An anti-government protester throws Molotov cocktails during clashes with security forces near La Carlota military base in Caracas during May Day on May 1 after a day of violent clashes on the streets of the capital spurred by Venezuela's opposition leader Juan Guaido's call for the military to rise up against President Nicolas Maduro. MATIAS DELACROIX/AFP/Getty Images
An anti-government protester throws Molotov cocktails during clashes with security forces near La Carlota military base in Caracas during May Day on May 1 after a day of violent clashes on the streets of the capital spurred by Venezuela's opposition leader Juan Guaido's call for the military to rise up against President Nicolas Maduro. MATIAS DELACROIX/AFP/Getty Images

A Week in World Photos

Buddhist novices in Myanmar, Celtic dancers in England, and May Day protesters in Caracas, Paris, and Santiago.

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An anti-government protester throws Molotov cocktails during clashes with security forces near La Carlota military base in Caracas during May Day on May 1 after a day of violent clashes on the streets of the capital spurred by Venezuela's opposition leader Juan Guaido's call for the military to rise up against President Nicolas Maduro. MATIAS DELACROIX/AFP/Getty Images
An anti-government protester throws Molotov cocktails during clashes with security forces near La Carlota military base in Caracas during May Day on May 1 after a day of violent clashes on the streets of the capital spurred by Venezuela's opposition leader Juan Guaido's call for the military to rise up against President Nicolas Maduro. MATIAS DELACROIX/AFP/Getty Images

An anti-government protester throws Molotov cocktails during clashes with security forces near La Carlota military base in Caracas during May Day on May 1 after violent clashes on the streets of the capital spurred by Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó’s call for the military to rise up against President Nicolás Maduro.

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Members of the Chapel-en-le-Frith Morris Dancers dance atop the Eccles Pike at High Peak in Derbyshire, England, before sunrise on May 1. The dancers perform annually at the peak as part of the ancient Celtic festival Beltane, celebrated on May Day or the beginning of summer. LINDSEY PARNABY/AFP/Getty Images
Members of the Chapel-en-le-Frith Morris Dancers dance atop the Eccles Pike at High Peak in Derbyshire, England, before sunrise on May 1. The dancers perform annually at the peak as part of the ancient Celtic festival Beltane, celebrated on May Day or the beginning of summer. LINDSEY PARNABY/AFP/Getty Images

Chapel-en-le-Frith Morris dancers perform atop the Eccles Pike at High Peak in Derbyshire, England, before sunrise on May 1. The troupe members dance annually at the peak as part of the ancient Celtic festival Beltane, celebrated on May Day or the beginning of summer.

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Sudanese protesters fly their national flag during a sit-in outside the army headquarters in Khartoum on April 29. OZAN KOSE/AFP/Getty Images
Sudanese protesters fly their national flag during a sit-in outside the army headquarters in Khartoum on April 29. OZAN KOSE/AFP/Getty Images

Sudanese protesters fly their national flag during a sit-in outside the army headquarters in Khartoum on April 29.

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Mexican traditional musicians from Oaxaca State play music and dance on the beach at Playas de Tijuana in Tijuana near a section of the U.S.-Mexico border fence on April 29. RONALDO SCHEMIDT/AFP/Getty Images
Mexican traditional musicians from Oaxaca State play music and dance on the beach at Playas de Tijuana in Tijuana near a section of the U.S.-Mexico border fence on April 29. RONALDO SCHEMIDT/AFP/Getty Images

Mexican traditional musicians from Oaxaca state play music and dance on the beach at Playas de Tijuana in Tijuana near a section of the U.S.-Mexico border fence on April 29.

RONALDO SCHEMIDT/AFP/Getty Images
Royal Thai police stand guard near the Grand Palace in Bangkok on May 3 ahead of Thailand's King Maha Vajiralongkorn's coronation which will take place from May 4 to 6. MANAN VATSYAYANA/AFP/Getty Images
Royal Thai police stand guard near the Grand Palace in Bangkok on May 3 ahead of Thailand's King Maha Vajiralongkorn's coronation which will take place from May 4 to 6. MANAN VATSYAYANA/AFP/Getty Images

Royal Thai police stand guard near the Grand Palace in Bangkok on May 3 ahead of King Maha Vajiralongkorn’s coronation, which will take place from May 4 to 6.

