Week in Photos: May 24, 2014

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From historic floods in Bosnia to a sloth in Brazil and preparations for Pope Francis’s first-ever visit to Bethlehem, see the week’s most striking images.

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Felipe Dana/AP

Morek, Syria

Badi Khlif/Reuters

Bambari, Central African Republic

Goran Tomasevic/Reuters

Bambari, Central African Republic

Goran Tomasevic/Reuters

Istanbul, Turkey

Yagiz Karahan /Reuters

Zepce, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Dado Ruvic/Reuters

Delhi, India

Kevin Frayer/Getty

Rome, New York

Jonathan Ernst/Reuters

Blahodatne, Ukraine

Ivan Sekretarev/AP

Nairobi, Kenya

Ben Curtis/AP

Manaus, Brazil

Felipe Dana/AP

Melbourne, Australia

Quinn Rooney/Getty

Cannes, France

Benoit Tessier/Reuters

Bethlehem, West Bank

Ilia Yefimovich/Getty