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Week in pictures: 29 June
A selection of striking news photographs taken around the world this week.
A Thai Royal Navy oarsman takes part in the sacred ritual to worship Royal Barges, which will be used in a procession for the King’s 72nd birthday celebrations in Bangkok.
People wave Chinese flags during an event in Hong Kong to mark the 27th anniversary of Hong Kong’s sovereignty transfer from Britain to China on 1 July 1997.
New Yorkers celebrate during their annual Pride March. It commemorates the Stonewall Riots of 1969, after police raided the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village.
Police use tear gas to clear demonstrators at Place de la Republique in Paris, during a rally against the far-right after the announcement of the results of the first round of parliamentary elections.
A man walks on a flooded beach after the passage of Hurricane Beryl, in Bridgetown, Barbados. The storm brought devastating winds and heavy rain to several Caribbean islands, as the earliest-ever Category 4 storm churned westward.
Debris piled high along the beach front of Manresa in Santo Domingo, as the Dominican Republic emerged almost unscathed. The storm shocked meteorologists – taking just 42 hours to go from a tropical depression to a major hurricane.
Tens of thousands of people in northern California have been ordered to evacuate, as wildfires grow across the state amid a heatwave. About 28,000 people were told to leave their homes after the Thompson Fire broke out this week.
A person with hair in the style of a tennis ball, heads towards the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, London, on day one of the Wimbledon Championships.
King Charles III welcomes Sir Keir Starmer during an audience at Buckingham Palace, London, where he invited the leader of the Labour Party to become Prime Minister and form a new government, following a landslide General Election victory.
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