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Our world in photos: July 1

July 1, 2022 Michaela Keil
VIRGINIA — Holiday travel: A passenger jet streaked toward a landing at Reagan National Airport in Arlington on Thursday evening. Heavy travel was expected over the Fourth of July holiday. Photo: J. David Ake/AP
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DENMARK — Tour de France: Colombia’s Nairo Quintana passed the Little Mermaid statue by Edvard Eriksen during the first stage of the Tour de France cycling race, an individual time trial over 8.2 miles with start and finish in Copenhagen, on Friday
Photo: Daniel Cole/AP

 

ECUADOR — Protest: Indigenous protesters gathered outside the Episcopal Conference headquarters where Indigenous leaders talked with the government in Quito, on Thursday. Ecuador’s government and the country’s main Indigenous group reached an agreement on Thursday to end 18 days of often-violent strikes that had virtually paralyzed the country.
Photo: Dolores Ochoa/AP

 

ROMANIA — Affection: A couple kissed sitting on a bench next to an elderly woman in Bucharest, on Thursday.
Photo: Vadim Ghirda/AP

 

UNITED KINGDOM — Rainbow: A rainbow arched in the sky as seen from the courts on day four of the Wimbledon tennis championships in London, on Thursday
Photo: Alastair Grant/AP

 

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HONG KONG — Sworn in: China’s President Xi Jinping, right, looked on as Hong Kong’s incoming Chief Executive John Lee was sworn in as the city’s new leader, during a ceremony to inaugurate the city’s new government in Hong Kong on Friday, on the 25th anniversary of the city’s handover from Britain to China.
Photo: Selim Chtayti/Pool Photo via AP

 

UNITED KINGDOM — Celebration: Britain’s Heather Watson celebrated defeating Slovenia’s Kaja Juvan in a third-round women’s singles match on day five of the Wimbledon tennis championships in London, on Friday.
Photo: Alastair Grant/AP

 

WASHINGTON — Family: Maisy Biden watched as President Joe Biden picked up his grandson, Beau Biden, after arriving on the South Lawn of the White House at the conclusion of a trip to Germany and Spain, on Thursday.
Photo: Evan Vucci/AP

 

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Support: Sheila Carr, of Washington, wore a judge’s collar, T-shirt, and pin honoring newly sworn-in Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, as she watched a protest on Constitution Avenue, around the corner from the Supreme Court, on Thursday. “I came to protest for voting rights,” says Carr, “and to support Ketanji Brown Jackson.”
Photo: Jacquelyn Martin/AP

 

UNITED KINGDOM — Dismissal: England’s Matthew Potts, center, celebrated with teammates the dismissal of India’s Virat Kohli during the first day of the fifth cricket test match between England and India at Edgbaston in Birmingham, on Friday.
Photo: Rui Vieira/AP

 

UNITED KINGDOM — Practice: Ferrari driver Carlos Sainz of Spain steered his car during the first free practice at the Silverstone circuit, in Silverstone, on Friday. The British F1 Grand Prix was held on Sunday, July 3.
Photo: Frank Augstein/AP

 

CHILE — Goal: Luciano of Brazil’s Sao Paulo, center, celebrated with teammate Jonathan Calleri after scoring his side’s 2nd goal against Chile’s Universidad Catolica during a Copa Sudamericana round of sixteen first leg soccer match in Santiago, on Thursday.
Photo: Luis Hidalgo/AP

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