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Our world in photos: May 13

May 13, 2021 By Michaela Keil
GERMANY — Arches: People walked through a 200 meter long vaulted open-plan hallway at the main cemetery in Frankfurt on Thursday. Photo: Michael Probst/AP
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TEXAS — Alone: Emely, 8, of Honduras, stood alone after turning herself in upon crossing the U.S.-Mexico border on Thursday in La Joya. The unaccompanied child cried as she told her story of losing her guides and walking for miles with another group along the muddy paths of the Rio Grande Valley after a storm. She had lost track of a man who had the number of her parents in the U.S. and did not know how to get in touch with any of her relatives.
Photo: Gregory Bull/AP

 

PAKISTAN — Eid al-Fitr: Muslim girls displayed their hands painted with traditional henna to celebrate the Eid al-Fitr holiday, marking the end of the fasting month of Ramadan, in Peshawar, on Thursday.
Photo: Muhammad Sajjad/AP

 

ISRAEL — Cracked: A damaged wall was seen in an apartment after it was hit by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip overnight, in Petah Tikva, on Thursday.
Photo: Oded Balilty/AP

 

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COLOMBIA — Protest: A demonstrator shouted through a bullhorn during an anti-government march at an intersection in Bogota, late on Wednesday. Colombians took to the streets for weeks across the country after the government proposed tax increases on public services, fuel, wages, and pensions, and continued even after President Ivan Duque walked back the tax hike.
Photo: Ivan Valencia/AP

 

ITALY — Serve: Spain’s Rafael Nadal prepared to serve the ball to Canada’s Denis Shapovalov during their 3rd round match at the Italian Open tennis tournament, in Rome, on Thursday.
Photo: Alessandra Tarantino/AP

 

EL SALVADOR — Vaccine transport: A driver walked past a refrigerated container truck from the Health Ministry that will transport doses of COVID-19 vaccines which El Salvador’s government is donating and delivering to neighboring Honduras, shortly before departing San Salvador, on Thursday.
Photo: Salvador Melendez/AP

 

UTAH — Foul: Portland Trail Blazers center Jusuf Nurkic, top, fouled Utah Jazz guard Joe Ingles during the second half of an NBA basketball game on Wednesday, in Salt Lake City.
Photo: Rick Bowmer/AP

 

RUSSIA — Missile cruiser: The Northern Fleet’s flagship, the Pyotr Veilikiy (Peter the Great) missile cruiser, was seen at its Arctic base of Severomorsk on Thursday. Adm. Alexander Moiseyev, the commander of Russia’s Northern Fleet griped Thursday about increased NATO’s military activities near the country’s borders, describing them as a threat to regional security.
Photo: Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP

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