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Week in pictures: From Yoga Day to CAR crisis

A photo round-up of some of last week’s key events, including Yoga Day, Portugal forest fires and air raids in Yemen.

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Portugal's president says the country's pain 'knows no end' as it mourns at least 61 people killed in the deadliest wildfire in memory. Here, a Spanish specialist firefighter is helping in the efforts to put out the fire at Pampilhosa da Serra, central Portugal. [Tiago Petinga/EPA]
Published On 23 Jun 2017
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A female Kurdish fighter from the People's Protection Units fires a long-range sniper rifle at ISIL positions in Raqqa, Syria. [Goran Tomasevic/Reuters]
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A man walks past a fire that erupted at the site of a Saudi-led air raid which hit a car repair workshop in the northwestern city of Saada, Yemen. [Naif Rahma/Reuters]
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Chairs bearing portraits of people who disappeared during the 1980s sit empty in a ceremony marking the National Day of the Disappeared in Guatemala City. According to human rights groups, more than 40,000 people were 'disappeared' during Guatemala''s 36 years of internal conflict. [Moises Castillo/AP Photo]
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An Indian Sadhu or Hindu holy man performs yoga as others follow during the International Yoga Day at Kamakhya temple in Gauhati, India. Millions of enthusiasts across India take part in mass yoga sessions to mark the third International Yoga Day on June 21 every year. [Anupam Nath/AP Photo]
Displaced toil in Central African diamond town after rebel attack/Please Do Not Use
Marie Yanzopa, 80, lost all six of her children in November 2016 when rebels fought over the town of Bria in the Central African Republic and burnt down her house. Thousands of people - both Muslim and Christian - have been killed in the country and almost a million displaced since a coup in 2013. [Sorin Furcoi/Al Jazeera]
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People take part in a vigil at Finsbury Park, north London, where a van was driven at Muslims near a mosque early on Monday morning. [Frank Augstein/AP Photo]
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Thousands of South Sudanese now live in UN protected camps, including 80 percent of Bentiu's population. A crowd of displaced people look on as members of a UN multinational police contingent provide security during a visit of UNHCR High Commissioner Filippo Grandi to South Sudan's largest camp for the internally displaced, in Bentiu, South Sudan. [Sam Mednick/AP Photo]
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Children in gowns and mortarboards during their graduation ceremony in a kindergarten in Handan, Hebei province, China. [China Daily/Reuters]
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A woman is lifted and placed by police into a paddy wagon during a protest march in Santiago, Chile, demanding the government overhaul the education funding system that would include cancelling their student loan debt. [Esteban Felix/AP Photo]