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David
Chamberlain, left, grandfather Charly Powers and his son Steve, from
Atlanta, Georgia, pay their respect by putting down a US flag on the
grave of a US soldier who died during World War II at the Colleville
American military cemetery, in Colleville sur Mer, France, June 6,
2018, on the 74th anniversary of the D-Day landing.
June 6, 2018 marks the 74th anniversary of the D-Day invasion by Allied
forces, and some surviving Normandy veterans have made their way to
France to commemorate the landings, which saw 156,000 troops from the
allied countries including the United Kingdom, the United States and
France join forces to launch an attack on the beaches of Normandy which
helped lead to the eventual defeat of Nazi Germany. David Vincent, AP
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This
photo provided by U.S. Geological Survey shows an aerial view of ocean
entry at Kapoho Bay, Hawaii on June 5, 2018. Lava destroyed hundreds
of homes in a mostly rural Hawaii area overnight, a county spokeswoman
said. A morning overflight confirmed that lava completely filled Kapoho
Bay, inundated most of Vacationland and covered all but the northern
part of Kapoho Beach Lots, scientists with the U.S. Geological Survey's
Hawaiian Volcano Observatory said. U.S. Geological Survey via AP
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The
Soyuz-FG rocket booster with Soyuz MS-09 space ship carrying a new crew
to the International Space Station, ISS, blasts off at the Russian
leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, June 6, 2018. The Russian rocket
carries U.S. astronaut Serena Aunon-Chancellor, Russian cosmonaut
Sergey Prokopyev, and German astronaut Alexander Gerst. Dmitri Lovetsky, AP
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Jordanian
protesters hold local bread loaves with slogans reading in Arabic
'corruption equals hunger' as they gather outside the Jordanian
professional associations offices during a strike protest against new
taxes in Amman, Jordan, June 6, 2018. Jordanians gathered for a strike
protest one day after the appointing of a new Prime Minister Omar
al-Razzaz following a week of protest against his predecessor's reforms.
Protesters are demanding the withdrawal of the new taxes, the return to
bread subsidy and a change in the country's economic policies path. ANDRE PAIN, EPA-EFE
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Residents
eat while using a wheelbarrow as table in front of their property on
June 6, 2018 in the French city of Breteuil, after the Iton river burst
its banks causing flooding. JEAN-FRANCOIS MONIER, AFP/Getty Images
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'Urban
climber' Alain Robert of France scales the exterior of the Lotte World
Tower in Seoul on June 6, 2018.
French "Spiderman" Alain Robert, who holds a world record for urban
climbing, surrendered to a "cat and mouse" chase with security as he
scaled a 123-story skyscraper in Seoul to celebrate the recent
peace-making efforts between the two Koreas. ED JONES, AFP/Getty Images
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South
Koreans walk past gravestones of South Korean soldiers killed in the
1950-53 Korean War, on the Korean Memorial Day at the National Cemetery
in Seoul on June 6, 2018.
South Korea marked the 63rd anniversary of the Memorial Day to remember
those killed in the 1950-53 Korean War. JUNG YEON-JE, AFP/Getty Images
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