Pictures of the week: Surfers Against Sewage protests, Rishi Sunak in Japan and a monkey quenching its thirst
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The Popocatepetl volcano spewing ash and smoke seen from Puebal, Puebla State, Mexico.
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Performers during the closing ceremony of the Southeast Asian Games in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
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Cattle graze on the meadow in front of the Reichstag during a protest by the environmental organization Greenpeace for animal welfare in Berlin.
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Oxfam activists carried “big heads” of G7 leaders during a demonstration in Trafalgar Square, London, stressing their lack of action to tackle the hunger crisis in East Africa ahead of the start of the G7 summit in Japan.
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Visitation assistant and art history student Emma Scarr Hall takes a closer look at @Pink Roses (1923) by Scottish colourist Leslie Hunter, estimated at £60,000-80,000 at the forthcoming Bonhams Scottish Art Sale in Edinburgh.
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Supporters of Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and the AK Party (AKP) gather in Istanbul, Turkey on election night.
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Choristers of the University of Cambridge’s St John’s College Choir look on from the top of the chapel tower before performing the Ascension Day Christmas carol, a custom dating back to 1902.
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Prime Minister Rishi Sunak aboard the Japanese aircraft carrier JS Izumo, where he inspected an honor guard along with Deputy Defense Minister Toshiro Ino during a visit to the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force at Yokosuka Naval Base ahead of the G7 Summit in Hiroshima.
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Part of a children’s jacket during a photocall for the ‘China’s Hidden Century’ exhibition which opens at the British Museum in London.
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People take part in the ‘Brussel Pride – The Belgian & European Pride 2023’ parade organized by the LGBTQIA+ community in Brussels, Belgium.
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Around 1200 windsurfers start for the 21st edition of the Defi Wind in the Mediterranean off the coast of Gruissan in southern France.
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A raven lands on a barn roof as thick smoke from wildfires obscures the sun near Cremona, Alberta.
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French-Israeli actor Tom Mercier performs acrobatics while posing with French actress Billie Blain during a photocall for the film ‘Le Regne Animal’ at the 76th edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southern France.
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Indigenous women participate in the “Prayer for Rain” ceremony on the shore of the Chicabal Lagoon in San Martin Sacatepequez, Guatemala, which was formed on the crater of a former volcano and is considered a sacred site by the Mayans.
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A monkey tries to quench its thirst from a water tap on a hot summer day in Prayagraj, India.
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A potter bee rests on a lavender in a park on World Bee Day in Madrid, Spain.
