The week around the world in 20 pictures

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  • Cannes, France

    A protester, wearing a dress in the colours of the Ukrainian flag, is detained by security staff after she covered herself in fake blood on the steps of the Palais des Festivals before the screening of the film Acide during the Cannes film festival

    Blood-soaked protester detained
  • Destroyed building
  • Tuschen, Guyana

    A girl runs next to the seawall in Tuschen. The low-lying area on the Atlantic is at the forefront of the climate change battle

    Girl runs past seawall gate
  • Mayotte

    Children play football with a plastic bottle in front of demolished buildings in the shantytown of Talus 2 in Koungou on the French Indian Ocean island. Authorities on the island have begun demolishing homes in a large slum as part of a contested operation against substandard housing and illegal migration

    Children play football in slum
  • Valencia, Spain

    Real Madrid’s Víncius Júnior gestures towards fans insulting him as Valencia’s Jose Gaya and Cenk Ozkacar attempt to restrain him. The player called La Liga and Spain racist after he received racial slurs from the stands

    Vínicius Júnior points towards fans
  • Mayotte

    Immigrants sit on a French border police boat after being intercepted as they were sailing from Comoros to the French Indian Ocean island

    Migrants on police boat
  • Paris, France

    Climate protesters react after the use of teargas by the police during a demonstration outside the venue for the TotalEnergies annual general meeting.

    Climate protesters teargassed
  • Conroe, Texas, US

    A straw hat sits in a puddle at the scene where a house under construction collapsed in high winds

    Straw hat in a puddle
  • Rome, Italy

    Spectators sit underneath umbrellas as a rain delay is announced during the men’s singles semi-final match between Stefanos Tsitsipas of Greece and Russia’s Daniil Medvedev at the Italian Open in Rome. Medvedev beat rising Danish star Holger Rune 7-5, 7-5 in the final

    Tennis spectators sit in the rain
  • Puebla, Mexico

    Lava, ash and smoke are spewed from the Popocatépetl volcano, photographed from the San Nicolas de los Ranchos community

    Erupting volcano
  • Cardiff, Wales

    A car burns on Highmead Road during unrest following a serious road crash on Snowden Road. Nine people, including three 15-year-olds, were arrested over the riot, which was sparked by the deaths of two teenagers after they were followed by a police van

    Burning car
  • Gaza

    A Palestinian boy stands next to his father at their house which was destroyed by Israeli airstrikes in Beit Lahiya

    Boy and father in wrecked house
  • Bakhmut, Ukraine

    A Ukrainian soldier in a trench at the frontline near Bakhmut. The head of the Wagner mercenary force has said that 20,000 of its fighters have been killed in the battle for the Ukrainian city, and warned that Russia could face another revolution if its leadership does not improve its handling of the war.

    Ukrainian soldier in trench
  • Minneapolis, Minnesota, US

    Members of the Brass Solidarity band perform as people march during a vigil in George Floyd Square in Minneapolis. The march marked three years since Floyd was killed in 2020 by a police officer

    Marching brass band
  • Kabul, Afghanistan

    A Taliban fighter stands guard as women wait to receive food rations distributed by a humanitarian aid group in Kabul

    Taliban fighter guarding women
  • Soldiers wielding guns and flags
  • Hiroshima, Japan

    Police officers direct traffic as activists take part in a rally against the G7 summit

    Police officers direct traffic
  • Nablus, West Bank

    Palestinians inspect a damaged building following an Israeli army raid in the Balata refugee camp near the town of Nablus

    Palestinians inspect a damaged building
  • Rome, Italy

    Climate activists from the Last Generation group, covered in mud, protest outside the senate building in Rome. Seven activists from the group also climbed into the Trevi fountain in Rome and poured diluted charcoal into the water to turn it black

    Mud-covered climate activists
  • Cannes, France

    Scarlett Johansson poses for photographers upon arrival at the premiere of the film Asteroid City at the Cannes film festival

    Scarlett Johansson's back
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