Israel-Gaza death toll rises above 500, Indian ‘Bonalu’ festival, towing the Costa Concordia | July 21
The day in photos around the world.
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- People look at the flowers left in remembrance for the victims of the MH17 plane crash at Schiphol Airport, near Amsterdam, on July 21, A Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 flight MH17 with more than 280 passengers, including 193 Dutch passengers on board crashed in eastern Ukraine on 17 July. A chorus of Kremlin-friendly media declared today that the truth about what happened to the Malaysian jet would likely never be found out, accusing the West of heaping the blame on Russia. (AFP PHOTO/Getty Images/Robin van Lonkhuijsen)
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- An Indian artist dressed as Hindu Goddess MahaKali performs while in a trance during the final procession of the eleven-day traditional festival of ‘Bonalu’, a ritual offering to the goddess MahaKali, at Sri Akkanna Madanna Mahankali Temple in Hyderabad on July, 21 2014. The Goddess is honoured mostly by women during Bonalu festival with offerings of food and dancing. (AFP PHOTO/Getty Images/Noah Seelam)
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- An Indian artist performs during the final procession of the eleven-day traditional festival of ‘Bonalu’, a ritual offering to the goddess MahaKali, at Sri Akkanna Madanna Mahankali Temple in Hyderabad on July, 21 2014. The Goddess is honoured mostly by women during Bonalu festival with offerings of food and dancing. (AFP PHOTO/Getty Images/Noah Seelam)
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- Hindu devotees take a dip at the Bagmati River as they participate in the “Bol Bom” (Say Shiva) pilgrimage in Kathmandu July 21, 2014. The faithful, chanting the name of Lord Shiva, run about 15 km (9 miles) barefooted toward Pashupatinath temple seeking good health, wealth and happiness. (REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar)
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- A picture taken on July 20, 2014, from Israel at the southern border with the Gaza strip shows smoke billowing from behind a hill following an Israeli air strike on Gaza City. The number of Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip on July 20 was at least 100. It was the bloodiest single day in the battered enclave in five years, taking the Palestinian toll on the 13th day of Israel’s Gaza offensive to 438. (AFP PHOTO/Getty Images/Menahem Kahana)
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- A Palestinian man inspects a house which police said was damaged in an Israeli air strike, in Gaza City July 21, 2014. Israeli tanks shelled militant targets in the Gaza Strip on Monday and a woman died in an air strike after the bloodiest day of a nearly two-week military offensive that showed no signs of abating, despite global calls for a truce. Palestinian health officials said the death toll since July 8 had reached 447, including many civilians, with a woman killed in the predawn strike in Beit Hanoun and 12 more bodies recovered from the embattled Shejaia neighborhood where the number of fatalities rose to 72 from Sunday’s fighting. Israel’s army said it had been targeting militants from Gaza’s dominant Hamas group, charging that they fired rockets from Shejaia and built tunnels and command centres there. The army said it had warned civilians to leave two days earlier. (REUTERS/Suhaib Salem)
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- A Palestinian salvages a mattress from the remains of a house, which police said was destroyed in an Israeli air strike, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip July 21, 2014. Israeli tanks shelled militant targets in the Gaza Strip on Monday and a woman died in an air strike after the bloodiest day of a nearly two-week military offensive that showed no signs of abating, despite global calls for a truce. Palestinian health officials said the death toll since July 8 had reached 447, including many civilians, with a woman killed in the predawn strike in Beit Hanoun and 12 more bodies recovered from the embattled Shejaia neighbourhood where the number of fatalities rose to 72 from Sunday’s fighting. Israel’s army said it had been targeting militants from Gaza’s dominant Hamas group, charging that they fired rockets from Shejaia and built tunnels and command centres there. The army said it had warned civilians to leave two days earlier. (REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa)
