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Our world in photos: May 19

May 19, 2021 By Michaela Keil

BOLIVIA — Dance traditions: Dancers performed La Morenada, or Dance of the Black Slaves in Plaza Murillo in La Paz, on Tuesday. Dancers gathered in defense of the traditional dance they say is part of the Bolivian cultural heritage which was claimed by the Peruvian city Puno last week, causing a diplomatic row. Photo: Juan Karita/AP

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INDIA — Rescue: A man waved as people rescued by the Indian navy from a barge that sank in the Arabian sea walked out from the Indian naval ship INS Kochi in Mumbai, on Wednesday. The barge carrying personnel deployed for offshore drilling sank off Mumbai as a deadly cyclone blew ashore this week.
Photo: Rajanish Kakade/AP

VENEZUELA — Sunset: The sun set over Caracas, on Tuesday.
Photo: Matias Delacroix/AP

MEXICO — 500 years ago: A city worker cleaned the base of a building built on top of an ancient Aztec sculpture of the head of the god Quetzalcoatl in Mexico City, on Tuesday. Modern Mexico city was built on top of the shattered ruins of the old Aztec empire capital of Tenochtitlan, which fell to Spanish Conquistador Hernan Cortez after a prolonged siege 500 years ago.
Photo: Eduardo Verdugo/AP

FRANCE — Art: A man jumped on the Trocadero square in front of the Eiffel Tower where French artist and photographer JR set his artwork, on Wednesday, in Paris.
Photo: Thibault Camus/AP

BANGLADESH — Arrested: Bangladeshi journalist Rozina Islam, center, was escorted by police to a court in Dhaka, on Tuesday. Police in Bangladesh’s capital arrested the prominent journalist on charges of stealing and photographing sensitive state information.
Photo: Mahmud Hossain Opu/AP

INDONESIA — Border testing: A traveler gave a nasal swab sample after returning from his Eid al-Fitr holiday before entering the capital city in an attempt to prevent spikes on COVID-19 cases, at a checkpoint in Tangerang outside Jakarta, on Wednesday.
Photo: Tatan Syuflana/AP

PENNSYLVANIA — Fight: On Tuesday, New York Islanders’ Matt Martin (17) and Pittsburgh Penguins’ Zach Aston-Reese (12) fought during the second period in Game 2 of an NHL hockey Stanley Cup playoff series in Pittsburgh. Both players received a two-minute minor penalty.
Photo: Gene J. Puskar/AP

LEBANON — Marching: Palestinians living in Lebanon carried replica rockets during a march in support of Palestinians, in Beirut, on Tuesday. The Arabic word on the rocket reads “Qassam.”
Photo: Bilal Hussein/AP

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