13 most powerful shots of the week from around the world

We present 13 photographs taken in different parts of the world under different circumstances. Last week, it was these images that shocked the world.

1. Children hanging on the bumper of an old American car while playing on a flooded street after heavy rain in Havana, Cuba.

2. Water cars Panther WaterCar and 1963 Amphicar swim in Lake Mead near the Hoover Dam near Las Vegas, Nevada.

3. Locals gathered around the carcass of a dead whale shark caught by fishermen in the sea near Surabaya, East Java. The fishermen planned to sell the meat of giant fish weighing 2 tons, reaching 7 m in length, however, the representatives of the local fish trade authorities who arrived arrived agreed to bury the shark with the villagers. In 2013, Indonesia declared the whale shark a protected species and listed as endangered. Despite their huge size, these submissive sharks feed on plankton and are absolutely harmless to humans.

4. Chinese suppliers sell pumpkin at the local market in Beijing.

5. Family members of police officers killed in the line of duty touch the names of their loved ones during a consecration ceremony near the New York Memorial Wall. Such a ceremony is held by the police department every year in honor of the officers who died last year.

6. Visitors pray over the remains of St. Mary Goretti in the Illinois State Church. Goretti is the youngest canonized saint in the Catholic Church. She was killed Alessandro Serenelli during an attempted rape in 1902. Almost all the skeletal remains of the girl were placed in a wax sculpture and exhibited in a glass coffin.

7. The wreckage of the cabin of the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 airliner is shown at a military base in the Netherlands.

8. North Korean veterans gathered before the festive parade in Pyongyang, at which their leader Kim Jong-un said that his country was ready to withstand any threat emanating from the United States.

9. Albert Alon Govberg's mother cries at a funeral in Jerusalem. Alan was killed on the eve of an attack on a bus.

10. A man carries his child after arriving with other migrants on the Greek island of Lesbos from Turkey.

11. A man holds the hand of a dead comrade killed by an explosion during the Peace March in Ankara, Turkey.

12. Workers are building a framework on Place de la Concorde, near the Eiffel Tower in Paris.

13. A young jaguarundi at the National Zoo of El Salvador. A three-month-old baby was brought here by the national civilian police after hunters killed his mother.

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