Photos Of The Week #25
A protestor wears a gas mask during clashes with police near Taksim Square in Istanbul on the night of June 22-23. (Reuters/Marko Djurica)
A man lights a candle at the World War II memorial in the southern Russian city of Stavropol at 4 a.m. on June 22, the date and time of the Nazi German attack on the Soviet Union in 1941, which Russians mark as Memorial Day. (AFP/Danil Semyonov)
Russian President Vladimir Putin lays a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Moscow. (RIA Novosti/Aleksei Nikolsky)
A racehorse is cooled down after competing on the fourth day of the Royal Ascot horse-racing festival at Ascot in southern England. (Reuters/Toby Melville)
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (front) and his wife, Ri Sol Ju, look on during a visit to Unit 1017 of the Korean People's Army. (Reuters/KCNA)
Women wait for Friday Prayers in the courtyard of Sultanahmet Mosque, known as the Blue Mosque, in Istanbul. (Reuters/Murad Sezer)
A column of military vehicles participates in a rehearsal of a military parade in Baku, Azerbaijan. (AFP/Tofik Babayev)
A coffin with the body of Ibragim Todashev sits in his family home in the Chechen capital, Grozny. Todashev was shot dead by the FBI during questioning in Florida about his possible links to the Boston Marathon bombers. (AFP/Elena Fitkulina)
Bottles move along a conveyor belt at a wine factory in Lilo near Tbilisi, Georgia. The first batch of Georgian wine has been allowed back into Russia seven years after Moscow slapped a ban on Georgian wines amid spiralling tensions that eventually erupted into a brief war in 2008. (AFP/Vano Shlamov)
People gather for sunrise at a rocky crest filled with astronomical markers at the megalithic observatory of Kokino during the summer solstice. The ancient astronomic observatory, located about 100 kilometers northeast of Skopje, Macedonia, dates back more than 4,000 years ago. (AFP/Robert Atanasovski)
A riot policeman fires his weapon while confronting stone-throwing demonstrators during an antigovernment protest in Belem at the mouth of the Amazon River. Tens of thousands of demonstrators marched through the streets of Brazil's biggest cities on June 20 in a growing protest that is tapping into widespread anger at poor public services, police violence, and government corruption. (Reuters/Ney Macondes)
Fans push toward policemen as they take pictures and videos of former England soccer captain David Beckham upon his arrival at Tongji University in Shanghai. (Reuters/Stringer)
People fall during a stampede to see British football superstar David Beckham at Tonji University in Shanghai, where he was to meet members of the university's soccer team. At least seven people were injured in the melee, including a policewoman, as about 1,000 fans rushed forward. The event was subsequently canceled. (AFP/Peter Parks)
Indian farmers participate in a bull race in a paddy during a monsoon festival in Altekhali, some 110 kilometers south of Kolkata. (AFP/Dibyangshu Sarkar)
Women Kurdish fighters from the Popular Protection Units (YPG) take positions to guard the area in Aleppo's Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood. (Reuters/Nour Kelze)
An Afghan refugee family climbs onto a truck at a United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) camp in Kabul. (AFP/Shah Marai)
A priest baptizes a child at Novopyatigorsk Lake near the southern Russian town of Pyatigorsk. About 80 people were baptized by the Russian Orthodox Church during the ceremony. (Reuters/Eduard Korniyenko)
Pakistani youth enjoy swimming in a canal in Karachi. (AFP/Rizwan Tabassum)
A helicopter throws flares as it participates in the "Eager Lion" military exercises south of Amman, Jordan. Some 8,000 personnel from 19 different nations are participating in the exercises. (AFP/Khalil Mazraawi)
An Afghan refugee prepares thread for carpet weaving at the Khorasan refugee camp near Peshawar. (AFP/A. Majeed)
U.S. President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel share a moment after their joint press conference on June 19 at the Chancellery in Berlin. (AFP/Jewel Samad)
