A picture taken on June 9, 2016 from the Montparnasse tower shows the opening concert of the Paris fan zone on the Champs de Mars by the Eiffel Tower, in Paris, one day before the start of the Euro 2016 football championship. / AFP PHOTO / GEOFFROY VAN DER HASSELT
AFP PHOTO / MOHAMMED ABED
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A protester protects himself with an umbrella during clashes with Anti-riot policemen within an antifascist march, to commemorate the third anniversary of the death of young far-left activist Clement Meric who died in a fight with skinheads in central Paris in June 2013, in Paris, on June 4, 2016. / AFP PHOTO / DOMINIQUE FAGET
View taken on June 4, 2016 shows the river Seine near the Notre Dame cathedral (R) after its banks became flooded following heavy rainfalls.
Parisians were urged to stay away from the Seine, which has spilled over its banks in places and on June 3, 2016 rose 6.07 metres (19ft 9ins) above its normal level. Authorities said the river could swell to “perhaps 6.5 metres (21 feet) in a worst-case scenario”, comfortably beating a level reached during floods in 1982. The record remains the 8.68 metres reached during devastating floods in 1910. / AFP PHOTO / DOMINIQUE FAGET
A man sits on a low wall by the rain-swollen river Seine and Notre Dame De Paris cathedral on June 5, 2016 in Paris.
The rain-swollen River Seine in Paris receded after reaching its highest level in three decades as attention turned on June 5 to other areas of France where alert warnings have been issued. / AFP PHOTO / JOEL SAGET
US troops land with parachutes at the military compound near Torun, central Poland, on June 7, 2016, as part of the NATO Anaconda-16 military exercise.
Anaconda is the largest-ever military exercise involving NATO partners, amid the West’s worst standoff with Russia since the end of the Cold War. / AFP PHOTO / JANEK SKARZYNSKI
Municipal workers clean the damages caused to a hotel and the road by a bomb in the Vezneciler district of Istanbul on June 7, 2016.
Turkish police detained four people in a hunt for the perpetrators of a car bombing in central Istanbul Tuesday that killed seven police and four civilians, state media said. The third deadly attack in Turkey’s biggest city in six months targeted a bus transporting anti-riot police in Beyazit district, close to many of the city’s top tourist sites, Istanbul governor Vasip Sahin said on Turkish television.
/ AFP PHOTO / OZAN KOSE
Hostesses sit in the turbine of Belgium’s national football team’s plane prior to take off, en route to Bordeaux in France, at Zaventem airport, near Brussels, on June 7, 2016, three days ahead of the beginning of the Euro 2016 football tournament. / AFP PHOTO / JOHN THYS
A man drags his baby in a baby walker at the port of Piraeus in Athens, on June 7, 2016, where some 1,500 migrants and refugees are stranded.
More than 10,000 people have died attempting the perilous journey across the Mediterranean to Europe since 2014, the United Nations said on June, 7. A total of 206,400 refugees and migrants had arrived in Europe since the start of the year, mainly landing in Greece and Italy, the organisation said. / AFP PHOTO / LOUISA GOULIAMAKI
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton celebrates on stage during her primary night event at the Duggal Greenhouse, Brooklyn Navy Yard, June 7, 2016 in New York.
Hillary Clinton hailed a historical “milestone” for women as she claimed victory over rival Bernie Sanders in the Democratic White House nomination race. “Thanks to you, we’ve reached a milestone,” she told cheering supporters at a rally in New York. “The first time in our nation’s history that a woman will be a major party’s nominee.”
/ AFP PHOTO / TIMOTHY A. CLARY
A man sits on the rubble of a destroyed building following reported air strikes by Syrian government forces in the rebel-held Shaar neighbourhood of the northern city Aleppo on June 8, 2016.
Syrian government air strikes on rebel-held neighbourhoods of the divided second city Aleppo killed at least 15 civilians, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
The monitoring group said at least 10 of the dead came in strikes just outside the Al-Bayan clinic in the Shaar neighbourhood.
