The Week in Pictures: June 28, 2015
From joy at the gay-marriage decision in Washington to lethal heat wave in Pakistan, a look at the most compelling images from the past seven days.
Charles Platiau/Reuters
Washington, D.C.
June 26, 2015
Gay-rights supporters celebrate after the Supreme Court ruled that the Constitution provides same-sex couples the right to marry, outside the Supreme Court building. The court ruled 5-4 that the Constitution's guarantees of due process and equal protection under the law mean that states cannot ban same-sex marriages.
Jim Bourg/Reuters
Tal Abyad, Syria
June 22, 2015
Syrian refugees return to Syria’s Raqqa governorate, after Kurdish forces re-took control of the border town from Islamic State group militants. Some 23,000 Syrian refugees fled to Turkey due to clashes between Kurdish fighters and Islamic State jihadis.
Uygar Onder Simsek/AFP/Getty
Paris
June 25, 2015
French riot police push an overturned car as striking taxi drivers demonstrate at the Porte Maillot to block the traffic on the city’s ring road during a national protest against car-sharing service Uber.
Charles Platiau/Reuters
Karachi
June 23, 2015
A Pakistani volunteer checks identification papers of a heatstroke victim at a cold storage facility at the Edhi morgue. The death toll from a heat wave in southern Pakistan passed 1,000 as officials declared a state of emergency.
Rizwan Tabassum/AFP/Gallery
Nairobi, Kenya
June 23, 2015
A young boy carrying metal to sell walks by as a fire burns through part of Gikomba market, East Africa's largest secondhand clothing market.
Simon Maina/AFP/Getty
Berlin
June 24, 2015
Queen Elizabeth II inspects an honor guard at Bellevue Palace during a three-day visit in which she met with Chancellor Angela Merkel and toured the former Nazi concentration camp Bergen-Belsen.
John Macdougall/AFP/Getty
June 25, 2015
The sun emits a mid-level solar flare in this image captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory.
NASA/Reuters
Karo Regency, Indonesia
June 25, 2015
Hot lava flows from the Mount Sinabung volcano during eruption as seen from northern Sumatra province. More than 10,000 people from 12 villages along the slopes of the mountain left their homes and moved to refugee camps.
é Beawiharta Beawiharta / Reute
Jingtai County, China
June 20, 2015
A herder drives his sheep through a gate of the Yongtai ancient town in Gansu province.
China Daily/Reuters
Brussels
June 21, 2015
Clouds are reflected in the Midi Tower, the headquarters of the National Pensions Office, in the Belgian capital.
Charles Platiau/Reuters
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