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Slovenian riot police have removed protesters from a central square in the capital Ljubljana during weekly demonstrations against the center-right government

A look at the week's top photos from around the globe.

The Russian representative to the United Nations’ atomic watchdog agency says its board has adopted a resolution calling for Iran to provide inspectors access to sites where the country is thought to have stored or used undeclared nuclear material

Police have fired tear gas at protesters demanding Malian President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita’s resignation

It’s a clash over water usage that Egypt calls an existential threat and Ethiopia calls a lifeline for millions out of poverty

The 17th century has gone down in Dutch history as the Golden Age, when unprecedented trading wealth helped fund the likes of artists Rembrandt van Rijn and Johannes Vermeer

Puerto Rico’s government has announced water rationing measures as 26% of the U.S. territory faces a severe drought amid the pandemic

The Polish government says that Russian President Vladmir Putin is manipulating World War II-era history in a way that whitewashes Soviet crimes and accuses him of doing it as part of an “information war” against the West

Belarus’ authoritarian president says that his government has thwarted a foreign-inspired plot to to destabilize the ex-Soviet nation ahead of the August presidential election in which he is seeking a sixth term

U_S_ Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says China is trying to drive a wedge between the United States and Europe by using “disinformation and malicious cyber campaigns."

Canadian police say one man has died after a shooting in Toronto’s north end

An Iranian police official says that a former Iranian judge sought by his country to face corruption charges has died after a fall in a hotel

“Community pots” have become ubiquitous across Peru recently as coronavirus quarantines and shutdowns leave millions of poor people with no way to feed their families

Chinese prosecutors have charged two detained Canadians with spying in an apparent bid to step up pressure on Canada to drop a U.S. extradition request for a Huawei executive

France’s highest administrative court has upheld a fine of 50 million euros ($56 million) that Google was ordered to pay for not being “sufficiently clear and transparent” with Android users about their data protection options

The shooting reportedly took place before noon local time.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered his government to fully repair environmental damage from a massive fuel leak in the Arctic

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau declared “Canada is back” on the world stage when he was elected five years ago, and he made winning a seat on the U.N. Security Council a top foreign-policy priority

The CEO of Germany's Wirecard has resigned after auditors couldn't find 1.9 billion euros in cash

A wildfire north of Athens has halted traffic on a section of Greece's main highway

The Bank of England has apologized for the links past governors of the institution had with slavery

The dusty streets of rural South Africa are a far cry from the bright lights of “America’s Got Talent,” but that’s where the members of the Ndlovu Youth Choir find themselves coping with the coronavirus pandemic

Croatia has detained two police officers suspected of injuring a migrant as the European Union country faces renewed reports of violence and pushbacks against people crossing from Bosnia or Serbia while trying to reach Western Europe

India’s prime minister is meeting with top opposition leaders who question whether intelligence failures allowed China to build up its forces in disputed Himalayan territory ahead of a clash that killed 20 Indian soldiers

The Turkish foreign minister says Turkey and Italy, which back the U.N.-recognized government in Libya, will work for a lasting peace and political solution in the conflict torn country

European Union leaders have found that a quick deal on the bloc’s future long-term budget and a multibillion-euro post-pandemic recovery plan remains beyond their reach as the coronavirus ravages their economies

Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani teenager once shot by the Taliban for daring to want an education, has completed her degree at Oxford University

British and French military aerobatics display teams perform a flypast over Paris to mark the 80th anniversary of General de Gaulle's call for wartime resistance during World War Two.

The man nicknamed Hong Kong’s “Father of Democracy” says Beijing is trying to take control of the semi-autonomous city with an impending national security law, but added that violent protest is not the answer

The European Union police agency is warning that during the coronavirus lockdowns offenders are increasingly trying to access material depicting the sexual abuse of children

Police in Pakistan say a roadside bomb and a hand-grenade attack targeting security vehicles hours apart have killed at least four people in the country's south

Automaker BMW says it will drop 6,000 jobs through early retirements and turnover as the auto industry adjusts to a sharp drop in demand due to the coronavirus outbreak

South Korea's president has accepted the resignation of his point man on North Korea, who had asked to quit after the North destroyed a liaison office while ramping up pressure against Seoul amid stalled nuclear negotiations

New Zealand police say an unarmed officer has been fatally shot and another wounded in Auckland during what began as a routine traffic stop

Greek police say a migrant from Pakistan has died and six others were injured when the car they were in crashed during a nighttime police chase in northern Greece

China has said that it has not detained any Indian soldiers, following Indian media reports that China had released 10 of them late Thursday

Serbia is holding a parliamentary vote this weekend that takes place amid concerns over the continuing spread of the new coronavirus and political divisions in the Balkan country

China says it never detained Indian soldiers, after Indian media reports say China had released 10 of them

A standoff between Indian and Chinese troops high in the Himalayas near Tibet is taking a dire toll on traditional goat herds that supply the world's finest, most expensive cashmere

Israel's plans to annex the Jordan Valley have sparked an international outcry

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China’s top legislative body has taken up a draft national security bill for Hong Kong that has been strongly criticized as undermining the semi-autonomous Chinese region's legal and political institutions

Cecil Rhodes served as prime minister of Cape Colony, in present-day South Africa, from 1890 to 1896.

Puerto Rico’s governor is promising wage increases for teachers, police officers, firefighters and other public workers, unveiling a government budget bigger than the one submitted by a federal control board that oversees the island’s finances

June 12-18, 2020 This photo gallery highlights some of the most compelling images made or published by Associated Press photographers in Asia and Pacific. The gallery was curated by AP photo editor Masayo Yoshida in Tokyo. Follow AP visual journalism: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/apnews AP Images on Twitter: http://twitter.com/AP—Images AP Images blog: http://apimagesblog.com

Tokyo governor Yuriko Koike is favored to win a second term in a July 5 election after taking a proactive approach to controlling coronavirus outbreaks in Japan's capital

Newborn otter pups Bubble and Squeak ventured outside for the first time, days before the London Zoo reopened its doors to the public. (edited)

India says it is using diplomatic channels with China to de-escalate a military standoff in a remote Himalayan border region where at least 20 Indian soldiers were killed this week

Brazilian authorities have arrested a man long sought as part of an investigation into allegedly suspicious movements of money he made while serving as a driver to Flávio Bolsonaro, a Brazilian senator and son of President Jair Bolsonaro