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Competitors climb a sand dune during Stage 1 of the Titan Desert 2019 mountain biking race around Merzouga in Morocco on April 28. FRANCK FIFE/AFP/Getty Images
Competitors climb a sand dune during Stage 1 of the Titan Desert 2019 mountain biking race around Merzouga in Morocco on April 28. FRANCK FIFE/AFP/Getty Images

Competitors climb a sand dune during Stage 1 of the Titan Desert 2019 mountain biking race around Merzouga in Morocco on April 28.

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Buddhist novices play with toy guns during the rocket festival in Nantar Shan state in Myanmar on April 28. Myanmar's ethnic Pa'O fire huge, homemade rockets into the sky during an annual call for plentiful rains and a chance for a windfall of cash. YE AUNG THU/AFP/Getty Images
Buddhist novices play with toy guns during the rocket festival in Nantar Shan state in Myanmar on April 28. Myanmar's ethnic Pa'O fire huge, homemade rockets into the sky during an annual call for plentiful rains and a chance for a windfall of cash. YE AUNG THU/AFP/Getty Images

Buddhist novices play with toy guns during the rocket festival in Nantar, Shan state, in Myanmar on April 28. Myanmar’s ethnic Pa’O fire huge, homemade rockets into the sky during an annual call for plentiful rains and a chance for a windfall of cash.

YE AUNG THU/AFP/Getty Images
South Korean children ride a roller coaster as they visit an amusement and animal park during their training program to learn about Buddhism in Yongin, south of Seoul, on May 2. JUNG YEON-JE/AFP/Getty Images
South Korean children ride a roller coaster as they visit an amusement and animal park during their training program to learn about Buddhism in Yongin, south of Seoul, on May 2. JUNG YEON-JE/AFP/Getty Images

South Korean children ride a roller coaster as they visit an amusement and animal park during their training program to learn about Buddhism in Yongin, south of Seoul, on May 2.

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People take part in the annual rendering of the Great Mosque of Djenne in central Mali on April 28. Several thousand residents of the historic city, a UNESCO World Heritage site, render the mosque with banco—a mixture of soil and water, with rice bran, shea butter and baobab powder—to protect it from bad weather ahead of the rainy season. MICHELE CATTANI/AFP/Getty Images
People take part in the annual rendering of the Great Mosque of Djenne in central Mali on April 28. Several thousand residents of the historic city, a UNESCO World Heritage site, render the mosque with banco—a mixture of soil and water, with rice bran, shea butter and baobab powder—to protect it from bad weather ahead of the rainy season. MICHELE CATTANI/AFP/Getty Images

People take part in the annual rendering of the Great Mosque of Djenné in central Mali on April 28. Several thousand residents of the historic UNESCO World Heritage city render the mosque with banco—a mixture of soil and water, with rice bran, shea butter, and baobab powder—to protect it from bad weather ahead of the rainy season.

MICHELE CATTANI/AFP/Getty Images
Ultra Orthodox Jewish men attend the funeral of Hassidic Rabbi Menahem Mendel Taub, who died at the age of 96, in Jerusalem on April 28. Thousands attended the funeral for the Holocaust survivor known for his especially brutal treatment at the hands of the Nazis and his efforts to memoialize the genocide's victims. GIL COHEN-MAGEN/AFP/Getty Images
Ultra Orthodox Jewish men attend the funeral of Hassidic Rabbi Menahem Mendel Taub, who died at the age of 96, in Jerusalem on April 28. Thousands attended the funeral for the Holocaust survivor known for his especially brutal treatment at the hands of the Nazis and his efforts to memoialize the genocide's victims. GIL COHEN-MAGEN/AFP/Getty Images

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men attend the funeral of Hasidic Rabbi Menachem Mendel Taub, who died at the age of 96, in Jerusalem on April 28. Thousands attended the funeral for the Holocaust survivor, known for his especially brutal treatment at the hands of the Nazis and his efforts to memorialize the genocide’s victims.

