Photos Of The Week #27

A woman reacts inside a police minibus after she was detained during a protest rally held by Kazakh opposition supporters in Almaty on July 6. (Reuters/Pavel Mikheyev)

An employee works at a grain store during wheat harvesting in the village of Kamennobrodskaya in Russia's Stavropol region. (Reuters/Eduard Korniyenko)

A man walks his camels during sunset along the beach in Karachi, Pakistan. (EPA/Shahzaib Akber) 

Women dressed in traditional clothing pose during the annual Flower Festival at the GUM department store in Moscow. (TASS/Mikhail Japaridze)

A man with henna-dyed hair rests on a road near the port area in Karachi, Pakistan. (Reuters/Akhtar Soomro)

French oyster aquaculturist Jean-Christophe Cabrol checks the growth of oysters covered with sea squirts on collector lines at a shellfish farm near Montpellier. (AFP/Boris Horvat)

A dead minke whale is lifted by crane into a truck at a port in Kushiro, Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan. Japanese whalers brought ashore their first catches on July 1 as they resumed commercial hunting after a three-decade hiatus, brushing aside criticism from activists who say the practice is cruel and outdated. (AFP/Kazuhiro Nogi)

Silvio Berlusconi, former prime minister and an Italian member of the European Parliament, attends a voting session to elect a new president of the European Parliament during the first plenary session of the newly elected European Assembly in Strasbourg, France. (Reuters/Vincent Kessler)

An employee stands inside a cooling tower at the still-to-be-completed third and fourth units at the Mochovce nuclear power plant in western Slovakia. The launching of the two new units has been a cause for concern in neighboring Austria, which has repeatedly criticized what it insists are their poor safety standards. (AFP/Vladimir Simicek)

A man looks up at a total solar eclipse in La Higuera, Chile, on July 2. Northern Chile is known for clear skies, and some of the largest, most powerful telescopes on Earth are being built in the area, turning the South American country into a global astronomy hub. (AP/Esteban Felix)

Laborer Abdul Sattar, 45, of Pakistan collects sea salt at a coastal area of Karachi. Sattar earns on average 800 Pakistani rupees ($5) per day for his work. (AP/Fareed Khan)

A carpet merchant sits at his shop in the old main bazaar in Tehran. (AP/Ebrahim Noroozi)

A boy walks on the top of a Soviet-era monument for Ukraine and Russia union in Kyiv. (AFP/Sergei Supinsky)

Smokes rises after a huge explosion in Kabul on July 1. (AP/Rahmat Gul)

A journalist sleeps while waiting for the end of a European Union leaders summit intended to select candidates for top EU institution jobs in Brussels on July 1. (Reuters/Yves Herman)

Protesters try to break into the Legislative Council building, where riot police are seen, during the anniversary of Hong Kong's handover to China in Hong Kong on July 1. (Reuters/Tyrone Siu)

An apartment block in the flooded town of Tulunin in Russia's Irkutsk region, where heavy rains have caused floods and a state of emergency has been declared. (TASS/Kirill Shipitsin)

U.S. President Donald Trump (right) shakes hands with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un as they meet at the Demilitarized Zone separating the two Koreas in Panmunjom, South Korea, on June 30. (Reuters)

People take part in the first gay-pride parade in Skopje, North Macedonia, on June 29. (Reuters/Ognen Teofilovski )