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Our world in photos: June 13

June 13, 2022 Michaela Keil

FRANCE — Le Mans 24H Auto Racing: A car competed during sunrise during the 24-hour Le Mans endurance race in Le Mans, western France, on Sunday. Photo: Jeremias Gonzalez/AP

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INDONESIA — Bali Arts Festival: Female dancers performed during the opening of the Bali Arts Festival in Bali, on Sunday. The island of Bali opened the month-long annual Bali Arts Festival from June 12 until July 10.
Photo: Firdia Lisnawati/AP

WASHINGTON, DC — March for Our Lives: People participated in the second March for Our Lives rally in support of gun control in front of the Washington Monument, on Saturday. The rally was a successor to the 2018 march organized by student protestors after the mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, FL.
Photo: Gemunu Amarasinghe/AP

TURKEY — Ferry: People took a ride on a ferry crossing the Bosphorus strait in Istanbul, on Sunday.
Photo: Francisco Seco/AP

AUSTRALIA — Riding waves: A surfer rode a wave at One Mile Beach at Port Stephens, on Sunday.
Photo: Mark Baker/AP

UKRAINE — Broken window: A heavily damaged house following Russian night shelling was seen through a broken window, in the town of Bakhmut, on Monday.
Photo: Efrem Lukatsky/AP

MISSOURI — Final out: Baltimore Orioles relief pitcher Cionel Perez reacted after the final out against the Kansas City Royals at the end of a baseball game in Kansas City, on Sunday. The Orioles defeated the Royals 10-7.
Photo: Colin E. Braley/AP

UNITED KINGDOM — Stadium seats: A sparsely attended Nations League soccer match between England and Italy at Molineux Stadium in Wolverhampton, on Saturday. The match was played with a number of children in attendance as a punishment for crowd behavior at last year’s Euro 2020 final at Wembley.
Photo: Jon Super/AP

SPAIN — Heatwave: Children and adults cooled off in a fountain in a park by the river in Madrid, on Sunday. Spain’s weather service said a mass of hot air from North Africa triggered the country’s first major heatwave of the year with temperatures rising to 109ºF in certain areas.
Photo: Paul White/AP

NEW YORK — Finish line: Mo Donegal (6), with jockey Irad Ortiz Jr. up, crossed the finish line to win the 154th running of the Belmont Stakes horse race, on Saturday, at Belmont Park in Elmont.
Photo: Frank Franklin II/AP

PAKISTAN — Burning: Supporters of a religious group burned a picture of Nupur Sharma, a spokesperson of the governing Indian Hindu nationalist party, during a demonstration to condemn derogatory references to Islam and the Prophet Muhammad recently made by Sharma, on Sunday, in Lahore.
Photo: K.M. Chaudary/AP

WISCONSIN — Winner: Josef Newgarden reacts after winning the Sonsio Grand Prix, on Sunday, in Elkhart Lake.
Photo: Morry Gash/AP

ARIZONA — Wildfire: A wildfire burned on the outskirts of Flagstaff, on Sunday, and cast a glow above neighborhoods. Evacuations were ordered for homes in the area.
Photo: Felicia Fonseca/AP

NEW YORK — Tony Awards: Joaquina Kalukango from “Paradise Square” performed at the 75th annual Tony Awards on Sunday, at Radio City Music Hall in New York.
Photo: Charles Sykes/Invision/AP

CALIFORNIA — Pride: Spectators responded to a dancer along Hollywood Blvd. during the LA Pride Parade on Sunday, in Hollywood.
Photo: Richard Vogel/AP

INDIA — Protest: Muslim students shouted anti-government slogans during a protest outside Uttar Pradesh house, in New Delhi, on Monday. The students were protesting against the persecution of Muslims and the recent demolition of their houses following last week’s protests against former Bharatiya Janata Party spokesperson Nupur Sharma’s remark deemed derogatory to Islam’s Prophet Muhammad.
Photo: Manish Swarup/AP

RUSSIA — Reopening: People lined up to visit a newly opened fast food restaurant in a former McDonald’s outlet in Bolshaya Bronnaya Street in Moscow, on Sunday. The sign reads “The Name Changes, Love Remains.” The first of the former McDonald’s restaurants was reopened with new branding in Moscow. The corporation sold its branches in Russia to one of its local licensees after Russia sent tens of thousands of troops into Ukraine.
Photo: Dmitry Serebryakov/AP

WASHINGTON, DC — Investigation: Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-MS, as the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the US Capitol continued to reveal its findings of a year-long investigation, on Capitol Hill, on Monday.
Photo: Andrew Harnik/Pool via AP

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