Smoke billows from the site of an Israeli airstrike on the outskirts of the southern Lebanese village of Alma el-Chaab near the Lebanon-Israel border on May 22.
Russian President Vladimir Putin reviews an honor guard of the presidential regiment following his inauguration ceremony at Sobornaya Square in Moscow.
Protesters react as a man holds up a sign demanding that U.S. soldiers leave Niger without negotiation during a demonstration in Niamey. The sign reads: "U.S. Army: You leave, you move, you vanish. No bonus, no negotiation."
Gilad Erdan, Israel's ambassador to the United Nations, shows a video of Iranian missiles being intercepted over Al-Aqsa Mosque during an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council.
A protester holding a Palestinian flag stands up at the back of an audience of people seated in a U.S. congressional committee hearing room. Other protesters sitting around him raise up hands painted red to signify blood. In the foreground and slightly out-of-focus, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin wears a serious expression as he sits in front of a microphone.
The containment domes of Units 2 and 3 stand during the decommissioning and dismantling of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station in San Diego County, California.
