Top shots from around the world Agencies Published June 27, 2014 0 Tibetan participants perform on horses during a traditional equestrian competition in Hongyuan county of Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province June 17, 2014. Picture taken June 17, 2014. – Photo by Reuters Tourists view the Iguazu Falls from an observation platform at the Iguazu National Park near the southern Brazilian city of Foz do Iguacu June 16, 2014. – Photo by Reuters A man takes photos while walking in the flares' smoke during a demonstration staged by striking workers of the French state-run rail operator SNCF, backed by French unions CGT and Sud-Rail, against reform plans proposed by the French government on June 17, 2014 in Paris. – Photo by AFP Syrian and Palestinian refugee children climb up a goalpost before the start of a soccer match in the Al-Baqaa Palestinian refugee camp, near Amman June 17, 2014. – Photo by Reuters An Indian youth jumps into Arabian Sea near the Haji Ali mosque in Mumbai on June 17, 2014. – Photo by AFP This handout picture taken and released by the Ukrainian Emergency Service on June 17, 2014 shows a police car parked beside a field near a fire on the gas pipeline the village of Iskivtsi in the Lokhvytsia region. – Photo by Reuters This picture taken on June 14, 2014 shows a man riding a public bicycle through a bicycle-sharing station in Beijing. – Photo by AFP Morning fog covers a field near Ebenhofen, southern Germany at sunrise early Thursday June 26, 2014. – Photo by AP A view of the wrecked Costa Concordia cruise ship which remains in a bay off the Giglio Island, Italy, on June 26, 2014. – Photo by AFP A photograph of an Olympic Airways aircraft is seen inside a hall which was used as a museum for the carrier, after the closure of the Hellenikon airport south of Athens June 16, 2014. For about six decades Hellenikon was Athens' only airport but it closed down in 2001 to make way for a newer, more modern airport before the city hosted the 2004 Olympic Games. – Photo by Reuters A man walks by a mural made of rice plants at a paddy field in Shenyang, Liaoning province. – Photo by Reuters Join our Whatsapp channel
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