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Monday July 31, Our World in Pictures

July 31, 2017 Brooklyn Daily Eagle
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GERMANY — River Reflects City: In this photo taken on Sunday, the city skyline is reflected on the surface of the Main behind the Ignatz-Bubis Bridge in Frankfurt.

VENEZUELA — Citizens Vote: Voters line up to cast their ballots next to murals with images of late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez at a polling station in Caracas on Sunday. President Nicolas Maduro asked for global acceptance on Sunday as he cast an unusual pre-dawn vote for an all-powerful constitutional assembly that his opponents fear he’ll use to replace Venezuelan democracy with a single-party authoritarian system.

BOSNIA — Divers Compete: A diver drops through the air from the Stari Most bridge during the 451th traditional annual high diving competition in Mostar. A total of 41 divers from Bosnia and neighboring countries dove into the Neretva River on Sunday.

ZIMBABWE — President Holds Campaign Rally: Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has his hat placed on his head by his wife Grace at a rally near his rural home in Chinhoyi on Saturday. The world’s oldest leader is holding Youth Interface rallies as he campaigns for presidential elections set for next year.

NORTH KOREA — Leader Launches Missile: People react while watching a news broadcast on a missile launch in Pyongyang on Saturday. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said Saturday the second flight test of an intercontinental ballistic missile demonstrated his country can hit the U.S. mainland, hours after the launch left analysts concluding that a wide swath of the United States, including Los Angeles and Chicago, is now in range of North Korean weapons.

BROOKLYN HEIGHTS — Which Way to the Beach?: Brooklyn Bridge Park’s pop-up pool and sandy beach are sure signs of summer.

GREECE — Summer Vacation Begins: Children enjoy the sea as smoke from a fire rises in the background during sunset in Keramoti on Sunday. August is the month when the official summer vacations begin for Greeks.

VENEZUELA – Fleeing the Flames: Venezuelan Bolivarian National police move away from the flames after an explosion at Altamira square during clashes against anti-government demonstrators in Caracas, Venezuela, Sunday. The explosion injured several officers and damaged several of their motorcycles. The officers were then seen throwing several privately owned motorcycles into the remaining fire in reprisal. 

CHINA – Liberation Army March: In this photo released by China’s Xinhua News Agency, Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) troops march in formation Sunday, as they arrive for a military parade to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the founding of the PLA on Aug. 1 at Zhurihe training base in north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. 

PERU – Touching up on Camouflage: A soldier applies camouflage paint to a comrade’s neck before the start of a military parade, part of the Independence Day celebrations in Lima, Peru, Saturday. 

BRAZIL – Women Evicted: Women sit on a sidewalk surrounded by their belongings after they were evicted from their shacks located beneath an overpass, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Saturday. Around one hundred families were evicted from the area Saturday morning as part of the plan by Sao Paulo’s Mayor Joao Doria to revitalize downtown. 

TEXAS – Playing the Bat: Texas Rangers’ Elvis Andrus reacts after being called out on strikes in the first inning of a baseball game against the Baltimore Orioles, Sunday, in Arlington, Texas. 

GERMANY – Gondola Rescue: Members of the fire service rescue people from a cable car gondola, in Cologne, Germany, Sunday. A gondola of a cable car across the river Rhine became stuck on Sunday. 

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