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Argentina's forward Lionel Messi (L) shoots to score during the Russia 2018 World Cup Group D football match between Nigeria and Argentina at the Saint Petersburg Stadium in Saint Petersburg on June 26th, 2018. Argentina ultimately beat Nigeria 2–1, advancing to the round of 16.

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Viewfinder: Lionel Messi Shoots and Scores as Argentina Advances in the World Cup

Argentina beat Nigeria 2–1 in their final qualifying game at the 2018 World Cup.

Pacific Standard Staff

Thousands of public-sector employees march during a strike called by labor unions to protest against austerity measures in San José, Costa Rica, on June 25th, 2018.

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Viewfinder: A Labor Protest in Costa Rica

Thousands of public-sector employees march during a strike called by labor unions to protest against austerity measures in San José, Costa Rica, on June 25th, 2018.

Pacific Standard Staff

People react and wave flags outside the Justice and Development Party (AKP) headquarters in Istanbul, on June 24th, 2018, during the Turkish presidential and parliamentary elections. More than 59 million citizens voted in the presidential and parliamentary elections. According to state media reports, Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has won presidential poll with 53 percent of the vote after nearly all votes have been counted.

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Viewfinder: Presidential Elections in Turkey Come to an End

People react and wave flags outside the Justice and Development Party (AKP) headquarters in Istanbul, on June 24th, 2018, during the Turkish presidential and parliamentary elections.

Pacific Standard Staff

A Saudi woman poses for the camera as she uses a go-cart during a driving workshop for women in the Saudi capital of Riyadh on June 21st, 2018. Saudi Arabia will allow women to drive from June 24th, ending the world's only ban on female motorists, a historic reform marred by what rights groups call an expanding crackdown on activists.

Saudi Women Gear Up as the Country Prepares to Lift Its Discriminatory Driving Ban (in Photos)

Saudi Arabia is set to lift its decades-old ban on women driving on Sunday.

Varun Nayar

Flamingoes are seen at Lake Amboseli from a spotter plane overhead during a trial run for an aerial animal census at the Amboseli National Park on June 21st, 2018. Amboseli is among the most renowned case studies in the world for elephant population and behavioral factors with the last official count, carried out in the year 2011, yielding some 1,200 animals. Preparations are underway for an aerial census over the 392-square-kilometer park with trial runs kicking off in June.

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Viewfinder: Counting Flamingos in Southern Kenya

Flamingoes are seen at Lake Amboseli from a spotter plane overhead during a trial run for an aerial animal census at the Amboseli National Park on June 21st, 2018.

Pacific Standard Staff

People participate in a protest in front of the prime minister's office in Bucharest on June 20th, 2018, against corruption and recent changes to the penal code which, they say, would severely impede the fight against corruption. Protesters chanted "We will not give in" and "Thieves."

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Viewfinder: Thousands of Romanians Protest Political Corruption in Bucharest

People participate in a protest in front of the prime minister's office in Bucharest on June 20th, 2018.

Pacific Standard Staff

Protesters hold signs as they block Sansome Street during a demonstration outside of the San Francisco office of Immigration and Customs Enforcement on June 19th, 2018, in San Francisco, California. Hundreds of protesters staged a demonstration outside of the ICE offices against the Trump administration's zero tolerance policy to separate immigrant families at the border.

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Viewfinder: Protesters Demonstrate Against ICE in San Francisco

Protesters hold signs as they block Sansome Street during a demonstration outside of the San Francisco office of Immigration and Customs Enforcement on June 19th, 2018, in San Francisco, California.

Pacific Standard Staff

Women walk on a bridge past campaign banners with the portrait of Turkey's president in Istanbul on June 18th, 2018. Turkey prepares for tight presidential and parliamentary elections on June 24th, while many analysts say President Recep Tayyip Erdogan wants a major foreign policy success to give him a final boost. The slogan reads "A big Turkey wishes a powerful leader."

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Viewfinder: Turkey Prepares for a Crucial Upcoming Presidential Election

Women walk on a bridge past campaign banners with the portrait of Turkey's president in Istanbul on June 18th, 2018.

Pacific Standard Staff

Elephants participate in a football game to kick off the World Cup fever as part of an anti-gambling campaign at the ancient Thai city of Ayutthaya on June 13th, 2018. Painted with flags of countries competing in the World Cup, the nine elephants played a game against students from a local school ahead of the start of the 2018 Football World Cup in Russia.

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Viewfinder: Elephants Celebrate the World Cup in Thailand

Elephants participate in a football game to kick off the World Cup fever as part of an anti-gambling campaign at the ancient Thai city of Ayutthaya on June 13th, 2018.

Pacific Standard Staff

Central American asylum seekers wait for transport while being detained by U.S. Border Patrol agents near the U.S.-Mexico border on June 12th, 2018, in McAllen, Texas. The group of women and children had rafted across the Rio Grande from Mexico and were detained before being sent to a processing center for possible separation.

Immigration Protests Take Place Across the Country as Border Arrests Continue (in Photos)

Marches occur across the country while, simultaneously, children and families are detained at the U.S. border.

Ashley Hackett