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Week in pictures 8 June 2024

COLLEVILLE-SUR-MER: From left, French first lady Brigitte Macron, French President Emmanuel Macron, US President Joe Biden and US first lady Jill Biden arrive for a D-Day ceremony at the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial in Colleville-sur-Mer, France, on Thursday, June 6 (Evan Vucci/AP)

 

LONDON: Real Madrid players celebrate with the trophy after winning the Champions League final on Saturday, June 1. Madrid defeated Borussia Dortmund 2-0 to win its record-extending 15th European Cup (Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP)

 

TRACY: A home near Tracy, California, burns during the Corral Fire on Saturday, June 1. The grass fire began in Tracy on Saturday, forcing some evacuations (Kent Porter/The Press Democrat/AP)

 

NEW DELHI: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is greeted by supporters as he arrives at his party's headquarters in New Delhi on Tuesday, June 4. Modi declared victory in national elections on Tuesday, but his goal of winning an unassailable majority was left in tatters after voters delivered a shock result that reduced the extent of his party's grip on power (Manish Swarup/AP)

 

NOROGACHI: A Rarámuri woman casts her ballot at a polling station in Norogachi, Mexico, on Sunday, June 2. Mexico elected Claudia Sheinbaum, a physicist and former mayor of Mexico City, as its first female president (Jose Luis Gonzalez/Reuters)

 

BANGKOK: People cheer during the Bangkok Pride Parade in Bangkok, Thailand, on Saturday, June 1. Earlier this year, Thailand's House of Representatives voted to legalize same-sex marriage, bringing the country a step closer to becoming the third territory in Asia to guarantee equal marital rights (Lauren DeCicca/Getty Images)

 

CAPE CANAVERAL: Boeing's Starliner spacecraft, atop an Atlas V rocket, lifts off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Wednesday, June 5. On what was its maiden voyage, the Starliner carried two NASA astronauts to the International Space Station (Chris O'Meara/AP)

 

TAN-TAN: Abrams tanks are driven in southwestern Morocco's Tan-Tan region on Friday, May 31, during the annual "African Lion" joint military exercise involving US and Moroccan forces (Fadel Senna/AFP/Getty Images)

 

LIANYUNGANG: An employee works at a seedling nursery in Lianyungang, China, on Wednesday, June 5 (AFP/Getty Images)

 

NUSEIRAT: People in Nuseirat, Gaza, look inside a United Nations-run school that was struck by an overnight Israeli airstrike on Thursday, June 6. At least 40 people were killed in the strike, according to medical workers at the nearby Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital (Bashar Taleb/AFP/Getty Images)

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