Afghan security forces carry a suspected Taliban fighter following a clash with Afghan police in the Surkh Rood district of Nangarhar Province. Four militants were killed in the battle. (AFP/Noorullah Shirzada)
A member of the Free Syrian Army dives into a swimming pool in Aleppo. (Reuters/Hamid Khatib)
An Iranian woman celebrates her national team's 1-0 football victory against South Korea. The win means that Iran will go on to the World Cup in Brazil in 2014. (AFP/Atta Kenare)
U.S. President Barack Obama and his German counterpart, Joachim Gauck, wave as they stroll in the park of Bellevue Castle in Berlin. Obama will unveil plans for a sharp reduction in nuclear warheads in a landmark speech at the Brandenburg Gate on June 19. (Reuters/Wolfgang Rattay)
Folk musicians wear burdock leaves as sun protection at the site of a replica of a 17th-century Cossack fort in the Russian village of Ust-Kem. (Reuters/Ilya Naymushin)
Hot-air balloons fly across Qiongzhou Strait in Haikou in south China's Hainan Province during the H1 China Hot Air Balloon Challenge. Fifteen balloons flew over the strait in 2.5 hours and succeeded in landing on Leizhou Peninsula in Hai'an. (AFP)
A member of the Free Syrian Army sits with his weapon inside a house in Aleppo's al-Sayyid Ali neighborhood. (Reuters/Muzaffar Salman)
Members of the movement Vetevendosje (Self-Determination) set letters on fire reading "Agreement With Serbia" in front of the Kosovar government headquarters in Pristina. (AFP/Armend Nimani)
Customs officials count smuggled bear paws in Manzhouli in China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Two Russians were arrested for smuggling 213 bear paws into China. (Reuters)
A pedestrian walks past electronic signs displaying pictures of China's Politburo Standing Committee members at a subway station in downtown Shanghai. (Reuters/Carlos Barria)
A boat is seen at sunrise off the coast of Boa Viagem Beach in Recife, Brazil. (Reuters/Marcos Brindicci)
A NATO soldier walks with an artificial limb to board a Chinook helicopter after a security handover ceremony at a military academy outside Kabul. (Reuters/Omar Sobhani)
Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (second from left) touches hands with Russia's President Vladimir Putin as they walk with German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the Lough Erne golf resort in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland. (Reuters/Andrew Winning)
A young worker sorts popcorn at a factory on the outskirts of Jalalabad. (AFP/Noorullah Shirzada)
Leaders from the G8 countries attend a working session at the G8 summit at the Lough Erne golf resort in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland. (AFP/Jewel Samad)
A shopkeeper removes broken glass from a shattered window at his shop near the site of an explosion in Kabul. (Reuters/Mohammad Ismail)
A Free Syrian Army fighter uses a catapult to launch a homemade bomb in the Bab al-Nasr neighborhood of Aleppo. (Reuters/Muzaffar Salman)
A jury member examines sphynx cat during an international cat and dog exhibition in Erfurt in eastern Germany. (AFP/Martin Schutt)
People have a picnic at Vaux-Le-Vicomte castle during the Great Century Day in Maincy, France. The event aims to re-create the atmosphere of the 17th century in the castle and its gardens, which were designed by Andre Le Notre, King Louis XIV's gardener, who was born 400 years ago. (AFP/Lionel Bonaventure)
Fast-moving water from the Alaknanda River destroys building during a heavy monsoon in the Indian state of Uttrakhand. At least 18 people have been killed as the annual monsoon covered the country nearly two weeks ahead of schedule. (AFP)
Afghan farmers plant rice in a paddy on the outskirts of Jalalabad. (AFP/Noorullah Shirzada)
Pope Francis blesses Harley-Davidson bikers from his popemobile before the start of a Mass outside St. Peter's Square in Rome. (Reuters/Stefano Rellandini)
Children play at a beach in the rain near the Crimean village of Berehove on the Black Sea. (Reuters/Gleb Garanich)
A woman is attacked with a water cannon during protests on Kizilay Square in central Ankara, Turkey. (Reuters/Dado Ruvic)