The week's best photojournalism

In this week's most striking images, Merkel rolls out the red carpet, a knife masseuse works on a face, and more

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Angelina Hsiao (unseen), a knife therapy practitioner, conducts knife therapy massage on a woman at the Ancient Art of Knife Therapy Education Center in Taipei, Taiwan, 17 April 2018.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern listen to their countries' national anthems during a reception in Berlin.
(Image credit: (EPA-EFE/FELIPE TRUEBA))

Workers at the construction site of the Jewel Changi Airport in Singapore.
(Image credit: (EPA-EFE/WALLACE WOON))

Workers adjust lanterns for the celebration of Buddha's birthday in Seoul.
(Image credit: (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon))

People throw colored powder at the end of the Color Run 2018 race in Paris.
(Image credit: (AP Photo/Thibault Camus))

The New York Mets' Yoenis Cespedes douses teammate Wilmer Flores after Flores' game-winning home run in New York.
(Image credit: (AP Photo/Kathy Willens))

A devotee gets his face smeared with vermillion powder during a festival in Bhaktapur, Nepal.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar))

A Siberian tiger lies on the operation table before stem cell surgery at the Szeged Zoo in Hungary.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo))

A practitioner conducts "knife therapy massage" on a woman in Taipei, Taiwan.
(Image credit: (EPA-EFE/RITCHIE B. TONGO))

Migrants rest after being rescued off the Libyan coast in the Mediterranean Sea.
(Image credit: (EPA-EFE/CHRISTOPHE PETIT TESSON))

Erosion marks on the beach in Soulac, France.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Regis Duvignau))

A sandstorm approaches in Yazd, Iran.
(Image credit: (Matthias Schmidt via REUTERS))

Paratroopers drop into the Mediterranean Sea in Tel Aviv, Israel.
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