Newborn Bibi Amena receives treatment for a gunshot wound in her leg at the French Medical Institute for Children in Kabul on May 15 after losing her mother during an attack on a maternity hospital earlier in the week. WAKIL KOHSAR/AFP via Getty Images
Newborn Bibi Amena receives treatment for a gunshot wound in her leg at the French Medical Institute for Children in Kabul on May 15 after losing her mother during an attack on a maternity hospital earlier in the week. WAKIL KOHSAR/AFP via Getty Images

The Week in World Photos

A massacre in an Afghan maternity ward, a typhoon’s torrential rains in the Philippines, and a return—for some—to the classroom.

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Newborn Bibi Amena receives treatment for a gunshot wound in her leg at the French Medical Institute for Children in Kabul on May 15 after losing her mother during an attack on a maternity hospital earlier in the week. WAKIL KOHSAR/AFP via Getty Images
Newborn Bibi Amena receives treatment for a gunshot wound in her leg at the French Medical Institute for Children in Kabul on May 15 after losing her mother during an attack on a maternity hospital earlier in the week. WAKIL KOHSAR/AFP via Getty Images

Newborn Bibi Amena receives treatment for a gunshot wound in her leg at the French Medical Institute for Children in Kabul on May 15 after losing her mother during an attack in the maternity ward of a hospital earlier in the week.

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Tahitian Matahi Drollet, 22, surfs at Teahupoo off the coast of Tahiti in French Polynesia on May 11. SULIANE FAVENNEC/AFP via Getty Images
Tahitian Matahi Drollet, 22, surfs at Teahupoo off the coast of Tahiti in French Polynesia on May 11. SULIANE FAVENNEC/AFP via Getty Images

Matahi Drollet, 22, surfs at Teahupoo off the coast of Tahiti in French Polynesia on May 11.

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A staff member checks the oral health of a child before she enters a kindergarten classroom in Yongzhou, China, on May 11. STR/AFP via Getty Images
A staff member checks the oral health of a child before she enters a kindergarten classroom in Yongzhou, China, on May 11. STR/AFP via Getty Images

A staff member checks the oral health of a child before she enters a kindergarten classroom in Yongzhou, China, on May 11.

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Relatives and neighbors mourn the death of Mehrajudin Shah—who, according to local media reports, was shot by Indian paramilitary troopers after not stopping at a checkpoint—in central Kashmir’s Budgam district on May 13. TAUSEEF MUSTAFA/AFP via Getty Images
Relatives and neighbors mourn the death of Mehrajudin Shah—who, according to local media reports, was shot by Indian paramilitary troopers after not stopping at a checkpoint—in central Kashmir’s Budgam district on May 13. TAUSEEF MUSTAFA/AFP via Getty Images

Relatives and neighbors mourn the death of Mehrajudin Shah—who, according to local media reports, was shot by Indian paramilitary troopers after not stopping at a checkpoint—in central Kashmir’s Budgam district on May 13.

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Tires burn as a Palestinian youth uses a slingshot to hurl rocks at Israeli troops during clashes with them in the West Bank village of Kafr Qaddum on May 8. JAAFAR ASHTIYEH/AFP via Getty Images
Tires burn as a Palestinian youth uses a slingshot to hurl rocks at Israeli troops during clashes with them in the West Bank village of Kafr Qaddum on May 8. JAAFAR ASHTIYEH/AFP via Getty Images

Tires burn as a Palestinian youth uses a slingshot to hurl rocks at Israeli troops during clashes with them in the West Bank village of Kafr Qaddum on May 8.

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A demonstrator shouts slogans after being detained by police in Kathmandu, Nepal, on May 11 during a protest against India’s newly inaugurated road to the Chinese border. PRAKASH MATHEMA/AFP via Getty Images
A demonstrator shouts slogans after being detained by police in Kathmandu, Nepal, on May 11 during a protest against India’s newly inaugurated road to the Chinese border. PRAKASH MATHEMA/AFP via Getty Images

A demonstrator shouts slogans after being detained by police in Kathmandu, Nepal, on May 11 during a protest against India’s newly inaugurated road to the Chinese border.

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Local guide Zhelyazko Velikov walks inside the Bacho Kiro cave near the city of Dryanovo, Bulgaria, on May 13. Scientists say a tooth and bone fragments discovered in the cave have revealed the earliest proven presence of Homo sapiens on the European continent. NIKOLAY DOYCHINOV/AFP via Getty Images
Local guide Zhelyazko Velikov walks inside the Bacho Kiro cave near the city of Dryanovo, Bulgaria, on May 13. Scientists say a tooth and bone fragments discovered in the cave have revealed the earliest proven presence of Homo sapiens on the European continent. NIKOLAY DOYCHINOV/AFP via Getty Images

Local guide Zhelyazko Velikov walks inside the Bacho Kiro cave near the city of Dryanovo, Bulgaria, on May 13. Scientists say a tooth and bone fragments discovered in the cave have revealed the earliest proven presence of Homo sapiens on the European continent.

