Week in pictures: 3-9 June 2023
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A selection of powerful news photographs taken around the world this week.
Buddhist monks pray during a ceremony on Vesak Day, an annual celebration of the Buddha's birth, enlightenment and death, at the Wat Phra Dhammakaya Temple, north of Bangkok, the Thai capital.
The Princess of Wales showed off her rugby skills during a visit to Maidenhead Rugby Club, to talk about the importance of community clubs in the early years of childhood.
A veteran wipes away tears during the Royal British Legion Service of Remembrance to commemorate the 79th anniversary of the D-Day landings, at the British Normandy Memorial in Ver-sur-Mer, France.
Police in Hong Kong detained several protestors on the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre. Authorities have banned public commemoration of the 1989 incident, which saw China crush peaceful protests in Beijing with tanks and troops.
Six rivers overflowed and more than 500 people were evacuated from their homes, following 12 hours of rainfall in Ecuador. Here Patricio, who's nine, stands on a floating refrigerator while holding school supplies which he managed to salvage after his family home was flooded.
Two passenger trains and a stationary goods train crashed, killing 288 people in the eastern state of Odisha, India. More than 1,000 people were injured in the crash, which is India's worst rail accident this century.
Police fired tear gas to disperse Kenyans demonstrating in the capital, Nairobi, against government plans to impose higher taxes.
Millions of people in North America were warned about the health risks of poor air quality, as toxic wildfire smoke from Canada drifted across the continent. In New York City, the Statue of Liberty could just be seen through the orange haze.
Rescuers evacuate residents from a flooded area of Kherson after the Kakhovka dam, in southern Ukraine, was breached. It's in territory controlled by Russia. Both sides in the conflict blame the other for the shelling of the dam.
Cleaners abseil down the walls of Warwick Castle to "de-weed" and tidy up the 800-year-old stonework, ahead of the summer season.
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