Photos of the week: 75th anniversary of D-Day and Eid-ul-Fitr

Political leaders and World War II veterans commemorate the 75th anniversary of D-Day and Eid-ul-Fitr celebrations -- photos of the week from across the world.

Updated on: Jun 08, 2019 3:47 PM IST

News

Share via

• 
• 
• 
• 

Copy link

• 

1/25

View Photos in a new improved layout

Updated on Jun 08, 2019 3:47 PM

United States President Donald Trump, First Lady Melania Trump, French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte Macron look to fly pasts in the Normandy American Cemetery to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings, in Normandy, France. (Carlos Barria / REUTERS)

2/25

View Photos in a new improved layout

Updated on Jun 08, 2019 3:47 PM

A Syrian girl smiles at an amusement park near an IDP camp for displaced persons in the area of Afrin, along Syria's northern border with Turkey during Eid al-Fitr which masks the end of the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramzan. (Rami al Sayed / AFP)

3/25

View Photos in a new improved layout

Updated on Jun 08, 2019 3:47 PM

A man jumps off the Tower Bridge in London, Britain. (Alkis Konstantinidis / REUTERS)

4/25

View Photos in a new improved layout

Updated on Jun 08, 2019 3:47 PM

People participate in the tenth annual tomato fight festival, known as "Tomatina", in Sutamarchan, Boyaca department, Colombia. (Diana Sanchez / AFP)

5/25

View Photos in a new improved layout

Updated on Jun 08, 2019 3:47 PM

A man holds a candle during a candlelight vigil at Victoria Park in Hong Kong to mark the 30th anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown in Beijing, China. (Philip Fong / AFP)

6/25

View Photos in a new improved layout

Updated on Jun 08, 2019 3:47 PM

Vehicles queue to enter Cikampek Utama toll gate as people head to their hometowns to celebrate Eid ul-Fitr in Karawang, West Java province, Indonesia. (Rivan Awal Lingga / Antara Foto / REUTERS)

7/25

View Photos in a new improved layout

Updated on Jun 08, 2019 3:47 PM

An effigy of US President Donald Trump is carried by protestors demonstrating against the visit of US President Donald Trump along white hall in London on the second day of Trump's three-day State Visit to the United Kingdom. (Tolga Akmen / AFP)

8/25

View Photos in a new improved layout

Updated on Jun 08, 2019 3:47 PM

A Barbary Ape baby is cuddled by its mother in Salem, Germany. (Felix Kästle / AFP)

9/25

View Photos in a new improved layout

Updated on Jun 08, 2019 3:47 PM

A participant runs through coloured powder during the Colour Run race in Moscow, Russia. (Evgenia Novozhenina / REUTERS)

10/25

View Photos in a new improved layout

Updated on Jun 08, 2019 3:47 PM

People enjoy sunset in a lake on the outskirts of Minsk, Belarus. (Vasily Fedosenko / REUTERS)

11/25

View Photos in a new improved layout

Updated on Jun 08, 2019 3:47 PM

Liverpool Football Club victory parade after their win in the UEFA Champions League final, in Liverpool, United Kingdom. (Phil Noble / REUTERS)

12/25

View Photos in a new improved layout

Updated on Jun 08, 2019 3:47 PM

Christopher Ranch Executive Vice President Ken Christopher poses for a photo after burying himself in a crate of garlic skins at Christopher Ranch in Gilroy, California, United States of America. As most US farmers feel the brunt of the trade war with China, some, like garlic and honey producers who have struggled for years, are applauding the new tariffs on Chinese goods. (Josh Edelson / AFP)

13/25

View Photos in a new improved layout

Updated on Jun 08, 2019 3:47 PM

One of 23 workers of the oil sector holding a hunger strike since May 30 remains at the Plaza de la Moneda square near the presidential palace to demand the government of President Nicolas Maduro about the payment of labour liabilities, in Santiago, Chile. (Marvin Recinos / AFP)

14/25

View Photos in a new improved layout

Updated on Jun 08, 2019 3:47 PM

A ball boy runs during the men's singles fourth round match between Argentina's Juan Martin del Potro and Russia's Karen Khachanov, on day nine of The Roland Garros 2019 French Open tennis tournament in Paris, France (Thomas Samson / AFP)

15/25

View Photos in a new improved layout

Updated on Jun 08, 2019 3:47 PM

Bety Costales, restorer of Conservartecuador foundation, shows one of the polyglot bibles of the Fray Ignacio de Quezada library, at the Convent of Santo Domingo de Guzman, in Quito, Ecuador. (Rodrigo Buendia / AFP)

16/25

View Photos in a new improved layout

Updated on Jun 08, 2019 3:47 PM

Performers during a 'Grand Mass Gymnastics and Artistic Performance', or mass games, at the May Day stadium in Pyongyang, North Korea. (Kim Won Jin / AFP)

17/25

View Photos in a new improved layout

Updated on Jun 08, 2019 3:47 PM

A woman poses for a picture during a photo shoot on the Westlake lotus ponds in Hanoi, Vietnam. (Manan Vatsyayana / AFP)

18/25

View Photos in a new improved layout

Updated on Jun 08, 2019 3:47 PM

Aereal view of Taxi drivers during a protest against the private taxi company Uber and others Apps for alleged unfair competition at the Zocalo Square in Mexico City, Mexico (Pedro Pardo / AFP)

19/25

View Photos in a new improved layout

Updated on Jun 08, 2019 3:47 PM

A woman carries a child as she walks past a garbage dump on the outskirts of Yangon, Myanmar. (Sai Aung Main / AFP)

20/25

View Photos in a new improved layout

Updated on Jun 08, 2019 3:47 PM

A man looks at a photograph by French photographer Robert Doisneau entitled "The Fate Line: Pablo Picasso at Vallauris, 1952." during the presentation of the photo-exhibition "Picasso, photographer's gaze", at the Picasso Museum, in Barcelona, Spain. (Lluis Gene / AFP)

21/25

View Photos in a new improved layout

Updated on Jun 08, 2019 3:47 PM

A Palestinian child holds a fake plastic gun in the old city of the West Bank town of Hebron, Palestine. (Hazem Bader / AFP)

22/25

View Photos in a new improved layout

Updated on Jun 08, 2019 3:47 PM

A South Korean man makes a deep bow as he visits the grave of his relative killed in the 1950-53 Korean Waron on the Korean Memorial Day, at the National Cemetery, in Seoul, South Korea. (Jung Yeon-je / AFP)

23/25

View Photos in a new improved layout

Updated on Jun 08, 2019 3:47 PM

Aerial picture showing migrants and residents using a makeshift raft to cross the Suchiate river from Tecun Uman in Guatemala to Ciudad Hidalgo in Chiapas State, Mexico. (Pedro Pardo / AFP)

24/25

View Photos in a new improved layout

Updated on Jun 08, 2019 3:47 PM

A view of a destroyed house at the village of San Miguel Los Lotes in Escuintla Department, about 35 km southwest of Guatemala City a year after the Fuego Volcano's powerful eruption, Guatemala. (Johan Ordonez / AFP)

25/25

View Photos in a new improved layout

Updated on Jun 08, 2019 3:47 PM

A Rhinoceros bathes in its pond at Berlin's Zoologischer Garten Zoo, Germany. (John Macdougall / AFP)