Stringer, AFP/Getty ImagesTOPSHOT - This photo taken on June 21, 2016 shows people walking past a road damaged by recent floodwaters in Longshan county, in central China's Hunan province. Heavy rains have left 22 people dead and 15 others missing in south China since June 18, the State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters (SFDH) said on June 20. / AFP PHOTO / STR / China OUTSTR/AFP/Getty Images
Gabriel Bouys, AFP/Getty ImagesTOPSHOT - A boy rests on concrete blocks near the small port of Ginostra on June 16, 2016 on the island of Stromboli. Stromboli is part of the Aeolian Islands a volcanic archipelago in the Tyrrhenian Sea, north of Sicily. AFP PHOTO / GABRIEL BOUYS / AFP PHOTO / GABRIEL BOUYSGABRIEL BOUYS/AFP/Getty Images
Sergei Grits, Associated PressSurrounded by morning fog spectators watch the mock battles between Soviet and Nazi forces during a ceremony to mark the Day of Remembrance and Sorrow, on the 75th anniversary of Germany's attack on the Soviet Union in World War II in the Brest Fortress memorial, 360 kilometers (225 miles) southwest of Minsk, Belarus, early Wednesday, June 22, 2016. The garrison of the 19-century fortress was encircled hours after the Nazis invaded the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, but the Brest fortress' Soviet defenders held out for 28 days. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
Sergi Supinsky, AFP/Getty ImagesTOPSHOT - Communal workers carry the coffins bearing the remains of twenty Soviet soldiers who died during the Soviet-German War and whose bodies were found in 2016, during the reburial ceremony near the village of Borshiv, some 70 kilometers from the Ukrainian capital of Kiev on June 22, 2016. Ukraine marks on June 22, the Day of Mourning and Commemorating of war victims, on June 22. On June 22, 1941, German soldiers and her allies began an attack on the Soviet Union. / AFP PHOTO / SERGEI SUPINSKYSERGEI SUPINSKY/AFP/Getty Images
Handout, AFP/Getty ImagesThis image courtesy of Democratic Rep. Elizabeth Esty's office shows Rep. Esty(2n-L) with Rep. John Lewis(C) and other members of Congress staging a sit-in on the floor of the US House of Representatives on June 22, 2016 in Washington, DC. US Democrats staged a rare sit-in Wednesday in the House of Representatives, demanding that the Republican-led body vote on gun-control legislation following the Orlando nightclub massacre."We have to occupy the floor of the House until there is action," Democratic Congressman John Lewis, a civil rights icon who marched with Reverend Martin Luther King Jr in the 1960s, said before he and dozens of colleagues sat down on the carpeted well of the chamber.The dramatic action came just as the House presiding officer moved to declare the body in recess. / AFP PHOTO / Rep. Elizabeth Esty / Handout / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO /CONGRESSWOMAN ELIZABETH ESTY" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS HANDOUT/AFP/Getty Images
Khalil Hamra, Associated PressIn this Monday, June 20, 2016 photo, Palestinian children climb on a portable tank used to distribute water in el-Zohor slum, on the outskirts of Khan Younis refugee camp, southern Gaza Strip. The expansion of the el-Zohor slum, where barefoot children play in the rusty skeletons of discarded vehicles surrounded by mountains of garbage, is a sign of the times in Gaza, where poverty is growing and there is little hope for the future. While Gaza has always been poor, conditions for the 1.8 million people who live in the crowded seaside territory worsened since the Islamic militant group Hamas seized power in 2007. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
Guillaume Souvant, AFP/Getty ImagesTOPSHOT - A photo taken from a hot air balloon shows the reflection of the balloon in a body of water next to a road near Chatellerault on Junes 22, 2016. / AFP PHOTO / GUILLAUME SOUVANTGUILLAUME SOUVANT/AFP/Getty Images
Gene J. Puskar, Associated PressCleveland Cavaliers' LeBron James, center, stands in the back of a Rolls Royce as it makes its way through the crowd lining the parade route in downtown Cleveland, Wednesday, June 22, 2016, celebrating the basketball team's NBA championship. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
Kenzo Trubouillard, AFP/Getty ImagesTOPSHOT - Austria's forward Marko Arnautovic (L) vies with Iceland's defender Kari Arnason during the Euro 2016 group F football match between Iceland and Austria at the Stade de France stadium in Saint-Denis, near Paris on June 22, 2016. / AFP PHOTO / KENZO TRIBOUILLARDKENZO TRIBOUILLARD/AFP/Getty Images
Michael Reaves, The Denver PostENGLEWOOD, CO - JUNE 22: Denver Broncos Von Miller races campers in a 40-yard dash drill during the Von Miller Football ProCamp at Englewood High School on June 22, 2016. (Photo by Michael Reaves/The Denver Post)
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TOPSHOT - This photo taken on June 21, 2016 shows people walking past a road damaged by recent floodwaters in Longshan county, in central China's Hunan province.
Heavy rains have left 22 people dead and 15 others missing in south China since June 18, the State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters (SFDH) said on June 20. / AFP PHOTO / STR / China OUTSTR/AFP/Getty Images
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A selection of the best images of the day from around the country and across the world on Wednesday, June 22, 2016. US Democrats staged a rare sit-in Wednesday in the House of Representatives, demanding that the Republican-led body vote on gun-control legislation following the Orlando nightclub massacre. Heavy rains have left 22 people dead and 15 others missing in south China since June 18.