/ AFP PHOTO / KARAM AL-MASRI
An Indonesian man stands next to a large panels of the koran made of carved wood at a boarding school in Palembang on May 8, 2016.
Islam’s holy month of Ramadan is celebrated by Muslims worldwide marked by fasting, abstaining from foods, sex and smoking from dawn to dusk for soul cleansing and strengthening the spiritual bond between them and the Almighty. / AFP PHOTO / ABDUL QODIR
Israeli forensic police inspect a restaurant following a shooting attack at a shopping complex in the Mediterranean coastal city of Tel Aviv on June 8, 2016.
At least three people were killed and several wounded in the shooting spree, emergency services said. Police said that it appeared to be a militant attack, but they could not immediately give any details of the attacker or victims.
/ AFP PHOTO / JACK GUEZ
A Palestinian worker of a beachside coffeehouse decorates its terrace with hanging colourful umbrellas as part of decorations for the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan in Gaza City, on June 9, 2016. / AFP PHOTO / MOHAMMED ABED
This picture taken from the Eiffel Tower on June 9, 2016 shows the Paris fan zone on the Champs de Mars during the opening concert of the Paris fan zone one day before the start of the Euro 2016 football championship, in Paris. AFP PHOTO / ALAIN JOCARD / AFP PHOTO / ALAIN JOCARD
People block the ringroad with burning tyres on June 9, 2016 in Nantes, western France, during a protest against the government’s planned labour law reforms.
France’s Socialist government has bypassed parliament and rammed through a labour reform bill that has sparked two months of massive street protests. / AFP PHOTO / JEAN-SEBASTIEN EVRARD
Children attend school in the main site of a floating school, near to a collapsed three-storey annex, on June 9, 2016 in Lagos.
A landmark floating school that provided classes to children on a lagoon in Nigeria’s biggest city, Lagos, has collapsed during heavy rains, its headteacher said on June 9.
“The structure collapsed at around 10:00 am (0900 GMT) on Tuesday following a rainstorm,” the school’s director, Noah Shemede, told AFP. / AFP PHOTO / PIUS UTOMI EKPEI
Former Argentinian football international Diego Maradona (L) and former Brazilian footballer Pele pose after a football match organised by Swiss luxury watchmaker Hublot at the Jardin du Palais Royal in Paris on June 9, 2016, on the eve of the Euro 2016 European football championships. / AFP PHOTO / PATRICK KOVARIK
Supporters of Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro hit opposition deputy Julio Borges(C), during a demonstration in front of the National Electoral Council in Caracas on June 9, 2016. / AFP PHOTO / JUAN BARRETO / ALTERNATIVE CROP
A man sells Turksih national flags and porter flags of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, founder of modern Turkey near the new mosque at Eminonu district in Istanbul, on June 9, 2016.
Turkey has suffered a spate of bombings this year, including two suicide attacks in tourist areas of Istanbul and two car bombings in the capital Ankara effected tourism industry in Turkey reported by Turkish media. / AFP PHOTO / OZAN KOSE
Teammates paddles during a dragon boat race held to celebrate the Tuen Ng festival in Hong Kong on June 9, 2016. / AFP PHOTO / ANTHONY WALLACE
Supporters of Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro argue with opposition deputy Alfonso Marquina(C) during a demonstration in front of the National Electoral Council in Caracas on June 9, 2016. / AFP PHOTO / JUAN BARRETO
US Secretary of State John Kerry shoots a bow and arrow as he participates in a Naadam ceremony, a competition which traditionally includes horse racing, Mongolian wrestling and archery, in Ulan Bator, Mongolia on June 5, 2016.
Kerry arrived in Mongolia on June 5, the latest senior US official to make the trip to the mineral-rich country neighboured by Russia and China. / AFP PHOTO / POOL / SAUL LOEB
A picture shows the Milky Way as seen from the rebel-held town of Douma, east of the Syrian capital Damascus, on June 6, 2016, on the first day of the holy month of Ramadan.
More than a billion Muslims observed the start of Ramadan but in the besieged cities of Syria and Iraq residents struggled to mark the holy month. Islamic authorities announced the start of the fasting month with the sighting of the crescent moon in countries such as Indonesia and Saudi Arabia.
