Week in Photos: May 25, 2013
From flags at Arlington for Memorial Day to the Oklahoma tornado, see the week’s most striking images.
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May 24, 2013
Children run away after an explosion in Kabul. Several large blasts rocked a busy area in the center on Friday, and witnesses described shooting in the area.
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May 24, 2013
An Afghan policeman fires his weapon during a gunbattle following a suicide attack in Kabul. A suicide bomber struck on Friday, sending a plume of smoke billowing over Kabul and setting off a gunbattle inthe city. According to police, it was the second major attack in the city in little over a week.
Ahmad Jamshid/AP
May 21, 2013
This aerial view shows an entire neighborhood destroyed by Monday’s tornado. A huge twister roared through the Oklahoma City suburb, flattening entire neighborhoods and destroying an elementary school with a direct blow as children and teachers huddled against winds.
Tony Gutierrez/AP
May 22, 2013
Mourners react during the funeral of Cpl. William Savage from The Royal Highland Fusiliers, 2nd Battalion, the Royal Regiment of Scotland at Glencorse Kirk. Cpl. Savage was killed along with Fusilier Samuel Flint and Pvt. Robert Hetherington when their Mastiff vehicle was hit by an improvised explosive device while on patrol in Helmand province in Afghanistan on April 30.
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May 23, 2013
A member of the Fife and Drum Corps of the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment, “The Old Guard,” participate in a Flags-In ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery. A small American flag was placed one foot in front of more than 220,000 graves in the cemetery to mark Memorial Day.
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May 24, 2013
Pakistani construction workers shower under a leaking water supply pipe at the end of their workday. Pakistanis are facing a shortage of clean drinking water due to the low level of water in the country’s dams.
Muhammed Muheisen/AP
May 24, 2013
A collapsed portion of the Interstate 5 bridge lies at the Skagit River. A truck carrying an oversize load struck the four-lane bridge on the major thoroughfare between Seattle and Canada on Thursday evening, sending a section of the span and two vehicles into the Skagit River below. Three people suffered minor injuries. At an overnight news conference, Washington State Patrol Chief John Batiste blamed the collapse on the tractor-trailer, carrying a tall load that hit an upper part of the span.
Elaine Thompson/AP
May 20, 2013
Smoke rises after explosives were dropped by a Syrian government warplane near Damascus.
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May 23, 2013
A bullet-riddled building in the northern Lebanese city. Fighting in Tripoli killed at least six people overnight, as supporters and opponents of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad clashed, a security source said.
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May 21, 2013
After finishing his daily work at a car garage, Pakistani mechanic Nader Jan sits on a wooden cart in front of his home listening to the news on a radio in a poor neighborhood on the outskirts of the city.
Muhammed Muheisen/AP
May 22, 2013
Tens of thousands of Ultra-Orthodox Jews of the Belz Hasidic Dynasty take part in the wedding ceremony of Rabbi Shalom Rokach, a grandson of the Belz rabbi, to Hana Batya Pener. Some 25,000 Ultra-Orthodox Jews participated in one of the biggest weddings of the of Ultra-Orthodox Jewish community in the past few years.
Uriel Sinai/Getty
May 22, 2013
Ivan Fandino is gored by a bull during press bullfights at Plaza de Toros de Las Ventas.
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