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A photo taken on June 4, 2019 shows performers during a Grand Mass Gymnastics and Artistic Performance, or mass games, at the May Day stadium in Pyongyang. - The "Grand Mass Gymnastics and Artistic Performance" features enormous numbers of people -- mostly students and children -- performing synchronised moves. Tens of thousands of performers in Pyongyang took part in the first of North Korea's spectacular "Mass Games" propaganda displays for 2019, but the show left leader Kim Jong Un unimpressed. (Photo by KIM Won Jin / AFP)

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Participants release a hot-air balloons carrying small lanterns during the closing ceremony of the Tazaungdaing Festival at Taunggyi, in Myanmar's northeastern Shan State, on November 15, 2016.
The skies of central Myanmar were set ablaze this week with the beginning of the Taunggyi fire balloon festival, one of the most beautiful and dangerous celebrations in Asia. Brightly coloured balloons with hundreds of homemade fireworks woven into their frames are sent soaring into the night sky, showering down cascades of sparks onto adoring crowds. / AFP PHOTO / YE AUNG THU

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The iconic sails of the Sydney Opera House are lit in red, white and blue, resembling the colours of the French flag, in Sydney on November 14, 2015, as Australians express their solidarity with France following a spate of coordinated attacks.Both the Opera House and the Sydney Town Hall were bathed in the French colours and New South Wales state Premier Mike Baird said he had also asked for a French flag to fly over the city's famous harbour bridge. AFP PHOTO / William WEST / AFP PHOTO / WILLIAM WEST

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