Saturday, May 12, 2012

The world in images last week










 An Afghan man takes a shortcut by climbing a wall, at a hilltop in Kabul May 11, 2012.
REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui 


A Palestinian protester jumps as he throws back a tear gas canister fired by Israeli soldiers during clashes at a demonstration held in solidarity with prisoners on hunger strike, outside Ofer prison near the West Bank city of Ramallah May 11, 2012. Hundreds of Palestinians on hunger strike in Israeli jails said on Friday they would shun vitamin supplements and prison clinics in an escalation of their mass protest against detention conditions.
REUTERS/Mohamad Torokman 




Cori Walters, 32, (R) hugs her daughter Hannah Walters, 6, at California Institute for Women state prison in Chino, California May 5, 2012. An annual Mother's Day event, Get On The Bus, brings children in California to visit their mothers in prison. Sixty percent of parents in state prison report being held over 100 miles (161 km) from their children.
REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson 




Residents paddle their makeshift boat to safety as fire engulfs houses at a slum community in Manila May 11, 2012. At least 1000 houses were razed in the fire, the cause of which is yet unknown, leaving 5000 families homeless, local media reported.
REUTERS/Cheryl Ravelo 



Cuban-American artist Jose Parla jumps with a spray paint can to give his finishing touch to a creation in Havana for the upcoming 11th Biennial contemporary art exhibition May 10, 2012. The title of the project is "Wrinkles Of The City" and combines French artist J.R's pictures of elderly Cubans in the neighbourhood with Parla's calligraphic messages, and are pasted on walls around the city. The Havana Biennial is a major event for contemporary art, attracting artists and curators from all over the world and runs from May 11 to June 11, 2012. 





A man and child, members of the Samaritan sect, rest during a traditional pilgrimage marking the holiday of Passover atop Mount Gerizim near the West Bank city of Nablus early morning May 11, 2012. The Samaritans, who trace their roots to the biblical Kingdom of Israel in what is now the northern occupied West Bank, observe religious practices similar to those of Judaism.
REUTERS/Ammar Awad





Palestinians hold portraits of their relatives held in Israeli jails during a protest in solidarity with prisoners on hunger strike, in Jerusalem's Old City May 11, 2012. Hundreds of Palestinians on hunger strike in Israeli jails said on Friday they would shun vitamin supplements and prison clinics in an escalation of their mass protest against detention conditions.
REUTERS/Ammar Awad 




Palestinians surround a youth as he jumps on a beach in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip May 11, 2012.
REUTERS/ Ibraheem Abu Mustafa





France's newly-elected President Francois Hollande is photographed during his visit in Tulle, May 11, 2012.
REUTERS/Regis Duvignau 

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