Here is a selection of the best photos from international news from Wednesday May 8.
PHOTO BAY ISMOYO, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
A pest control worker fumigates a street with insecticides in Jakarta, Indonesia’s capital, as part of efforts to stop the spread of dengue-carrying mosquitoes.
PHOTO JOHN WESSELS, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
A man stands in front of the “door of no return” in the former slave house on Gorée Island, off the coast of Dakar, the capital of Senegal. This opening was the last door that slaves captured all over the African continent had to pass through before boarding the boat that would take them to Europe or America.
PHOTO LAURENT CIPRIANI, ASSOCIATED PRESS
THE Belem, the sailboat carrying the Olympic flame from Greece, is escorted by other boats as a tugboat sprays water in the foreground, approaching Marseille, southern France. The Paris Olympic Games will take place from July 26 to August 11.
PHOTO NELSON ALMEIDA, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
A woman has been left homeless by the floods that have been devastating southern Brazil for several days. According to the report published Wednesday by the authorities, the torrential rains left at least 100 dead and 128 missing, and more than 160,000 people had to leave their homes.
PHOTO BORIS GRDANOSKI, ASSOCIATED PRESS
A little girl places a ballot in an office in Skopje, North Macedonia, where voters were called to the polls for a double vote: the second round of the presidential election and the legislative elections. In the evening, the nationalist VMRO-DPMNE party was declared the winner, which suggests stormy relations with the neighboring countries of the European Union.
PHOTO LUDOVIC MARIN, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
A police dog from RAID, a unit of the French national police specializing in the search for explosives, inspects a robot dog at the Tangram campus in Marseille, ahead of a visit by President Emmanuel Macron.
PHOTO CIRO DE LUCA, REUTERS
Papuan indigenous leader Mundiya Kepanga, originally from the Papua New Guinea Highlands, attends Pope Francis’ weekly general audience in St. Peter’s Square, Vatican.
PHOTO NATALIA KOLESNIKOVA, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
A woman and a little girl visit an exhibition displaying Western military equipment seized by Russian forces in Ukraine at Victory Park in Moscow, where winter has not yet said its last word.
PHOTO PROVIDED BY AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
Mount Ibu spews a thick column of smoke into the sky over the island of Halmahera, Indonesia, where authorities have called on the population to move away from the volcano which erupted on Wednesday.
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