Week in pictures: 3-9 June 2023

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Buddhist monks commune during a ceremonial connected Vesak Day, an yearly solemnisation of the Buddha's birth, enlightenment and death, astatine the Wat Phra Dhammakaya Temple, northbound of Bangkok, the Thai capital.

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The Princess of Wales showed disconnected her rugby skills during a sojourn to Maidenhead Rugby Club, to speech astir the value of assemblage clubs successful the aboriginal years of childhood.

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A seasoned wipes distant tears during the Royal British Legion Service of Remembrance to commemorate the 79th day of the D-Day landings, astatine the British Normandy Memorial successful Ver-sur-Mer, France.

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Police successful Hong Kong detained respective protestors connected the day of the Tiananmen Square massacre. Authorities person banned nationalist commemoration of the 1989 incident, which saw China crush peaceful protests successful Beijing with tanks and troops.

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Six rivers overflowed and much than 500 radical were evacuated from their homes, pursuing 12 hours of rainfall successful Ecuador. Here Patricio, who's nine, stands connected a floating refrigerator portion holding schoolhouse supplies which helium managed to salvage aft his household location was flooded.

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Two rider trains and a stationary goods bid crashed, sidesplitting 288 radical successful the eastbound authorities of Odisha, India. More than 1,000 radical were injured successful the crash, which is India's worst obstruction mishap this century.

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Police fired teardrop state to disperse Kenyans demonstrating successful the capital, Nairobi, against authorities plans to enforce higher taxes.

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Millions of radical successful North America were warned astir the wellness risks of mediocre aerial quality, arsenic toxic wildfire fume from Canada drifted crossed the continent. In New York City, the Statue of Liberty could conscionable beryllium seen done the orangish haze.

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Rescuers evacuate residents from a flooded country of Kherson aft the Kakhovka dam, successful confederate Ukraine, was breached. It's successful territory controlled by Russia. Both sides successful the struggle blasted the different for the shelling of the dam.

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Cleaners abseil down the walls of Warwick Castle to "de-weed" and tidy up the 800-year-old stonework, up of the summertime season.