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Shelter employees buy food for their patients from a truck transformed into a mobile shop in the village of Kreva, Belarus, northwest of Minsk, on May 14. SERGEI GAPON/AFP via Getty Images
Shelter employees buy food for their patients from a truck transformed into a mobile shop in the village of Kreva, Belarus, northwest of Minsk, on May 14. SERGEI GAPON/AFP via Getty Images

Shelter employees buy food for their patients from a truck transformed into a mobile shop in the village of Kreva, Belarus, northwest of Minsk, on May 14.

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Migrant workers ride in a truck on the outskirts of Hyderabad, India, on May 15 as they return to their hometowns after the government eased a nationwide lockdown. NOAH SEELAM/AFP via Getty Images
Migrant workers ride in a truck on the outskirts of Hyderabad, India, on May 15 as they return to their hometowns after the government eased a nationwide lockdown. NOAH SEELAM/AFP via Getty Images

Migrant workers ride in a truck on the outskirts of Hyderabad, India, on May 15 as they return to their hometowns after the government eased a nationwide lockdown.

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Seagulls fly against the Rome skyline as the sun breaks through early morning clouds May 14. TIZIANA FABI/AFP via Getty Images
Seagulls fly against the Rome skyline as the sun breaks through early morning clouds May 14. TIZIANA FABI/AFP via Getty Images

Seagulls fly against the Rome skyline as the sun breaks through early morning clouds May 14.

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Firefighters onboard a vessel try to extinguish a fire on a tanker ship docked in Belawan, Indonesia, on May 11. IVAN DAMANIK/AFP via Getty Images
Firefighters onboard a vessel try to extinguish a fire on a tanker ship docked in Belawan, Indonesia, on May 11. IVAN DAMANIK/AFP via Getty Images

Firefighters onboard a vessel try to extinguish a fire on a tanker ship docked in Belawan, Indonesia, on May 11.

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A teacher speaks to a child upon the return to school on the Groix island in France on May 12. LOIC VENANCE/AFP via Getty Images
A teacher speaks to a child upon the return to school on the Groix island in France on May 12. LOIC VENANCE/AFP via Getty Images

A teacher speaks to a child upon the return to school on the Groix island in France on May 12.

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Italian volunteer aid worker Silvia Costanza Romano (right), who was kidnapped in Kenya in late 2018, embraces her mother, Francesca, upon her arrival at Rome’s military airport Ciampino on May 11. FABIO FRUSTACI/ANSA/AFP via Getty Images
Italian volunteer aid worker Silvia Costanza Romano (right), who was kidnapped in Kenya in late 2018, embraces her mother, Francesca, upon her arrival at Rome’s military airport Ciampino on May 11. FABIO FRUSTACI/ANSA/AFP via Getty Images

Italian volunteer aid worker Silvia Costanza Romano (right), who was kidnapped in Kenya in late 2018, embraces her mother, Francesca, upon her arrival at Rome’s military airport Ciampino on May 11.

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Men hold flowers in Bogota on May 13 as they wait for the release of people who were treated in intensive care for the coronavirus. DIANA SANCHEZ/AFP via Getty Images
Men hold flowers in Bogota on May 13 as they wait for the release of people who were treated in intensive care for the coronavirus. DIANA SANCHEZ/AFP via Getty Images

Men carry flowers in Bogota on May 13 as they wait for the release of people who were treated in intensive care for the coronavirus.

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A spotted owlet takes a rest in a putlock hole of a wall in Kathmandu, Nepal, on May 10. PRAKASH MATHEMA/AFP via Getty Images
A spotted owlet takes a rest in a putlock hole of a wall in Kathmandu, Nepal, on May 10. PRAKASH MATHEMA/AFP via Getty Images

A spotted owlet takes a rest in a putlock hole of a wall in Kathmandu, Nepal, on May 10.

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A barber cuts a woman’s hair in a public park in Beijing on May 13. NOEL CELIS/AFP via Getty Images
A barber cuts a woman’s hair in a public park in Beijing on May 13. NOEL CELIS/AFP via Getty Images

A barber cuts a woman’s hair in a public park in Beijing on May 13.

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Medical staffers take a blood sample from a vendor at a market in Makassar, Indonesia, on May 12. OPU SENDANG/AFP via Getty Images
Medical staffers take a blood sample from a vendor at a market in Makassar, Indonesia, on May 12. OPU SENDANG/AFP via Getty Images

Medical staffers take a blood sample from a vendor at a market in Makassar, Indonesia, on May 12.

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As Typhoon Vongfong makes landfall in central Philippines on May 14, residents brave the rains and strong wind on a walk along a highway in Can-avid, Samar. ALREN BERONIO/AFP via Getty Images
As Typhoon Vongfong makes landfall in central Philippines on May 14, residents brave the rains and strong wind on a walk along a highway in Can-avid, Samar. ALREN BERONIO/AFP via Getty Images

As Typhoon Vongfong makes landfall in central Philippines on May 14, residents brave the rains and strong wind on a walk along a highway in Can-avid, Samar.

