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

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern listen to their countries' national anthems during a reception in Berlin.
(EPA-EFE/FELIPE TRUEBA)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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