Week in pictures

  09 July 2016    Read: 2459
Week in pictures
A Dallas Area Rapid Transit police officer receives comfort at the Baylor University Hospital emergency room entrance in Dallas after gunfire erupted during a protest in downtown Dallas over recent fatal shootings by police in Louisiana and Minnesota (8 July).

1. NATO’s 28 leaders took decisions to bolster the Alliance’s deterrence and defence at the first working session of the Warsaw Summit on Friday (8 July ).



2. Dallas Police respond after shots were fired at a Black Lives Matter rally in downtown Dallas. Protesters rallied in the aftermath of the killing of Alton Sterling by police officers in Baton Rouge and Philando Castile, who was killed by police less than 48 hours later in Minnesota (8 July).



3. People gather at site of a suicide attack at the entrance of the Shi`ite Mausoleum of Sayid Mohammed bin Ali al-Hadi in Balad, north of Baghdad, Iraq (8 July).



4. People use excavators as they make their way to work in Wuhan, Hubei province, China (8 July).



5. Demonstators march through the city to call for justice for Alton Sterling and Philandro Castile as they rally in the middle of Times Square in New York (7 July).



6. Diamond Reynolds weeps after she recounts the incidents that led to the fatal shooting of her boyfriend Philando Castile by Minneapolis area police during a traffic stop, in front of the Governor`s Mansion in St. Paul, Minnesota (7 July).



7. Peruvian matador Andres Roca Rey is gored by a Fuente Ymbro`s bull during the first corrida of the San Fermin Festival in Pamplona. The festival is a symbol of Spanish culture that attracts thousands of tourists to watch the bull runs despite heavy condemnation from animal rights groups (7 July).



8. France supporters celebrate with smoke flares after France won the Euro 2016 semi-final football match against Germany on the Champs Elysees in Paris (7 July).



9. People climb to board an overcrowded passenger train as they travel home to celebrate Eid al-Fitr festival, which marks the end of the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan, at a railway station in Dhaka, Bangladesh (5 July).



10. Local residents pay their respects to the victims of the attack at the Holey Artisan Bakery at a stadium in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The assault on the restaurant in Dhaka`s diplomatic zone by militants who took dozens of people hostage marks an escalation in militant violence in the Muslim-majority nation (4 July).



11. Mourners react during a funeral of a victim who was killed in a suicide car bomb in the Karrada shopping area in Baghdad (3 July).



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