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leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) Kim Jong Un watching a firing contest of artillery personnel recently. The contest brought together artillery companies under the Korean People's Army (KPA) Air and Anti-Air Force, KPA Large Combined Units 963 and 526 and companies composed of instructors and cadets of the Artillery Academy. Standings of the contest were decided by the number of hits each company made by firing artillery pieces of different calibers at moving air, ground and naval targets in the order decided by lottery. The Artillery Academy came first in the contest.

ship based helicopter of Belgium Navy flies with a frigate during a drill in the North Sea, June 17, 2015.

One of the 10 sub-Saharan migrants who were rescued by the Spanish Maritime Rescue Services receives medical care upon their arrival to Tarifa's port in the province of Cadiz, southern Spain, 18 June 2015. The migrants were rescued from a toy boat when they were trying to cross the Strait of Gibraltar to reach the Spanish southern coasts.

Participants compete in a dragon boat race in Chengmai, a county in south China's Hainan Province, on June 18, 2015. Twenty-four teams from all over the country took part in the event to mark the Chinese traditional Dragon Boat Festival.

A Pakistani Muslim man looks toward the new moon that indicates the beginning of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan in eastern Pakistan's Lahore, June 17, 2015.

The wreckage of a destroyed vehicle lies at a bombing site in Sanaa, Yemen, on June 18, 2015. The Islamic States (IS) group on Wednesday evening carried out four car bombing attacks against the Shiite Houthi group in Yemen's capital of Sanaa, which killed at least 18 people and wounded dozens