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Week in pictures: From end of elections in India to Donald Trump’s trial

A roundup of some of last week’s events.

Former President Donald Trump appears in Manhattan Criminal Court, Thursday, May 30
A jury convicted former US President Donald Trump of felony crimes for falsifying business records to illegally influence the 2016 United States election. [Seth Wenig via Reuters]
Published On 2 Jun 2024

From elections in South Africa to the UEFA Champions League football final, here is the week in photos:

Dorothea Barron, aged 99, who was a serving Wren at the time of D-Day sits in a Spitfire with pilot Jeremy Britcher at Biggin Hill Airport in Kent, England, Tuesday, May 28
Dorothea Barron, 99, who served in World War II, sits in a Spitfire with pilot Jeremy Britcher at London Biggin Hill Airport near Kent, England. The Taxi Charity for Military Veterans took WWII veterans to an event at the Biggin Hill Heritage Hangar ahead of their trip to Normandy for D-Day's 80th anniversary. [Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP Photo]
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Locals react during search and rescue efforts at the site of a landslide at Yambali village in the region of Maip Mulitaka in Papua New Guinea's Enga Province on May 29
Locals react during search-and-rescue efforts at the site of a landslide in Yambali village in Papua New Guinea's Enga Province. Six days after a mountainside community was buried in a sea of soil, boulders and debris, the United Nations' migration agency said water sources have become tainted and the risk of disease is soaring. [Emmanuel Eralia/AFP]
The mother of Palestinian toddler Khaled Abu Samaha holds his shoulder as a man tries to save his life at the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in the central Gaza Strip after he was badly injured in Israeli bombardment on a house in Nuseirat city on May 27
The mother of Palestinian toddler Khaled Abu Samaha holds his shoulder as a man tries to save his life at the al-Aqsa Hospital in the central Gaza Strip after he was badly wounded in Israeli bombardment on a house in Nuseirat. [Bashar Taleb/AFP]
A voter wearing a shirt of former South African President and uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) leader Jacob Zuma on, marks her ballots in a voting booth at a polling station in Umlazi on May 29
A voter wearing a shirt featuring ex-South African President and uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) leader Jacob Zuma marks her ballot in a voting booth in Umlazi during South Africa's general election. South Africans voted in the most consequential election in decades as dissatisfaction with the ruling ANC threatens to end its 30-year political dominance. [Zinyange Auntony/AFP]
Argentine President Javier Milei holds out his fist during a ceremony celebrating the 214th anniversary of the May Revolution, which marked the beginning of the country's independence from Spain, in Cordoba, Argentina, May 25
Argentine President Javier Milei raises a fist during a ceremony celebrating the 214th anniversary of the May Revolution, which marked the beginning of the country's independence from Spain, in Cordoba, Argentina. [Nicolas Aguilera/AP Photo]
People kneel as Ukrainian soldiers carry the coffin of Ukrainian serviceman Ruslan Troianchuk, callsigned "Friend", who was killed in the Donetsk region, during his funeral service outside Saint Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery in Kyiv on May 28
People kneel as Ukrainian soldiers carry the coffin of soldier Ruslan Troianchuk, call sign 'Friend', who was killed in the Donetsk region, during a funeral service outside Saint Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery in the capital Kyiv [Roman Pilipey/AFP]
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Presidential candidate Claudia Sheinbaum arrives at her closing campaign rally at the Zocalo in Mexico City, May 29
Presidential candidate Claudia Sheinbaum arrives at her final campaign rally at the Zocalo in Mexico City. The general election in Mexico is under way on Sunday. [Eduardo Verdugo/AP Photo]
Voters wait to cast their votes at a polling station during the seventh and last phase of the general election, in Faridkot district, Punjab, India, June 1
Voters wait to cast their ballots at a polling station during the seventh and last phase of India's general election in Faridkot district, Punjab state. [Adnan Abidi/Reuters]
Real Madrid's Rodrygo celebrates with a balloon trophy and the fans after winning the Champions League final
Real Madrid's Rodrygo celebrates with the European Cup and football fans after winning the Champions League final. [Lee Smith/Reuters]
Lava flows from a volcano in Grindavik, Iceland, Wednesday, May 29
Lava flows from a volcano in Grindavik, Iceland. [Marco di Marco/AP Photo]