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Photos of the Day: A Bowhead Whale and Servicewomen

This photo represents hundreds of international passengers who line up at check-in counters, following an incident involving a Boeing 737-800 Xiamen Air passenger plane that skidded off the runway over the weekend. From servicewomen who march during a rehearsal for the Independence Day military parade in the center of the capital to the German foreign minister, Heiko Maas, and Holocaust survivor Marian Turski who visit Auschwitz-Birkenau, these highlights will impress you.

Check them out for more information and start to see our world through photos!

 

Kiev, Ukraine

Servicewomen march during a rehearsal for the Independence Day military parade in the center of the capital.

Photograph: Gleb Garanich/Reuters

Khabarovsk territory, Russia

A bowhead whale and a surfer, 50km off the southern border of the Shantar Islands national park. Bowhead whales, also known as Greenland right whales, can weigh 75-100 tonnes and live in arctic and sub-arctic waters

Photograph: Yuri Smityuk/Tass

Falkirk, UK

Jeremy Corbyn launches the Labour party’s Build it in Britain policy at Alexander Dennis bus manufacturers in Scotland. The Labour leader will spend the next four days in an attempt to revitalize the party in Scotland

Photograph: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

Mecca, Saudi Arabia

Aerial view of Mount Arafat, where thousands of Muslim worshipers gather during the hajj; about 2.5 million Muslims are expected to attend this year’s pilgrimage. The Day of Arafat is on Monday, one day before to the festival of Eid al-Adha

Photograph: Sedat Suna/EPA

Paravur, India

A van makes its way down a flooded road on the outskirts of Kochi in the southern state of Kerala. Receding flood waters left Indian troops and rescuers with the grim task of hunting for bodies left by the worst monsoon in a century, as the death toll rose above 400

Photograph: Manjunath Kiran/AFP/Getty Images

Kangwon province, North Korea

South Korean Lee Keum-seom, 92, left, weeps as she meets with her North Korean son Ri Sang Chol, 71, during the Separated Family Reunion Meeting at the Diamond Mountain resort. Dozens of elderly South Koreans crossed the border into North Korea on Monday for heart-wrenching meetings with relatives most haven’t seen since they were separated by the turmoil of the Korean war

Photograph: AP

Pula, Croatia

Kay Longstaff is escorted from a Croatian coastguard vessel. She was rescued on Sunday after she fell from a cruise ship and spent 10 hours in the Adriatic Sea

Photograph: AP

Debrecen, Hungary

A tiger float in the 49th Debrecen flower festival parade. Monday was the climax of the week-long festival, and also St Stephen’s Day, one of Hungary’s major national holidays, commemorating the foundation of the state by its first king

Photograph: Zsolt Czegledi/EPA

Oświęcim, Poland

The German foreign minister, Heiko Maas, and Holocaust survivor Marian Turski visit Auschwitz-Birkenau, the former concentration camp built and operated by Nazi Germany in German-occupied Poland

Photograph: Jakub Porzycki/Agencja Gazeta/Reuters

 

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