Week in pictures: 2 - 8 June 2018 - BBC News

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Pre-monsoon showers lashed Mumbai, causing difficulties for residents with water-logging, fallen trees and disruption of flights and road transport in India's largest city.




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A northern gannet picks up seaweed on Bass Rock, in Scotland's Firth of Forth. Thousands of the sea birds are gathering nest material as they prepare for the new breeding season, forming the largest single-island colony of gannets in the world.




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Residents rest during a search in San Miguel Los Lotes, following the eruption of Guatemala's Fuego volcano. The eruption from one of Central America's most active volcanoes affected 1.7 million people and killed scores of people.




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Queen Elizabeth II attended the UK's Epsom Derby festival at the Surrey racecourse. The Queen has owned and bred horses throughout her reign and is respected for her expertise.




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American activists protest against plans for a steel wall between Santa Teresa, New Mexico, and Ejido San Jeronimo in Chihuahua, at the US-Mexico border.




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The Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft blasts off from the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, heading for the International Space Station. The craft was carrying astronauts Serena Aunon-Chancellor, from the US, Alexander Gerst, from Germany and cosmonaut Sergey Prokopyev, from Russia.




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A girl holds a baby outside a plastics factory on a canal leading to the highly-polluted Buriganga river in Dhaka, Bangladesh.




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Musician Thoren Ferguson plays the Il Mare violin in the sea at Yellowcraigs, East Lothian, Scotland. Made from driftwood, the instrument was unveiled ahead of World Oceans Day.




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Demonstrators surround a police vehicle during a march in Santiago, Chile. Thousands of people joined the protest against sexual harassment and sexist behaviour in universities and schools.




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A US Air Force F-16 fighter approaches an aerial refuelling aircraft during the US-led Saber Strike exercise over Estonia.