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A sinkhole in Guatemala, children playing in a scarred Jamaican neighborhood, a mother’s graveside remembrance and more notable news and feature pictures from around the world.

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No ordinary pothole

A sinkhole created by tropical storm Agatha is seen in the Ciudad Nueva neighborhood in Guatemala City, Guatemala, on May 29. Agatha caused landslides and floods that left tens of thousands homeless in Central America.

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Delicate water dance

Boys step on bricks to avoid the floodwater after a heavy downpour at a school for migrant workers' children in a suburb of Beijing on June 2. Summer rainstorms annually deluge many parts of China, often leading to hundreds of fatalities.
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Image: Oil floats on the surface of the Gulf of Mexico around a work boat at the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico

Slick going

Oil floats on the surface of the Gulf of Mexico around a work boat at the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on June 2.

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Crash landing

Bystanders and police search the burning wreckage of a Cessna 206 shortly after it crashed in a busy business district near downtown Anchorage, Alaska, during rush hour on June 1. A small child was killed and four other people on board were injured.

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Industrial cruise

A container ship being unloaded is visible to passengers aboard the Aquarium of the Pacific’s new "Urban Ocean" cruise, May 27 in San Pedro Bay off the coast of Los Angeles and Long Beach, Calif. The 2.5-hour cruise aboard a luxury yacht explores the less-picturesque sights of the urban ocean. Guests take in a seascape that features a fair amount of spilled oil, concrete, rust-tinged metal, warehouses, power plants, smoke stacks, trash in the water and the wildlife that swims in it.

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Not-so-safe streets

Children play soccer at the Tivoli Gardens neighborhood in Kingston, Jamaica, on May 29. Days of fighting between government security forces and gunmen loyal to reputed drug kingpin Christopher "Dudus" Coke left more than 70 people dead in the housing project.

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No place to call home

A girl cries as she looks at the remains of a house destroyed by a fire in the Commune 13 neighborhood of Medellin, Colombia, on June 3. More than 80 houses were affected by the fire. No casualties were reported.
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Image: Monica McNeal hugs a U.S. Marine at the gravesite of her son Eric Ward at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia

Remembering those who served

Monica McNeal cries as she hugs a U.S. Marine at the grave of her 19-year-old son, Eric Ward, at Arlington National Cemetery on May 27, ahead of Memorial Day. Ward was killed in Afghanistan on Feb. 21.

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Up in smoke

An Afghan boy scurries past a burning oil tanker carrying fuel supplies for NATO forces after it was attacked, allegedly by Taliban fighters, on Jalalabad highway, east of Kabul, on May 28.

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Cloth shackle

An 8-year-old Pakistani mentally impaired youth named Gilli asks for food as other inhabitants eat in the corridor of The Edhi Home in Karachi on Feb. 24. The Edhi Home houses hundreds of people addicted to drugs, a few dozen abandoned elderly people and at least three children -- including Gilli -- who are physically or mentally handicapped. The three children usually are tied with a string of cloth fastened to the grill of a window in the corridor. This image was received May 29.

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Image: Freddy Sanchez, Justin Maxwell

Safe!

Washington Nationals' Justin Maxwell steals second base in front of San Francisco Giants' Freddy Sanchez during the second inning of a baseball game in San Francisco on May 27.

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Image: Family members watch Honor Guard carry the casket of Trooper Larry Rudd, to hearse at Canadian Forces Base Trenton.

Repatriation ceremony

Family members watch as Honor Guard carry the casket of Trooper Larry Rudd, from The Royal Canadian Dragoons, to a hearse at Canadian Forces Base Trenton on May 27. Rudd was killed by an improvised explosive device on May 24 during a security operation southwest of Kandahar City, Afghanistan.

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