The bare-chested feminists who engage in provocative protests targeted the far-right candidate for French president Marine Le Pen with a protest at a church in north-western France in this week's roundup of news from around the globe. Arresting members of the Femen group typically ends up creating news-attracting photos and this time was no different.
A Venezuelan opposition activist asks for silence during a women's march aimed to keep pressure on President Nicolas Maduro, whose authority is being increasingly challenged by protests and deadly unrest, in Caracas on May 6, 2017. The death toll since April, when the protests intensified after Maduro's administration and the courts stepped up efforts to undermine the opposition, is at least 36 according to prosecutors.
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Venezuelan opposition ex-congresswoman Maria Corina Machado (C) takes part in a women's march aimed to keep pressure on President Nicolas Maduro, whose authority is being increasingly challenged by protests and deadly unrest, in Caracas on May 6, 2017. The death toll since April, when the protests intensified after Maduro's administration and the courts stepped up efforts to undermine the opposition, is at least 36 according to prosecutors.
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Venezuelan opposition activists take part in a women's march aimed to keep pressure on President Nicolas Maduro, whose authority is being increasingly challenged by protests and deadly unrest, in Caracas on May 6, 2017. The death toll since April, when the protests intensified after Maduro's administration and the courts stepped up efforts to undermine the opposition, is at least 36 according to prosecutors.
Supporters shouting slogans during the Global Marijuana March in Toronto. Canada is on its way to legalize marijuana in 2018.
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Activists march along Reforma avenue in Mexico City on May 6, 2017 demanding the depenalization of marijuana.
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A woman poses during a march calling for the legalization of marijuana along Paulista Avenue in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on May 6, 2017.
A man smokes a huge joint during a rally demanding the depenalization of marijuana, in Medellin, Antioquia department, Colombia on May 6, 2017.
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Activists march demanding the depenalization of marijuana, in Medellin, Antioquia department, Colombia on May 6, 2017.
A woman attends a Global Cannabis March in Copenhagen, on May 6, 2017. The annual Global Marijuana March is taking place in over 100 cities across the world in an effort to raise awareness of the benefits of medical cannabis and to call for the legalization of marijuana.
Official carry the body of Nepalese mountaineer Min Bahadur Sherchan brought to Lukla heli pad on May 7, 2017. The 85-year-old ex-Gurkha who was attempting to reclaim his title as the world's oldest person to summit Mount Everest died at base camp on May 6. Min Bahadur Sherchan was on a bid to reclaim a title that he lost to Japanese mountaineer Yuichiro Miura in 2013.
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The senegalese community members demonstrate in central Rome, to protest for the death of Niang Maguette, asking truth and justice on May 5, 2017 in Rome, Italy. The street vendor died on Wednesday during a municipal police anti-fraud operation while fleeing the police with goods.
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ROSTOV REGION, RUSSIA - MAY 6, 2017: Young girls attend the Cossack national games, Shermitsii, at St Anna's Fortress.
The body of the victim of an explosion lies at the scene of an explosion as Philippines police officers examine the site in Quiapo in Manila on May 6, 2017. Two explosions in the Philippine capital on the night of May 6 killed at least two people and injured four others, police and witnesses said. The blasts occurred in the same area in Quiapo, where there are big slums, within two and a half hours of each other, according to police and an AFP photographer who witnessed the second explosion.
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A 12-foot, 17-year-old King Cobra snake enters it's habitat with a dead rat in it's mouth May 4, 2017 in Denver, Colorado. The cobra has lymphosarcoma cancer that zoo keepers and vets are trying to treat with chemo therapy, via inserted chemo pill in a rat's mouth.
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A WW2 Curtiss P-40 Warhawk fighter aircraft is being retrieved from the bottom of the Strait of Kerch by a derrick boat used at the construction site of a bridge across the Strait of Kerch linking Crimea to mainland Russia. The aircraft was leased by the Soviet Red Army from the United States' Curtiss-Wright Corporation for the 1941-1945 Great Patriotic War, the Eastern Front of World War II, and has spent about 70 years at the bottom of the Kerch Strait.
A boy watches as sheep are slaughtered and carried away in the village of Babaj Bokes, southwest Kosovo close to the Albanian border on May 6, 2017, where thousands of Albanians flooded the village to celebrate a partially religious and partially pagan feast.
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This detail shows a page from the Book of Psalms in a 1642 edition of Martin Luther's translation into German of the Bible, in this case known as the Kurfuerstenbibel, or the Elector's Bible, at the Lutherhaus museum on May 5, 2017 in Eisenach, Germany. Martin Luther, whose 95 theses of 1517 set in motion the Reformation, lived at nearby Wartburg Castle under protection following his excommunication and translated the Bible there into German. Germany is celebrating the 500th anniversary of the Reformation this year with events throughout the year. The Reformation led to the creation of Protestant denominations all over the globe.
