Toy Soldiers, Protests and Voting: Week in Photos
From Yemen’s front lines to a devotee massive Waterloo battlefield in miniatures, a look at the most compelling images from the past seven days.
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Aden, Yemen
May 3, 2015
A Southern Popular Resistance fighter fires a weapon mounted on a truck during clashes with Houthi fighters. Between 40-50 Arab special-forces soldiers arrived and deployed alongside local fighters against the Houthi militia this week.
Reuters
Kathmandu, Nepal
May 3, 2015
A Nepalese army staffer holds the baby of an earthquake victim after being airlifted from Sindhupalchok District.
Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters
Diest, Belgium
April 29, 2015
Figurines representing the French Brigade of Lancers are seen on a 40-square-meter miniature model of the June 18, 1815, Waterloo battlefield. Waterloo enthusiast Willy Smout said he spent 40,000 hours and €150,000 over the past 40 years to recreate the battlefield as closely as possible in a special room in his house.
Francois Lenoir/Reuters
Gaza City, Gaza Strip
May 6, 2015
A Palestinian worker salvages metal as others clear the rubble of houses that witnesses said were destroyed by Israeli shelling during a 50-day war last summer.
Mohammed Salem/Reuters
Bujumbura, Burundi
May 5, 2015
Protesters stand at a barricade in the capital city. Burundi’s constitutional court cleared President Pierre Nkurunziza to run for a controversial third term, as the government offered to release protesters if days of deadly demonstrations stopped.
Phil Moore/AFP/Getty
Hull, Northern England
May 7, 2015
A woman arrives to vote at the Ush Hair hairdressing salon, which was used as a polling station for Britain’s general election.
Oli Scaff/AFP/Getty
Johannesburg, South Africa
May 8, 2015
South African police officers, backed by soldiers from the South African Defense Force, arrest undocumented immigrants and foreign nationals. More than 300 illegal immigrants and foreign nationals were taken into custody.
Mujahid Safodien/AFP/Getty
Cape Canaveral, Florida
May 6, 2015
The unmanned SpaceX Crew Dragon lifts off from launch pad 40 during a Pad Abort Test.
Scott Audette/Reuters
Prague, Czech Republic
May 4, 2015
Goaltender Ondrej Pavelec of the Czech Republic (top) reacts after a goal during the Ice Hockey World Championship game against Canada at the O2 arena.
David W Cerny/Reuters
Central Valley, California
May 6, 2015
A field of dead almond trees is seen next to a field of growing almond trees. Almonds, a major component of farming in California, use up some 10 percent of the state's water reserves, according to some estimates. California ranks as the top farm state by annual value of agricultural products, most of which are produced in this vast, fertile region stretching 450 miles. California water regulators on Tuesday adopted the state's first rules for mandatory cutbacks in urban water use as the region's catastrophic drought enters its fourth year. Urban users will be hardest hit, even though they account for only 20 percent of state water consumption, while the state's massive agricultural sector, which the Public Policy Institute of California says uses 80 percent of human-related consumption, has been exempted.
Lucy Nicholson/Reuters
Rome
May 5, 2015
A street musician carries a contrabass as a little girl takes a pictures with a cellphone.
Alberto Pizzoli/AFP/Getty
Duesseldorf, Germany
May 5, 2015
Two Canada goose goslings are pictured on a daisy meadow at the Volksgarten park.
Maja Hitij/AFP/Getty
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