Photos of the week: Wet and wild in Suffolk and verses on revolution in Sudan
Dogs frolicking on the beach in Suffolk and a chants of ‘revolution’ as a man takes to verse during a protest demonstration ahead of the opposition’s direct dialogue with people in Khartoum --photos of the week from across the world.
Updated on: Jun 22, 2019 4:55 PM IST
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Dogs play on the beach at Shingle Street, Suffolk, England. (Matthew Tostevin / REUTERS)
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Updated on Jun 22, 2019 4:55 PM
A picture taken during a guided tour by the US Navy (NAVCENT) shows the damage of Japanese oil tanker Kokuka Courageous off the port of Fujairah, United Arab Emirates. The Japanese tanker attacked in the Gulf of Oman last week was damaged by a limpet mine resembling Iranian mines, the US military in the Middle East said. (Mumen Khatib / AFP)
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Updated on Jun 22, 2019 4:55 PM
Sled dogs wade through standing water on the sea ice during an expedition in North Western Greenland. The ice in the area forms pretty reliably every winter and is very thick which means that there are relatively few fractures for meltwater to drain through. Last week saw the onset of very warm conditions in Greenland. (Steffen Olsen / Centre for Ocean and Ice at the Danish Meteorological Institute / AFP)
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Updated on Jun 22, 2019 4:55 PM
A Palestinian man washes his horse in the waters of the Mediterranean Sea as people swim on a hot day in the northern Gaza Strip. (Mohammed Salem / REUTERS)
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Updated on Jun 22, 2019 4:55 PM
Pillaged vaults stand inside Cuadrado cemetery in Maracaibo, Venezuela. Thieves have broken into some of the vaults and coffins since late last year, stealing ornaments and sometimes items from corpses as the country sinks to new depths of deprivation. (Rodrigo Abd / AP)
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Updated on Jun 22, 2019 4:55 PM
A stray polar bear walks on a road on the outskirts of the Russian industrial city of Norilsk. The hungry polar bear was spotted on the outskirts of Norilsk, hundreds of miles from its natural habitat, authorities said. (Irina Yarinskaya / Zapolyarnaya pravda newspaper / AFP)
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Updated on Jun 22, 2019 4:55 PM
A 600 meters long installation by French land artist SAYPE entitled “Beyong Walls” representing hands joined together in support to the SOS Mediterrannee migrant association, set up at Paris’ landmark Champs de Mars gardens in front of the Eiffel Tower in France. (Eric Feferberg / AFP)
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Updated on Jun 22, 2019 4:55 PM
A sex education teacher shows students how to hold a baby, using a baby robot, at a school in Caldas, Colombia. Schoolchildren in Caldas are taking part in a voluntary program using a baby simulator -- a rubber doll with built-in software –programmed to act like a newborn baby in a bid to reduce the high level of teenage pregnancies in the town of 78,000. (Joaquin Sarimento / AFP)
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Updated on Jun 22, 2019 4:55 PM
Tourist Amy Powers is approached by “Walker” Matthew Tomlin during The Walking Dead Tour of a Season 3 location of the AMC production in Haralson, Georgia, USA. (Chris Aluka Berry / REUTERS)
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Updated on Jun 22, 2019 4:55 PM
Visitors in Star Wars costumes pose in front of a Herkules plane during the “Tag der Bundeswehr” (Day of the German Armed Forces) at the air base in Fassberg, northern Germany. (Peter Steffen / dpa / AFP)
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Updated on Jun 22, 2019 4:55 PM
The pack rides in curves through a wood during the seventh stage of the 71st edition of the Criterium du Dauphine cycling race, 133,5 km between Saint-Genix-les-Villages and Les Sept Laux-Pipay in France. (Anne-Christine Poujoulat / AFP)
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Updated on Jun 22, 2019 4:55 PM
A man walks on steps covered in rainbow colours for Pride Month at Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park in New York City. Organizers claim it is the largest LGBT pride flag in New York City and measures around 12 by 100 feet. (Johannes Eisele / AFP)
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A girl enjoys a swing carousel ride at an amusement park in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan. (Farshad Usyan / AFP)
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Updated on Jun 22, 2019 4:55 PM
A slow shutter image shows thousands of protesters taking part in a new rally against the controversial extradition law proposal in Hong Kong. Protesters choked Hong Kong’s streets in a defiant rebuke of the extradition law, piling pressure on the city’s embattled pro-Beijing leader despite a weekend climbdown. (Hector Retamal / AFP)
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Updated on Jun 22, 2019 4:55 PM
People hold picture of Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi during a symbolic funeral cerenomy at Fatih mosque in Istanbul, Turkey. Thousands joined in prayer in Istanbul for former Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi who died after collapsing during a trial hearing in a Cairo court. (AFP)
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Updated on Jun 22, 2019 4:55 PM
Riders perform during the rehearsal of their show at the Great Stables of Chantilly, north of Paris, France. (Stephane De Sakutin / AFP)
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Updated on Jun 22, 2019 4:55 PM
People walk past earthquake-damaged buildings in Yibin, in China’s southwestern Sichuan province. The toll from a strong 6.0-magnitude earthquake in southwest China rose to 12 dead and 134 injured on June 18, as rescuers pulled bodies and survivors from wrecked buildings. (AFP)
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Updated on Jun 22, 2019 4:55 PM
Yoga enthusiasts practice in the mountain village of Qiqi in Zhangjiajie, China’s central Hunan Province ahead of International Yoga Day. (AFP)
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Updated on Jun 22, 2019 4:55 PM
Demonstrators hold up placards representing the number of the people who have died due to gun violence on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, USA, during an event with gun violence prevention advocates. (Jim Watson / AFP)
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Updated on Jun 22, 2019 4:55 PM
Two men sit holding North Korean and Chinese flags near Kim Il Sung square in Pyongyang, as Chinese President Xi Jinping visits the country. Xi Jinping started a historic visit in Pyongyang on June 20, to reboot a troubled alliance, as he and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un face their own challenges with US President Donald Trump. (Ed Jones / AFP)
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Updated on Jun 22, 2019 4:55 PM
A demonstrator is detained by riot police during a teachers’ protest against a government’s plan that will be implemented in 2020 in which History and Physical Education will be optional in secondary school’s 3rd and 4th year, in Santiago, Chile. (Claudio Reyes / AFP)
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Updated on Jun 22, 2019 4:55 PM
A brig with scarlet sails travels through the Dvortsovy (Palace) drawbridge rising above the Neva River during a rehearsal for the Scarlet Sails festivities marking school graduation which will take place on June 24 in St. Petersburg, Russia. (Dmitri Lovetsky / AP)
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Updated on Jun 22, 2019 4:55 PM
US President Donald Trump arrives to speak during a rally at the Amway Center in Orlando, Florida to officially launch his 2020 campaign. Trump kicked off his re-election campaign at what promised to be a rollicking evening rally in Orlando, USA. (Mandel Ngan / AFP)
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Updated on Jun 22, 2019 4:55 PM
An aurora seen from aboard the International Space Station, by NASA astronaut Christina Koch and posted saying: "Years ago at the South Pole, I looked up to the aurora for inspiration through the 6-month winter night, now I know they’re just as awe inspiring from above. #nofilter" (Christina Koch / NASA / AFP)
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Updated on Jun 22, 2019 4:55 PM

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