Performer Marawa 'the Amazing', who holds the world record for the most hoola hoops used in a performance (200), dances during a special Cinco de Mayo show by the Lucha Vavoom ensemble in Los Angeles, California on May 4, 2017. Cinco de Mayo commemorates the Mexican Army's unexpected victory over French forces in 1862. In the US the festival is a celebration of Mexican-American culture.
Performer Marawa 'the Amazing', who holds the world record for the most hoola hoops used in a performance (200), dances during a special Cinco de Mayo show by the Lucha Vavoom ensemble in Los Angeles, California on May 4, 2017. Cinco de Mayo commemorates the Mexican Army's unexpected victory over French forces in 1862. In the US the festival is a celebration of Mexican-American culture.
Evangelist Paula White spoke at the National Day of Prayer ceremony, in the Rose Garden of the White House, On Thursday, May 4, 2017.
Women battle during The Tigers' Fight, at the ecological reserve of Kumulian on May 03, 2017 in Acatlan, Mexico. Every year hundreds of people gather in the tigers' fight celebration, as a ritual to have good harvests and many rains in their fields, offering their sweat and blood during boxing battles.
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A woman walks along a rain soaked Manhattan street on May 5, 2017 in New York City. Heavy rain caused flooding and numerous road closures throughout the New York City metero area on Friday afternoon.
Young residents haul water collected from hoses back to their family's home in a set of occupied buildings in the Mangueira 'favela' community on May 4, 2017 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Hundreds of residents who live in the occupied structures must collect water from hoses as there is a shortage of running water in the buildings. A World Bank report released earlier this year stated that Brazil's deep economic crisis could push up to 3.6 million back beneath the poverty line by the end of 2017. Controversial austerity measures and pension reforms proposed by the government led to a general strike across Brazil last week.
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Residents Thaylane (L) and Kesia pose outside a set of occupied buildings in the Mangueira 'favela' community on May 4, 2017 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Hundreds of residents who live in the occupied structures must collect water from hoses as there is a shortage of running water in the buildings. A World Bank report released earlier this year stated that Brazil's deep economic crisis could push up to 3.6 million back beneath the poverty line by the end of 2017. Controversial austerity measures and pension reforms proposed by the government led to a general strike across Brazil last week.
A resident walks in one of a set of occupied buildings in the Mangueira 'favela' community on May 4, 2017 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. At left is trash discarded by residents, the government does not regularly collect garbage in the area. Hundreds of residents who live in the occupied structures must collect water from hoses as there is a shortage of running water in the buildings. A World Bank report released earlier this year stated that Brazil's deep economic crisis could push up to 3.6 million back beneath the poverty line by the end of 2017. Controversial austerity measures and pension reforms proposed by the government led to a general strike across Brazil last week.
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Sri Lankan commuters board a train at a railway station in Colombo on May 5, 2017, as several engine drivers staged a token strike in support of a trade union action of government doctors.
A helicopter drops water while battling a fire at a building in central Moscow.
View of the Eiffel Tower with a banner reading "liberty, equality, fraternity" hung by Greenpeace activists to protest against the far-right Front National (FN) party, two days before the second round of the presidential election on May 5, 2017 in Paris, France.
Ali Marili, 62, shaves a man's beard at his Barbershop at Mesetlik neighbourhood of Kilis, Turkey on May 01, 2017. Because of Ali Marili's family migrated from Egypt to Turkey's Kilis in 1900's due to drought, his father began a barber shop business in Kilis 75 years ago. Ali Marili still runs the barber shop by using his fathers traditional methods since he started apprenticeship at the age of 12. He is still using chopper basin, stove and propane cylinder for shaving as his father's did.
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A sewer cleaner of Dhaka City Corporation cleaning out the city's sewers on May 3, 2017 in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Despite a rise in the number of deaths of manhole workers every year, workers regularly go into the manholes without any protective gear.
A sewer cleaner of Dhaka City Corporation cleaning out the city's
sewers on May 3, 2017 in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Despite a rise in the
number of deaths of manhole workers every year, workers regularly go
into the manholes without any protective gear.
A sewer cleaner of Dhaka City Corporation cleaning out the city's
sewers on May 3, 2017 in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Despite a rise in the
number of deaths of manhole workers every year, workers regularly go
into the manholes without any protective gear.
A northern white rhinoceros is seen at Ol Pejeta Conservancy, a 90,000-acre (360 km2) not-for-profit wildlife conservancy, in Central Kenya's Laikipia County on April 03, 2017. At the edge of the extinction, three northern white rhinoceros are the last ones of their species in the world. Three northern white rhinoceros or square-lipped rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum) those named Sudan, the male one; Najin and Fatu, female ones, are being guarded and observed 24 hours to keep away poachers.
Amnesty International together with Procartoonist Pco and English PEN Writers at Risks organisations staged a vigil outside Turkish Embassy on May 03, 2017 in London, England. World Press Freedom Day protest against the detention of Turkish journalists and a breach of freedom of expression in Turkey.
