July 11, 2014

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An Iranian woman makes her way between copies of the Quran, Islam's holy book, prepared for a ceremony during Ramadan at the shrine of Saint Mohammad Helal Ibn Ali in the city of Aran and Bidgol, some 140 miles (225 kilometers) south Tehran.

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The Royal guards carry a cinerary urn, upper right, which contains the ashes of the late former Cambodian King Norodom Sihanouk at the Royal Palace during a three-day Buddhist ceremony, in Phnom Penh.

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Argentinian fans play football (soccer) on Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, two days before the 2014 FIFA World Cup final between Germany and Argentina.

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Myanmar (also known as Burma) journalists release imprisoned birds after a prayer session in Yangon in support of four reporters and the chief executive of the Yangon-based "Unity Journal." The journalists were sentenced Thursday to 10 years of hard prison labor for violating national security by writing and publishing stories about a weapons factory.