Every week, Zaborona publishes photos that highlight important events of the last seven days. This time, the editorial team selected images from the visit of the Japanese Prime Minister to the United States, the arrest of environmental activist Greta Thunberg, a protest against trans rights in Scotland, a French athlete’s record-breaking rope climb to the Eiffel Tower, and other important events of the past week.
Washington, DC
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton (C) joins other guests for a state dinner in honor of Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in the East Room of the White House for a state dinner on April 10, 2024 in Washington, DC. Biden welcomed Kishida for an official state visit where the two leaders announced new agreements on technology and strengthening military and economic partnerships against Chinese aggression in the Indo-Pacific region. Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
Kibbutz Nir Oz, Israel
A picture shows labels marking mailboxes of residents, killed (red), kidnapped (black), and released (blue), in a mailroom in Kibbutz Nir Oz during a passover ceremony and a gathering to call for the immediate release of the hostages being held by Hamas, on April 11, 2024, amid continuing battles between Israel and Hamas. Photo: JACK GUEZ/AFP via Getty Images
The Hague, The Netherlands
Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg (C) is arrested during a climate march against fossil subsidies near the highway A12 in The Hague, on April 6, 2024. Dozens of police officers, some on horseback, blocked protesters from reaching the A12 arterial highway into the Dutch seaside city, the scene of previous actions organised by the Extinction Rebellion (XR) group. Photo: RAMON VAN FLYMEN/ANP/AFP via Getty Images
Monte Carlo, Monaco
Italy’s Lorenzo Musetti (L) plays a backhand return to Serbia’s Novak Djokovic during their Monte Carlo ATP Masters Series Tournament round of 16 tennis match on the Rainier III court at the Monte Carlo Country Club on April 11, 2024. Photo: VALERY HACHE/AFP via Getty Images
Varanasi, India
A student from a Hindu religious school gathers with others after offering prayers to the sun god on the occasion of the Hindu new year on the banks of the Ganges River at Kedar Ghat in Varanasi on April 9, 2024. Photo: NIHARIKA KULKARNI/AFP via Getty Images
Russellville, Arkansas
A bride and groom view the solar eclipse amid a darkened sky after marrying at a mass wedding at the Total Eclipse of the Heart festival on April 8, 2024 in Russellville, Arkansas. Millions of people have flocked to areas across North America that are in the “path of totality” in order to experience a total solar eclipse. Photo: Mario Tama/Getty Images
Sanaa, Yemen
Yemenis visit tombs of relatives after the morning Eid al-Fitr prayer at a mosque in the capital Sanaa on April 10, 2024. Eid al-Fitr festivities marking the end of the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan are celebrated in most of the Middle East countries. Photo: MOHAMMED HUWAIS/AFP via Getty Images
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Vietnamese property tycoon Truong My Lan (C) looks on at a court in Ho Chi Minh City on April 11, 2024. A top Vietnamese property tycoon could face the death penalty when she and dozens of other co-accused face verdicts on April 11 in one of the country’s biggest fraud cases over the embezzlement of USD 12.5 billion. Photo: STR/AFP via Getty Images
Paris, France
Athlete and Olympics torch-bearer Anouk Garnier climbs a 110-meter-long rope in the center of the Eiffel Tower to reach the 2nd floor and to break the world record for rope climbing on April 10, 2024 in Paris, France. An elite athlete in obstacle courses for more than 8 years, Anouk Garnier has a track record of more than 25 international podiums. The success of this feat, entitled Eiffel Tower Monumental 100, makes it possible to set a new world record for men and women combined, but also the opportunity to collect donations for the benefit of the League Against Cancer. Photo: Chesnot/Getty Images
Myanma
A member of a Myanmar militia carries a weapon across the Moei river on the Myanmar side, as seen from Thailand’s Mae Sot district on April 11, 2024. Thailand’s foreign minister said the kingdom, which shares a 2,400-kilometre (1,490-mile) border with Myanmar, was prepared to accept 100,000 people fleeing after clashes between the junta and an ethnic armed group near a vital trade hub. Photo: MANAN VATSYAYANA/AFP via Getty Images
Kharkiv, Ukraine
People sit on a bench as they check their smartphones in a street during a blackout following Russian attacks on a city’s energy infrastructure in Kharkiv, on April 8, 2024, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Photo: ROMAN PILIPEY/AFP via Getty Images
Vatican City
A gust of wind lifts Pope Francis’ mantle during the weekly general audience on April 10, 2024 at St Peter’s square in The Vatican. Photo: ANDREAS SOLARO/AFP via Getty Images
Bayeux, France
This aerial photograph taken on April 9, 2024, shows the British War Cemetary of Bayeux, northwestern France. June 6th, 2024 will mark the 80th anniversary of the Allied D-Day landings on Normandy beaches, which many considered to be the beginning of the end of World War II in Europe. Photo: LOU BENOIST/AFP via Getty Images
Kostiantynivka, Ukraine
A multi-story residential building and stores remain heavily damaged by a Russian aerial bombing of a residential area with a KAB-500 guided bomb on April 10, 2024 in Kostiantynivka, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. On April 9, the Russian army dropped three 500-kilogram guided aerial bombs on the city, one of which hit a private residential building, where two adults and a child were killed. Another bomb hit a residential area near the railroad station, leaving high-rise residential buildings, a church and stores damaged. Photo: Andriy Reznikov/Suspilne Ukraine/JSC “UA:PBC”/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images
Vent, Austria
Rescue teams prepare for an avalanche operation in the village of Vent in the Oetztal valley on April 11, 2024 near Vent, Austria. According to initial reports two people are confirmed dead, ten are missing and four were rescued following the avalanche that occurred below the Martin Busch mountain hut earlier today in mountainous terrain at the end of the valley. Photo: Jan Hetfleisch/Getty Images
Pasadena, California
The NASA Europa Clipper spacecraft is viewed inside a Spacecraft Assembly Facility clean room at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) on April 11, 2024 in Pasadena, California. The spacecraft is scheduled to investigate and perform flybys of Europa, Jupiter’s moon, where data suggests a global ocean of water lies beneath the icy surface which may be habitable for life. The spacecraft is scheduled to launch from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida in October. Photo: Mario Tama/Getty Images
Edinburgh, Scotland
Transgender rights counter protestors wearing costumes smile as they disrupt a demonstration by Let Women Speak on April 06, 2024 in Edinburgh, Scotland. Counter protesters deployed cabaret and bagpipes in response to a “Let Women Speak” event led by political activist Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull, who goes by the moniker Posie Parker. Parker regards herself as a defender of women’s rights and has called being transgender “a quasi religious cult” that should be kept out of schools, the judiciary and all government institutions. Her critics accuse her of spreading hate against the trans community. Photo: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images
Pokrovka, Kazakhstan
Kazakh rescuers evacuate residents of the flooded settlement of Pokrovka, some 90 km from the city of Petropavl, in northern Kazakhstan close to the border with Russia on April 9, 2024. Water levels in overflowing rivers were still rising on April 9, 2024 in swathes of Russia and Kazakhstan that have been hit by massive floods, with Russia’s city of Orenburg and western Siberia bracing for a new peak. Both Astana and Moscow have called the floods the worst in decades, introducing a state of emergency as water covered entire cities and villages. More than 100,000 people have been evacuated from the rising water — mostly in Kazakhstan. Photo: EVGENIY LUKYANOV/AFP via Getty Images
Chasiv Yar, Ukraine
This photograph taken on April 11, 2024, near the town of Chasiv Yar, in Donetsk region, shows smoke rising from fires after bombing. Photo: ANATOLII STEPANOV/AFP via Getty Images
