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Best Photos of the Week

This selection represents the highlights of the week and the most important events that occurred these days. From Israeli youths from a second world war re-enactment club who rehearse before a ceremony marking the Nazi capitulation in Europe in May 1945 to Arsène Wenger who walks out for the last time as Arsenal manager at the Emirates stadium, before the Premier League match against Burnley, these photos will give you a clue about what happened.

Check them out for more information and start to see our world through photos!

Ashdod, Israel

Israeli youths from a second world war re-enactment club rehearse before a ceremony marking the Nazi capitulation in Europe in May 1945.
Photograph: Oded Balilty/AP

Gaza

A relative of a Palestinian killed at the Israel-Gaza border reacts at a hospital in the southern Gaza Strip.
Photograph: Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters

Syria

An image released by the Syrian Arab News Agency purportedly shows air defence systems intercepting Israeli missiles over Syrian airspace.
Photograph: SANA/AFP/Getty Images

Mediterranean

An F18-C Hornet fighter jet waits to take off from aircraft carrier USS Harry S Truman in the eastern Mediterranean. The US began air operations in support of Operation Inherent Resolve, against Islamic State targets in Syria and Iraq.
Photograph: Aris Messinis/AFP/Getty Images

Mediterranean

A migrant on board rescue vessel MV Aquarius, off the Libyan coast. Rome eventually allowed 105 migrants to land in Italy after keeping them at sea while Italian and British authorities stalled on a decision.
Photograph: Louisa Gouliamaki/AFP/Getty Images

Mediterranean

Migrants look at Sicily’s coastline from rescue vessel MV Aquarius.
Photograph: Louisa Gouliamaki/AFP/Getty Images

Cannes

Australian actor and president of the Cannes jury Cate Blanchett arrives for the screening of Cold War (Zimna Wojna) at the film festival.
Photograph: Antonin Thuillier/AFP/Getty Images

Gaza

Demonstrators run for cover from teargas fired by Israeli forces during a protest where Palestinians demand the right to return to their homeland.
Photograph: Mustafa Hassona/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

Pahoa, Hawaii

Lava slowly advances along Hookapu street in Pahoa. Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano destroyed 26 homes and spewed lava hundreds of meters into the air.
Photograph: US Geological Survey/AP

London

A bank holiday to remember at Arcadia’s 10th anniversary Metamorphosis show, at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.
Photograph: Jim Dyson/Getty Images

Istanbul

Women gaze at portraits of Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and founder of modern Turkey Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. Erdoğan called snap national elections for 24 June.
Photograph: Ozan Kose/AFP/Getty Images

Solai, Kenya

Villagers walk through receding waters after flash flooding. A private dam used for irrigation and fish farming in Kenya’s Rift Valley burst its banks after weeks of torrential rain, killing at least 45.
Photograph: Tony Karumba/AFP/Getty Images

Golan Heights

An Israeli soldier at an observation post on Mount Bental that overlooks the Syrian side of the Quneitra crossing. The sign gives distances to different cities.
Photograph: Ronen Zvulun/Reuters

McAllen, Texas

A man who illegally crossed the Mexico-US border evades a border patrol agent near the southern Texan city.
Photograph: Loren Elliott/Reuters

Moscow

Police detain a participant at an anti-Putin rally called by opposition leader Alexei Navalny two days ahead of Vladimir Putin’s inauguration as president for a fourth term.
Photograph: Maxim Zmeyev/AFP/Getty Images

Edirne, Turkey

A man jumps over a large bonfire during Kakava. The annual Roma festival celebrates the coming of spring.
Photograph: Chris McGrath/Getty Images

St Petersburg

Residents carry portraits of family members who participated in the second world war, as they celebrate the 73rd anniversary of the defeat of the Nazis.
Photograph: Dmitri Lovetsky/AP

Liuzhou, China

Ethnic Miao villagers take part in a ploughing competition to mark li xia, the beginning of summer.
Photograph: China Stringer Network/Reuters

Sichuan, China

Desks remain in the classroom of a building destroyed by the Sichuan earthquake in 2008. It is the tenth anniversary of the 7.9 magnitude earthquake which killed over 69,000 people and injured over 374,000.
Photograph: Wu Hong/EPA

London

Arsène Wenger walks out for the last time as Arsenal manager at the Emirates stadium, before the Premier League match against Burnley.
Photograph: Stuart MacFarlane/Arsenal FC/Getty Images

 

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