An elephant rescue in India, President Trump travels overseas, continued unrest in Venezuela and Kashmir, a terror attack in Manchester, England, the removal of a Confederate statue in New Orleans, ducklings at the White House, and much more.
Photos of the Week: 5/20–5/26
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Jupiter’s south pole, as seen by NASA’s Juno spacecraft from an altitude of 32,000 miles (52,000 kilometers). The oval features are cyclones, up to 600 miles (1,000 kilometers) in diameter. Multiple images taken with the JunoCam instrument on three separate orbits were combined to show all areas in daylight, enhanced color, and stereographic projection. #
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Police escort members of the public from Manchester Arena on May 23, 2017 in Manchester, England. An explosion occurred at the arena as concert-goers were leaving the venue after Ariana Grande had performed. Greater Manchester Police confirmed 22 fatalities and at least 60 injured. #
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People stop by a mass of flowers to observe a minute's silence in Saint Ann's Square in Manchester, England, on May 25, 2017, as a mark of respect to the victims of the May 22 terror attack at Manchester Arena. Police said they arrested two men Thursday in the Manchester area in connection with the deadly bombing of an Ariana Grande pop concert, while a detained woman was released without charges. Britain raised its terror alert to the maximum level and ordered troops to protect strategic sites after 22 people were killed in a suicide bomb attack on a Manchester pop concert. #
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A man stands in front of a fountain illuminated with the colors of the United Kingdom flag on May 23, 2017, in Zagreb during a tribute to victims of an attacks which killed at least 22 people and left more than 60 injured in Manchester the day before. #
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The Ferrari driver Kimi Raikkonen of Finland is reflected in a firefighter helmet visor as he steers his car during the second free practice at the Formula One Grand Prix at the Monaco racetrack in Monaco on May 25, 2017. #
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Belarus army special troops demonstrate their skills during the eighth international exhibition of arms and military hardware, the Milex 2017, in Minsk, Belarus, on May 20, 2017. #
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Guillermo Satt of Chile in action while competing in the Men's Qualifying Round 2 during day five of the ISA World Surfing Games 2017 at Grande Plage on May 24, 2017 in Biarritz, France #
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A statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee is lowered to a truck for removal from Lee Circle in New Orleans on May 19, 2017. The city council voted to remove the monument and three other Confederate and white-supremacist monuments in December of 2015. #
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Members of the media are taken on a on May 22 tour of the future TWA Hotel at JFK Airport that was once the TWA Flight Center in New York. MCR Development, the hotel management and development firm behind the plans for the highly-anticipated hotel, is renovating the architect Eero Saarinen's TWA Flight Center into two hotel structures. #
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One of two Indonesian men is publicly caned for having sex, a first for the Muslim-majority country where there are concerns over mounting hostility toward the small gay community, in Banda Aceh, on May 23, 2017. The pair, aged 20 and 23, were found guilty of having broken sharia rules in conservative Aceh province—the only part of Indonesia that implements Islamic law—and sentenced to 85 strokes of the cane each. #
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A man dressed as a traditional Fijian warrior stands atop a rock as tourists arrive by ferry on Barefoot Kuata Island, located in the Yasawa Islands that are part of the South Pacific nation of Fiji, on May 15, 2017. #
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Archaeologist Hector Walde works at an archaeological site, where 3,500-year-old friezes were recently discovered, according to a press release by Walde, at Huaca Garagay in Lima, Peru, May 24, 2017. #
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An aerial view of the new NATO headquarters, made available on the NATO website. Member nations inaugurated the new location during a summit in Brussels, Belgium, on May 25, 2017. #
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A massive landslide is seen in this aerial photo of a quarter-mile section of State Route 1 about 100 miles south of San Jose, California, in this photo released on May 24, 2017. #
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Ousted South Korean leader Park Geun Hye (left) arrives in handcuffs at the Seoul Central District Court in Seoul on May 25, 2017, for her trial over the massive corruption scandal that led to her downfall. #
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People sit beside the sea as they enjoy the fine weather on the beach in Lyme Regis on May 25, 2017, in Dorset, England. Parts of the U.K. are currently enjoying a blast of warm continental air and sunshine which forecasters claim could deliver the hottest May temperatures since the Second World War. #
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Riot police clash with opposition demonstrators in Caracas on May 24, 2017. Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro formally launched moves to rewrite the constitution on Tuesday, defying opponents who accuse him of clinging to power in a political crisis that has prompted deadly unrest. #
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(1 of 2) Opposition demonstrators pour petrol over an alleged thief to set him on fire during a protest against the government of President Nicolas Maduro in Caracas on May 20, 2017. #
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(2 of 2) Opposition demonstrators set an alleged thief on fire during a protest in Caracas on May 20, 2017. According to the Venezuelan Interior and Justice Ministry, the victim, Orlando Figuera, 21, who was set on fire after being accused of being a chavist or a thief, remains hospitalized with first and second degree burns on 80 percent of his body and several stab wounds. #
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A masked Kashmiri student looks toward protesters during a fresh protest against the attack by Indian government forces on students on May 22, 2017, in Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian-administered Kashmir, India. The students have taken to streets and clashed with Indian government forces several times since an attack by Indian forces on a college in south Kashmir's Pulwama district last month. #
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People are silhouetted as they stand behind a structure containing glass panels in the Dome of the Rock located on the compound known to Muslims as al-Haram al-Sharif, and to Jews as Temple Mount, in Jerusalem's Old City, on May 4, 2017. #
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U.S. President Donald Trump and other leaders react to a wall of computer screens coming online as they tour the Global Center for Combatting Extremist Ideology in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on May 21, 2017. #
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