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Sikh men ride a jeep during a heavy rain shower in the northern Indian city of Chandigarh June 13, 2013.Click NEXT for more photos...
Top 20 dramatic PHOTOS shot this week
Photographs: Scott Olson/Getty Images
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Photographs: Zohra Bensemra/Reuters
Farooq, from Punjab province's historic city of Bahawalpur, is one of 19 women who have become pilots in the Pakistan Air Force over the last decade - there are five other female fighter pilots, but they have yet to take the final tests to qualify for combat. A growing number of women have joined Pakistan's defence forces in recent years as attitudes towards women change. Picture taken June 6, 2013.
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Photographs: Hamid Khatib/Reuters
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Photographs: Umit Bektas/Reuters
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Photographs: David Gray/Reuters
Binata Pinata stands on top of a rock holding a fish her husband Kaibakia just caught off Bikeman islet, located off South Tarawa in the central Pacific island nation of Kiribati.
Kiribati consists of a chain of 33 atolls and islands that stand just metres above sea level, spread over a huge expanse of otherwise empty ocean. With surrounding sea levels rising, Kiribati President Anote Tong has predicted his country will likely become uninhabitable in 30-60 years because of inundation and contamination of its freshwater supplies.
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Photographs: Gus Ruelas/Reuters
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Photographs: Murad Sezer/Reuters
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Photographs: Thomas Mukoya/Reuters
Refusing to accept a cut imposed by the Salaries and Remuneration Commission in May, members of parliament voted to increase their salaries to 130 times the minimum wage, which according to them, are needed to deter bribery and provide charitable support for constituents.
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Photographs: Kim Hong-Ji/Reuters
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Photographs: Muzaffar Salman/Reuters
The group, which consists of five brothers and other members, operates under the Free Syrian Army, and was first established in the memory of the brothers' sibling Abbas Sheikh Yasine, who died from fighting in a battle in Sheikh Saeed, against forces of President Bashar al-Assad's regime, according to the brothers. One of the brothers used to work in the decor industry, another in a restaurant, while the three others were in school before the war started, they added.
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Photographs: Spencer Platt/Getty Images
Electronic cigarettes, or e-cigarettes, are battery powered devices that vaporizes a nicotine laced liquid solution into an aerosol mist which simulates the act of tobacco smoking. E-cigarettes are attracting major investors as their popularity increases and the market for traditional cigarettes continues to shrink.
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Photographs: Lucas Jackson/Reuters
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Photographs: Osman Orsal/Reuters
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Photographs: Laurence Griffiths/Getty Images
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Photographs: Oli Scarff/Getty Images
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Photographs: Yorgos Karahalis/Reuters
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Photographs: Thomas Peter/Reuters
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