
The Week in World Photos
Devastating flooding and landslides in Asia, a celebration of health care workers in Paris, and pink snow in the Italian Alps.
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An aerial photo taken on July 8 shows walkways leading to a dock inundated by floodwaters from the swollen Yangtze River following heavy rains in Wuhan, China.
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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson looks through a large bore pipe during a visit to the Siemens Mobility rail factory construction site in Goole, England, on July 6.
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A detained supporter of Ivan Safronov—a former journalist and aide to the head of Russia’s space agency Roscosmos—looks out from inside a police bus in central Moscow on July 7. Safronov was detained the same day on charges of treason for divulging state military secrets, authorities said.
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Mejra Djogaz, 71, a survivor of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, prays between the tombs of her sons Omer, 19, and Munib, 21, who were killed in the Bosnian War, at the Srebrenica-Potocari Genocide Memorial Center, near Srebrenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina, on July 3.
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A worker pastes portraits of health care workers on the facade of the Opéra Bastille in Paris on July 8—an initiative to pay tribute to caregivers on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Customers sit near blank notes on a wall inside a pro-democracy restaurant in Hong Kong on July 3—a response to a new national security law introduced in the city that makes political views, slogans, and signs that advocate for Hong Kong’s independence or liberation illegal.
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A deported migrant holds up crosses during a demonstration against U.S. President Donald Trump’s migration policies at the San Ysidro Port of Entry in Tijuana, Baja California state, Mexico, on July 8.
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A health care worker checks the temperature of residents from surrounding communities who were heading to the weekly food market in Coata, Peru, on July 8.
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A boy covers his face with his mother’s scarf in Chennai, India, on July 8.
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Members of the Olympique Lyonnais women’s soccer club sprint during a training session at the Cantona stadium in Tignes, French Alps, on July 6.
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A bull throws its rider during the God and Country Rodeo held at Hayseed Cowboy Church in Thaxton, Mississippi, on July 4.
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Protesters wearing shirts bearing the logo of the Marxist-Leninist Popular Democratic Party (red) and others wearing bandanas showing the logo of the Shiite movement Hezbollah (yellow) throw stones amid clashes with security forces during an anti-America demonstration near the U.S. Embassy headquarters in Awkar, Lebanon, on July 10.
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People celebrate outside the Hagia Sophia Museum in Istanbul on July 10 after a top Turkish court revoked the sixth-century building’s status as a museum, clearing the way for it to be turned back into a mosque.
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A resident clears mud from a home in Hitoyoshi, Japan, on July 10 after heavy rains, flooding, and landslides devastated the region.
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A man walks on pink-colored snow, reportedly due to the presence of algae, at the Presena glacier in the Italian Alps on July 4.
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A man sits outside the house of his aunt, who died from flooding of the Kuma River in Yatsushiro, Japan, on July 8.
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A woman grieves over the body of a miner during a funeral ceremony near Hpakant in Kachin state, Myanmar, on July 3. More than 160 people were killed when torrential rains triggered a landslide at a jade mining site in northern Myanmar.
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Protesters march down Park Lane in London on July 5 in support of the Black Lives Matter movement.
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A father and son walk along one of the miniature streets of the model village in Bourton-on-the-Water, England, on July 4.
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Charistan Hood, 4, eats ice cream near a picture of former U.S. President Barack Obama at the Black-owned store Ice Cream Heaven in Miami Gardens, Florida, on July 7, Blackout Day. Supporters of Blackout Day committed to spending money only at Black-owned businesses to showcase the economic power of the Black community.
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Devastating flooding and landslides in Asia, a celebration of health care workers in Paris, and pink snow in the Italian Alps.