A May Day rally in Istanbul, a SpaceX splashdown in Florida, an early cicada in Maryland, camels in a Chinese desert, a diving competition in Tokyo, orienteering in Ukraine, an oil fire in Iraq, and much more
Photos of the Week: Glass Ceiling, Blue Grotto, Lava Glow
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The Brazilian graffiti artist Eduardo Kobra puts the final touches on his mural Coexistencia—Memorial da Fe por todas as vitimas do COVID-19, translated as Coexistence—Memorial of Faith for All Victims of COVID-19, which portrays children of different religions wearing protective face masks, in São Paulo, Brazil, on May 5, 2021. #
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Participants jump over a trunk during an orienteering contest in Kherson, Ukraine, on May 4, 2021. Children and teenagers took part in an orienteering contest on the banks of the Dnieper River. #
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An Il-78 air tanker demonstrates refueling a Tupolev Tu-95MS strategic bomber above Cathedral Square of the Kremlin during a flypast rehearsal ahead of a parade on Victory Day, which marks the anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany in World War II, in Moscow, Russia, on May 5, 2021. #
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An Orthodox Christian worshipper attends the Holy Fire ceremony amid eased COVID-19 restrictions at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem's Old City, on May 1, 2021. #
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Bessastadir, the official residence of the president of Iceland, seen from the Icelandic capital Reykjavik, appears with the glow from lava coming out of a fissure near the Fagradalsfjall on the Reykjanes Peninsula, on May 5, 2021. #
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Fire engulfs an oil well in the Bay Hassan oil field, in the northern Iraqi province of Kirkuk, after being blown up by jihadists, on May 5, 2021. The attackers killed a policeman before blowing up two oil wells in the northern province claimed by both Iraq's federal government and the Kurds, officials said. A security official told AFP that "Islamic State group assailants" killed a policeman and "wounded two others." #
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A man walks barefoot through burning charcoal as he performs the traditional ritual called "Lianhuo," or fire walking, on the second day of the May Day holiday on May 2, 2021, in Pan'an County, Zhejiang province, China. #
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Jun Hoong Cheong of Malaysia competes in the Women's 10m Platform semifinal on day five of the FINA Diving World Cup at the Tokyo Aquatics Center in Tokyo, Japan, on May 5, 2021. #
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A man is knocked down by a water cannon as people gathered at Bois de la Cambre/Ter Kamerenbos park for a party called "La Boum 2," in defiance of Belgium's coronavirus social-distancing restrictions, in Brussels, Belgium, on May 1, 2021. #
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A view of the Blue Grotto, one of the main tourist attractions on the island of Capri. The grotto would normally have around 20-25 boats of people inside the cave, but is instead empty and closed while the island awaits the return of tourists and the summer season, in Capri, Italy, on April 28, 2021. #
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The Olympic flame is passed from torch to torch on traditional boats during the Tokyo 2020 Olympics torch relay off Zamami in Japan's southernmost island prefecture of Okinawa, on May 2, 2021. #
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Samaritan worshippers arrive to take part in a Passover ceremony on top of Mount Gerizim, near the West Bank city of Nablus, on May 2, 2021. The Samaritans are a community of a few hundred people living in Israel and in the Nablus area who trace their lineage to the ancient Israelites led by the biblical prophet Moses out of Egypt. #
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Tourists ride camels while visiting the Mingsha Mountain and Crescent Spring scenic spot on the first day of the May Day holiday on May 1, 2021, in Dunhuang, Gansu province, China. #
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A nomad, Fatma Dilekmen, is seen with camels as she and fellow nomads travel to cooler uplands in Turkey's Konya and Karaman districts in the spring, in Mersin, Turkey, on May 4, 2021. #
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An adult cicada rests after shedding its nymphal skin, on the bark of an an oak tree early on May 5, 2021, on the University of Maryland campus in College Park, Maryland. Hordes of cicadas are about to emerge in 15 states in the eastern U.S. Scientists say that Brood X is one of the biggest for these bugs, which come out only once every 17 years. #
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Monks gather under colorful lanterns as they celebrate the forthcoming birthday of Buddha at Jogyesa Temple on May 6, 2021, in Seoul, South Korea. Buddha was born approximately 2,565 years ago, and although the exact date is unknown, Buddha's official birthday is celebrated on the full moon in May in South Korea, which is on May 19 this year. #
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Children sit under the dome of the former prison in Arnhem, eastern Netherlands, during the National Children's Freedom Breakfast on Liberation Day ("Bevrijdingsdag" in Dutch) to mark the end of the Nazi occupation during World War II, on May 5, 2021. #
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From left, Poland's Kinga Gacka, Kornelia Lesiewicz, Natalia Kaczmarek, and Małgorzata Hołub-Kowalik pose during the Athletics World Relays Championships at Silesian Stadium in Chorzow, Poland, on May 1, 2021. #
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Activists from the NGO Rio de Paz carry a Brazilian flag as they display hundreds of plastic bags, representing dead bodies, during a protest against Jair Bolsonaro's COVID-19 policies on Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on April 30, 2021. #
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Support teams work around the SpaceX Crew Dragon Resilience spacecraft shortly after it landed in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Panama City, Florida, with NASA astronauts Mike Hopkins, Shannon Walker, and Victor Glover, and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Soichi Noguchi, aboard on May 2, 2021. #
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A man plays a guitar in a pavilion in New York's Central Park on May 6, 2021. As New York City begins to reopen following pandemic shutdowns, thousands are flocking to city parks, restaurants, and cultural events. #
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Ellen Kay, from Texas, wears a hat made by California designer Arturo Rios, while arriving at Churchill Downs on the day of the 147th Kentucky Derby in Louisville, Kentucky, on May 1, 2021. #
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