Every week, Zaborona publishes photos that highlight important events of the last seven days in Ukraine and the world. This time, the photo editor selected photos of US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken’s visit to Kyiv, the construction of a wall on the border between the Dominican Republic and Haiti, the anniversary of the end of the Sri Lankan civil war, and the unveiling of a giant portrait of King Charles III in red in London.
Baltimore, Maryland
Crews conduct a controlled demolition of a section of the Francis Scott Key Bridge resting on the Dali container ship in Baltimore on May 13, 2024. The Francis Scott Key Bridge, a major transit route into the busy port of Baltimore, collapsed on March 26 when the Dali container ship lost power and collided into a support column, killing six roadway construction workers. Photo: ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP via Getty Images
Kharkiv, Ukraine
At 5:30 in the morning, while there are no cars or shelling, schoolchildren prepare for the prom and rehearse a dance on May 11, 2024 in Kharkiv, Ukraine. The Russian Federation regularly bombards Kharkiv during the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian war. Photo: Yan Dobronosov/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images
Belfast, Northern Ireland
Little Amal is greeted by performers telling the story of Northern Ireland through song and dance upon her arrival in Belfast on May 16, 2024 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Little Amal, a 12-foot-tall puppet symbolising children of war, arrived by boat via the River Lagan for four days of free events focusing on diversity and inclusion. Photo: Charles McQuillan/Getty Images
Lajeado, Brasil
Military personnel help people crossing a footbridge from Arroio do Meio to Lajeado, over the Forquilha river, since the bridge over the river on the Rodovia RS130 fell down during the recent floods, in Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil, on May 15, 2024. Rivers in south Brazil rose anew on the eve, as flood rescue efforts intensified. Up to now, heavy rains, flooding and mudslides that have ravaged the southern Rio Grande do Sul state for about two weeks have left 147 people killed, about 600,000 people displaced, more than 800 injured and 124 people reported missing. Photo: NELSON ALMEIDA/AFP via Getty Images
Annapolis, Maryland
In a crush of arms and legs, first-year Naval Academy “plebes” work to build a human pyramid around the vegetable shortening-covered Herndon Monument with the goal of knocking off a “dixie cup” hat and replacing it with an upperclassman’s hat at the U.S. Naval Academy on May 15, 2024 in Annapolis, Maryland. Members of the 2027 midshipmen’s class took two hours and 19 minutes to scale the 21-foot greased monument and replace the hats, signifying the end of their “plebe” or first year at the academy. Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
Mullativu, Sri Lanka
Lud Manika, 45, cries as she talks about her murdered daughter, Arasula Amirthathasan, 8, on May 15, 2024 in Mullativu Sri Lanka. On May 13, 2009, Manica lost her daughter Arusula Amirthathasan, her sister and her mother, to an army artillery attack at the tent camp in Mullivaikkal. Fifteen years since the end of a 26-year-long civil war that killed approximately 100,000 people in Sri Lanka. Photo: Buddhika Weerasinghe/Getty Images
Cannes, France
French actress Judith Godreche (C) gestures as she poses with women belonging to associations working to prevent violence against women, on the stairs of the Palais des Festivals, on the sidelines of the 77th edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southern France, on May 16, 2024. Photo: VALERY HACHE/AFP via Getty Images
Yerevan, Armenia
Armenian law enforcement officers detain a demonstrator who attempted to block a street in a protest against land transfer to neighbouring Azerbaijan, in Yerevan on May 14, 2024. Armenia has agreed to hand over territory it has controlled since the 1990s and has started border delimitation efforts, in a bid to secure an elusive peace deal with Baku and avoid another bloody conflict. Photo: KAREN MINASYAN/AFP via Getty Images
Varanasi, India
Indian Prime minister Narendra Modi waves to supporters during his roadshow on May 13, 2024 in Varanasi, India. Varanasi, in India’s Hindu heartland, is seen as a symbolic stronghold for Narendra Modi’s BJP Party. India’s 2024 general election is set to be the world’s largest democratic exercise, with over 969 million registered voters, more than the combined population of the EU, US, and Russia. The election process, lasting 82 days, will be held in seven phases, covering the entire country from the Himalayas to the Indian Ocean, with an estimated 15 million polling staff and security personnel. The election is expected to cost $14.4 billion, making it the world’s most expensive, with political parties and candidates spending lavishly to woo voters. Photo: Ritesh Shukla/Getty Images
Yasothon, Thailand
Participants launch home-made rockets during the “Bun Bang Fai” rocket festival on May 12, 2024 in Yasothon, Thailand. The rocket festival, known locally as “Bun Bang Fai” in Yasothon, Thailand, is an annual celebration in the northeastern Isaan region where villagers launch homemade rockets, crafted from bamboo and PVC pipe, into the sky as a plea to the gods for rain before the rice-growing season. Photo: Lauren DeCicca/Getty Images
Tbilisi, Georgia
