Devotees light lanterns during Vesak day celebration at the Borobudur temple in Magelang, central Java on May 16, 2022. (Photo by Juni Kriswanto/AFP Photo)





Ultra-Ortodox Jews take part in the annual pilgrimage to the grave site of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai in the northern Israeli village of Meron in the early hours of May 19, 2022 at the start of the day-long holiday of Lag Baomer that commemorates the second century Jewish scholar's death. Thousands of Jewish faithful lit large bonfires all night long after converging on Mount Meron for the annual pilgrimage, amid tightened safety measures a year after 45 people were crushed to death in a stampede at the spot. On April 30 last year, a stampede broke out in the male section of the gender-divided site as the size of the crowd turned a narrow passageway into a deadly choke-point. (Photo by Menahem Kahana/AFP Photo)





Congolese civilians and their animals flee near the Congolese border with Rwanda after fightings broke out in Kibumba, outside Goma in the North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo on May 24, 2022. (Photo by Djaffar Sabiti/Reuters)





(L to R) Leeseo, Liz, Gaeul, Ahn Yu-jin and Jang Won-young of IVE perform at KPOP.FLEX Frankfurt 2022, Europe's largest ever K-Pop Festival, at Deutsche Bank Park on May 15, 2022 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. (Photo by David M. Benett/Dave Benett/Getty Images)





Activists from Palestine Action let off smoke grenades, spray blood red paint and grapple with a security guard (black coat & white shirt) while obstructing the entrance to the offices of Elbit Systems on May 31, 2022 in the Holborn area of London, England. (Photo by Guy Smallman/Getty images)





A helicopter drops water as it assists firefighters battling a hillside fire that burned through a neighborhood and destroyed homes in Laguna Niguel, California, U.S., May 12, 2022. (Photo by Mike Blake/Reuters)





Jim Finn holds his eight-month-old daughter Allegra as he casts his vote at a polling booth in Sydney, Australia, Saturday, May 21, 2022. Australians go to the polls Saturday following a six-week election campaign that has focused on pandemic-fueled inflation, climate change and fears of a Chinese military outpost being established less than 1,200 miles off Australia's shore.(Photo by Mark Baker/AP Photo)





A demonstrator wearing a black veil attends a protest event coined a national mourning against femicides in the Zocalo of Mexico City, Wednesday, May 18, 2022. Other protesters carried red crosses that reads in Spanish “Justice!”. (Photo by Fernando Llano/AP Photo)





Afghan boys spend their time next to a destroyed grave at a cemetery in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, May 5, 2022. There are cemeteries all over Afghanistan's capital, Kabul, many of them filled with the dead from the country's decades of war. They are incorporated casually into Afghans' lives. They provide open spaces where children play football or cricket or fly kites, where adults hang out, smoking, talking and joking, since there are few public parks. (Photo by Ebrahim Noroozi/AP Photo)





A worker dismantles a sculpture of a Soviet soldier from the Eternal Flame memorial complex created by the Soviet authorities, amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine, in Chervonohrad, Lviv region, Ukraine on May 13, 2022. (Photo by Pavlo Palamarchuk/Reuters)





Puppet maker Louise Jones puts the finishing touches to her group of corgi puppets, each one an individual and based on past and present Royal corgis, part of “The Queen's Favourites” for the Platinum Jubilee Pageant, in Coventry, England, Thursday, May 5, 2022. Coventry based Imagineer are bringing all “The Queen's Favourites” to The Queens Platinum Jubilee Pageant on June 5, 2022 in collaboration with Midlands based artists and participants. The Pageant is to honour Britain's Queen Elizabeth II as the first British Monarch to celebrate a Platinum Jubilee with 70 years of service. The Pageant will pass through Westminster and along The Mall past Buckingham Palace telling the story of the Queen's record reign. (Photo by Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP Photo)





A mounted rider plays a Berrante, an ox horn musical instrument, during a parade culminating the religious tradition, “Folia do Divino Espirito Santo” or Feast of the Divine, in the rural area of Pirenopolis, state of Goias, Brazil, Sunday, May 29, 2022. Celebrated in the period of Pentecost, Christian residents celebrate on what they believe is the coming of the Holy Spirit on the apostles of Jesus Christ. (Photo by Eraldo Peres/AP Photo)





Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko listens to questions during an interview with The Associated Press at the Independence Palace in Minsk, Belarus, Thursday, May 5, 2022. (Photo by Markus Schreiber/AP Photo)





An employee of Pyongyang Dental Hygiene Products Factory disinfects the floor of a dinning room as the state increased measures to stop the spread of illness in Pyongyang, North Korea Monday, May 16, 2022. (Photo by Cha Song Ho/AP Photo)





This picture taken on May 23, 2022 shows an aerial view of a massive dust storm advancing into Kuwait City. (Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat/AFP Photo)





US actor Casey Affleck (R) and his partner US actress Caylee Cowan arrive on May 26, 2022 to attend the annual amfAR Cinema Against AIDS Cannes Gala at the Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc in Cap d'Antibes, southern France, on the sidelines of the 75th Cannes Film Festival. (Photo by Piroschka Van De Wouw/Reuters)





Samba dancers outside Woolwich station celebrate the opening of the Elizabeth Line in London, England on May 23, 2022. Originally due to open in December 2018, the £18.8bn railway links Reading and Essex via central London. (Photo by Jill Mead/The Guardian)





The Ukrainian flag is visible on a window of a destroyed house that was damaged as a result of the shelling of the Russian army in the city of Irpin, near the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on May 16, 2022. Russia invaded Ukraine on 24 February 2022, triggering the largest military attack in Europe since World War II. (Photo by Sergei Chuzavkov/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)





A translator speaks to court officials as captured Russian soldier, Sgt. Vadim Shishimarin, 21, sits in a defendents cage during a court hearing on May 18, 2022 in Kyiv, Ukraine. Sgt. Shishimarin pleaded guilty to shooting a civilian on a bicycle in the village of Chupakhivka, Sumy Region, days after Russia's invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24. The trial of the Russian soldier was the first that Ukraine has conducted since the invasion related to charges that could be considered war crimes. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)