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Saturday June 24, Our World in Pictures

June 24, 2017 Brooklyn Daily Eagle
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CHINA – Landslide: In this photo released by China’s Xinhua News Agency, emergency personnel work at the site of a landslide in Xinmo village in Maoxian County in southwestern China’s Sichuan Province, Saturday. Around 100 people are feared buried by a landslide that unleashed huge rocks and a mass of earth that crashed into their homes, a county government said. 

ENGLAND – Katy Perry at Glastonbury: Singer Katy Perry performs at the Glastonbury Festival at Worthy Farm, in Somerset, England, Saturday.

RUSSIA – Challenge for the Ball: Mexico’s Javier Hernandez, front, and Russia’s Georgii Dzhikiia, rear, challenge for the ball during the Confederations Cup, Group A soccer match between Mexico and Russia, at the Kazan Arena, Russia, Saturday. Mexico defeated Russia by 2-1.

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PERU – Exhausted Firefighter: Exhausted firefighter Julia Alegre Smith rests after working to battle a warehouse fire in Lima, Peru, Friday. 

CALIFORNIA – Clearing the Bar: Trey Hardee clears the bar in the men’s decathlon pole vault at the U.S. Track and Field Championships, Friday in Sacramento, Calif.

VENEZUELA – Anticipation for Attack: A demonstrator wraps his body with rug scraps in anticipation that security forces fire pellets, during an anti-government protest, on the Francisco Fajardo highway outside La Carlota Air Base in Caracas, Venezuela, Friday. More than 70 people have been killed during almost 90 days of protests seeking President Nicolas Maduro’s removal. 

ENGLAND – Evacuation: Residents are evacuated from the Taplow residential tower block on the Chalcots Estate, in the borough of Camden, north London. A local London council has decided to evacuate some 800 households in apartment buildings it owns because of safety concerns following the devastating fire that killed 79 people in a west London high-rise. 

NEW YORK – On the Floor of the Market: Specialists John Parisi, left, and Charles Boeddinghaus work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Friday. U.S. stock indexes inched higher Friday as energy companies clawed back some of their sharp losses from earlier in the week. 


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