CNN Site Map for Section World (Galleries) for June - 2021
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- 2021-06-25Although he describes himself as a simple Buddhist monk, the Dalai Lama has been called one of the world's most influential people. Followers believe he is the manifestation of Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva, the enlightened Buddha of compassion. He has
- 2021-06-25A 12-story residential building partially collapsed Thursday, June 24, in the South Florida community of Surfside, killing at least one person and sparking an intense search-and-rescue effort. Nearly 100 people were still unaccounted for as of Thursday af
- 2021-06-23Today, we produce about 300 million tons of plastic every year, and at least 8 million tons end up in our oceans. Technology could help to turn the tide of plastic pollution and inform solutions.
- 2021-06-20In India, as elephants lose their forest habitats they are increasingly coming face to face with humans. Each year, around 100 elephants are killed by human-related activity in India -- some from being run over by trains, others in retaliation for damage
- 2021-06-20Workers at the Inhauma cemetery in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, carry the coffin containing the remains of 89-year-old Irodina Pinto Ribeiro on Friday, June 18, 2021. Brazil has now marked 500,000 deaths from Covid-19 -- the second-highest death toll in the wo
- 2021-06-18A security officer asks the media to step back at the start of a summit between US President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday, June 16. Seated from left are US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Biden, Putin and Russian Foreign
- 2021-06-16US Vice President George H.W. Bush, US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev pose for a photo on Governors Island in New York in 1988.
- 2021-06-11UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and US President Joe Biden speak at Carbis Bay in Cornwall, England, after their bilateral meeting on Thursday, June 10. Biden and Johnson are participating in the G7 summit this weekend. In photos: Biden's first trip
- 2021-06-09The herd began its journey in the southwestern province of Yunnan, traveling from a nature reserve in Xishuangbanna to Yuxi, a city of 2.6 million people.
- 2021-06-09Vice President Kamala Harris disembarks Air Force Two in Guatemala City, Guatemala, on Sunday, June 6, during her first foreign trip in office.
- 2021-06-08Captured as chicks and kept as status symbol pets in the gardens of hotels and private homes, Rwanda's gray crowned cranes were almost wiped out. Destruction of their habitat for agriculture added to the pressure and by 2012, only around 300 remained
- 2021-06-04Viola Fletcher and Hughes Van Ellis — two survivors of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre — attend a soil-collection ceremony Monday, May 31, to honor the unknown victims of the massacre. One hundred years ago, a White mob in Tulsa, Oklahoma, obliterated the pr
- 2021-06-03The Polar Pod is a 100-meter-high, 1,000-ton floating laboratory that will gather scientific data from the treacherous waters of the Southern Ocean, around Antarctica.