
The Week in World Photos
Violence in Kenya over the lockdown, a political rumble in Hong Kong, and South Korea’s unconventional baseball season opener.
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A man protests in front of cart carrying the body of Vitallis Ochilo Owino at Muthaiga Police Station in Nairobi on May 4. Police officers are accused of beating Owino, 39, to death the previous night while he was out walking after curfew. Human rights activists say that COVID-19-related police brutality has already killed more people in Kenya than the coronavirus itself.
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Firefighters and paramedics with Anne Arundel County Fire Department prepare to transport a suspected COVID-19 patient in Glen Burnie, Maryland, on May 3.
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Members of a displaced Syrian family break their Ramadan fast at a sunset Iftar meal amid the rubble of their destroyed home in Ariha, in the Idlib province, on May 4. The family returned to the town for one day after fleeing during a previous military assault by Syrian government forces.
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A man stands in an illuminated apartment on the outskirts of Moscow on May 4 during the government lockdown.
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An Iraqi fighter with Hashd al-Shaabi inspects a site north of Baghdad on May 3 where the Islamic State attacked a day earlier. Remnants of the Islamic State in Iraq are said to be exploiting the coronavirus lockdown, coalition troop withdrawals, and simmering political disputes to ramp up deadly attacks.
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A firefighter takes a break from putting out a fire that had been burning for four days at the Duquesa landfill in Santo Domingo on May 2. The fire was the second to occur in less than a month—attributed to the high temperatures in the Dominican Republic, combined with gas generated by the waste.
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Pro-democracy lawmaker Eddie Chu Hoi-dick attempts to climb a curtain as security members try to restrain him from protesting after pro-Beijing lawmaker Starry Lee (not seen) inserted herself as chair of a committee meeting at the Legislative Council in Hong Kong on May 8.
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A crowd of people reach out for hens distributed by Wilfredo Mendez, a Honduran presidential pre-candidate for the Libre Party, in Tegucigalpa on May 7.
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Guatemalans who were deported from the United States wave from a bus upon landing at the air force base in Guatemala City on May 4.
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U.S. President Donald Trump, sans mask, tours a Honeywell International Inc. factory that produces N95 masks in Phoenix, Arizona, on May 5.
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A worker feeds an elephant at the zoologic park Planète Sauvage in Saint-Père-en-Retz, outside Nantes, France, on May 6.
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A supermoon rises over Mow Cop Castle near Stoke-on-Trent in central England on May 7.
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A Palestinian youth swings a homemade sparkler as people celebrate the Muslim holy month of Ramadan in the Rafah refugee camp, in the southern Gaza Strip, on May 4.
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U.S. Sen. John Kennedy (right) speaks with a staff member during a Senate Judiciary Committee nomination hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on May 6.
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Catholic priest Vincent Poitau sits at an entrance to Sainte Jeanne d’Arc Church in Limoges, France, as a parishioner in a vehicle takes part in the sacrament of confession May 2.
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Graham Gillson watches his wife, Sue, untangle a flag outside their home ahead of a two-minute moment of silence to mark the 75th anniversary of V-E Day, the end of World War II in Europe, in Hartley Wintney, Hampshire, England, on May 8. The two Union cloth flags on the eave flew outside Sue’s family home in east London on V-E Day in 1945.
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People have dinner in so-called “quarantine greenhouses” at an Amsterdam restaurant May 5.
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Local youth representatives dressed as Stormtroopers and Darth Vader patrol in a boat around a submerged village in Manila, Philippines, on May 6 to remind residents to stay home during the lockdown.
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People stand in circles to adhere to social distancing measures as they wait for a bus at Nyabugogo station in Kigali, Rwanda, on May 4, the first day that the nationwide coronavirus lockdown was partially lifted.
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A Buddhist devotee prays during Vesak, the most sacred day for Buddhists, at the Bellanwila Temple in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on May 7.
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Gujarat police detain stranded migrant workers in the Surat district of India on May 4 during a protest demanding that the government let them return home during the nationwide lockdown.
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A man walks past people lined up to receive food distributed by a local Muslim welfare organization in the Kwa Mai Mai area of Johannesburg, South Africa, on May 5.
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People plant vine stocks for winegrowers on the Pipet hills in Vienne, France, near Lyon, on May 5.
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A Senegalese man walks past sacks of rice left at doors in Dakar for those in need May 7.
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Medical workers evacuate a woman through a flooded residential area in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, on May 8.
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Volunteers with the Indian Red Cross and other nongovernmental organizations in Bangalore throw flower petals on a bus transporting migrant workers and families to their hometowns after the government eased a nationwide lockdown May 7.
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A man walks past banners depicting spectators in the stands prior to South Korea’s new baseball season opening game in Incheon on May 5.
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Gentoo penguins chase krill during feeding time in their enclosure at Ocean Park theme park in Hong Kong on May 4.
ANTHONY WALLACE/AFP via Getty ImagesThe Week in World Photos
Violence in Kenya over the lockdown, a political rumble in Hong Kong, and South Korea’s unconventional baseball season opener.