In Pictures : Summer Solstice

People celebrate the longest day of the year in Ireland and abroad

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Participants of the Kupala Night in Krakow, south Poland, join the festivities in the evening and night from 20 to 21 June 2020. Also called 'Ivana-Kupala' it is a traditional eastern Slavic holiday which is mainly celebrated in Ukraine, Poland, Belarus and Russia. The traditional celebration relates to the summer solstice when nights are the shortest and includes a number of ancient Slavic rituals. Photograph Lukasz Gagulski/EPA

A Chinese man and girl wear protective masks to prevent COVID-19 and protective glasses as they watch the sun during the annular solar eclipse outside the Forbidden City on June 20, 2020 in Beijing, China. The eclipse's path of totality, when the earth, moon and sun are aligned, passed from west to east over 12 countries and coincided with the arrival of the summer solstice. Photograph Kevin Frayer/Getty Images

Sun Jun 21 2020 - 15:06

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