A fashion show in Burkina Faso, images from battlefields in Ukraine, the Southeast Asian Games in Vietnam, the Witches and Wizards Convention in Brazil, a sandstorm in Iraq, a rehearsal for the Eurovision Song Contest in Italy, electric-scooter racing in England, and much more
Photos of the Week: Garbage Suit, Mesquite Heat, Bog Commander
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The Norwegian band Subwoolfer attends dress rehearsals ahead of the 66th Eurovision Song Contest Grand Final at Reggia di Venaria Reale, in Turin, Italy, on May 13, 2022. The duo performed their song "Give That Wolf a Banana." #
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Buddhist monks turn on LED lights to form an image of the Buddha, as people observe Vesak Day, an annual celebration of the Buddha's birth, enlightenment, and death, at Dhammakaya Temple, Pathum Thani, near Bangkok, Thailand, on May 15, 2022. #
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A Ukrainian man gets a tattoo during the Art Weapon festival in Kyiv, Ukraine, on May 14, 2022. At the Art Weapon festival, dozens chose to show their love for their nation by getting inked, with payments for the tattoos going straight to the Ukrainian military as donations. #
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A child migrant from Guatemala is carried toward a member of the Texas Army National Guard, after she and other asylum-seeking migrants waded across the Rio Grande river into the United States from Mexico, in Roma, Texas, on May 13, 2022. #
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A model walks the runway in a design by Paul McCann x J'Aton Couture at the First Nations Fashion + Design show during Afterpay Australian Fashion Week 2022 Resort '23 Collections at Carriageworks in Sydney, Australia, on May 13, 2022 . #
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Victoria Harris, a staff member for Assemblywoman Sharon Quirk-Silva, holds Clover, a nine-month-old female kangaroo, at the Secretary of State building in Sacramento, California, on May 17, 2022. SeaWorld displayed Clover and other rescued and rehabilitated animals for state lawmakers and their staff to demonstrate the importance of conservation and animal care. #
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Ultra-Orthodox Jews take part in the annual pilgrimage to the grave site of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai, in the northern Israeli village of Meron on May 19, 2022. The day-long holiday of Lag b'Omer commemorates the second-century Jewish scholar's death. #
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People walk on a footbridge before the opening ceremony of the Witches and Wizards Convention at Paranapiacaba village in Santo Andre, Brazil, on Friday, May 13, 2022. #
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A worker dismantles a sculpture of a Soviet soldier from the Eternal Flame memorial complex created by Soviet authorities, amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine, in Chervonohrad, Lviv region, Ukraine, on May 13, 2022. #
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A soldier of the Kraken Ukrainian special-forces unit observes the area at a destroyed bridge on the road near the village of Rus'ka Lozova, north of Kharkiv, Ukraine, on May 16, 2022. #
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Ukrainian servicemen carry bodies of Russian soldiers killed during Russia's invasion of Ukraine, before putting them in a refrigerated railcar, in Kyiv, Ukraine, on May 13, 2022. #
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A competitor takes part in the Bog Commander endurance event near Ashbourne, in the Peak District moorlands, in northern England, on May 14, 2022. The Bog Commander is a six-kilometer muddy obstacle race that was first held in 2014. #
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Environmental activist Rob Greenfield walks around Beverly Hills, California, on May 16, 2022, wearing a suit filled with every piece of trash he has generated living and consuming like a typical American for one month, to raise awareness about how much garbage just one person generates. Greenfield is currently on day 27 of the 30-day project and is wearing 63 pounds (28.5 kilograms) of trash. #
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Wild boars and their piglets cross a street in Rome, Italy, on May 13, 2022. Health authorities in the Lazio region are working to contain the potential spread of African swine fever in the city's wild-boar population. #
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A stray cat walks on the fence of a kindergarten where seven people have been sheltering in the basement for more than two months, in Lysychansk, eastern Ukraine, on May 14, 2022. #
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Residents line a street to watch models participate in the third edition of Ouaga Fashion Week in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, on May 14, 2022. More than 35 stylists and designers took part in the event, with some of the shows taking place in the streets of the capital. #
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