Pictorial: The week around the world in 22 pictures
May 02, 2021
Plenty of news unfolded in the last seven days. Here is a selection of pictures from around the world throughout the week:(All photos by AFP)
On Tuesday, in India's capital New Delhi, family members and relatives performed the last rites amid funeral pyres of victims who died of COVID-19 during mass cremation held at a crematorium.
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In an era of a global pandemic due to the coronavirus, you will notice that the theme of death is ubiquitous in this pictorial roundup, with more attention paid to India, where nearly 19 million coronavirus cases have thus far been recorded, and over 15 million recoveries registered.
More than 200,000 people have succumbed to COVID-19 in the South-Asian nation. But the COVID-19 death toll is even higher in Brazil - over 400,000.
The day before, this man prayednext to a burning pyre of a victim who died of coronavirus at a cremation ground also in New Delhi.
The same day (Monday), Umar Farooq mourned next to the body of his mother, who succumbed to COVID-19, before her burial at a graveyard in Srinagar, India.
On Wednesday, in New Delhi, health workers wearing personal protective equipment (PPE kit) attended to coronavirus patients inside a banquet hall temporarily converted into a COVID care centre in New Delhi on April 28, 2021. (Photo by Prakash SINGH / AFP)
The following day, a gravedigger walked among graves of COVID-19 victims at the Nossa Senhora Aparecida cemetery in Manaus, Amazonas state, Brazil.
On Friday, paramedics and ultra-Orthodox Jewish men stood next to covered bodies after dozens of people were killed and others injured after a grandstand collapsed in Meron, Israel, where tens of thousands of people were gathered to celebrate the festival of Lag Ba'omer at the site in northern Israel.
Hours before, on Thursday, ultra-Orthodox Jews gathered at the grave site of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai at Mount Meron in northern Israel, as they celebrated the Jewish holiday of Lag BaOmer, marking the anniversary of the death of the Talmudic sage, approximately 1,900 years ago.
On Wednesday, demonstrators clashed with riot police during a protest against a tax reform bill launched by Colombian President Ivan Duque, in Bogota.
Workers' unions, teachers, civil organizations, indigenous people and other sectors rejected the project that is underway in Congress, considering that it punishes the middle class and is inappropriate in the midst of the crisis unleashed by the pandemic.
Meanwhile, on Friday, protesters held up the three finger salute as they marched in the rain during a demonstration against the military coup in Yangon, Myanmar.
On Monday, women wearing black clothing and face masks with radioactivity sign marched under umbrellas in Belarus' capital Minsk to commemorate the victims of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster on the 35th anniversary of the tragedy.
The same day, in Italy, musicians and chorus of the Fenice Opera theatre performed the “Verdi e la Fenice” ( Verdi and the Fenice ) to mark the reopening of the Fenice Opera theater in Venice, as bars, restaurants, cinemas and concert halls partially reopened across Italy in a boost for coronavirus-hit businesses, as parliament debated the government's 220-billion-euro ($266-billion) EU-funded recovery plan.
A band plays music as a Long March 5B rocket, which carries China's Tianhe space station core module, lifts off from the Wenchang Space Launch Center, in southern China's Hainan province on April 29, 2021. (Photo by STR / AFP) / China OUT)
Also on Monday, Palestinian members of Hamas' security forces rappeled along the wall of a building as they showed off their skills during a police graduation ceremony in Gaza City.
On Thursday, US President Joe Biden picked a dandelion flower for First Lady Jill Biden as they departed on Marine One from the Ellipse in Washington, DC. President Biden traveled to Georgia to mark his first 100 days in office.
This aerial shot taken the same day showed the 516 Arouca Bridge, the world's longest pedestrian suspension bridge with a length of 516 metres and a height of 175 metres, in Arouca in northern Portugal.
On Wednesday, this man celebrated after health workers inoculated Maximiliana Quispe with a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine against COVID-19, at her house in El Agustino district in Lima, Peru.
On Sunday, this Iraqi woman cleaned debris next to evacuated oxygen bottles outdoors at the Ibn Al-Khatib Hospital in Iraq's capital Baghdad, after a fire erupted in the medical facility reserved for the most severe coronavirus cases. At least 23 people died when the fire broke out in a coronavirus intensive care unit.
That day, this man placed flowers on a makeshift shrine as people from various religions gathered to offer prayers for the 53 sailors trapped in the submarine in Surabaya, as Indonesia's military confirmed that all 53 crew were dead.
Also on Sunday, France's Melanie De Jesus Dos Santos competed in the Women's beam apparatus final of the 2021 European Artistic Gymnastics Championships at the St Jakobshalle, in Basel, Switzerland.
At Union Station in Los Angeles, on Sunday, Yuh-Jung Youn (L) winner of the award for best actress in a supporting role for "Minari," Daniel Kaluuya, winner of the award for best actor in a supporting role for "Judas and the Black Messiah," and Frances McDormand, winner of the award for best actress in a leading role for "Nomadland," posed outside the press room at the Oscars.
British actor Daniel Kaluuya, who was born to Ugandan parents in London, posed with his Oscar award.
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