Famine in Sri Lanka, pollution in Chile and roses… The summary of the news of the week in photos

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On Friday June 10, the Photo Hebdo section of 20 Heures returns to the news of the week. This time, direction Sri Lanka, Ukraine, Mexico and France.

Shot down by tear gas and by the crisis affecting his country. In Sri Lanka, a Buddhist monk catches his breath and seems to implore heaven to help him. The Sri Lankan lack food and medicine today. The economic crisis could become humanitarian. Without the mask, a little Chilean boy would have a scratchy throat, a headache and nausea. In Chile, the beach is polluted by toxic discharges from factories visible in the distance. With colored pencils, he drew his dark destiny to challenge.

On the outskirts of kyiv, Ukraine, among the ruins, a little girl walks with her candy pink scooter. In her childhood games, she forgets that around her, the world is collapsing. The hope of a better life, elsewhere, cis what drives thousands of men and women. They embarked on a procession on a Mexican highway towards the border that separates them from the United States, a coveted country. Finally, i78 years ago, the Allies landed on a beach in Normandy. To pay homage to them, a few roses are planted in the sand.


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