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| The Highland Games, Bamburgh Castle, Palestinian riots and marguerites feature among Tuesday’s Pictures of the Day |
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The sun shines on a cold, misty morning
after overnight frosts, at the start of the day in Rufford, Lancashire.
A ground frost after a clear night brings risk of damage to newly
planted crops.
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Sheep are silhouetted against the sky during sunrise near Ditcheat in Somerset
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Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall has a
hair-raising experience as she attends the 'NHS Heroes Awards' held at
the Hilton Park Lane in London
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A meadow of wildflowers comes into bloom on the Northumberland coastline near Bamburgh Castle
Paul Kingston / NNP
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Gourock starts off the "Games" season
with hundreds of pipers, "heavies" and dancers from across the country,
all competing in traditional Scottish Highland Games that include pipe
bands, individual piping, country dancing for all ages and all the
traditional heavyweight competitions such as tossing the caber, throwing
the hammer and lifting the Keppoch Stone.
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| Thousands of toxic caterpillars are set to be removed from cliffson the Norfolk coast this week over fears they could harm the public. Footpaths in Cromer have been taped off to protect holidaymakers from coming into contact with the brown-tail moth caterpillars. Alban Donohoe |
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Brazilian actress Bruna Linzmeyer (L)
and Brazilian actress Mariana Ximenes smile during a photocall for the
film "O Grande Circo Mistico (The Great Mystical Circus)" at the 71st
edition of the Cannes Film Festival in France
ALBERTO PIZZOLI/AFP/Getty Images
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US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin
(C-L) claps as US President's daughter Ivanka Trump unveils an
inauguration plaque during the opening of the US embassy in Jerusalem.
The United States moved its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem after months
of global outcry, Palestinian anger and exuberant praise from Israelis
over President Donald Trump's decision tossing aside decades of
precedent.
MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP/Getty Images
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The opening of the US embassy in
Jerusalem was overshadowed Monday by bloodshed in Gaza, where at least
50 Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces in the deadliest day since
the end of the 2014 Gaza conflict.
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A Palestinian man uses a slingshot during clashes with Israeli forces along the border with the Gaza strip east of Khan Yunis
SAID KHATIB/AFP/Getty Images
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French state-owned SNCF railway company
employees and labour union members demonstrate as part of a nationwide
strike in Paris, France
BENOIT TESSIER/REUTERS
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Newly elected Catalan regional
president Quim Torra (L) shakes hands to Catalan parliament speaker
Roger Torrent during a session at the Catalan parliament in Barcelona,
Spain
Lola Bou/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
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Models prepare backstage ahead of the
Swim show at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Resort 19 Collections at
Carriageworks in Sydney, Australia.
Jennifer Polixenni Brankin/WireImage
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A model shows off a creation in the Swimwear show during Fashion Week
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A migrant prepares his belongings
aboard rescue ship MV Aquarius, off the coast of Sicily. Roughly 73
migrants of various nationalities, including women and children were
rescued by MV Aquarius on May 12.
LOUISA GOULIAMAKI/AFP/Getty Images
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People put flowers onto the funeral cortege of goes
past Everton's Goodison Park ground in Liverpool. Doctors at Alder Hey
Children's Hospital in Liverpool stopped providing life-support
treatment to Alfie last month after his parents, Tom Evans and Kate
James, lost two rounds of fights in the High Court, Court of Appeal,
Supreme Court and European Court of Human Rights.
Andrew Price/PA
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| The Royal Academy of Arts, in its 250th year, has undergone a huge redevelopment designed by the British architect David Chipperfield. Pictured here is the Collection Gallery which houses a magnificent, almost full size, 16th Century copy of Michelangelo's Last Supper and biblical works by Sir James Thornhill ,after Raphael David Rose for The Telegraph |
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| L-R Liberal Democrat former deputy PM Sir Nick Clegg, Tory ex-education secretary Nicky Morgan and Labour former foreign secretary David Miliband speaking at a cross-party intervention Brexit negotiation at Tilda Rice Mill in Rainham, Essex Stefan Rousseau/PA |
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An Iraqi man celebrates with a picture
of Shiite cleric Muqtada Sadr during the general election in Baghdad,
Iraq. The race to become Iraq's next prime minister appeared wide open
as two outsider alliances looked to be in the lead after the first
elections since the defeat of the Islamic State group
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A farmer sorts edible rose petals in Haian in China's Jiangsu province
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Belgium's Largie Ramazani in action during the UEFA European Under-17 Championship Quarter-Final against Spain
Carl Recine/REUTERS
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Teachers shout slogans as they are
stopped by Indian police during a protest demanding the release of their
wages in Srinagar, India
Danish Ismail/Reuters
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A small snail is reflected in rainwater covering a wooden floor after a shower in a garden in Frankfurt am Main, western Germany
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Marguerites are in full blossom on a meadow in the outskirts of Frankfurt, Germany
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