The Week in Pictures: June 4 - 11 - NBC News.com

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1. Ukrainian firefighters work to extinguish a fire at a fuel depot in the village of Kryachki, some 19 miles southwest of Kiev, on June 9.

Ukraine urgently evacuated hundreds of residents from the site of a series of fuel depot blasts near Kiev that set off a ferocious fire.
Sergei Supinsky / AFP - Getty Images





2. Children walk outside the Heydar Aliyev Center, ahead of the European Games in Baku, Azerbaijan on June 11.
Stoyan Nenov / Reuters





3. Turkish soldiers help a Syrian woman to cross into Turkey from the borderline in the Akcakale district of Sanliurfa on June 10. She is one of hundreds of Syrians who fled from Syria after clashes in the Rasulayn region of Al-Hasakah, and crossed into Turkey.
Anadolu Agency / Getty Images Contributor





4. A worker in full protective gear adjusts his suit between subway trains at a Seoul Metro railway vehicle base in Goyang, South Korea on June 9.

Hong Kong issued a "red alert" advisory on Tuesday against non-essential travel to South Korea, where eight new cases of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) were reported.
Kim Hong-ji / Reuters





5. An opening cut in a cell wall through which convicted murderers David Sweat and Richard Matt escaped from the maximum security Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, N.Y. on June 6.





6. Law enforcement officers question a woman on June 10, as they searched houses near the maximum-security prison in northern New York . State Police said the fifth day of searching for the escapees would entail going from house to house in Dannemora.





7. Residents repair the ceiling of an apartment damaged in shelling between Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian separatists in the eastern Ukrainian city of Horlivka in the Donetsk region on June 11.
Aleksey Filippov / AFP - Getty Images





8. On June 6 in Seoul a young South Korean couple and dozens of guests stood together for a group photo -- almost all of their faces shielded by white masks. The couple became an unexpected symbol of the MERS health scare sweeping the nation.
Sewing For The Soil / AFP - Getty Images





9. Serena Williams casts a shadow on the clay as she drops her racket while celebrating winning the final of the French Open tennis tournament against Lucie Safarova of the Czech Republic in three sets, 6-3, 6-7, 6-2, at the Roland Garros stadium, in Paris on June 6.
David Vincent / AP





10. German Chancellor Angela Merkel speaks with President Barack Obama at Schloss Elmau hotel near Garmisch-Partenkirchen, southern Germany, on June 8, during the G-7 summit.





11. A photo taken by Britain's Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge in May, shows Prince George of Cambridge and Princess Charlotte of Cambridge at Anmer Hall in Norfolk, eastern England.
Duchess Of Cambridge/ Kensington Palace / AFP - Getty Images





12. Palestinian girls read the Koran as they attend a Koran memorization lesson during summer vacation inside a mosque in Gaza City on June 7.
Mohammed Salem / Reuters





13. Rescuers in full body protection suits work on the formerly capsized Eastern Star tourist ship in Jianli, Hubei province, China, on June 7. Rescuers recovered most of the bodies of those who perished after the ship sank in the Yangtze River.
Wu Hong / EPA





14. An area full of abandoned motorcycles in Chenzhou, central China's Hunan province on June 9. China's auto sales reached 23.49 million vehicles in 2014, jumping 6.9 percent from 2013.
Str / AFP - Getty Images





15. Switzerland's Stan Wawrinka, right, hugs Serbia's Novak Djokovic after their final match of the French Open tennis tournament at the Roland Garros stadium, on June 7 in Paris. Wawrinka won 4-6, 6-4, 6-3, 6-4.
Francois Mori / AP





16. President Barack Obama kisses Vice President Joe Biden on the cheek as he hugs him after delivering the eulogy during the funeral of Biden's son, former Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden, at St. Anthony of Padua church in Wilimington, Delaware on June 6.





17. Victor Espinoza, celebrates atop American Pharoah #5, after winning the 147th running of the Belmont Stakes at Belmont Park on June 6, in Elmont, New York. With the wins, American Pharoah becomes the first horse to win the Triple Crown in 37 years.
Al Bello / Getty Images

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