Crowds gathered at Charleston's Emanuel AME Church for the first worship service at the historic African American church since a white gunman killed nine black people at Bible study group there last week.
Charleston Church Reopens
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Crowds on the front steps of the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina, June 21, 2015. (Jerome Socolovsky/VOA)
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Workers prepare to lift the sunken Sewol ferry, center, in waters off Jindo, South Korea. The 6,800-ton ferry emerged from the water, nearly three years after it capsized and sank into violent seas off the country's southwestern coast.
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Participants take part in the Mud Day race, a 13km obstacle course in the Israeli Mediterranean coastal city of Tel Aviv.
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People stop to listen as church bells ring out across Charleston, South Carolina, June 21, 2015. (Jerome Socolovsky/VOA)