The Week in Pictures: June 13, 2015
Michael Kappeler / Reuters
Kruen, Germany
June 8, 2015
German Chancellor Angela Merkel speaks with President Barack Obama outside the Elmau castle during a summit of the Group of Seven industrial nations in the Bavarian Alps.
Michael Kappeler / Reuters
Jianli, China
June 5, 2015
Rescue workers stand on the river bank as the capsized cruise ship Eastern Star is pulled out of the Yangtze at sunset in Hubei province. Only 14 survivors, one of them the captain, were found after the ship carrying 456 overturned in a freak tornado.
China Daily/Reuters
Baiji, Iraq
June 9, 2015
A leg allegedly belonging to a jihadi with the self-declared Islamic State group is seen hanging after it was found buried and then placed there by Shiites from the Popular Mobilization units fighting alongside Iraqi forces to retake the town north of Tikrit for a second time.
Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP/Getty
London
June 9, 2015
Poland’s Agnieszka Radwanska in action during the first round at the Aegon Open.
Reuters
Augusta, Italy
May 31, 2015
Red Cross workers help a migrant after he disembarked in a Sicilian harbor. The corpses of 17 migrants were brought ashore aboard an Italian naval vessel on Sunday, along with 454 survivors, as efforts intensified to rescue people fleeing war and poverty in Africa and the Middle East.
Antonio Parrinello / Reuters
Bossier City, Louisiana
June 8, 2015
Floodwaters engulf houses in the River Bluff subdivision. The surging Red River that flooded northwest Louisiana this week, affecting hundreds of structures and displacing scores of people, slowly began to recede, but was expected to be above flood stage for several more days.
Reuters
Vatican City
June 10, 2015
Russian President Vladimir Putin meets Pope Francis.
Gregorio Borgia/Reuters
Santiago, Chile
June 11, 2015
Chile’s Arturo Vidal (right) scores on a penalty kick against Ecuador’s goalie, Alexander Dominguez, during the opening match of the Copa America 2015 soccer tournament.
Ivan Alvarado / Reuters
Seoul
June 11, 2015
A couple wearing masks to prevent contracting Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) looks at each other as they ride on an escalator.
Kim Hong-Ji / Reuters
New Delhi
June 9, 2015
Buffalos escape a fire spreading on a patch of land by the Yamuna River, on a hot day in India.
Anindito Mukherjee / Reuters
Akcakale, Turkey
June 10, 2015
Syrian refugees wait for transportation after crossing the border from the Syrian town of Tal Abyad.
Osman Orsal / Reuters
Baku, Azerbaijan
June 11, 2015
Children walk outside the Heydar Aliyev Center, ahead of the European Games.
Stoyan Nenov / Reuters
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