Police Force attend a protest against the foreign agents law as two Americans and one Russian citizen are among 20 detained on May 13, 2024 in Tbilisi, Georgia. The bill, which says media, NGO’s and other non-profits must register as “pursuing the interests of a foreign power” if more than 20 percent of their funding comes from abroad, is due for its third and final reading on May 13. Photo: Daro Sulakauri/Getty Images
Kyiv, Ukraine
Women in embroidered vyshyvankas talks near the statue which symbolizes the victims of the Holodomor (famine) also known as the ‘Bitter Memory of Childhood’ dress in embroidered shirt on May 16, 2024 in Kyiv, Ukraine. Vyshyvanka Day is an international holiday that aims to preserve the Ukrainian folk traditions of creating and wearing ethnic embroidered clothes called vyshyvanka. It is celebrated on the third Thursday of May. Vyshyvankas are, along with pysankas (traditional Ukrainian Easter eggs), one of the best known symbols of Ukrainian culture. Photo: Oleksii Chumachenko/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (Centre-L) performs “Rockin’ in the Free World” with members of The 1999 band at the Barman Dictat bar in Kyiv on May 14, 2024. The United States will back Ukraine until the country’s security is “guaranteed,” US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a speech in Kyiv on May 14, 2024. Photo: BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/POOL/AFP via Getty Images
People clean the memorial to fallen defenders of Ukraine at the Maidan Nezalezhnosti on May 14, 2024 in Kyiv, Ukraine. The makeshift memorial made of thousands of personalized small flags to fallen defenders of Ukraine, organized by people on Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Independence Square), continues to grow amid the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian war. Photo: Oleksii Samsonov/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images
Seoul, South Korea
Buddhists carry lanterns in a parade during the Lotus Lantern Festival to celebrate the upcoming birthday of Buddha on May 11, 2024 in Seoul, South Korea. Buddha was born approximately 2,568 years ago, and although the exact date is unknown, Buddha’s official birthday is celebrated on the full moon in May in South Korea, which is on May 15 this year. Photo: Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images
Whitley Bay, England
People visit St Mary’s lighthouse in Whitley Bay to see the aurora borealis, commonly known as the northern lights, on May 10, 2024 in Whitley Bay, England. The UK met office said a strong solar storm may allow northern parts of the UK the chance to see displays of aurora. Photo: Ian Forsyth/Getty Images
Pedernales, Dominican Republic
Haitian citizens walk past the border wall being built in the Dominican Republic-Haiti border, in Pedernales, Dominican Republic on May 15, 2024. In an attempt to curb illegal migration, the Dominican government is constructing a “symbolic wall” along the 340-kilometer border between the Dominican Republic and Haiti, covering 160 kilometers and starting in Pedernales, the least populated coastal province. Photo: FEDERICO PARRA/AFP via Getty Images
Badakhshan province, Afghanistan
Afghan security personnel destroy a poppy field in the Argo district of Badakhshan province on May 14, 2024. Clashes broke out on May 13 between Taliban forces tasked with clearing poppy crops and farmers in Afghanistan’s northeastern Badakhshan province, residents told AFP. Photo: OMER ABRAR/AFP via Getty Images
Handlova, Slovakia
Picture taken on May 15, 2024 shows security personnel apprehending a suspected gunman (C/GROUND) after Slovakia’s Prime Minister was shot in Handlova, Slovakia on May 15, 2024. Slovakia’s Prime Minister Robert Fico was battling life-threatening wounds after officials said he was shot multiple times in an assassination attempt condemned by European leaders. Photo: -/AFP via Getty Images
Shekef, Israel
A damaged trailer truck that was carrying humanitarian aid supplies is parked along the Israeli side of Israel’s controversial separation barrier with the West Bank near the village of Shekef on May 13, 2024, after it was vandalised by right-wing Israeli activists to protest against aid being sent to the Gaza Strip. Photo: OREN ZIV/AFP via Getty Images
London, England
Members of the public view a newly installed painting of King Charles III at The Philip Mould Gallery on May 16, 2024 in London, England. The Philip Mould Gallery on Pall Mall is showing the first portrait of King Charles III to be issued since the Coronation. The vast oil on canvas, measuring 8ft 6in by 6ft 6in, shows a larger-than-life King Charles in the uniform of the Welsh Guards and is painted by celebrated artist Jonathan Yeo. Photo: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images
Beijing, China
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and China’s President Xi Jinping attend an official welcoming ceremony in front of the Great Hall of the People in Tiananmen Square in Beijing on May 16, 2024. Photo: SERGEI BOBYLYOV/POOL/AFP via Getty Images
Vinnytsia, Ukraine
Mariana, a mother of late Ukrainian serviceman of the Azov Brigade Nazary Gryntsevych, callsign “Grinka”, who was killed on the battlefield, gives a final touch to his coffin during a funeral at a cemetery in Vinnytsia, on May 10, 2024, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. “Grinka” was one of the youngest soldiers to hold the Azovstal plant in the southern city of Mariupol during a three-month-long siege that gave its defenders a cult status. Russian troops ended up seizing Mariupol in May 2022 and capturing Gryntsevych, before allowing him to return as part of a prisoner deal. Later Gryntsevych was back on the battlefield. Photo: ROMAN PILIPEY/AFP via Getty Images
