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AZERBAIJAN: A shepherd leading a flock of sheep across a road between Goris and Shusha in Armenian-seized Azerbaijani region of Nagorno-Karabakh. Yerevan and Baku are locked in a bitter dispute over the region of Nagorno-Karabakh, which Armenian separatists, backed by Yerevan, seized from Azerbaijan in a war in the 1990s that left some 30,000 people dead. Photograph: Andrey Golovanov/AFP/Getty Images

PAIN AND PURITY: A devotee of the Chinese Jui Tui Shrine has his cheek pierced with knives during a street procession at the annual Vegetarian Festival in the southern Thai town of Phuket. During the festival, which begins on the first evening of the ninth lunar month and lasts nine days, religious devotees slash themselves with swords, pierce their cheeks with sharp objects and commit other painful acts to purify themselves, taking on the sins of the community. Photograph: Nicolas Asfouri/AFP/Getty Images

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