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This Week in Pictures: May 26 - June 1

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Check out the highlights, which include the 2018 Champions League final in Ukraine, a fashion show in France, as well as natural disasters and protests, to see what has transpired in the various corners of our planet during the last seven days.

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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Pyongyang, where they discussed the situation on the Korean Peninsula on May 31.
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Indian men sleep in the shadow of an overflowing cloth container of hay, to be used as animal fodder, on a hot summer day in Ajmer in the western state of Rajasthan on May 30, 2018.
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A combat course during qualification tests for the right to bear a crimson beret at a Russian training center in the Siberian city of Novosibirsk in May 2018.
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Russian figure skating Olympic gold medalist Alina Zagitova poses with an Akita Inu puppy presented to her in Moscow by Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe during his visit to Russia on May 26, 2018.
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Protesters at rallies against government reforms and President Emmanuel Macron in Paris, France.
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Lightning illuminates the sky above the Swiss Federal Palace (Bundeshaus) in Bern, Switzerland on May 27, 2018.
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Indian anti-tobacco protesters dressed as skeletons take part in an anti-tobacco awareness rally in Kolkata, India on May 31, 2018. The World No Tobacco Day is celebrated on May 31 to raise awareness against tobacco consumption around the globe.
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Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) presidential candidate Jose Antonio Meade falling off his chair after he had arrived to a meeting with citizens in Mexico City, Mexico, on May 29, 2018.
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Musicians and dancers take part in the annual "Fandango Fronterizo" event at Friendship Park on the US-Mexico border in Playas de Tijuana, Baja California state, northwestern Mexico, on May 26, 2018.
During this annual event, musicians gather on both sides of the border fence dancing and playing "Son Jarocho," a regional folk music style from rural Veracruz, which involves improvised verses.
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A cosplay enthusiast poses during a Japan Day event on May 26, 2018, in Dusseldorf, Germany.
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Clashes between the police and protesters during a strike against the government's austerity measures in Athens, Greece on May 30.
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Taekwondo athletes from Korea perform for Pope Francis during the Wednesday general audience in Saint Peter's square at the Vatican on May 30, 2018.
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Workers pull a rope tied to a decommissioned oil rig to dismantle it at the Alang shipyard in the western state of Gujarat, India, on May 29, 2018.
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An opening show of the 2018 Champions League Final between Real Madrid and Liverpool, starring pop-star Dua Lipa, in Kiev, Ukraine, on May 26, 2018.
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Five kittens sit in a residential complex in Shanghai, China, on May 28, 2018.
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'Yes' campaigners celebrate the official result of the Irish abortion referendum at Dublin Castle in Dublin on May 26, 2018, which showed a landslide decision in favour of repealing the constitutional ban on abortions.
Ireland voted by a landslide to ditch its strict abortion laws in a landmark referendum hailed by Prime Minister Leo Varadkar.
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Real Madrid's Sergio Ramos celebrating his 2018 Champions League final victory in Madrid, Spain on May 27, 2018.
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Residents gather by a bridge to look at cars left crumpled in one of the tributaries of the Patapsco River that flooded through historic Main Street in Ellicott City, the US, on May 28, 2018. The flooding left the former mill town heartbroken as it had bounced back from another destructive storm less than two years ago.
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Actor and musician Johnny Depp and guitarist Joe Perry from Aerosmith, performing as part of the Hollywood Vampires rock band in Moscow, Russia, on May 30, 2018.
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The moon and a plane at sunset
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Russia's President Vladimir Putin and Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe talking to the International Space Station team during Abe's state visit to Russia in Moscow on May 26, 2018.
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Boys on holiday at a municipal beach in Gurzuf, Crimea, Russia in May 2018.
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US actress Emma Stone poses for photographers during the Louis Vuitton Cruise 2019 collection fashion show at the Maeght Foundation in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, southeastern France, on May 28, 2018.
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Roskosmos astronauts Anton Shkaplerov and Oleg Artemyev playing football with an official ball of the 2018 FIFA World Cup at the International Space Station. The Telestar 18 ball will be brought back to the Earth on June 3, 2018.
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Women sunbathing during a Formula One race at the Monaco racetrack, in Monaco, on May 27, 2018.
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Real's Sergio Ramos and Liverpool's Roberto Firmino at the 2018 Champions League final between Real Madrid and Liverpool in Kiev, Ukraine, on May 26, 2018.
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Palestinian refugee children playing in the street during the holy month of Ramadan, in the Al-Baqaa Palestinian refugee camp, near Amman, Jordan, on May 29, 2018.
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A cosplay competitor posing for a photograph outside the Birmingham Arena where the 2018 ESL One Birmingham took place on May 26, 2018.
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