Pictures of the week: Just make the cross quickly

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Voting naked:

A man votes in his swimming trunks at a polling station in Bondi Beach, Australia.

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Photo: Steven Saphore / AFP

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Primary winner:

Democratic candidate Chris Jones hugs his family.

He won the primary and will now represent the Democrats in the Arkansas governor's election.

Photo: Stephen Swofford/AP

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Hallelujah:

In Brazil, the city of Encantado Rio is competing with a larger statue of Jesus.

"The protector" measures 37.5 meters, it will open its glass heart from 2023 - and the shopping center at its feet.

Photo: Silvio Avila / AFP

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Monumental

: A student at the US Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, bites down on a Dixie cup.

This is the name of the traditional headgear of the plebes, i.e. the recruits.

The recruits celebrate the end of their freshman year and promotion to midshipman with an unusual ceremony.

To do this, they attempt to scale the Herndon Monument, a twenty-foot-tall obelisk on campus.

They place a »Dixie cup« on the sculpture and smear it with lard.

Photo: Kevin Lamarque / REUTERS

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Justiciable

: A view of the peaceful Lake Palcacocha in the Peruvian Andes belies the fact that a remarkable court battle is currently taking place in the national park.

The farmer and tourist guide Saul Luciano Lliuya has sued the German energy giant RWE because its greenhouse gas emissions are partly responsible for the melting of the Peruvian glaciers.

A real climate thriller at 4,650 meters above sea level.

Photo: Luka Gonzales / AFP

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In Focus

: Johnny Depp in the Fairfax, Virginia courthouse.

Depp accuses his ex-wife Amber Heard of defamation, she responded with a counterclaim.

Thanks to a live stream from the courtroom, the world gets a glimpse of the toxic relationship between two Hollywood stars.

Photo: Steve Helber / AFP

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Gimme shelter:

A man holds a child in front of a downpour by the sea.

The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has predicted the monsoon rains are likely to arrive a week earlier this year due to the effects of twin cyclones Asani and Karim.

Photo: Avishek Das / dpa

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Dictator's son:

Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. is to be declared the winner of the hotly contested presidential elections in the Philippines.

In the picture, opposing activists clash with riot police during a protest against the election results in Quezon City.

The election of the dictator's son was marked by outbreaks of violence and complaints about faulty vote counting machines.

Photo: Ezra Acayan/Getty Images

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Battle for mineral resources:

People flee fighting between Congolese forces and M23 rebels in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Congolese authorities have accused Rwandan forces of supporting armed groups in resource-rich eastern Congo, where dozens of such groups are active.

Rwanda rejects the allegations as unfounded.

Photo: Moses Sawasawa/AP

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You are made of dust:

A boy plays football in Colombia, far away from the sacred grass of the big arenas.

Grassroots football in the dust.

Photo: Daniel Munoz / AFP

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Revealed

: Bishops gaze at picture of Pauline Jarricot at mass near Lyon

The French lived from 1799 to 1862 and is the founder of the aid organization Missio.

She was beatified, according to local media reports, 12,000 believers attended the ceremony.

It took place in a mess hall that briefly served as a church.

Photo:Jeff Pachoud/AFP

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Oversized to Transylvania

Tilda Swinton wore a shirt dress by Parisian fashion house Alaïa on the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival.

The British actress wanted to watch the premiere of Cristian Mungiu's new film at the Festival Palace.

"RMN" is about a village community in Romanian Transylvania.

Photo: Patricia de Melo / AFP

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Morning has broken:

The sun rises over the Bremen Blockland.

Photo: Sina Schuldt / dpa

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Made chic:

On Thursday, the celebrations of the Queen's 70th jubilee begin in London.

But the Royals get a fresh coat of paint in the wax museum Madama Tussauds in London.

Photo: Toby Melville / REUTERS

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Prickly

: The Chelsea Flower Show in London will also be celebrating the Queen's anniversary this year.

Here, two stallholders critically examine their display, which consists of cacti and succulents.

Photo: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images

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Starving children:

A malnourished baby is weighed in a Kabul hospital.

About 1.1 million children under the age of five are expected to be malnourished in Afghanistan by the end of the year.

Already the hospitals are full of them.

Photo: Ebrahim Noroozi/AP

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Buried in protest:

An elderly man named Luis Miguel Lopez is up to his head underground in his house.

The 74-year-old dug himself into his home in protest at the lack of government support for the elderly in Colombia.

In doing so, he called attention to the neglect of his age group and demanded state aid.

Photo: Camila Diaz / dpa

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Lonely round

: A duck lingers in the deserted Ricklinger Bad in Hanover in the morning.

Photo: Julian Stratenschulte / dpa

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Well protected:

tennis is an outdoor sport.

This also applies to the Grad Slam tournament of the French Open in Roland Garros.

Sometimes the umbrella has to be used, but light rain is not a big problem for the cinder pitches.

Photo: Anne-Christine Poujoulat / AFP

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Huge joy

: Dor Bahadur Khapangi comes from Nepal, is 17 years old - and is now considered the smallest teenager in the world.

He is 73.43 centimeters tall and is now part of the Guinness Book of World Records.

Photo: Niranjan Shrestha / dpa

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Koala cuddling:

The zoo keeper Olaf Lohnitz cuddles the female koala ·Sydney at Dresden Zoo.

The marsupial lady has returned to Dresden from her six-month stay at Duisburg Zoo and has been back in her show enclosure for a few days.

Photo: Robert Michael / dpa

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Land under:

Francisco Fabiano Rodrigues and his children stand in front of their house on a street.

In the Brazilian state of Amazonas, the Negro River flooded residential areas.

Photo: Edmar Barros/AP

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Back to school:

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson sits on a visit to St Mary Cray Primary Academy in Orpington to see how tutoring is helping children catch up on learning deficits after the coronavirus pandemic.

Photo: Stefan Rousseau / dpa

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Immune gulp:

A health worker administers polio vaccine drops to a child during a vaccination campaign in a Karachi slum area.

Photo: Asif Hassan / AFP

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Flag Diplomacy:

Rarely do Chinese and US representatives come as close as these two flags.

At the meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, the time had come shortly before a panel discussion.

There, the two special envoys John F. Kerry and Xie Zhengua finally spoke primarily about methane emissions.

Photo: Gian Ehrenzeller / EPA

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Bloody evidence:

After a police operation in a favela in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, women wave a bloody T-shirt and shout at police officers outside Getulio Vargas hospital.

At least 12 people died in the raid, authorities said.

According to the police, she came under fire when she tried to enter the Vila Cruzeiro slum in the north of the city to locate and arrest "criminal leaders".

In the ensuing firefight, 11 suspected criminals died and one resident of the favela, who was hit by a stray bullet.

Photo: Mauro Pimentel / AFP

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Red cloth:

A monument to Kaiser Wilhelm I on the central Karlsplatz in Stuttgart was covered.

In addition to the cultural office, several organizers of the upcoming Catholic Day had commissioned the art collective ReCollect to put the monument in an artistic context.

The reason: according to the organizers, as the emperor of the founding of the empire, Wilhelm I was associated with the beginning of nationalism and the subsequent colonization by the German Reich.

Photo: Marijan Murat / dpa

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Senseless gun violence:

A young girl holds flowers outside the Willie de Leon Civic Center where people have gathered to mourn in Uvalde, Texas.

A teenage gunman shot dead 19 children at a Texas elementary school.

It's the deadliest school shooting in years.

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Photo: Allison Dinner/AFP