GIL COHEN-MAGEN/AFP/Getty Images
A masked protester stands next to a burning barricade during clashes with police at a May Day demonstration in Paris on May 1. ANNE-CHRISTINE POUJOULAT/AFP/Getty Images
A masked protester stands next to a burning barricade during clashes with police at a May Day demonstration in Paris on May 1. ANNE-CHRISTINE POUJOULAT/AFP/Getty Images

A masked protester stands next to a burning barricade during clashes with police at a May Day demonstration in Paris on May 1.

ANNE-CHRISTINE POUJOULAT/AFP/Getty Images
A Chilean demonstrator clashes with riot police during the May Day rally in Santiago on May 1. MARTIN BERNETTI/AFP/Getty Images
A Chilean demonstrator clashes with riot police during the May Day rally in Santiago on May 1. MARTIN BERNETTI/AFP/Getty Images

A Chilean demonstrator clashes with riot police during the May Day rally in Santiago on May 1.

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Anti-government protesters clash with security forces in Caracas during May Day on May 1. FEDERICO PARRA/AFP/Getty Images
Anti-government protesters clash with security forces in Caracas during May Day on May 1. FEDERICO PARRA/AFP/Getty Images

Anti-government protesters clash with security forces in Caracas during May Day on May 1.

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A Pakistani laborer works at an iron factory in Lahore on April 30 on the eve of the International Labor Day celebrated on May 1. ARIF ALI/AFP/Getty Images
A Pakistani laborer works at an iron factory in Lahore on April 30 on the eve of the International Labor Day celebrated on May 1. ARIF ALI/AFP/Getty Images

A Pakistani laborer works at an iron factory in Lahore on April 30 on the eve of International Workers’ Day, celebrated on May 1.

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An Egyptian worker harvests wheat in Saqiyat al-Manqadi village in the northern Nile Delta province of Menoufia in Egypt on May 1. MOHAMED EL-SHAHED/AFP/Getty Images
An Egyptian worker harvests wheat in Saqiyat al-Manqadi village in the northern Nile Delta province of Menoufia in Egypt on May 1. MOHAMED EL-SHAHED/AFP/Getty Images

An Egyptian worker harvests wheat in Saqiyat al-Manqadi village in the northern Nile Delta province of Menoufia in Egypt on May 1.

MOHAMED EL-SHAHED/AFP/Getty Images
A girl remain under the Simon Bolivar International Bridge which links San Antonio del Tachira, in Venezuela, and Cucuta, in Colombia, on May 1. LUIS ROBAYO/AFP/Getty Images
A girl remain under the Simon Bolivar International Bridge which links San Antonio del Tachira, in Venezuela, and Cucuta, in Colombia, on May 1. LUIS ROBAYO/AFP/Getty Images

A girl sits near the Simón Bolívar International Bridge, which links San Antonio del Tachira, in Venezuela, and La Parada, in Colombia, on May 1.

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Israeli security forces take position during clashes with Palestinian stone throwers following a weekly demonstration against the expropriation of Palestinian lands by Israel in the village of Kfar Qaddum, near Nablus in the West Bank, on May 3. JAAFAR ASHTIYEH/AFP/Getty Images
Israeli security forces take position during clashes with Palestinian stone throwers following a weekly demonstration against the expropriation of Palestinian lands by Israel in the village of Kfar Qaddum, near Nablus in the West Bank, on May 3. JAAFAR ASHTIYEH/AFP/Getty Images

Israeli security forces take position during clashes with Palestinian stone throwers following a weekly demonstration against the expropriation of Palestinian lands by Israel in the village of Kafr Qaddum, near Nablus in the West Bank, on May 3.

JAAFAR ASHTIYEH/AFP/Getty Images
Indonesian soldiers from the Raider Infantry Battalion participate in an anti-guerrilla warfare training drill at their home base in Banda Aceh, Aceh province, on April 30. CHAIDEER MAHYUDDIN/AFP/Getty Images
Indonesian soldiers from the Raider Infantry Battalion participate in an anti-guerrilla warfare training drill at their home base in Banda Aceh, Aceh province, on April 30. CHAIDEER MAHYUDDIN/AFP/Getty Images

Indonesian soldiers from the Raider Infantry Battalion participate in an anti-guerrilla warfare training drill at their home base in Banda Aceh, Aceh province, on April 30.

