Week in pictures: 8-14 June 2024

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Week in pictures: 8-14 June 2024

A selection of striking news photographs taken around the world this week.

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A child takes a peek inside a booth at a polling station in the Moldovan capital, Chisinau. Europeans in 27 countries voted in elections that will have a wide impact across the EU and beyond.

Presidencia El Salvador via Getty Images

Inmates being transferred to

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(Centre for the Confinement of Terrorism) in Tecoluca, El Salvador. President Nayib Bukele said another 2,000 gang members had been moved to the maximum-security jail. El Salvador now has the highest incarceration rate in the world.

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A drone photo shows a night-time race held to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival in Sanxi Village, Fuzhou, in China’s Fujian Province. The event, which holds deep cultural significance, serves as a means of prayer for bountiful harvests and an auspicious life.

Rogan Ward/REUTERS

Another drone view shows fishermen unloading a net during the sardine run in Scottburgh, South *******.

Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto/Getty Images

A mother fans her child inside a tent at a camp for displaced people during a heatwave in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, amid the ongoing conflict between ******* and ******.

John Phillips/Getty Images

Technicians adjust a dress during a press view of items on display for Vivienne Westwood: The Personal Collection at Christie’s auction house in London. Proceeds from the ***** of the late designer’s collection will go to The Vivienne Foundation, Amnesty International, Médecins Sans Frontières and Greenpeace.

David Burr/Alamy

People paraglide at sunset at ******’s ***** on the South Downs, Sussex, England.

Lisi Niesner/REUTERS

Alexander Zverev beats Casper Ruud at Roland Garros in Paris to set up a French Open final against Carlos Alcaraz.

FADEL SENNA/AFP

******* worshippers touch the Kaaba, Islam’s holiest shrine, at the Grand Mosque in Saudi Arabia’s holy city of Mecca, ahead of the annual Hajj pilgrimage.

Zoltan Balogh/EPA

Children take part in a flash mob to mark the 50th anniversary of the Rubik’s Cube at Szent Istvan Square in Budapest. Hungarian professor, architect and inventor Erno Rubik developed the so-called Magic Cube in the spring of 1974, originally for educational purposes. It later became popular as the Rubik’s Cube worldwide.

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