Photos Of The Week #19
A bullet hole is shown on the window of a cafe located at the crossroads between the streets Saint-Augustin and Monsigny on May 13 in Paris, the day after a knifeman killed one man and wounded four other people. (AFP/Eric Feferberg)
Internally displaced mother Seng Moon, fleeing renewed fighting between Burma's army and ethnic insurgents in the country's remote north, waits in a temporary shelter with her one-month-old daughter in Danai, Kachin state, on May 12. (AFP/Ye Aung Thu)
An Iranian protestor clenches his fist behind a burned representation of the U.S. flag during a gathering after Friday Prayers in Tehran on May 11. Thousands of Iranians took to the streets in cities across the country to protest U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to pull out of the nuclear deal with world powers. (AP/Vahid Salemi)
An employee stands amid the Zubair oil and gas field, north of the southern Iraqi province of Basra. (AFP/Haidar Mohammed Ali)
The general delegate of the Cannes Film Festival, Thierry Fremaux, holds a sign bearing the name of Russian director Kirill Serebrennikov, who is under house arrest in St. Petersburg, ahead of the screening of his film Leto (Summer) at the festival in Cannes on May 9. (AFP/Anne-Christine Poujoulat)
A Pakistani worker sorts plastic bottles at a warehouse in Lahore. (AFP/Arif Ali)
Kazakh strongman Sergei Tsyrulnikov pulls a locomotive with a carriage weighing about 148 tons in total during an attempt to set a new national record for heavyweight pulling in Astana. (Reuters/Mukhtar Kholdorbekov)
Russian Army MiG-29 jet fighters fly in formation during a Victory Day parade marking the 73rd anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany in World War II, in central Moscow on May 9. (Reuters/Maxim Shemetov)
Iranian demonstrators burn a picture of U.S. President Donald Trump during during a protest in front of the former U.S. Embassy in response to Trump's decision to pull out of the nuclear deal and renew sanctions. (AP/Vahid Salemi)
A crew member of the U.S. aircraft carrier Harry S. Truman gestures as the pilot of an F/A-18 Hornet fighter jet waits to take off on the eastern Mediterranean Sea. (AFP/Aris Messinis)
Police detain an opposition supporter during a protest rally in Almaty, Kazakhstan, on May 10. Demonstrators were calling for the release of political prisoners. (Reuters/Mariya Gordeyeva)
Local women wearing traditional costumes perform a dance in the Belarusian village of Pogost. On May 6, Belarus celebrated a spring harvest feast, a tradition that dates back centuries. (TASS/Viktor Drachev)
Refugees and migrants are rescued by members of the Spanish NGO Proactiva Open Arms group after leaving Libya as they were trying to reach European soil aboard an overcrowded rubber boat, north of the Libyan coast. In total, 105 refugees and migrants from Bangladesh, Egypt, Nigeria, Morocco, Ghana, Pakistan, Sudan, Libya, Eritrea, and Senegal were rescued. (AP/Felipe Dana)
Vladimir Putin after his inauguration ceremony for a new term as Russia's president in the Kremlin. Putin took the oath of office on May 7 for his fourth term as Russian president and promised to pursue an economic agenda that would boost living standards across the country. (AP/Sergei Guneyev)
Runners cross the Charles Bridge during the Prague International Marathon in the Czech capital. About 10,600 runners took part in the race. (epa-EFE/Martin Divisek)
Disabled athletes compete in the Race For The Heroes 10-kilometer event in Bogota, Colombia. The main purpose of the race is to promote the solidarity of Colombians with soldiers and police officers injured in the line of duty. (epa-EFE/Mauricio Duenas Castaneda)
Participants gather for the annual May bank holiday Jack In The Green parade and festival in Hastings, England. (Reuters/Toby Melville)
A man cleans the blood of sacrificed sheep during the traditional feast celebration marking St. George's Day in the village of Babaj i Bokes, western Kosovo. (AP/Visar Kryeziu)
A couple shares a kiss among the lilacs in a park in Kyiv. (Reuters/Valentyn Ogirenko)