CHAIDEER MAHYUDDIN/AFP/Getty Images
Turkish anti-riot police use teargas on protesters during a demonstration in solidarity with prisoners on hunger strike in front of the Bakerkoy prison in Istanbul on May 3. YASIN AKGUL/AFP/Getty Images
Turkish anti-riot police use teargas on protesters during a demonstration in solidarity with prisoners on hunger strike in front of the Bakerkoy prison in Istanbul on May 3. YASIN AKGUL/AFP/Getty Images

Turkish anti-riot police use tear gas on protesters during a demonstration in solidarity with prisoners on hunger strike in front of the Bakirkoy prison in Istanbul on May 3.

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Bangladeshi workers cover a pile of fertilizer with a plastic sheet in Khulna on May 3 as Cyclone Fani barrels northeastward into West Bengal state and toward Bangladesh. MUNIR UZ ZAMAN/AFP/Getty Images
Bangladeshi workers cover a pile of fertilizer with a plastic sheet in Khulna on May 3 as Cyclone Fani barrels northeastward into West Bengal state and toward Bangladesh. MUNIR UZ ZAMAN/AFP/Getty Images

Bangladeshi workers cover a pile of fertilizer with a plastic sheet in Khulna on May 3 as Cyclone Fani barrels northeastward into the Indian state of West Bengal and toward Bangladesh.

MUNIR UZ ZAMAN/AFP/Getty Images
People with bananas demonstrate outside Warsaw's National Museum on April 29, to protest against censorship, after authorities removed an artwork at the museum presenting a woman eating a banana, saying it was improper. JANEK SKARZYNSKI/AFP/Getty Images
People with bananas demonstrate outside Warsaw's National Museum on April 29, to protest against censorship, after authorities removed an artwork at the museum presenting a woman eating a banana, saying it was improper. JANEK SKARZYNSKI/AFP/Getty Images

People with bananas demonstrate against censorship outside Warsaw’s National Museum on April 29, after authorities removed an artwork at the museum depicting a woman eating a banana, saying it was improper.

JANEK SKARZYNSKI/AFP/Getty Images
Tons of debris, mostly plastic and wood, swamped the Port of Durban, South Africa, on April 28. The port authority has commenced a major clean-up to remove the large volume of waste and vegetation after recent heavy rains and flooding.  RAJESH JANTILAL/AFP/Getty Images
Tons of debris, mostly plastic and wood, swamped the Port of Durban, South Africa, on April 28. The port authority has commenced a major clean-up to remove the large volume of waste and vegetation after recent heavy rains and flooding. RAJESH JANTILAL/AFP/Getty Images

Tons of debris swamp the Port of Durban, South Africa, on April 28. The port authority has commenced a major cleanup to remove the large volume of waste and vegetation after recent heavy rains and flooding.

RAJESH JANTILAL/AFP/Getty Images
A crane removes a clock frame from the Dom Tower in Utrecht on April 29 ahead of a long period of restoration of the monument. ROBIN VAN LONKHUIJSEN/AFP/Getty Images
A crane removes a clock frame from the Dom Tower in Utrecht on April 29 ahead of a long period of restoration of the monument. ROBIN VAN LONKHUIJSEN/AFP/Getty Images

A crane removes a clock frame from the Dom Tower in Utrecht, Netherlands, on April 29 ahead of a long period of restoration of the monument.

ROBIN VAN LONKHUIJSEN/AFP/Getty Images
A little boy stands in front of a giant teddy bear measuring more than 64 feet long and 4 tons of weight, which entered the Guiness Book of World Records as the biggest of its kind in Xonacatlan, Mexico state, on April 28. MARIO VAZQUEZ/AFP/Getty Images
A little boy stands in front of a giant teddy bear measuring more than 64 feet long and 4 tons of weight, which entered the Guiness Book of World Records as the biggest of its kind in Xonacatlan, Mexico state, on April 28. MARIO VAZQUEZ/AFP/Getty Images

A little boy stands in front of a giant teddy bear measuring more than 64 feet long and weighing 4 tons, which set a Guinness World Record as the biggest of its kind, in Xonacatlán, Mexico state, on April 28.

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