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Today in Pictures: June 6
Prayer at Jesus's Tomb, the Milky Way as seen from Syria and more in Monday's top news pictures.



A man watches a wave hit a rock pool at Curl Curl Beach as large swells hit the East Coast of Sydney, Australia. Torrential rain over the weekend had streets and homes flooded while wind gusts up to 75 miles per hour brought down trees and power lines. A king tide forced beachside home evacuations on Sydney's northern beaches as large waves erode the coast.

Opposition supporters react in front of a burning barricade they set up in the Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya, during their weekly protest against the country's electoral body, Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission. Protests in the capital remained relatively peaceful, however, the local media reported that at least two protesters were shot dead in a protest in the western city of Kisumu.

School children skip past a mural, attributed to graffiti artist Banksy, painted on the outside of a classroom wall at the Bridge Farm Primary School in Bristol, Britain.

Christians pray at Jesus' tomb as a team of experts begin renovation of the holy burial site at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem's old city. A team of experts have begun a historic renovation at the spot where Christians believe Jesus was buried, overcoming longstanding religious rivalries to carry out the first repairs at the site in over 200 years.

A man views the destruction caused by a mortar bomb that hit a home at Salawa on the edge of the Sri Lankan capital Colombo, hours after an ammunition depot explosion at the neighboring military complex. Flying shrapnel sent thousands of residents scrambling for cover as the blaze turned the skies orange.




Remains of a collision between a freight train and a passenger train are scattered on the tracks between Liege and Namur, in Saint-Georges-sur-Meuse, Eastern Belgium. Investigators worked through the wreckage of the high speed train crash that killed at least three people and injured nine others.