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In this week's most striking images, an eye bends metal in Vietnam, cows fight in Switzerland, and more

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Ngo Chien Thuat, a traditional health worker, bends a metal pole by pressing it into his eye.
Bulls compete in the Herens national cow fighting championships in Aproz, Switzerland.
(Image credit: (EPA-EFE/JEAN-CHRISTOPHE BOTT))

A man bends a metal pole by pressing it into his eye during a kung fu showcase in Du Xa Thuong, Vietnam.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Kham))

Protesters illuminated by tear smoke shells in Srinagar, India.
(Image credit: (EPA-EFE/FAROOQ KHAN))

An election volunteer cleans windows at a voting center in Pekan, Malaysia.
(Image credit: (AP Photo/Aaron Favila))

A worker in the drying room of a rubber glove factory in Karachi, Pakistan.
(Image credit: (EFE/SHAHZAIB AKBER))

A worker sets up a poster at the Cannes Film Festival in France.
(Image credit: (EPA-EFE/SEBASTIEN NOGIER))

A maintenance worker on the center dome of the Queen Victoria Building in Sydney, Australia.
(Image credit: (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft))

Refugees and migrants on rescue boats north of the Libyan coast.
(Image credit: (AP Photo/Felipe Dana))

Cyclists compete in southern Israel.
(Image credit: (EPA-EFE/ABIR SULTAN))

Russian military planes fly over Red Square in Moscow.
(Image credit: (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin))

People ride on a swing carousel in Strumica, Macedonia.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Ognen Teofilovski))

Fireworks explode over a statue in Volgograd, Russia.
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Jacob Lambert
Jacob Lambert

Jacob Lambert is the art director of TheWeek.com. He was previously an editor at MAD magazine, and has written and illustrated for The Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia Weekly, and The Millions.