A selection of striking news photographs taken around the world this week.
A child takes a peek inside a booth at a polling station in the Moldovan capital, Chisinau. Europeans in 27 countries voted in elections that will have a wide impact across the EU and beyond. [ELENA COVALENCO/AFP]
Inmates being transferred to the mega-jail Cecot (Centre for the Confinement of Terrorism) in Tecoluca, El Salvador. President Nayib Bukele said another 2,000 gang members had been moved to the maximum-security jail. El Salvador now has the highest incarceration rate in the world. [Presidencia El Salvador via Getty Images]
A drone photo shows a night-time race held to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival in Sanxi Village, Fuzhou, in China’s Fujian Province. The event, which holds deep cultural significance, serves as a means of prayer for bountiful harvests and an auspicious life. [Xinhua/REX/Shutterstock]
Another drone view shows fishermen unloading a net during the sardine run in Scottburgh, South Africa. [Rogan Ward/REUTERS]
A mother fans her child inside a tent at a camp for displaced people during a heatwave in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas. [Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto/Getty Images]
People paraglide at sunset at Devil’s Dyke on the South Downs, Sussex, England. [David Burr/Alamy]
Alexander Zverev beats Casper Ruud at Roland Garros in Paris to set up a French Open final against Carlos Alcaraz. [Lisi Niesner/REUTERS]
Muslim worshippers touch the Kaaba, Islam’s holiest shrine, at the Grand Mosque in Saudi Arabia’s holy city of Mecca, ahead of the annual Hajj pilgrimage. [FADEL SENNA/AFP]
Children take part in a flash mob to mark the 50th anniversary of the Rubik’s Cube at Szent Istvan Square in Budapest. Hungarian professor, architect and inventor Erno Rubik developed the so-called Magic Cube in the spring of 1974, originally for educational purposes. It later became popular as the Rubik’s Cube worldwide. [Zoltan Balogh/EPA]