/ AFP PHOTO / Sameer Al-Doumy
Protestors disperse color paint during a protest against the government, at central square, during an anti-government protest in Skopje on June 6, 2016, in a series of protests dubbed Colourful Revolution.
Macedonia’s president on June 6, 2016 said he was revoking all the controversial pardons he had granted in April to dozens of people implicated in a huge wiretapping scandal. President Gjorge Ivanov had on April 12 said he was halting probes into 56 Macedonians suspected of involvement in the scandal — a surprise decision that sparked international condemnation and angry street protests.
/ AFP PHOTO / Robert ATANASOVSKI
People break their fasting on June 6, 2016 as they eat sitting on the grass at the Blue Mosque square in Istanbul, during the first day of the holy month of Ramadan.
More than a billion Muslims observed the start of Ramadan on May 6 but in the besieged cities of Syria and Iraq residents struggled to mark the holy month. Marking the divine revelation received by Prophet Mohammed, the month sees Muslim faithful abstain from eating, drinking, smoking and having sex from dawn to dusk. They break the fast with a meal known as iftar and before dawn have a second opportunity to eat and drink during suhur. The month is followed by the Eid al-Fitr festival.
/ AFP PHOTO / OZAN KOSE
Keilan Malone (L) and Curtis Knight take a break from practice drills at the Louisville TKO Boxing Gymnasium on June 6, 2016 in Louisville, Kentucky.
The family of late boxing legend Muhammad Ali and the city of Louisville prepared for his public funeral later this week, which organizers said “The Greatest” helped plan himself as a “last statement” to the world. Ali was born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky. / AFP PHOTO / Brendan Smialowski
Police officers and rescuers inspect the site of a bomb attack that targeted a police bus in the Vezneciler district of Istanbul on June 7, 2016.
A bomb attack targeted Turkish police in a central Istanbul district on June 7, 2016, leaving several people wounded, the state-run TRT television reported. / AFP PHOTO / DOGAN NEWS AGENCY / STRINGER / Turkey OUT
Pakistani bakers prepare Iftar food for Muslims breaking their fast on the first day of fasting month of Ramadan, at a market in Islamabad on June 7, 2016.
Islam’s holy month of Ramadan is celebrated by Muslims worldwide marked by fasting, abstaining from foods, sex and smoking from dawn to dusk for soul cleansing and strengthening the spiritual bond between them and the Almighty. / AFP PHOTO / AAMIR QURESHI
Muslim worshippers pray at the Turkish Nizamiye Mosque in Midrand, Johannesburg, on June 7, 2016 on the first day of the Holy Month of Ramadan. / AFP PHOTO / MARCO LONGARI
First time voter Victor Rodriguez is serenaded by a Mariachi band while casting his vote at a polling station in Cudahy, California on June 7, 2016. / AFP PHOTO / FREDERIC J. BROWN
Miranda state Governor Henrique Capriles argues with police as he leads an opposition march attempting to reach the National Electoral Court in Caracas to demand validation of the signatures to initiate a recall referendum against President Nicolas Maduro, on June 7, 2016. / AFP PHOTO / JUAN BARRETO
A photo taken on June 5, 2016 at night shows the lighted Eiffel Tower in front of the Seine river in front Beaugrenelle in Paris.
Parisians were urged to stay away from the Seine, which has spilled over its banks in places and on June 3, 2016 rose 6.07 metres (19ft 9ins) above its normal level. Authorities said the river could swell to “perhaps 6.5 metres (21 feet) in a worst-case scenario”, comfortably beating a level reached during floods in 1982. The record remains the 8.68 metres reached during devastating floods in 1910. / AFP PHOTO / Bertrand GUAY
A picture taken on June 9, 2016 from the Montparnasse tower shows the opening concert of the Paris fan zone on the Champs de Mars by the Eiffel Tower, in Paris, one day before the start of the Euro 2016 football championship. / AFP PHOTO / GEOFFROY VAN DER HASSELT
