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Best Pictures of the Year 2021, Part 43/102

Best Pictures of the Year 2021, Part 43/102
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A woman sits at the grave of her brother killed during the fighting over Nagorno-Karabakh in 2020 year, at the military cemetery outside Yerevan, Armenia. June 16. 2021. Nagorno-Karabakh lies within Azerbaijan but was under the control of ethnic Armenian forces backed by the government in Yerevan since a separatist war ended in 1994, leaving the region and substantial surrounding territory in Armenian hands. Hostilities flared in late September 2020, and the Azerbaijani military pushed deep into Nagorno-Karabakh and nearby areas in six weeks of fighting involving heavy artillery and drones that killed more than 6,000 people. (Photo by Areg Balayan/AP Photo)

A woman sits at the grave of her brother killed during the fighting over Nagorno-Karabakh in 2020 year, at the military cemetery outside Yerevan, Armenia. June 16. 2021. Nagorno-Karabakh lies within Azerbaijan but was under the control of ethnic Armenian forces backed by the government in Yerevan since a separatist war ended in 1994, leaving the region and substantial surrounding territory in Armenian hands. Hostilities flared in late September 2020, and the Azerbaijani military pushed deep into Nagorno-Karabakh and nearby areas in six weeks of fighting involving heavy artillery and drones that killed more than 6,000 people. (Photo by Areg Balayan/AP Photo)

A Soyuz rocket booster carrying the Progress MS-17 cargo freighter blasts off the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kyzylorda Region, Kazakhstan on June 30, 2021. (Photo by Roscosmos Press Office/TASS)

A Soyuz rocket booster carrying the Progress MS-17 cargo freighter blasts off the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kyzylorda Region, Kazakhstan on June 30, 2021. (Photo by Roscosmos Press Office/TASS)

Andrej Tomse and Luka Piletic (SLO) perform during the Ana Desetnica international Street Theatre Festival in Ljubljana, Slovenia on June 30, 2021. The Ana Desetnica international street theatre festival in Ljubljana is taking place from June 30 to July 4, 2021. (Photo by Luka Dakskobler/SOPA Images/Rex Features/Shutterstock)

Andrej Tomse and Luka Piletic (SLO) perform during the Ana Desetnica international Street Theatre Festival in Ljubljana, Slovenia on June 30, 2021. The Ana Desetnica international street theatre festival in Ljubljana is taking place from June 30 to July 4, 2021. (Photo by Luka Dakskobler/SOPA Images/Rex Features/Shutterstock)

A US soldier stands by as a local woman and child look on during a US military patrol in Rumaylan (Rmeilan) in Syria's northeastern Hasakeh province on June 22, 2021. (Photo by Delil Souleiman/AFP Photo)

A US soldier stands by as a local woman and child look on during a US military patrol in Rumaylan (Rmeilan) in Syria’s northeastern Hasakeh province on June 22, 2021. (Photo by Delil Souleiman/AFP Photo)

Team GB Hockey Goalkeeper and 2016 Olympic Gold Medalist Maddie Hinch trains at home on June 08, 2020 in Maidenhead, England. (Photo by Richard Heathcote/Getty Images)

Team GB Hockey Goalkeeper and 2016 Olympic Gold Medalist Maddie Hinch trains at home on June 08, 2020 in Maidenhead, England. (Photo by Richard Heathcote/Getty Images)

A member of Xplosive dancing dolls smiles as she performs during one of two Juneteenth parades on Saturday, June 19, 2021 along Saginaw Street in downtown Flint, Michigan. The United States marked Juneteenth for the first time as a federal holiday commemorating the end of the legal enslavement of Black Americans. (Photo by Jake May/MLive.com via AP Photo)

A member of Xplosive dancing dolls smiles as she performs during one of two Juneteenth parades on Saturday, June 19, 2021 along Saginaw Street in downtown Flint, Michigan. The United States marked Juneteenth for the first time as a federal holiday commemorating the end of the legal enslavement of Black Americans. (Photo by Jake May/MLive.com via AP Photo)

