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• June 24: Russian President Dmitry Medvedev enters a hall to meet with Armenian President Serge Sarkisian at the Kremlin in Moscow.
• June 24: Defending women's singles champion Venus Williams of the United States plays in the first-round match against Britain's Naomi Cavady on the Centre Court at Wimbledon. Williams won in straight sets 7-6 6-1.
• June 24: Women rest with their recovered belongings while others carry their possessions up a hill as they leave their houses, which were destroyed by the May 12 earthquake and flooding from the Tanjiashan quake-formed lake in Beichuan county in southwest China's Sichuan province.
• June 24: Supporters of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's party rally against a court ruling barring Sharif from running in parliamentary by-elections in Lahore, Pakistan.
• June 24: Fire rages through a car burnt by student protesters on a street in the main business district in Jakarta, Indonesia. About 1,000 Indonesian protesters angered by a student demonstrator's death after his arrest following a protest against fuel price hikes burned tires and hurled stones at police.
• June 24: Chinese soldiers patrol past a surface-to-air missile launcher near the Olympic Sports Center Stadium in Beijing. Missile launchers have been placed just 984 feet from the venue that will host soccer and modern pentathlon at the Olympic Games, which open in Beijing Aug. 8.
• June 24: A shepherd bathes his goat in the sea during a ritual of purification at the festival of Saint John in Puerto de la Cruz in the Canary island of Tenerife, Spain. The ritual is a millenary tradition started by the Guanches, the original inhabitants of the Canary islands.
• In this May 22 file photo, a village damaged by Cyclone Nargis is seen in an aerial view over the Irrawaddy delta, Burma, from the helicopter carrying United Nations Secretary-General Ban ki-Moon. Representatives from Burma, also known as Myanmar, said that 84,500 people perished in last month's cyclone, up from its last announcement that 77,700 had died in the devastating storm that drew international pleas for the insular government to accept outside help.
• June 24: Girls in wedding dresses attend the celebrations of the Orthodox feast Eniovden (Midsummer Day) in Asenovgrad, some 90 miles east of the Bulgarian capital, Sofia. Every year young girls from the town and neighboring villages gather to celebrate Eniovden by wearing wedding dresses according to tradition.
• June 24: Indonesian students throw rocks at police as they are hit with a police water canon in front of the parliament building in Jakarta, Indonesia. Hundreds of students gathered at the parliament to protest fuel price hikes and the death of a colleague after a police raid on a Jakarta university several weeks ago following a fuel price demonstration.
• June 24: Kungfu master and film star Jackie Chan from Hong Kong, right, is greeted by an East Timorese girl in traditional dress in Dili, the Capital of East Timor. Chan is visiting East Timor as an ambassador for UNICEF.
• June 24: Philippine Coast Guard rescuers search for victims near the sunken passenger ferry the MV Princess of the Stars off the Sibuyan Sea in central Philippines. Still hoping for a miracle, divers wriggled into the upside-down ferry Tuesday but found only bodies three days after the vessel capsized during a powerful typhoon with more than 850 people aboard, officials said.
• June 24: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, right, shakes hands with French President Nicolas Sarkozy, center, and his wife, Carla Bruni Sarkozy, during a visit to his office in the West Bank town of Bethlehem.
• June 24: In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, video cameramen film giant pandas transferred to Fuzhou Giant Panda Protection and Research Center in Fuzhou, southeast China's Fujian Province. Pandas living in earthquake-hit southwest China are facing a food shortage and some have been evacuated to temporary shelters because of the continuing threat of landslides and other hazards, an official said Tuesday.