Week in pictures: 18-24 May 2019

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Our selection of some of the most striking news photographs taken around the world this week.

Image source, Christophe Simon / AFP
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Brad Pitt and Leonard DiCaprio pose for the media at the Cannes Film Festival, where their latest film, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, has been well received.
Image source, Zohra Bensemra / Reuters
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Ida Daniela Pouadjeu, one of the first wave of girls being trained by professional coaches at the Rails Foot Academy, in Yaounde, Cameroon, uses her anger about people's attitude towards female soccer players every day on the pitch. "I train hard to succeed and to prove them all wrong," she says.
Image source, Luke MacGregor / EPA
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The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge show the Queen around the RHS Garden at the Chelsea Flower Show.
Image source, Thomas Peter / Reuters
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A runner competes in the Great Wall Marathon outside Beijing.
Image source, Scott Barbour / Getty Images
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World champion trials rider Jack Field performs the highest recorded back flip on a motorbike, on Melbourne's Eureka Tower.
Image source, Jane Barlow / PA
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Across the UK, voters headed to the polls for the European Parliament elections. Each region has a different number of representatives based on its population - ranging from three MEPs in north-east England, and Northern Ireland, to 10 in the South East.
Image source, Amit Dave / Reuters
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Residents fill containers with water from a municipal corporation tanker on a hot day in Ahmedabad, India.
Image source, Maxim Shemetov / Reuters
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In Moscow, fans of the television show Game of Thrones gathered to watch the final episode.
Image source, Elijah Nouvelage / Getty Images
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Thousands of people took part in co-ordinated rallies across the United States to protest against several states passing laws to restrict abortions. Here, people protest outside the Georgia State Capitol building, in Atlanta.
Image source, Tristan Fewings / Getty Images for Sotheby's
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The oldest car to wear the Porsche badge goes on view at Sotheby's in London prior to being auctioned in California. The only surviving 1939 Porsche Type 64 Berlin-Rome, it was the personal car of Ferdinand and Ferry Porsche.

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