Day in Photos: Falun Dafa Parade, Royal Salute, Civilian Drill in Taiwan
Falun Dafa practitioners take part in a march calling for the end of the Chinese Communist Party’s 26 years of persecution of Falun Gong in China, in Washington on July 17, 2025. Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times
Falun Dafa practitioners take part in a march calling for the end of the Chinese Communist Party’s 26 years of persecution of Falun Gong in China, in Washington on July 17, 2025. Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times

Day in Photos: Falun Dafa Parade, Royal Salute, Civilian Drill in Taiwan

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The Honorable Artillery Company fire a 62-gun royal salute from Tower Wharf in London as Queen Camilla celebrates her 78th birthday on July 17, 2025. Tristan Fewings/Getty Images
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A Liberian police officer in riot gear forms a security cordon in front of the Capitol during a protest against the government in Monrovia on July 17, 2025. Matthew Jacobs/AFP via Getty Images
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People take shelter during an air raid drill coinciding with the Han Kuang military exercises in Taipei, Taiwan, on July 17, 2025. The annual civilian drill is being held in cities across Taiwan this week, alongside military training, to prepare the self-governed island for a potential Chinese invasion. I-Hwa Cheng/AFP via Getty Images
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Engineering teams work as the world's largest land crane, Big Carl, is used to lift a 245-ton domed roof onto Hinkley Point C's second reactor building at the Hinkley Point C nuclear power station near Bridgwater in southwest England on July 17, 2025. Adrian Dennis/AFP via Getty Images
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Smoke billows from a damaged oil installation at the Sarsang oil field following a drone attack on the Chamanke district near the Kurdish city of Dohuk in northern Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region on July 17, 2025. Safin Hamid/AFP via Getty Images
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Ash rises from Taal volcano during an eruption as seen from a fish farm in Laurel town in Batangas province, Philippines, on July 17, 2025. Ted Aljibe/AFP via Getty Images
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France's Minister for Overseas Manuel Valls reviews troops during a handover of command ceremony of the Adapted Military Service Regiment at Vairai park in Punaauia on the French Polynesian island of Tahiti on July 16, 2025. Suliane Favennec/AFP via Getty Images
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A man wades through a flooded street during monsoon rains in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, on July 17, 2025. Monsoon rains in Pakistan have been linked to more than 110 deaths, including dozens of children, since late June, according to government figures released on July 14. Aamir Qureshi/AFP via Getty Images
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People queue to enter the DreamVille camping site of the Tomorrowland electronic music festival a day after its main stage was totally destroyed by fire in Boom, near Antwerp, Belgium, on July 17, 2025. There were no injuries, according to organizers, who said that they would go ahead with the festival over the next two weekends. Tom Goyvaerts/Belga/AFP via Getty Images
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Barricades and brickbats lie scattered on the road in Gopalganj, Bangladesh, on July 17, 2025, a day after the clashes broke out between supporters of the Awami League party and police during a rally by the National Citizens Party (NCP). Munir Uz Zaman/AFP via Getty Images
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An employee manages the molten copper smelter at the Canadian Copper Refinery, owned by Glencore, in Montreal on July 17, 2025. Andrej Ivanov/AFP via Getty Images
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France's President Emmanuel Macron, flanked by state and local elected officials, speaks on a rooftop at the Pic du Midi observatory during a presentation by local stakeholders of the application file for the inclusion of the Pic du Midi on the UNESCO World Heritage List, in Bagneres-de-Bigorre on July 17, 2025. Ed Jones/POOL/AFP via Getty Images
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A vendor carrying plastic balls rides along a street in New Delhi on July 17, 2025. Arun Sankar/AFP via Getty Images
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In this handout image provided by the German Government Press Office, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz speaks with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer at 10 Downing Street in London on July 17, 2025. Steffen Kugler/Bundesregierung via Getty Images
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Newly appointed Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko attends a session of Ukrainian Parliament in Kyiv on July 17, 2025, amid the Russian invasion in Ukraine. Andrii Nesterenko/AFP via Getty Images
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A vehicle burns after Syrian government forces pulled out of the southern Sweida governorate on July 17, 2025. The Druze heartland of Sweida has been gripped by deadly sectarian bloodshed since July 13, with hundreds reportedly killed in clashes pitting Druze fighters against Sunni Bedouin tribes and the army and its allies. Shadi al-Dubaisi/AFP via Getty Images
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An aerial view showing Bewl Water reservoir sitting around 70 percent full in Lamberhurst, England, on July 17, 2025. In mid-May this year, the reservoir was 86.4 percent full. However, following three Met Office-defined heatwaves in June and July, and Kent only receiving 35 percent of its expected rainfall, it now stands at 70 percent. Carl Court/Getty Images
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Elinor Brown from Dovecot Studios poses during the opening of IKEA Museum's Magical Patterns Exhibition in Edinburgh, Scotland, on July 17, 2025. The IKEA Museum's Magical Patterns exhibition on display at Dovecot Studios features 180 fabrics that celebrate the Swedish furniture giant's six decades of innovative textile design and artist collaborations. Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images
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One cormorant spreads its wings to dry them while another one tends to its feathers as they rest on kayaks on the banks of the Landwehr Canal in Berlin's Kreuzberg district on July 17, 2025. David Gannon/AFP via Getty Images
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Smoke from a wildfire in the Toledo province turns the sky brownish orange as seen from a park in Madrid on July 17, 2025. Oscar Del Pozo/AFP via Getty Images
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Slovakia's President Peter Pellegrini, 49, takes part in a two-week pilot training program for the national defense forces at the military base in Turecky Vrch, near Jablonove in western Slovakia, on July 17, 2025. Joe Klamar/AFP via Getty Images
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This picture taken from a position at Israel's border with the Gaza Strip shows smoke billowing during an Israeli strike on the besieged Palestinian territory on July 17, 2025. Jack Guez/AFP via Getty Images
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A view of ships in the port of Rio de Janeiro on July 17, 2025. Pablo Porciuncula/AFP via Getty Images
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Two women stand in front of a store after flooding caused by record-breaking rains in Seosan, South Korea, on July 17, 2025. Parts of South Korea were battered by torrential rains on July 17, with one region pummeled by the most rainfall per hour since full records began in 1904, the country's weather agency said. Jung Yeon-Je/AFP via Getty Images
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A man clears debris washed up on a beach in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, on July 17, 2025. Chaideer Mahyuddin/AFP via Getty Images