Bringing you the highlights of the week is our pleasure and this article will certainly give you a clue about what happened this week around the world – these photos were taken in order to inform you about everything important that occurred.
From a woman who is holding an unloaded weapon at the World Peace and Unification Sanctuary in the village of Newfoundland, Pennsylvania to ultra-orthodox mourners at the funeral of Rabbi Shmuel Auerbach in Jerusalem, all these photos will keep you informed.
Check them out for more information and start to see our world through photos!
Newfoundland, Pennsylvania, US
A woman holding an unloaded weapon at the World Peace and Unification Sanctuary in the village of Newfoundland, Pennsylvania. Couples clutching AR-15 rifles participated in a ‘commitment ceremony’ at which the church’s leader, the Reverend Sean Moon, said in a prayer that God gave people the right to bear arms. A nearby school cancelled classes for the day.
Photograph: Jacqueline Larma/AP
Afrin, Syria
A fighter from the Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army in Afrin, northern Syria. Clashes following Turkey’s incursion into the border enclave have killed dozens – many of them civilians – wounded several hundred, and sent thousands of locals and displaced refugees fleeing across ravaged, lawless lands to the south and east.
Photograph: Khalil Ashawi/Reuters
Dublin, Ireland
A man and his husky dog in the snow at Dublin’s Phoenix Park. Some 24,000 homes and business were still without power last Friday in Ireland, with schools and public buildings closed and bus and rail services cancelled.
Photograph: Clodagh Kilcoyne/Reuters
Tainan, Taiwan
In south-western Taiwan, participants at Tainan City’s Beehive festival wear motorcycle helmets to protect themselves from firecrackers. The event has been called the most dangerous fireworks festival in the world.
Photograph: Tyrone Siu/Reuters
Biarritz, France
A surfer waits for waves off Côte des Basques beach, known as the birthplace of France’s surfing scene.
Photograph: Olivier Morin/AFP
Bunia, Democratic Republic of Congo
People at a camp for internally displaced persons in Bunia, in the eastern DRC. Twenty-three people have been killed in renewed clashes between ethnic groups in this troubled region.
Photograph: John Wessels/AFP/Getty Images
Nairobi, Kenya
A dancer passes through a security checkpoint at Jomo Kenyatta international airport prior to the arrival of the Fifa World Cup trophy during its world tour.
Photograph: Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP/Getty Images
Boa Vista, Brazil
A Venezuelan refugee waits her turn to talk with NGO workers inside a shelter. According to local authorities, around 1,000 refugees are crossing the Brazilian border each day from Venezuela.
Photograph: Mauro Pimentel/AFP/Getty Images
Khan Yunis, Gaza
A Palestinian protester runs to take cover during clashes with Israeli forces near the border between Israel and the southern Gaza Strip.
Photograph: Said Khatib/AFP/Getty Images
Al-Shifunieh, Syria
Children receive treatment after an alleged gas attack on the village of al-Shifunieh in eastern Ghouta. A top US disarmament official has accused Russia of being on the wrong side of history on chemical weapon use in Syria, after reports of a chlorine attack in the besieged enclave, and the leaking of a UN report into the supply of related items from North Korea.
Photograph: Mohammed Badra/EPA
Eastern Ghouta, Syria
Smoke and flames rise from eastern Ghouta, on the outskirts of the capital, Damascus, following a regime airstrike. More than 100 people have been killed in the besieged enclave since the UN security council unanimously called for a month-long ceasefire, rescue workers said.
Photograph: Ammar Suleiman/AFP/Getty Images
La Teste-de-Buch, France
People walk on the partially snow-covered Pyla sand dune. The blast blast of Siberian weather that gripped Europe covered several French beaches in snow.
Photograph: Nicolas Tucat/AFP/Getty Images
Balloch, Scotland
A woman makes her way through the snow in Balloch, near Inverness. Blizzards, strong winds, drifting snow and bitter cold have caused death and disruption amid some of the most testing weather experienced in the UK for years.
Photograph: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images
Pyeongchang, South Korea
Germany’s Marina Wallner and Denise Feierabend of Switzerland compete in the quarter-final of the Winter Olympics’ new Alpine skiing team event.
Photograph: Christian Bruna/EPA
Pyeongchang, South Korea
Performers in illuminated costumes dance at the closing ceremony of the 2018 Winter Olympics.
Photograph: Sergei Ilnitsky/EPA
Pyeongchang, South Korea
Ivanka Trump is pictured watching the four-man bobsleigh event on day 16 of the 2018 Winter Olympics.
Photograph: Eric Gaillard/Reuters
Tetsworth, England
Racehorse trainer Lawney Hill is seen wearing a pair of tights pulled over her face to keep out the cold after taking her horses on the all-weather gallops.
Photograph: Eddie Keogh/Reuters
Washington, DC
White House communications director Hope Hicks leaving the Capitol building after the House intelligence committee closed-door meeting. Hicks announced her resignation as communications director a day after she testified before the committee for nine hours as part of the panel’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
Photograph: Leah Millis/Reuters
Şanlıurfa, Turkey
Sahin Suna, aged 12, who has been breeding birds for four years, with one of his doves at a pigeon market in the southern city.
Photograph: Fatih Aktas/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
Jerusalem
Ultra-Orthodox mourners at the funeral of Rabbi Shmuel Auerbach in Jerusalem. Auerbach was the leader of a breakaway faction of non-Hasidic ultra-Orthodox Jews of European descent. He led the opposition to attempts to force ultra-Orthodox religious students to serve in the military.
Photograph: Gil Cohen-Magen/AFP/Getty Images