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Festival participants carry Yasaka Shrine's Eastern Mikoshi back into the shrine's main hall following the "Mikoshi Arai" purification ritual ahead of the Gion Matsuri festival in Kyoto, western Japan, Friday, July 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Fred Mery)

Revelers fall next to Jandilla's fighting bull during the eighth running of the bulls at the San Fermín festival in Pamplona, Spain, Tuesday, July 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Miguel Oses)

Revelers run alongside Jose Escolar's fighting bulls during the fifth running of the bulls at the San Fermín festival in Pamplona, Spain, Saturday, July 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Miguel Oses)

Palestinian weaver Samira Nasser works on a handmade embroidered piece at the Inaash Association embroidery workshop in Beirut, Tuesday, May 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Yodelers prepare for TV broadcast on the main festival stage at Petersplatz in Basel, Switzerland, Saturday, June 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Jez Fielder)

This photo shows a small handful of rice that a person starts with when making sushi at a lesson for novices in Tokyo, on May 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Yuri Kageyama)

The Latin phrase "E Pluribus Unum" is seen on a one dollar coin, Monday, April 13, 2026, in Portland, Maine.(AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

Initiates return after completing their passage to manhood at a traditional initiation school, in Phuthaditjhaba, South Africa, Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Alfonso Nqunjana)

Katja Bernegger, Founder of Zeronimo, poses for a photo at the Wine Paris 2026 fair, at the Porte de Versailles exhibition center in Paris, France, Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Aurelien Morissard)

Dancers perform as giant marionettes parade through the streets during an art festival in Bamako, Mali, on Nov. 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Moustapha Diallo)

Pakistani folk musician Sham Bhai, second from right, performs with her team members at a village in Umerkot, a district of Pakistan's southeastern Sindh province, Thursday, July 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)

Cultural practitioner Glen Kila walks around the petroglyphs carved into the rock at Pokai Bay during low tide, July 22, 2025, in Waianae, Hawaii. (AP Photo/Mengshin Lin)