The Week in Pictures: May 28 - June 4 - NBC News.com

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1. Buddhists hold candles as they circle a statue in prayer a statue to celebrate Buddha Day in Nakon Pathom Province, west of Bangkok, Thailand, on June 1, 2015. The Vesak festival, or Buddha Day, celebrates three major events in the life of the Buddha: his birth, Enlightenment and passing away on the full moon of the 6th lunar month.
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2. Vice President Joe Biden, center, pauses alongside his family as they to enter a visitation for his son, former Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden, on June 4, in Dover, Delaware. Standing with Biden are, from left, his son Hunter, granddaughter Natalie, daughter-in-law Hallie, grandson Hunter and wife Jill. Beau Biden died of brain cancer Saturday at age 46.
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3. FIFA President Sepp Blatter leaves the podium after announcing his resignation at the headquarters of the world's soccer governing body in Zurich on June 2.
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4. An 85-year-old woman is helped by divers after being pulled from a capsized ship in Jianli, China, on June 2. More than 300 people were still missing after the vessel overturned in a freak tornado on Monday night. Many of the passengers on the cruise boat were elderly Chinese tourists.
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5. Rescue workers search the capsized ship on the Yangtze River on June 2.
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6. Rescue workers watch as the capsized cruise ship Eastern Star is pulled out of the Yangtze River on June 5. Only 14 survivors, one of them the captain, have been found.
China Daily / Reuters





7. Tens of thousands of people attend a candlelight vigil at Victoria Park in Hong Kong, Thursday, June 4, to mark the anniversary of the crackdown on the 1989 student-led Tiananmen Square protests. The annual event has taken on greater meaning for the city's young people after last fall's pro-democracy demonstrations sharpened their sense of unease with Beijing.
Kin Cheung / AP





8. A thin chain-link fence separates a desperate crowd from much-needed assistance on the island of Koulfoua in Lake Chad on June 1. Thousands of refugees have been camped out on the island for months — and more people keep coming amid Boko Haram's campaign of terror.





9. A child plays in a street flooded by the rising Rio Solimoes, one of the two main branches of the Amazon River, in Anama, Brazil, on June 3.
Bruno Kelly / Reuters





10. Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes winner American Pharoah nips at his groom's hat during a bath after working out at Belmont Park, on June 3, 2015, in Elmont, N.Y. American Pharoah will try for a Triple Crown when he runs in Saturday's 147th running of the Belmont Stakes horse race.
Julie Jacobson / AP





11. Migrants collect rain water at a temporary shelter outside Maungdaw township, Myanmar, on June 4. The migrants were found drifting in the Andaman Sea on May 29 in an overloaded fishing boat carrying 727 that was taking on water. After keeping the vessel at sea for days, Myanmar's navy brought the migrants ashore on Wednesday.
Ye Aung Thu / AFP - Getty Images





12. Lightning strikes over the Greek Island of Pserimos on June 3.
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13. A woman prays with her child during a Sunday service in a village near Bujumbura, Burundi, on May 31. President Pierre Nkurunziza's bid for a third term has triggered more than a month of unrest in Burundi.
Goran Tomasevic / Reuters





14. A man and woman prepare to launch a canoe from a flooded parking lot near Bear Creek Park on May 30 in Houston. An unprecedented downpour of torrential rain triggered extensive flooding in Houston.
David J. Phillip / AP





15. An Indian family tries to escape the heat by sleeping on the roof of a house in New Delhi, India, on May 29. A heat wave in India has killed more than a thousand people as temperatures soared to almost 117 degrees.
Tsering Topgyal / AP