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🇮🇩 Burnt-out Indonesians beat the blues with children's games

Flushed, sweating, and beaming with joy, burnt-out professionals are deeply engrossed in a traditional Indonesian children's games in Jakarta.

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🇫🇷 As Europe swelters, Parisians sleep in parks to keep cool

The extreme temperatures have prompted dozens of Parisians to seek cool air in the middle of the night, with some choosing to sleep under the stars at the the Buttes-Chaumont park.

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🇵🇸 Gazans take to makeshift pitch for their own 'World Cup' 

Young Palestinians, some barefoot, dart around in the sand as they take part in their very own 'World Cup', in Khan Yunis, southern Gaza Strip.

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Hindu devotees take part in the Jal Yatra religious procession from Lord Jagannath temple to Sabarmati riverfront in the Indian city of Ahmedabad.

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Europe's deadly heatwave is pushing east with hundreds of millions still sweltering across the continent.

The heat remained intense across central and eastern Europe, with the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland hit hard as temperatures soared and records tumbled.

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Pakistani airstrikes have killed dozens of people in Afghanistan, with Islamabad saying it targeted militants but the Afghan government reporting civilian casualties.

The strikes are the latest flare-up of violence between the neighbours whose relationship has been fraught since the Taliban government took power in Kabul in 2021.

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The frontrunner to become Britain's next PM Andy Burnham plans to lay out his economic agenda on Monday, in his first major policy announcement since Keir Starmer resigned as premier last week.

Burnham is currently the only candidate to replace Starmer and could be PM as early as mid-July if he faces no challengers.

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France's Renelle Lamote reacts after competing in the women's 800m during the IAAF Diamond League athletics meeting in Paris

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The earth had barely stopped shaking when the looting and theft began in the area most devastated by Venezuela's double earthquake.

Outbreaks of looting have hit the coastal state of La Guaira, much of which is now a vast mountain of rubble after Wednesday's disaster.

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Catching the breeze.

A giant dragon train kite briefly lifts a man into the air at a kite festival in Bantul, Indonesia.

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Locals in the French town of Tomblaine have expressed shock after a skydiving plane crashed on Sunday, killing all 11 on board.

A group of nurses learning to skydive were among those killed in France's deadliest ever general aviation accident.

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For sale on Facebook: monkeys, rhino horn and dead pangolins.

AFP reviewed dozens of posts that illustrate what conservationists call rampant illegal wildlife trafficking on social media, including a Thai account advertising endangered pangolins as "seasonal wild delicacies".

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The Israeli army destroyed an extensive tunnel in southern Lebanon on Sunday, with Lebanese state media reporting strikes in the area and Iran-backed Hezbollah saying it reserves the right to respond to the attacks.

The incidents came despite a trilateral framework agreement signed by Lebanon and Israel under US sponsorship on Friday to pave the way for peace between the two countries and disarm Iran-backed Hezbollah.

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Riders compete in the Bury Championship Neza Bazi event in Unsworth, near Bury in northern England

Neza Bazi or tent pegging, believed to have originated in the Indian subcontinent, sees riders on horseback use a lance or sword to strike and pick up small targets from the ground whilst at full gallop

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Rescuers are searching for any remaining survivors of powerful twin earthquakes that hit Venezuela, where the death toll has surpassed 1,450.

Sunday's rescue of a man and his teen son found alive under the rubble offered a glimmer of hope, four days after the disaster struck.

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Revellers take over the streets for annual Pride celebrations in Colombia's capital Bogota

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🏖️⚽ Australian goalkeeping hero Patrick Beach said he was feeling "the love" after a well-known strip of sand in Melbourne was temporarily renamed in his honour.

St Kilda Beach is officially being renamed Patrick Beach for the duration of the World Cup to celebrate his breakout tournament.

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A new generation of small nuclear reactors is up and running -- or nearly so -- in the United States, in what backers are calling a turning point for the industry. https://t.co/vQp61RV5y9