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Week in pictures: From EgyptAir to Sri Lanka landslide
From the EgyptAir plane crash to Sri Lanka’s landslide, here is the week’s news in pictures.
Amina Ali Darsha Nkeki, a Nigerian schoolgirl rescued after more than two years in the captivity of Boko Haram, presents her child to President Muhammadu Buhari in Abuja, Nigeria. [Afolabi Sotunde/Reuters]
Published On 20 May 2016
20 May 2016
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Tsai Ing-wen, Taiwan's first female president, greets the audience at her inauguration ceremony in Taipei. [Tyrone Siu/Reuters]
A rickshaw is buried as survivors of a deadly landslide in Elangipitiya village trudge through the mud. Soldiers and police used sticks and bare hands to dig through enormous piles of mud covering houses in three villages hit by massive landslides in central Sri Lanka, with hundreds of families reported missing. [Eranga Jayawardena/AP]
Family members of those killed in an explosion last week mourn at a cemetery in Durumlu village, near Turkey's Kurdish-dominated city of Diyarbakir. [Sertac Kayar/Reuters]
A boy sits next to a tent at a makeshift refugee camp at the Greek-Macedonian border near Idomeni, Greece. [Kostas Tsironis/Reuters]
Palestinians act in a play enacting Nakba, or The Catastrophe, in the West Bank city of Ramallah. Palestinians mark May 15 to commemorate the expulsion of some 700,000 in the war that led to the founding of Israel in 1948. [Majdi Mohammed/AP]
A police car burns during a demonstration against police violence and France's labour law reform in Paris. [Charles Platiau/Reuters]
An employee works at the EgyptAir desk at Charles de Gaulle airport after flight MS804 disappeared from radar over the eastern Mediterranean. The flight from Paris to Cairo was carrying 66 passengers. [Christian Hartmann/Reuters]
Children attend a war safety awareness class, conducted by civil defence members, in the rebel-controlled area of Maaret al-Numan in Syria's Idlib province. [Khalil Ashawi/Reuters]
Rescue workers carry a victim's body after a flash flood in Sibolangit, North Sumatra. More than 20 students are reported missing in western Indonesia. [Irsan Mulyadi/Antara Foto/Reuters]