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Week in pictures: 29 May - 4 June 2021

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A selection of powerful news photographs taken around the world this week.

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image captionSeagulls hunt pearl mullet in the salty, alkaline waters of Turkey's Lake Van.
image copyrightCarlos Osorio / Reuters
image captionCommunity paramedic Karen McIntyre vaccinates Caroline Bagnato at her home, with the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine, in Newmarket, Ontario, Canada.
image copyrightHenry Nicholls / Reuters
image captionPeople in masks applaud at the end of a performance of The Show Must Go On, at the Palace Theatre, London.
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image captionNaomi Osaka of Japan serves in her first-round match against Patricia Maria Tig of Romania at the French Open at Roland Garros in Paris. The following day Osaka withdrew from the tournament, saying she had "suffered long bouts of depression" since winning her first Grand Slam title in 2018.
image copyrightMichael A. McCoy / Reuters
image captionOn Monday Americans marked Memorial Day, which commemorates US soldiers fallen in the Civil War and beyond. Here, a girl sits in front of a headstone at Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia.
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image captionVisitors to Klimt: The Immersive Experience, participate in an immersive room that features a presentation on the work of the Austrian painter Gustav Klimt, at IDEAL Centre d'Arts Digitals de Barcelona, Spain.
image copyrightSri Lanka Airforce / Reuters
image captionExperts fear hundreds of tonnes of oil from the X-Press Pearl could devastate marine life and the nearby beaches of Sri Lanka. The X-Press Pearl had been carrying 25 tonnes of nitric acid, along with other chemicals and cosmetics, when it caught fire on 20 May. Many of the ship's 1,486 containers tumbled into the sea before the blaze was put out this week.
image copyrightJose Casanares / AFP
image captionA sinkhole has appeared in a field of crops in Santa Maria Zacatepec, central Mexico.
image copyright Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images
image captionBillions of cicadas have emerged in the eastern US to molt, mate, lay eggs and die, after living underground for 17 years.
image copyrightStefan Gosatti / Getty Images
image captionA model on the runway during the Bassike Winter Collection 2021 show, during Afterpay Australian Fashion Week in Sydney.

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