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Our World in Pictures: Week 25 of 2021

Our World in Pictures: Week 25 of 2021
Jordan Mann falls into the water as he and Jordan Cross compete in the first round of Men's 3000 Meters Steeplechase during day four of the 2020 U.S. Olympic Track & Field Team Trials at Hayward Field on June 21, 2021 in Eugene, Oregon. (Photo by Andy Lyons/Getty Images)

Here is an incomplete, yet surprising and moving gallery of images of this week’s events around the world.

Brandon Briones warms up on rings during day 1 of the Men’s 2021 U.S. Olympic Trials at America’s Center on June 24, 2021 in St Louis, Missouri. (Photo by Carmen Mandato/Getty Images)

Adina Diaconu of Romania in action against Natalia Partyka of Poland during their women’s singles first round match of the ITTF European Table Tennis Championships 2020 in Warsaw, Poland, 24 June 2021. EPA-EFE/Piotr Nowak

In this aerial view the Olympiastadion stadium stands illuminated in LGBT rainbow colors on June 23, 2021 in Berlin, Germany.  (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

A doctor holds up a poster asking people not to come to Japan for the Olympics during a protest against the Olympic Games on June 23, 2021 in Tokyo, Japan. (Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images)

#FreeBritney activists protest at Los Angeles Grand Park during a conservatorship hearing for Britney Spears on June 23, 2021 in Los Angeles, California.  (Photo by Rich Fury/Getty Images)

#FreeBritney activists protest at Los Angeles Grand Park during a conservatorship hearing for Britney Spears on June 23, 2021 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Rich Fury/Getty Images)

Stella McCartney takes over Milan to celebrate the launch of their Autumn 2021 campaign on June 23, 2021 in Milan, Italy. (Photo by Davide Aichino/Getty Images for Stella McCartney)

(top row L-R) A’keria C. Davenport, Kylie Sonique Love, Scarlet Envy, Jan, Eureka!, Ginger Minj, Pandora Boxx, Jiggly Caliente, Trinity K. Bonet, Ra’Jah O’Hara/ (bottom row L-R) Serena ChaCha, Yara Sofia, and Silky Nutmeg Ganache attend as Empire State Building hosts the cast of “RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars” Season 6 on June 24, 2021 in New York City. (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images Empire State Realty Trust, Inc.)

A woman walks in front of a mural that reads “insist, persist, resist and never give up” amid the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on June 21, 2021 in Bogota, Colombia. (Photo by Diego Cuevas/Getty Images)

Educators and support staff queue in line for the COVID-19 vaccination at Universitas Hospital on June 24, 2021 in Bloemfontein, South Africa. (Photo by Gallo Images/ Volksblad/Mlungisi Louw)

Students at the University of Cape Town covered the bust of the statue of Jan Smuts with plastic and tape on June 21, 2021 in Cape Town, South Africa. (Photo by Gallo Images/Brenton Geach)

Few persons observe the partially collapsed 12-story condominium building in Surfside, Florida, USA, 25 June 2021. EPA-EFE/CRISTOBAL HERRERA-ULASHKEVICH

A view of the partially collapsed 12-story condominium building in Surfside, Florida, USA, 24 June 2021. EPA-EFE/CRISTOBAL HERRERA-ULASHKEVICH

A woman walks past damaged cars after a tornado hit in Mikulcice, Czech Republic, 25 June 2021. A rare tornado on 24 June evening swept through the region of South Moravia, in south-eastern Czech Republic, leaving thousands of houses destroyed and damaged, authorities announced. EPA-EFE/MARTIN DIVISEK

A man stands on the roof of a damaged house after a tornado hit in Mikulcice, Czech Republic, 25 June 2021. EPA-EFE/MARTIN DIVISEK

People are removed by police officers after a crowd entered the closed site at Stonehenge on June 21, 2021, in Amesbury, United Kingdom. (Photo by Finnbarr Webster/Getty Images)

Journalists take photos as they stand on a monument with a large Communist Party flag outside the newly built Museum of the Communist Party of China on June 25, 2021 in Beijing, China.  (Photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)

Workers arrange bundles of the final edition of the Apple Daily newspaper at a newsstand in the Mong Kok neighborhood of Hong Kong, China, early on Thursday, June 24, 2021. Hong Kongs pro-democracy Apple Daily newspaper, which cheered on the city’s anti-China protest movement in 2019, shut down after authorities used a national security law to arrest its top editors and freeze company assets. Photographer: Kyle Lam/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Members of RSF, Reporters Sans Frontieres (Reporters Without Borders) hold pages of Hong Kong-based Apple Daily newspaper in front of a mock coffin and funeral bouquet of flowers during a protest against the closure of the newspaper, outside the Chinese Embassy in Paris, France, 25 June 2021. EPA-EFE/IAN LANGSDON

A statue of George Floyd is unveiled at Flatbush Junction on June 19, 2021, in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. (Photo by David Dee Delgado/Getty Images)

A general view of scenes outside Gauteng South High Court on June 24, 2021 in Johannesburg, South Africa, where RET faction of the ANC came in small numbers to support the embattled Ace Magashule. (Photo by Gallo Images/Fani Mahuntsi)

Artwork on the glass railings of the Museum of Liverpool looks out over the River Mersey on June 23, 2021 in Liverpool, England. A Unesco report has recommended that Liverpool should lose its World Heritage status. The committee said the new developments in the city at it’s waterfront development had resulted in “serious deterioration and irreversible loss of attributes”. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Actors perform during rehearsals for “Rigoletto” ahead of the Bregenz Festival 2021 at Seebühne Bregenz on June 23, 2021 in Bregenz, Austria. (Photo by Jan Hetfleisch/Getty Images)

People pose for photos on the historic Doyers Street in Chinatown that has been painted over by Chilean-born street artist Dasic Fernandez during Asphalt Art Activations on Pride Month, June 24, 2021 in New York City. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Members of the Scottish Travel industry demonstrate outside the Scottish Parliament on June 23, 2021 in Edinburgh, Scotland. (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

A man sunbathes in an inflatable boat shaped like a sofa on Spree river near Treptower Park on June 19, 2021 in Berlin, Germany. (Photo by Steffi Loos/Getty Images)

Devotees cover themselves in mud and dried banana leaves to celebrate the Taong Putik (“mud people”) Festival on June 24, 2021 in the village of Bibiclat in Aliaga town, Nueva Ecija province, Philippines.  (Photo by Ezra Acayan/Getty Images)

Mardi Gras lady at the Durban Vignette Exclusive Experience at Max’s Lifestyle on June 23, 2021 in Durban, South Africa. (Photo by Gallo Images/Darren Stewart)

Performers from Fire Club Edinburgh mark the summer solstice during a fire festival on Calton Hill on June 21, 2021 in Edinburgh, United Kingdom. (Photo by Peter Summers/Getty Images)

Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, Patron of the National Literacy Trust and Joint President of Elephant Family, reads Elmer as she launches their Story Trail at a picnic with school pupils, alongside the elephant sculptures recently installed in St James’s Park on June 22, 2021 in London, England. (Photo by WPA Pool/Getty Images)

Teacup Chihuahua puppies are held in a blanket as people wait to have their dogs treated at a mobile veterinary service for pets outside Union Rescue Mission in Skid Row on June 21, 2021 in Los Angeles, California.  (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Thank you to Kim McCarthy from Gallo Images for her generous help in the production of this image selection. DM/ ML

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