Pictures of the Week: June 30-July 6

New York City celebrates the Fourth of July with East River fireworks that make a great Manhattan backdrop when seen from the Hudson River-New Jersey side, July 4.
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A peacock turns his back to a peahen (in foreground) and unfurls his plumage to try to win her over at the Nehru Zoo in Hyderabad, India, June 30. Monsoon season also means mating season for the birds.
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Montana residents enjoy a fireworks burst in the clear skies over the Great Northern Fairgrounds in Havre, Mont., July 4.
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It's San Fermin bullfight fiesta season in Pamplona, northern Spain, where a reveler leaps from the St. Cecilia fountain, July 6. Held since 1591, the nine-day fiesta attracts tens of thousands of foreign tourists for revelry, morning bull runs and afternoon bullfights.
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Reflecting heightened terrorist tensions in Great Britain, a police officer keeps watch outside Waterloo train station in central London as the menacing eyes of a bus' billboard peer out, July 2. The terrorist attacks at London and Glasgow airports were not seen as increasing the likelihood of an attack in the United States.
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For children in Baghdad, playtime increasingly and tragically takes on the shape of the violence they see around them, as older boys stage a mock execution of a 4-year-old boy, July 2. One of the more popular children's games involves a clash between militias and police.
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Scottish police and other officials work at the scene of a blazing Jeep Cherokee that a pair of terrorists crashed into the main terminal building at Glasgow Airport, June 30. Seven militant Muslims, a number of them doctors, have been arrested in the attacks.
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Marines become newly naturalized U.S. citizens during a ceremony at Camp Victory in Baghdad, July 4. At least 160 people from 52 countries who were serving as Marines in the Iraq war were given citizenship during the ceremony.
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Sen. Hillary Clinton makes a Fourth of July stop for milk shakes in Nashua, Iowa, while campaigning for president with her husband, former President Bill Clinton, July 4.
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Bruno the orangutan enjoys a cherry tomato in his new $6.8 million home at the Hellabrunn Zoo in Munich, Germany, July 4.
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