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Humanitarian Crises
The week in pictures
From shooting in Orlando and airstrikes in Syria to killing of MP in Britain, here is the week’s news in pictures.
Tributes and candles left for murdered Labour Party MP Jo Cox are seen in Parliament Square, London, Great Britain. [Stefan Wermuth/Reuters]
Published On 17 Jun 2016
17 Jun 2016
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Palestinians climb through a barbed wire barrier near the West Bank city of Bethlehem in an attempt to enter into Jerusalem to attend Friday prayers at the al-Aqsa Mosque in the Muslim holy month of Ramadan Israeli authorities, a week earlier, only allowed access to Jerusalem for women, children and men under-45. [Abed Al Hashlamoun/EPA]
Opposition supporters in Kenya, carrying rocks and sticks, protest against a pro-government MP whom they allege made offensive remarks about their leader, in the Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya. [Ben Curtis/AP]
US President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden visit a memorial for the victims of the Orlando Pulse nightclub shooting, in Orlando, Florida. Obama visited Orlando to console those mourning the deadliest shooting in modern US history. [Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP]
Civil defence rescuers push a car at a site hit by air strikes in Idlib, Syria. [Ammar Abdullah/Reuters]
Inmates travel on a bus out of the Cojutepeque prison in El Salvador. This prison, which houses more than a 1,000 18th-street imprisoned gang members, is to be closed down by the government since it has failed to control illegal activities within its walls. Inmates are to be relocated to other medium-security prisons. [Salvador Melendez/AP]
A tear gas grenade explodes near England fans before their team's Euro 2016 football match in Marseille, France. [Jean-Paul Pelissier/Reuters]
A displaced woman carries her sleeping child at a refugee camp in the Makhmour area near Mosul, Iraq. [Azad Lashkari/Reuters]
A supporter of Republican US presidential candidate Donald Trump waits for his campaign rally to begin at the Richmond Coliseum in Richmond, Virginia, USA [Joshua Roberts/Reuters]
In the Soho district of London, people observe a minute's silence in memory of the victims of the nightclub mass shooting in Orlando, Florida. [Dylan Martinez/Reuters]
Young Houthi fighters sit at the roadside as they secure a street near the United Nations offices where children were demonstrating against the removal of the Arab coalition from the UN annual child rights blacklist in Sanaa, Yemen. [Khaled Abdullah/Reuters]
A firefighter is up against the flames which approach a ranch near the Las Flores Canyon area west of Goleta, California. The wildfire, burning in rugged coastal canyons west of Santa Barbara, is growing as it feeds on vegetation that hasn't burned in 70 years. [Mike Eliason/Santa Barbara County Fire Department/AP]