Here are some of the most striking images taken from around the world over the past week.
People rally in Tokyo to protest the Japanese government's decision to discharge contaminated radioactive wastewater in Fukushima Prefecture into the sea on April 13, 2021. [Photo/Xinhua]
Protesters gather outside the Brooklyn Center Police Department in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, US on April 13, 2021. Protests continued days after a police officer killed 20-year-old black man Daunte Wright at a traffic stop in Brooklyn Center. [Photo/Xinhua]
A pizza restaurant is seen with tables occupied by plush toys instead of human customers in central Warsaw, Poland on April 13, 2021. [Photo/Xinhua]
A photo taken on April 13, 2021 shows 40,000 white silk flowers installed on the National Mall in Washington, DC, to honor the nearly 40,000 Americans who die every year from gun violence. [Photo/Xinhua]
Visitors chat next to flowers at the Floralia Brussels, or the 18th edition of the international flower exhibition, at the Grand Bigard castle near Brussels on April 14, 2021. [Photo/Xinhua]
Planes perform at an aerial show during Israel's 73rd Independence Day celebrations in Tel Aviv, Israel on April 15, 2021. [Photo/Xinhua]
People dance on a street in Moscow on April 16, 2021. [Photo/Xinhua]
An Afghan boy sells water at a graveyard where a number of war victims have been buried in Kabul, Afghanistan on April 16, 2021. US President Joe Biden announced Wednesday all US troops will be withdrawn from Afghanistan before Sept 11, a decision to end the longest war in American history. Since entering Afghanistan in October 2001, US troops have caused more than 30,000 civilian deaths, injured more than 60,000 and created about 11 million refugees. [Photo/Xinhua]
A photo shows the entrance to the Royal Mummies' Hall at the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization in Cairo, Egypt on April 18, 2021. The Royal Mummies' Hall of the NMEC opened to the public on Sunday. The Mummies' Hall is specially designed to display mummies belonging to kings and queens from the 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th dynasties that ruled ancient Egypt over 3,000 years ago. [Photo/Xinhua]
Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa, front right, takes a torch during a celebration marking the 41st anniversary of Zimbabwe's independence at the State House in Harare on April 18, 2021. Zimbabwe marked its 41st independence anniversary on Sunday with a call by Mnangagwa for the nation to keep safeguarding its sovereignty. [Photo/Xinhua]
