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Week in Pictures: From deadly storms in US to forced displacement in Gaza

May 18, 2025

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Week in Pictures: From deadly storms in US to forced displacement in Gaza

A roundup of some of last week’s events.

Pilgrims march near the Colosseum carrying revered statues from Europe’s confraternities during the Grande Processione, in Rome, Italy. [Darrin Zammit Lupi/Reuters]

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From Palestinian commemorations of the Nakba, or “catastrophe”, of their mass dispossession during the creation of Israel in 1948 to floods in Argentina, here is a look at the week in photos.

Thousands of Palestinians in northern Gaza’s Beit Lahiya area fled their homes with essential belongings on Friday, after intense Israeli air raids on the area. [Jehad Alshrafi/AP Photo]

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Demonstrators travel by river to the mouth of the Rio Indio on Panama’s Caribbean coast to protest against a planned reservoir for the Panama Canal and President Jose Raul Mulino. [Matias Delacroix/AP Photo]

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un talks to military members as he inspects projectiles during a visit to an airfield in this photo released by the Korean Central News Agency. [KCNA via Reuters]

A woman checks on her malnourished child at Banadir Hospital in Mogadishu, Somalia. [Farah Abdi Warsameh/AP Photo]

Revellers carry an illuminated Mikoshi, a portable shrine, at the Senso-ji temple during the Sanja Matsuri, one of the three largest Shinto festivals in Tokyo, in the Asakusa district of Tokyo, Japan. [Manami Yamada/Reuters]

Palestinian refugee Zubaida al-Najjar, 90, who said she was forced from her home in the war surrounding Israel’s independence in 1948, holds her old house’s key as Palestinians commemorate the 77th anniversary of the Nakba, or catastrophe, in Hebron in the occupied West Bank. [Mussa Qawasma/Reuters]

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Service members Viktor Cherniy, 52, and Vitalii Yunatskyi, 40, wounded during fighting with Russian forces, and patients of the Mechnykov Hospital talk in an intensive care unit, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in Dnipro, Ukraine. [Alina Smutko/Reuters]

A young girl carries her dog as they reunite in the Sunshine Hills neighbourhood after a series of tornadoes hit Laurel County, in London, Kentucky, US. At least 27 people have been killed after storms hit the US states of Kentucky and Missouri. [Seth Herald/Reuters]

Residents and rescue workers evacuate a woman and her dogs on an inflatable boat through a flooded street following heavy rains in Campana, Argentina. [Rodrigo Abd/AP Photo]

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