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A Venezuelan migrant sleeps on top of suitcases and bags as he waits in Cali, Colombia, for the chance to board a bus that will take him to the border May 12. LUIS ROBAYO/AFP via Getty Images
A Venezuelan migrant sleeps on top of suitcases and bags as he waits in Cali, Colombia, for the chance to board a bus that will take him to the border May 12. LUIS ROBAYO/AFP via Getty Images

A Venezuelan migrant sleeps on top of suitcases and bags as he waits in Cali, Colombia, for the chance to board a bus that will take him to the border May 12.

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Graduating students from Ramon Power Y Giralt High School take part in a symbolic ceremony from their cars in a parking lot in Las Piedras, Puerto Rico, on May 13. RICARDO ARDUENGO/AFP via Getty Images
Graduating students from Ramon Power Y Giralt High School take part in a symbolic ceremony from their cars in a parking lot in Las Piedras, Puerto Rico, on May 13. RICARDO ARDUENGO/AFP via Getty Images

Graduating students from Ramon Power Y Giralt High School take part in a symbolic ceremony from their cars in a parking lot in Las Piedras, Puerto Rico, on May 13.

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Gavin, 10, looks on during the funeral service of his father, Charles Rob Roberts, a police officer who died of the coronavirus, in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, on May 14. TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP via Getty Images
Gavin, 10, looks on during the funeral service of his father, Charles Rob Roberts, a police officer who died of the coronavirus, in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, on May 14. TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP via Getty Images

Gavin, 10, looks on during the funeral service of his father, Charles Rob Roberts, a police officer who died of the coronavirus, in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, on May 14.

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An employee measures the distance between tables in a still-closed beer garden in Munich on May 15. CHRISTOF STACHE/AFP via Getty Images
An employee measures the distance between tables in a still-closed beer garden in Munich on May 15. CHRISTOF STACHE/AFP via Getty Images

An employee measures the distance between tables in a still-closed beer garden in Munich on May 15.

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Ultra-Orthodox Jews light a bonfire in Jerusalem’s Mea Shearim neighborhood to celebrate the Lag BaOmer holiday May 11 amid the Israeli health ministry’s order to maintain social distancing and cancel all celebrations. MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP via Getty Images
Ultra-Orthodox Jews light a bonfire in Jerusalem’s Mea Shearim neighborhood to celebrate the Lag BaOmer holiday May 11 amid the Israeli health ministry’s order to maintain social distancing and cancel all celebrations. MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP via Getty Images

Ultra-Orthodox Jews light a bonfire in Jerusalem’s Mea Shearim neighborhood to celebrate the Lag BaOmer holiday May 11 amid the Israeli health ministry’s order to maintain social distancing and cancel all celebrations.

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Students from the General Education College in Godomey, Benin, buy masks before resuming school on May 11. YANICK FOLLY/AFP via Getty Images
Students from the General Education College in Godomey, Benin, buy masks before resuming school on May 11. YANICK FOLLY/AFP via Getty Images

Students from the General Education College in Godomey, Benin, receive masks before resuming school on May 11.

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U.S. President Donald Trump abruptly leaves a coronavirus news conference after a contentious exchange with reporters in the Rose Garden of the White House on May 11. BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images
U.S. President Donald Trump abruptly leaves a coronavirus news conference after a contentious exchange with reporters in the Rose Garden of the White House on May 11. BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images

U.S. President Donald Trump abruptly leaves a coronavirus news conference after a contentious exchange with reporters in the Rose Garden of the White House on May 11.

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Nurses who work at central London hospitals call for improved conditions and pay as they protest outside Downing Street on International Nurses Day, May 13. TOLGA AKMEN/AFP via Getty Images
Nurses who work at central London hospitals call for improved conditions and pay as they protest outside Downing Street on International Nurses Day, May 13. TOLGA AKMEN/AFP via Getty Images

Nurses who work at central London hospitals call for improved conditions and pay as they protest outside Downing Street on International Nurses Day, May 13.

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A nurse cares for surrogate-born newborns at Kiev’s Venice Hotel on May 15. More than 100 babies born to surrogate mothers have been stranded in Ukraine as their foreign parents can’t collect them because of border closures imposed during the pandemic. SERGEI SUPINSKY/AFP via Getty Images
A nurse cares for surrogate-born newborns at Kiev’s Venice Hotel on May 15. More than 100 babies born to surrogate mothers have been stranded in Ukraine as their foreign parents can’t collect them because of border closures imposed during the pandemic. SERGEI SUPINSKY/AFP via Getty Images

A nurse cares for surrogate-born newborns at Kiev’s Venice Hotel on May 15. More than 100 babies born to surrogate mothers have been stranded in Ukraine as their foreign parents can’t collect them because of border closures imposed during the pandemic.

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Flocks of flamingos stand in a pond in Navi Mumbai, India, on May 14. PUNIT PARANJPE/AFP via Getty Images
Flocks of flamingos stand in a pond in Navi Mumbai, India, on May 14. PUNIT PARANJPE/AFP via Getty Images

Flocks of flamingos stand in a pond in Navi Mumbai, India, on May 14.

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