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A demonstrator catches fire, after the gas tank of a police motorbike exploded, during clashes in a protest against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, in Caracas on May 3, 2017. Venezuela's angry opposition rallied Wednesday vowing huge street protests against President Nicolas Maduro's plan to rewrite the constitution and accusing him of dodging elections to cling to power despite deadly unrest.
A man tries to help a fellow demonstrator who catched fire, after the gas tank of a police motorbike exploded, during clashes in a protest against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, in Caracas on May 3, 2017. Venezuela's angry opposition rallied Wednesday vowing huge street protests against President Nicolas Maduro's plan to rewrite the constitution and accusing him of dodging elections to cling to power despite deadly unrest.
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A demonstrator catches fire, after the gas tank of a police motorbike exploded, during clashes in a protest against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, in Caracas on May 3, 2017. Venezuela's angry opposition rallied Wednesday vowing huge street protests against President Nicolas Maduro's plan to rewrite the constitution and accusing him of dodging elections to cling to power despite deadly unrest.
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A demonstrator catches fire after the gas tank of a police motorbike exploded during clashes in a protest against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, in Caracas on May 3, 2017. Venezuela's angry opposition rallied Wednesday vowing huge street protests against President Nicolas Maduro's plan to rewrite the constitution and accusing him of dodging elections to cling to power despite deadly unrest.
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A man tries to help a fellow demonstrator who catched fire, after the gas tank of a police motorbike exploded, during clashes in a protest against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, in Caracas on May 3, 2017. Venezuela's angry opposition rallied Wednesday vowing huge street protests against President Nicolas Maduro's plan to rewrite the constitution and accusing him of dodging elections to cling to power despite deadly unrest.
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Protesters fail with incendiary bombs and molotov cocktails at the May Day in Paris, France, on May 1st, 2017. Thousands of demonstrators parade for National Labor Day And against Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron, the two candidates in the French presidential elections. Clashes broke out on the sidelines of the May Day demonstrations in the Parisian capital.
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Demonstrators confront police on the annual May Day worker's march on May 1, 2017 in Paris, France. Police dealt with violent scenes in central Paris during the rally held close to the Place de la Bastille, where protestors shouted 'Fascists out!'
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Demonstrators confront police on the annual May Day worker's march on May 1, 2017 in Paris, France. Police dealt with violent scenes in central Paris during the rally held close to the Place de la Bastille, where protestors shouted 'Fascists out!'
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A streak of light trails off into the night sky as the US military test fires an unarmed intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) at Vandenberg Air Force Base, some 130 miles (209 kms) northwest of Los Angeles, California early on May 3, 2017.
Two teenagers holding a placard take part in the "Rise Up New York" rally at Foley Square in New York, the United States, May 1, 2017. Thousands of Americans on Monday took to streets in major U.S. cities including Washington D.C., Chicago, New York and Los Angeles to join May Day demonstrations for the rights of workers, women and immigrants.
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Members of feminist activist group Femen hold flares after unveiling a banner on a church in Henin-Beaumont, north-western France, to protest against French presidential election candidate for the far-right Front National (FN - National Front) party Marine Le Pen on May 7, 2017, during the second round of the Presidential election.
Members of feminist activist group Femen gesture after unveiling a banner reading "Marine in power, Marianne in despair" on a church in Henin-Beaumont, north-western France, to protest against French presidential election candidate for the far-right Front National (FN - National Front) party Marine Le Pen on May 7, 2017, during the second round of the Presidential election.
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Members of feminist activist group Femen gesture after unveiling a banner on a church in Henin-Beaumont, north-western France, to protest against French presidential election candidate for the far-right Front National (FN - National Front) party Marine Le Pen on May 7, 2017, during the second round of the Presidential election.
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Police cover the chest of a member of feminist activist group Femen as they arrest her after unveiling a banner on a church in Henin-Beaumont, north-western France, to protest against French presidential election candidate for the far-right Front National (FN - National Front) party Marine Le Pen on May 7, 2017, during the second round of the Presidential election.
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Police arrest a member of feminist activist group Femen after unveiling a banner on a church in Henin-Beaumont, north-western France, to protest against French presidential election candidate for the far-right Front National (FN - National Front) party Marine Le Pen on May 7, 2017, during the second round of the French presidential election.
Police arrest a member of feminist activist group Femen as she grabs onto a gate after unveiling a banner on a church in Henin-Beaumont, north-western France, to protest against French presidential election candidate for the far-right Front National (FN - National Front) party Marine Le Pen on May 7, 2017, during the second round of the Presidential election.
Police arrest a member of feminist activist group Femen after unveiling a banner on a church in Henin-Beaumont, north-western France, to protest against French presidential election candidate for the far-right Front National (FN - National Front) party Marine Le Pen on May 7, 2017, during the second round of the French presidential election.
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In other protests, a gas-tank explosion caught a man on fire in violent protests against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in Caracas. The Associated Press reported on Wednesday that at least 35 people have died in the political turmoil that has gripped Venezuela for a month. Hundreds more have been injured.
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