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Week in pictures: From Mexico’s new president to D-Day’s 80th commemoration

A roundup of some of last week’s events.

Mexico's presidential candidate for Morena party Claudia Sheinbaum celebrates following the results of the general election at Zocalo Square in Mexico City, on June 3
Claudia Sheinbaum celebrates following the results of the general election at Zocalo Square in Mexico City. Sheinbaum will be Mexico's first woman president, a milestone in a country with a history of gender-based violence. [Yuri Cortez/AFP]
Published On 9 Jun 2024

From the Pride March in New York City to anti-government protests in Tirana, here is the week in pictures.

People celebrate Brooklyn Pride Day as they cheer and dance during a parade in the Brooklyn borough of New York, U.S., June 8
People celebrate Brooklyn Pride day as they cheer and dance during an LGBTQIA+ parade in the Brooklyn borough of New York City in the United States. [Maye-E Wong/Reuters]
A person throws a drink in the face of newly appointed leader of Britain's right-wing populist party, Reform UK, and the party's parliamentary candidate for Clacton, Nigel Farage, during his general election campaign launch in Clacton-on-Sea, eastern England, on June 4
A person throws a drink in the face of newly appointed leader of Britain's right-wing populist party, Reform UK, and the party's parliamentary candidate for Clacton, Nigel Farage, during his general election campaign launch in Clacton-on-Sea, eastern England. [Ben Stansall/AFP]
Residents from the island of Gardi Sugdub walk to their new homes on the mainland in Nuevo Carti on Panama's Caribbean coast, Wednesday, June 5
Residents from the island of Gardi Sugdub walk to their new homes on the mainland in Nuevo Carti on Panama's Caribbean coast. About 300 families are moving to the mainland as government officials and scientists expect communities along Panama's Caribbean and Pacific coasts to be forced to relocate by rising sea levels in the coming decades. [Matias Delacroix/AP Photo]
Israeli right-wing activists scuffle with Palestinian freelance journalist Saif Kwasmi on June 5
Israeli activists scuffle with Palestinian journalist Saif Kwasmi during the so-called Flag March in Jerusalem, which commemorates the Israeli army's capture of the city's eastern sector in the 1967 war. [Hazem Bader/AFP]
Palestinians stand by their relatives killed in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip at al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir al Balah on Saturday, June 8
Palestinians retrieve the bodies of their relatives killed in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip, at Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir el-Balah. [Mohammed Hajjar/AP Photo]
Participants attend a candlelight vigil at Democracy Square in Taipei, Taiwan, Tuesday, June 4
Participants attend a candlelight vigil at Democracy Square in Taipei, Taiwan, to mark the 35th anniversary of the Chinese military crackdown on the pro-democracy movement in Beijing's Tiananmen Square. [Chiang Ying-ying/AP Photo]
A person votes in the European Union's parliamentary elections, in Nijmegen, Netherlands, June 6
A person votes in the European Union's parliamentary elections, in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. [Piroschka van de Wouw/Reuters]
India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi (C) flashes victory sign as he arrives at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) headquarters to celebrate the party’s win in country's general election, in New Delhi on June 4
India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi (centre) flashes a victory sign as he arrives at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) headquarters to celebrate the party's win in the country's general election, in New Delhi. Modi claimed election victory for his party and its allies, but the opposition said they had 'punished' the ruling party to confound predictions and reduce their parliamentary majority. [Arun Sankar/AFP]
Opposition suporters clash with police during a protest in front of the Albanian parliament in Tirana on June 6
Opposition supporters clash with police during a protest in front of the Albanian parliament in Tirana. Major opposition parties call for the government to resign after the broadcast of an investigative programme by Italian outlet RAI 3 on the possible connections of high-ranking officials with people from the crime world. [Adnan Beci/AFP]
A French Marine Commando paratrooper guides his red, white and blue parachute canopy past the church of Sainte-Mere-Eglise, where a mannequin effigy of WWII veteran US Army 82nd Airborne paratrooper John Steele hangs from the steeple, in Sainte-Mere-Eglise northwestern France, on June 5
A French Commandos Marine paratrooper guides his red, white and blue parachute canopy past the church of Sainte-Mere-Eglise, where a mannequin effigy of World War II veteran US Army 82nd Airborne paratrooper John Steele hangs from the steeple, in Sainte-Mere-Eglise northwestern France, as part of the "D-Day" commemorations marking the 80th anniversary of the World War II Allied landings in Normandy, France. [Miguel Medina/AFP]