
