Week in pictures: 29 June

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Week in pictures: 29 June

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

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A Thai Royal Navy oarsman takes part in the sacred ritual to worship Royal Barges, which will be used in a procession for the King’s 72nd birthday celebrations in Bangkok.

Sawayasu Tsuji/Getty Images

People wave ******** flags during an event in Hong Kong to mark the 27th anniversary of Hong Kong’s sovereignty transfer from Britain to China on 1 July 1997.

Alex Kent/Getty Images

New Yorkers celebrate during their annual Pride March. It commemorates the Stonewall Riots of 1969, after police raided the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village.

Jerome Gilles/NurPhoto/Getty Images

Police use tear gas to clear demonstrators at Place de la Republique in Paris, during a rally against the far-right after the announcement of the results of the first round of parliamentary elections.

CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP

A man walks on a flooded beach after the passage of Hurricane Beryl, in Bridgetown, Barbados. The storm brought devastating winds and heavy rain to several Caribbean islands, as the earliest-ever Category 4 storm churned westward.

Orlando Barria/EPA

Debris piled high along the beach front of Manresa in Santo Domingo, as the Dominican Republic emerged almost unscathed. The storm shocked meteorologists – taking just 42 hours to go from a tropical depression to a major hurricane.

JOSH EDELSON/AFP

Tens of thousands of people in northern California have been ordered to evacuate, as wildfires grow across the state amid a heatwave. About 28,000 people were told to leave their homes after the Thompson ***** broke out this week.

Mike Egerton/PA Media

A person with hair in the style of a tennis ball, heads towards the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, London, on day one of the Wimbledon Championships.

Yui Mok/PA Media

King Charles III welcomes Sir Keir Starmer during an audience at Buckingham Palace, London, where he invited the leader of the Labour Party to become Prime Minister and form a new government, following a landslide General Election victory.

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