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Week in pictures 18 May 2024

HANDLOVA: Security officers move Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico into a car after he was shot five times during an assassination attempt in Handlová, Slovakia, on Wednesday, May 15. Fico was conscious and able to speak on Thursday afternoon, but he was still in serious condition (Radovan Stoklasa/Reuters)

 

BALTIMORE: Explosive charges are set off at a portion of the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore on Monday, May 13. The charges helped demolish a portion of the bridge wreckage that was resting on the trapped cargo ship Dali (Leah Millis/Reuters)

 

PORT-AU-PRINCE: Houses sit on the slopes of the Jalousie neighborhood in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Monday, May 13. For more than two months, Port-au-Prince has been cut off from the world, its international seaport and airport shuttered following an explosion of gang attacks in late February (Ramon Espinosa/AP)

 

SPACE: NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this image of a solar flare on Saturday, May 11. Solar flares usually take place in active regions of the sun that include the presence of strong magnetic fields (NASA/SDO)

 

PUCON: Activity from the Villarrica volcano is seen from Pucón, Chile, on Sunday, May 12 (Cristobal Saavedra Escobar/Reuters)

 

SHEFFIELD: A person watches the northern lights from atop a rock formation near Sheffield, England, on Saturday, May 11 (Alastair Johnstone/Story Picture/Shutterstock)

 

NANJING: This aerial photo, taken on Monday, May 13, shows new cars waiting to be transported from a port in Nanjing, China (Fang Dongxu/Feature China/Future Publishing/Getty Images)

 

LONDON: Britain's King Charles III unveils an official portrait of himself at London's Buckingham Palace on Tuesday, May 14. The portrait, by artist Jonathan Yeo, is the King's first official portrait since his coronation (Aaron Chown/Pool/AFP/Getty Images)

 

MOSCOW: The Russian Knights aerobatic team flies over a monument of Russian poet Alexander Pushkin during a Victory Day parade in Moscow on Thursday, May 9. Victory Day marks the anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany in World War II (Marina Lystseva/Reuters)

 

SHIYUAN: Villagers work in a terraced field in Shiyuan, a village in Bijie, China, on Monday, May 13 (Costfoto/NurPhoto/Getty Images)

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