Fire runners of the “Diables Vell de la Gracia” group dance to traditional drums under fireworks celebrating their 40th anniversary, but without the traditional involvement of the public due to CORONA-19 measures in Barcelona, Spain on June 5, 2021. (Photo by Matthias Oesterle/Zuma Wire/Rex Features/Shutterstock)

Fire runners of the “Diables Vell de la Gracia” group dance to traditional drums under fireworks celebrating their 40th anniversary, but without the traditional involvement of the public due to CORONA-19 measures in Barcelona, Spain on June 5, 2021. (Photo by Matthias Oesterle/Zuma Wire/Rex Features/Shutterstock)

Young Mexican women, dressed as La Catrina, a Mexican pop culture icon representing the Death, take part at the ANATO tourism fair, one of the largest in Latin America is being held in Corferias conference center organized by the Colombian Association of Travel, the first one face-to-face during the COVID-19 pandemic in Bogota, Colombia on June 16, 2021. The largest tourism showcase and business fair in Colombia are buoyant during the economic reactivation in the country after the harsh containment measures due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Organized by ANATO, the Colombian Association of Travel and Tourism Agencies, the event features representatives from all 32 Colombian departments and Argentina as the special guest, all vying for the best opportunities for trade with both local tourism operators and guides, and larger international tour operators (Photo by Juancho Torres/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Young Mexican women, dressed as La Catrina, a Mexican pop culture icon representing the Death, take part at the ANATO tourism fair, one of the largest in Latin America is being held in Corferias conference center organized by the Colombian Association of Travel, the first one face-to-face during the COVID-19 pandemic in Bogota, Colombia on June 16, 2021. The largest tourism showcase and business fair in Colombia are buoyant during the economic reactivation in the country after the harsh containment measures due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Organized by ANATO, the Colombian Association of Travel and Tourism Agencies, the event features representatives from all 32 Colombian departments and Argentina as the special guest, all vying for the best opportunities for trade with both local tourism operators and guides, and larger international tour operators (Photo by Juancho Torres/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Farmers with mud-covered play in a paddy field during “National Paddy Day”, which marks the start of the annual rice planting season, in Tokha village on the outskirts of Kathmandu, Nepal on June 29, 2021. (Photo by Sunil Pradhan/NurPhoto/Rex Features/Shutterstock)

Farmers with mud-covered play in a paddy field during “National Paddy Day”, which marks the start of the annual rice planting season, in Tokha village on the outskirts of Kathmandu, Nepal on June 29, 2021. (Photo by Sunil Pradhan/NurPhoto/Rex Features/Shutterstock)

Guests dressed in baroque period costumes attend the opening of the “Night Fountains Show” (“Grandes Eaux Nocturnes”) and the “Royal Serenade” events in the Hall of Mirrors of the Royal Palace of Versailles, in Versailles, outskirts of Paris, on June 12, 2021. (Photo by Alain Jocard/AFP Photo)

Guests dressed in baroque period costumes attend the opening of the “Night Fountains Show” (“Grandes Eaux Nocturnes”) and the “Royal Serenade” events in the Hall of Mirrors of the Royal Palace of Versailles, in Versailles, outskirts of Paris, on June 12, 2021. (Photo by Alain Jocard/AFP Photo)

French Etoile (star dancer) of the Paris' Ballet of the Opera Hugo Marchand and French ballet dancer of the Paris Opera Ballet Dorothee Gilbert dance for Maely at the intensive care child unit of the Hopital Necker-Enfants Malades AP-HP in Paris, on June 11, 2021. (Photo by Lucas Barioulet/AFP Photo)

French Etoile (star dancer) of the Paris’ Ballet of the Opera Hugo Marchand and French ballet dancer of the Paris Opera Ballet Dorothee Gilbert dance for Maely at the intensive care child unit of the Hopital Necker-Enfants Malades AP-HP in Paris, on June 11, 2021. (Photo by Lucas Barioulet/AFP Photo)

A Swiss police officer holds a mask of the Russian President after a protester has been arrested ahead of a Russia – US meeting in Geneva on June 16, 2021. (Photo by Pierre Albouy/AFP Photo)

A Swiss police officer holds a mask of the Russian President after a protester has been arrested ahead of a Russia – US meeting in Geneva on June 16, 2021. (Photo by Pierre Albouy/AFP Photo)

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