Montpellier dance festival, a wet Assam June, bookshop leisure near a civil war

An Indian Nihang – religious Sikh warrior – waits before participating in a march on the occasion of Amritsar Foundation Day in Amritsar on June 27. Haar Vadi 13,1577, Sri Guru Ramdas, the fourth Sikh master founded the city of Amritsar and today 437 years later, Amritsar is one of the most popular pilgrim cities with over 25 million visitors annually who come to seek blessings at the Golden temple.

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Dancers perform during a rehearsal of the ballet “Genesis” by Belgium choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui during the 34th edition of the Montpellier dance festival on June 26, 2014 at the Berlioz opera in Montpellier, southern France. The event will take place from June 22 to July 9.

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Afghans shout slogans during a protest to support presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah, in Kabul June 27. Thousands of angry protesters marched on the Afghan president’s palace on Friday in support of candidate Abdullah’s allegations that mass fraud had been committed during the presidential election by organisers and state officials.

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Winnipeg Blue Bombers’ Nic Grigsby (L) is tackled by Toronto Argonauts’ Shane Horton during the second half of their CFL football game in Winnipeg June 26.

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Festival goers are pictured in front of the Pyramid Stage at Worthy Farm in Somerset, on the second day of the Glastonbury music festival June 26.

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Iraqis sit at the famous Shahbandar cafe on Mutanabi street, known for hosting Iraq’s top elite thinkers and poets, on June 27 in the capital Baghdad. A major offensive, led by jihadists from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant but involving other groups as well, has overrun large areas of five Iraqi provinces since it was launched on June 9.

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Iraqis sit at the famous Shahbandar cafe on Mutanabi street, known for hosting Iraq’s top elite thinkers and poets, on June 27 in the capital Baghdad. A major offensive, led by jihadists from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant but involving other groups as well, has overrun large areas of five Iraqi provinces since it was launched on June 9.

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An Iraqi man browses a book at a library on Mutanabi street on June 27 in the capital Baghdad. A major offensive, led by jihadists from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant but involving other groups as well, has overrun large areas of five Iraqi provinces since it was launched on June 9.

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A man stands beside the algae-covered coastline of Qingdao, Shandong province, June 26. Picture taken June 26, 2014.

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People attend a Friday prayer outside a worship hall of the Niujie Mosque in Beijing, June 27, ahead of the holy fasting month of Ramadan.

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Rickshaw pullers wade through a flooded road after heavy rains at Guwahati in the northeastern Indian state of Assam June 27. Seven people have been killed in flash floods, landslides and heavy rainfall in the four districts of Assam, local media reported on Friday.

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Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko leaves a news conference at the EU Council in Brussels June 27. After months of upheaval, Ukraine signed a broad political and trade accord with the European Union on Friday, making a historic shift away from Russia and closer to the West. The signing is a victory for pro-EU Ukrainians who drove Russian-backed president Viktor Yanukovich from power after he abandoned the pact last year in favor of cash from Moscow. New President Poroshenko hopes to bind the nation of 45 million to the European Union via the accord.

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Hong Kong lawyers cross a street as they stage a silent march from the High Court to the Court of Final Appeal in Hong Kong June 27. Hundreds of Hong Kong lawyers marched in protest on Friday against Beijing’s policy towards the judiciary, in a sign of growing concern about the rule of law in the former British colony. Beijing raised alarm when it released a white paper this month, spelling out its interpretation of the “one country, two systems” model, in which it said “loving the country” is a basic requirement for the city’s administrators, including judicial personnel, enraging many in the city’s legal circles.

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Demonstrators protest in Sao Paulo, Brazil on June 26. The process of “kettling,” a tactic sometimes used by militarized police against human rights demonstrators has been ruled as violating the country’s constitution, a Brazilian law blog reported Thursday.

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GoPro Inc’s founder and CEO Nick Woodman holds a GoPro camera in his mouth as he celebrates GoPro Inc’s IPO at the Nasdaq Market Site in New York City, June 26. Wearable sports camera maker GoPro Inc’s initial public offering was priced at $24 per share, an underwriter said, valuing the company at up to $2.96 billion.

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Jovan Mojsilovic, an actor, re-enacts Gavrilo Princip’s assassination in front of a statue of Prinsip after it was uncovered during an opening ceremony in East Sarajevo, June 27. Bosnian Serbs unveiled the statue of assassin Princip, honouring the man who in 1914 shot dead the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand, which lit the fuse for World War One. Two concerts in two Bosnian cities will mark the 100th anniversary on Saturday of the Sarajevo assassination, in a divided country where the past still haunts the present. The separate events speak volumes to Bosnia a century on, where perceptions of the Bosnian Serb who gunned down Archduke Franz Ferdinand have been warped by time and politics, and wounds are still raw from the bloody demise of Yugoslavia.

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