May 20, 2024, Tokyo, Japan: Japanese Prime Minister FUMIO KISHIDA raises his hand to answer a question at Lower House's budget committee session at the National Diet in Tokyo.

May 20, 2024, Dumbea, New Caledonia, France: Gendarmerie armored vehicle moving towards a sensitive site. Officials said more than 600 heavily armed gendarmes were dispatched to secure Route Territoriale 1, the main artery connecting the restive capital with air links to the outside world. Plans for the Olympic torch relay to pass through the French territory were cancelled on Saturday. The flame had been scheduled to arrive on June 11, but the French Sports Minister said that 'priority must be given to a return to calm' in the territory. Six people have been killed and hundreds injured since rioting began on Monday, according to local authorities. The violence has been fuelled by economic malaise, ethnic tensions and long-standing opposition to French rule on the Pacific archipelago.

May 20, 2024, Northern Iran, Iran: Helicopter Wreckage in Iranian President Incident, After finding the remains of the helicopter in which President Ebrahim Raisi, Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, Tabriz Friday Prayers imam Ayatollah Al-e Hashem, East Azarbaijan governor general Malek Rahmati, Raisi's bodyguard and the pilot have all been killed in the helicopter crash. the commander of the East Azerbaijan Guardian Corps has reported that some of the bodies are charred and cannot be identified.

May 20, 2024, Cannes, France: OLIVER STONE attending the Lula Photocall as part of the 77th Cannes International Film Festival in Cannes, France.

May 20, 2024, Cannes, Cote D'azur, France: BELLA THORNE poses at the photocall held ahead of '2024 Filming Italy Sardegna Festival' press conference during the 77th Annual Cannes Film Festival at Palais des Festivals in Cannes, France

May 20, 2024, Cannes, Cote D'azur, France: ZOE SALDANA poses at during the photocall ahead of her Kering Women in Motion Talk during the 77th Annual Cannes Film Festival at Palais des Festivals in Cannes, France

May 20, 2024, Kobe, Japan: NIKO KAPPEL (GER) in action during the Athletics Men's Shot Put F41 Final at Kobe Universiade Memorial Stadium during the Kobe 2024 Para Athletics World Championships in Kobe Japan.

May 20, 2024, Paris, France, France: ALIAKSANDR SASNOVICH of Belarus in action against J. Lim of France during the first qualifying day of the French Open Grand Slam tennis tournament at Roland-Garros Stadium in Paris, France. Sasnovich won 6:4, 6:2.

May 20, 2024, Baden-Wurttemberg, Sinsheim, Germany: Hoffenheim's MELISSA KASSLER (l) and Munich's MAGDALENA ERIKSSON fight for the ball during their match at Dietmar Hopp Stadium in Hoffenheim, Germany. Bayern Munich won 4:1.

May 11, 2024, Gaza, Palestine: Covered in concrete dust a Palestinian man carries his infant son injured by the Israeli shelling on the Gaza Strip into the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah.

May 8, 2024, Gaza, Palestine: A Palestinian girl collects clothes from a makeshift laundry line set up in front of her destroyed family home in the Gaza Strip, amid the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas.

May 8, 2024, Gaza, Palestine: Car piled high with belongings, many Palestinians return to their homes in Khan Younis after being displaced from Rafah ahead of an imminent Israeli assault on Hamas in Rafah.