A selection of powerful news photographs taken around the world this week.
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Musicians perform to an unusual audience, as Barcelona’s Gran Teatre del Liceu opera house reopened its doors with a concert for plants. Following the event, the opera house planned to donate the plants to 2,292 healthcare professionals.
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A supporter sits alone as US Vice President Mike Pence speaks before President Donald Trump’s arrival at a campaign rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
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South Korean performers dressed as soldiers participate in a re-enactment.
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Servicemen take part in a Victory Day military parade marking the 75th anniversary of the end of World War Two, in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Russia. The event was postponed from its original date of 9 May because of the coronavirus pandemic.
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Sean Rayford
A statue of John C Calhoun, a former US Vice President and advocate of slavery, is removed from Marion Square in Charleston, South Carolina.
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Carlos Osorio / REUTERS
People participate in a socially distanced yoga class, in Toronto, Canada.
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Athit Perawongmetha / REUTERS
A girl observes a partial solar eclipse on the Mahanakhon Skywalk Glass Tray at the King Power Mahanakhon building in Bangkok, Thailand.
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Devotees covered in mud and dried banana leaves light candles and pray outside a closed church to celebrate the Taong Putik Festival in the village of Bibiclat in the Philippines.
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Victoria Jones / PA Wire
A man dives into the water near Canary Wharf, London.
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A woman completes her ballot in a voting booth
A voter completes her ballot on the day of the primary election in Louisville, Kentucky, USA.
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