by The week around the world in 20 pictures
Jim Powell - The Guardian20 Photographs of the Week - Friday, 1st July 2022
An abortion rights rally in New York, protests in Quito, a funeral in Chernivtsi, a sandstorm in Basra, and Billie Eilish at Glastonbury: the most striking global images this week
Chernivtsi, Ukraine
Hanna Bespalko, 55, cries over a coffin containing the body of her son Oleksandr Hrynchuk. Hrynchuk, 33, was killed on 21 June in the Luhansk region. The family had already lost their younger son, Denys, who was killed while serving in the Donetsk region shortly after the start of the Russian invasion
Photograph: Alexey Furman/Getty Images
San Antonio, Texas
A first responder at the scene where 51 people were found dead or dying in an abandoned lorry on a remote back road in south-west San Antonio. Temperatures in the city in June were among the highest on record
Photograph: Sergio Flores/AFP/Getty Images
Makariv, Ukraine
Women work on reconstructing an apartment damaged after Russian strikes. Many buildings in the town were damaged or destroyed in the first weeks of the invasion
Photograph: Nariman El-Mofty/AP
Berlin, Germany
Elisheva Chaya drinks under her veil during her Jewish wedding ceremony in Berlin. The Ukrainian bride and her groom, Gabriel Grigoriev, met three years ago in Odesa and got engaged two years ago. They arrived in Berlin in March, shortly after the start of the war, accompanied by a large part of Odesa’s Jewish community
Photograph: Filip Singer/EPA
New York, New York
People take part in an abortion rights rally after the US supreme court decision to overturn Roe v Wade. Outrage and disappointment swept the US after the court overturned the constitutional right to an abortion, upending federal reproductive protections set nearly 50 years ago
Photograph: Justin Lane/EPA
Washington DC
Anti-abortion demonstrators celebrate outside the supreme court
Photograph: Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters
Eagle Pass, Texas
People rest after crossing the Rio Grande as they wait to be apprehended by border patrol agents
Photograph: Chandan Khanna/AFP/Getty Images
Linarolo, Italy
People relax at sunset on the Po riverbed next to the Ponte della Becca. Italy’s largest river is turning into a long stretch of sand owing to a lack of rain, leaving the Lomellina rice flats nestled between the Po and the Alps without the necessary water to flood the paddies
Photograph: Luca Bruno/AP
Basra, Iraq
Animals on a road during a sandstorm
Photograph: Hussein Faleh/AFP/Getty Images
Niterói, Brazil
Alessandra Sampaio, right, is comforted during the funeral of her husband, the British journalist Dom Phillips, at the Parque da Colina cemetery. Phillips was laid to rest three weeks after he was gunned down while journeying through the Amazon with the Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira
Photograph: Silvia Izquierdo/AP
Hong Kong, China
People watch a flyby of government aircraft displaying Chinese and Hong Kong flags. The Chinese president, Xi Jinping, hailed China’s rule over Hong Kong as he led 25th anniversary celebrations of the city’s handover from Britain
Photograph: Jérôme Favre/EPA
Quito, Ecuador
Demonstrators protect themselves with improvised shields during clashes with riot police at El Ejido park. Ecuadorian Indigenous organisations have said they will meet the government to discuss demands for lower fuel and food prices, after two weeks of protests
Photograph: Cristina Vega Rhor/AFP/Getty Images
Shilatembo, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Traditional dancers perform as the remains of the slain Congolese independence leader Patrice Lumumba arrive in Shilatembo, where the leader was killed in 1961. The family of Lumumba buried his only known remains – a tooth – in the capital, Kinshasa, this week
Photograph: Guerchom Ndebo/AFP/Getty Images
Amboseli, Kenya
A Maasai woman arrives with collected firewood at a village near the Selenkay conservancy, a community-owned conservation area in Amboseli. The camp’s 10 luxurious tents welcomed back tourists after the Covid-19 shutdown
Photograph: Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP/Getty Images
Al-Fadiliyah, Iraq
A young shepherd cools down buffaloes in wastewater filling the dried-up Diyala River
Photograph: Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP/Getty Images
Ilulissat, Greenland
Turquoise water in a large melt hole on top of an iceberg in the Bay of Disko. The icebergs originate from the Jakobshavn glacier, the most productive glacier in the northern hemisphere
Photograph: Odd Andersen/AFP/Getty Images
Tikamgarh, India
Volunteers participate in the construction of a check dam on a dried-up stream in the village of Agrotha. As monsoon storms bear down on India, a dedicated group of women hope that after years of backbreaking labour, there will no longer be water shortages that leave their village dry
Photograph: Sanjay Kanojia/AFP/Getty Images
London, England
Poland’s Iga Swiatek serves to Netherlands’ Lesley Pattinama Kerkhove during their women’s singles match at the Wimbledon tennis championships. With her winning streak at 37 matches and counting, Swiatek remained a warm favourite to lift the women’s singles trophy after her 6-4, 4-6, 6-3 defeat of Kerkhove
Photograph: Sébastien Bozon/AFP/Getty Images
Budapest, Hungary
Malaysia’s Pandelela Pamg and Nur Dhabitah Sabri compete in the women’s synchronised 10-metre platform at the Fina world championships
Photograph: Anna Szilagyi/AP
Glastonbury, England
Billie Eilish performs on the Pyramid stage during day three of the Glastonbury festival at Worthy Farm
Photograph: David Levene/The Guardian
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