Our selection of some of the most striking news photographs taken around the world this week.
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Image copyright HINDUSTAN TIMES/GETTY IMAGES Image caption Pre-monsoon showers lashed Mumbai, causing difficulties for residents with water-logging, fallen trees and disruption of flights and road transport in India’s largest city. . .
Image copyright JANE BARLOW/PA Image caption A northern gannet picks up seaweed on Bass Rock, in Scotland’s Firth of Forth. Thousands of the sea birds are gathering nest material as they prepare for the new breeding season, forming the largest single-island colony of gannets in the world. . .
Image copyright CARLOS JASSO/REUTERS Image caption Residents rest during a search in San Miguel Los Lotes, following the eruption of Guatemala’s Fuego volcano. The eruption from one of Central America’s most active volcanoes affected 1.7 million people and killed scores of people. . .
Image copyright PETER NICHOLLS/ REUTERS Image caption Queen Elizabeth II attended the UK’s Epsom Derby festival at the Surrey racecourse. The Queen has owned and bred horses throughout her reign and is respected for her expertise. . .
Image copyright HERIKA MARTINEZ/AFP Image caption American activists protest against plans for a steel wall between Santa Teresa, New Mexico, and Ejido San Jeronimo in Chihuahua, at the US-Mexico border. . .
Image copyright SHAMIL ZHUMATOV/REUTERS Image caption The Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft blasts off from the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, heading for the International Space Station. The craft was carrying astronauts Serena Aunon-Chancellor, from the US, Alexander Gerst, from Germany and cosmonaut Sergey Prokopyev, from Russia. . .
Image copyright ALLISON JOYCE/GETTY IMAGES Image caption A girl holds a baby outside a plastics factory on a canal leading to the highly-polluted Buriganga river in Dhaka, Bangladesh. . .
Image copyright JANE BARLOW/PA Image caption Musician Thoren Ferguson plays the Il Mare violin in the sea at Yellowcraigs, East Lothian, Scotland. Made from driftwood, the instrument was unveiled ahead of World Oceans Day. . .
Image copyright IVAN ALVARADO/REUTERS Image caption Demonstrators surround a police vehicle during a march in Santiago, Chile. Thousands of people joined the protest against sexual harassment and sexist behaviour in universities and schools. . .
Image copyright INTS KALNINS/REUTERS Image caption A US Air Force F-16 fighter approaches an aerial refuelling aircraft during the US-led Saber Strike exercise over Estonia. . .
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