Snapshots of the Fortnight (8-20 June 2012)

Sports and war, life and celebration, belief and prayer among this fortnight’s pictures

Jun 22, 2012, 06:39 IST2 min
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Plain clothes police officers arrest a soccer fan during clashes before the Group A Euro 2012 soccer match between Poland and Russia in Warsaw June 12, 2012
Image by Reuters
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A coal miner hides behind shields, which read "miners", as he fires a home-made rocket during a clash with Spanish national riot police inside the "El Soton" coal mine in El Entrego, near Oviedo, northern Spain, June 15, 2012
Image by Eloy Alonso / Reuters
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A gang member and inmate looks through a hole on a prison wall in Quetzaltepeque, on the outskirts of San Salvador, June 16, 2012. Saturday marked the 100th day of an unprecedented truce between two violent Salvadoran gangs to reduce the high rate of homicides in the Central American country, which has begun to yield the expected results, said the Catholic church. The leaders of the Mara
Image by El SALVADOR / Reuters
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A woman prepares to swallow a live fish that has been dipped in homemade medicine during a camp in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad, June 8, 2012
Image by Krishnendu Halder / Reuters
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An Indian Myna holds a praying mantis in its beak to feed chicks in a nest built inside the wall of an underpass in Greater Noida on the outskirts of New Delhi June 8, 2012
Image by Parivartan Sharma / Reuters
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Rafael Nadal of Spain (C) celebrates with staff members and family after winning the men's singles final match against Novak Djokovic of Serbia at the French Open tennis tournament at the Roland Garros stadium in Paris, June 11, 2012
Image by Francois Lenoir / Reuters
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Maria Sharapova of Russia poses with her trophy in the dressing room after winning the women's singles final match against Sara Errani of Italy during the French Open tennis tournament at the Roland Garros stadium in Paris June 9, 2012
Image by Reuters
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Tightrope walker Nik Wallenda walks the high wire from the US side to the Canadian side over the Horseshoe Falls in Niagara Falls, Ontario, June 15, 2012
Image by Mark Blinch / Reuters
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Children play as seawater rushes onto the steps of the Haji Ali Shrine in Mumbai, June 13, 2012
Image by Vivek Prakash / Reuters

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