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A Dragon Boat racesin Hong Kong, China. The Dragon Boat Festival, known as Tuen Ng Festival in Cantonese, is an event featuring traditional central themes of warding off evil spirits and keeping diseases away. EPA

A South African white lion rests in a quarantine cage after it was brought from the Czech Republic to the Caricuao Zoo of Caracas, Venezuela, Thursday, June 2, 2022. Four South African white lions arrived a few weeks ago as part of an effort to increase the number of specimens and strengthen the country's parks. (AP Photo / Matias Delacroix)

A young girl in a public fountain in front of the opera house in Lviv, Ukraine. AP Photo

Workers remove sargassum, a brown algae, from a beach in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. The phenomenon, which affects Caribbean beaches especially in summer, occurs at a time when tourism in the Dominican Republic is increasing considerably. The republic welcomed 2.9 million tourists between January and May, double the 1.4 million who visited during the same period last year. EPA

Rubbish recyclers protest outside Coca-Cola's offices in Buenos Aires, Argentina to demand that a recycling law includes them and against funding for private recycling systems. Reuters

A 1,000-square-metre fresco depicting a giant portrait of Josephine Baker designed by French artist Gwendoline Finaz de Villaine, in front of the Pantheon in Paris. The artwork is like a giant puzzle on the esplanade, some pieces of which will be offered to the public to celebrate the event. French-American dancer, singer, Resistance member and rights activist Baker was the first black woman to enter France's Pantheon mausoleum of outstanding historical figures on November 30, 2021, nearly half a century after her death. AFP

A Dragon Boat racesin Hong Kong, China. The Dragon Boat Festival, known as Tuen Ng Festival in Cantonese, is an event featuring traditional central themes of warding off evil spirits and keeping diseases away. EPA

A South African white lion rests in a quarantine cage after it was brought from the Czech Republic to the Caricuao Zoo of Caracas, Venezuela, Thursday, June 2, 2022. Four South African white lions arrived a few weeks ago as part of an effort to increase the number of specimens and strengthen the country's parks. (AP Photo / Matias Delacroix)

A young girl in a public fountain in front of the opera house in Lviv, Ukraine. AP Photo

Workers remove sargassum, a brown algae, from a beach in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. The phenomenon, which affects Caribbean beaches especially in summer, occurs at a time when tourism in the Dominican Republic is increasing considerably. The republic welcomed 2.9 million tourists between January and May, double the 1.4 million who visited during the same period last year. EPA

Rubbish recyclers protest outside Coca-Cola's offices in Buenos Aires, Argentina to demand that a recycling law includes them and against funding for private recycling systems. Reuters

A 1,000-square-metre fresco depicting a giant portrait of Josephine Baker designed by French artist Gwendoline Finaz de Villaine, in front of the Pantheon in Paris. The artwork is like a giant puzzle on the esplanade, some pieces of which will be offered to the public to celebrate the event. French-American dancer, singer, Resistance member and rights activist Baker was the first black woman to enter France's Pantheon mausoleum of outstanding historical figures on November 30, 2021, nearly half a century after her death. AFP

A Dragon Boat racesin Hong Kong, China. The Dragon Boat Festival, known as Tuen Ng Festival in Cantonese, is an event featuring traditional central themes of warding off evil spirits and keeping diseases away. EPA

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June 03, 2022

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