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- Palestinians mourn the death of their relatives, whom medics said were killed in Israeli shelling, at a hospital morgue in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip July 21, 2014. Israeli tanks shelled militant targets in the Gaza Strip on Monday and a woman died in an air strike after the bloodiest day of a nearly two-week military offensive that showed no signs of abating, despite global calls for a truce. Palestinian health officials said the death toll since July 8 had reached 447, including many civilians, with a woman killed in the predawn strike in Beit Hanoun and 12 more bodies recovered from the embattled Shejaia neighbourhood where the number of fatalities rose to 72 from Sunday’s fighting. Israel’s army said it had been targeting militants from Gaza’s dominant Hamas group, charging that they fired rockets from Shejaia and built tunnels and command centres there. The army said it had warned civilians to leave two days earlier. (REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa)
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- Sharona, the mother of Israeli soldier Tsafrir Bar-Or, leans on his flag-draped coffin during his funeral in Holon near Tel Aviv July 21, 2014. Israeli forces killed 10 Palestinian militants who slipped across the border from Gaza through hidden tunnels on Monday, the military said, as the death toll from the two-week conflict passed 500 amid growing international calls for an end. Non-stop attacks lifted the Palestinian death toll to 496, including almost 100 children, since fighting started on July 8, Gaza health officials said. Israel says 18 of its soldiers, one of them Bar-Or, have also died along with two civilians. (REUTERS/Daniel Bar-On)
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- Jeremiah Gerbracht rides his Harley Davidson motorcycle with his dog on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles, California July 20, 2014. Gerbracht, a retired dog trainer, won a court ruling in 1996, allowing him to ride his motorcycle with a dog on board. (REUTERS/Jonathan Alcorn)
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- Two women walking in front of Svyato-Dukhov (Holy Spirit ) Orthodox cathedral are reflected in the wet tablets of a roadway in the Belarus capital Minsk, on July 20, 2014. (AFP PHOTO/Getty Images/ Sergei Gapon)
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- The cruise liner Costa Concordia is seen during the refloat operation at Giglio harbour at Giglio Island July 21, 2014. Technicians on July 14, 2014 began a complex operation to refloat and tow away the wreck of the Costa Concordia, two and a half years after the luxury liner capsized off the Italian coast, killing 32 people. (REUTERS/Alessandro Bianchi)
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- Olga Kharlan of Ukraine celebrates the victory after competing against Rossella Gregorio of Italy in their women’s team sabre third place match at the World Fencing Championships in Kazan July 21, 2014. (REUTERS/Grigory Dukor)
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- French basketball player Tony Parker (R), point guard for the San Antonio Spurs, and French Minister of Women’s Rights, Youth and Sports Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, take part in a friendly match as Vallaud-Belkacem visits the “Tony Parker Camp”, a summer basketball camp for kids and teens, in Villeurbanne, southeastern France, on July 21, 2014. (AFP PHOTO/Getty Images/Philippe Merle)
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- Shi’ite Muslim men chant slogans as they take part in a religious procession of Yaum-e-Ali, marking the death anniversary of Imam Ali Ibn Abu Talib, son-in-law of Prophet Mohammad, in Karachi July 20, 2014. Imam Ali, the son-in-law and cousin of Prophet Mohammad, was wounded in the head during a battle and died after two days in 661 AD in Najaf. (REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro)
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- The pack rides during the 222 km fifteenth stage of the 101st edition of the Tour de France cycling race on July 20, 2014 between Tallard and Nimes, southern France. (AFP PHOTO/Getty Images/Lionel Bonaventure)
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- Bulgarian Roma react as an excavator demolishes a house in a Roma suburb in the city of Stara Zagora July 21, 2014. Municipal authorities started demolishing some 55 illegally built shacks and houses in the suburb on Monday. (REUTERS/Stoyan Nenov)
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- Belgium’s Queen Mathilde smiles as she leaves a religious service (Te Deum) at the Sainte-Gudule cathedral in Brussels July 21, 2014. Belgium celebrates its National Day on Monday. (REUTERS/Francois Lenoir)
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