Gaza starvation, Vietnam War commemoration and papal selection

Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP
Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP

Rahaf Ayyad, a 12-year-old Palestinian who is suffering from malnutrition due to an Israeli-imposed starvation campaign, sits at a school-turned-shelter in al-Rimal in central Gaza City on May 4, 2025.

REUTERS / Darrin Zammit Lupi
REUTERS / Darrin Zammit Lupi

Activists are prevented from approaching the damaged Gaza Freedom Flotilla vessel "Conscience", after Israel bombed it while carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza, at sea outside Maltese territorial waters, on May 3, 2025.

MANAN VATSYAYANA / AFP
MANAN VATSYAYANA / AFP

Soldiers march during a parade marking the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon and the end of the Vietnam War in Ho Chi Minh City on April 30, 2025.

REUTERS / Stoyan Nenov
REUTERS / Stoyan Nenov

Christian pilgrims inspired by the medieval Knights Templar order walk towards St. Peter's Basilica at St. Peter's Square, ahead of the conclave to elect the next pope on May 4, 2025.

REUTERS / Louisa Gouliamaki
REUTERS / Louisa Gouliamaki

People descend the Bramante Staircase at the Vatican Museum during a press tour ahead of the conclave, at the Vatican on May 2, 2025.

OLGA MALTSEVA / AFP
OLGA MALTSEVA / AFP

Russian T-90M tanks drive across Dvortsovaya Square during a rehearsal for Victory Day, where Russia will celebrate the 80th anniversary of the 1945 defeat of Nazi Germany, on May 3, 2025.

CNS / AFP
CNS / AFP

Chinese astronaut Cai Xuzhe sits on a chair as ground crew help remove two more Shenzhou-19 astronauts from their capsule after they landed in China’s Inner Mongolia region on April 30, 2025.

REUTERS / Khalid Abdelaziz
REUTERS / Khalid Abdelaziz

A view shows a large plume of smoke rising from a fuel depot in Port Sudan, Sudan, on May 6, 2025.

REUTERS / Lesley Martin
REUTERS / Lesley Martin

A person reacts during the Beltane Fire Festival, inspired by ancient Celtic and Pagan May Day rituals celebrating the coming of summer, at Calton Hill in Edinburgh, Scotland, Britain, on April 30, 2025.

Arun SANKAR / AFP
Arun SANKAR / AFP

A young Buddhist monk looks on as he walks after reciting morning prayers at the Gyuto Monastery in Dharamsala, India, on May 5, 2025.