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![A boy is tossed in the mud during the Asar Pandhra festival in Pokhara valley, west of Nepal's capital Kathmandu, to mark the commencement of rice-crop planting. ](https://gdb.voanews.com/7ccb9412-34c3-48d5-a0f9-c4f2aa4ae4ff_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A boy is tossed in the mud during the Asar Pandhra festival in Pokhara valley, west of Nepal's capital Kathmandu, to mark the commencement of rice-crop planting.
![An Indian mahout uses an elephant to transport leaves along a street in Amritsar.](https://gdb.voanews.com/4e77bf2e-6d68-4a26-b635-e3e9e18df6a0_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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An Indian mahout uses an elephant to transport leaves along a street in Amritsar.
![A passenger on a stretcher is carried by ambulance officers at Odawara station after it made an emergency stop, in Odawara, west of Tokyo. Two passengers on a Japanese Shinkansen bullet train died after one doused himself in oil and set himself ablaze, media reports said. The train, carrying about 1,000 passengers, made an emergency stop on its way from Tokyo to the western city of Osaka after smoke started to fill at least one carriage, fire department officials said. A fire department official confirmed that one man was dead.](https://gdb.voanews.com/a3815654-0762-4f7a-91b6-7daae8141c8e_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A passenger on a stretcher is carried by ambulance officers at Odawara station after it made an emergency stop, in Odawara, west of Tokyo. Two passengers on a Japanese Shinkansen bullet train died after one doused himself in oil and set himself ablaze, media reports said. The train, carrying about 1,000 passengers, made an emergency stop on its way from Tokyo to the western city of Osaka after smoke started to fill at least one carriage, fire department officials said. A fire department official confirmed that one man was dead.
![Homes destroyed by the Sleepy Hollow fire are pictured in Wenatchee, Washington, USA, June 29, 2015.](https://gdb.voanews.com/511edca7-90ae-4d66-ad1f-548c7a95aec8_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Homes destroyed by the Sleepy Hollow fire are pictured in Wenatchee, Washington, USA, June 29, 2015.