Photos of the Day: May 19
A monk prepares for Buddha’s birthday, floods inundate Sri Lanka, and more.
May 19, 2016 5:19 p.m. ET 0 COMMENTS
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A young Buddhist monk cleans a statue of Buddha in a monastery in Bhopal, India. The 2,560th anniversary of Buddha’s birth will be celebrated on May 21 around the world.
Sanjeev Gupta/European Pressphoto Agency
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A Sri Lankan man carries a television through floodwaters from a home in a suburb of Colombo. At least 45 people have died on the island in weather-related disasters since the weekend.
Ishara S. Kodikara/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images
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A bus carrying Leicester City soccer players drives in a parade through the streets of Bangkok.
Dario Pignatelli/Bloomberg News
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A French police officer stands guard after getting hit with paint during a demonstration against labor reform in Bordeaux.
Georges Gobet/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images
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A man takes advantage of the warm weather in New York City’s Bryant Park in Manhattan.
Timothy A. Clary/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images
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A mother and a child swelter while waiting for transportation during a heat wave in Jammu, India. Scorching summer temperatures are making life extremely tough for millions of people across north India.
Channi Anand/Associated Press
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Unidentified relatives and friends of passengers who were flying in an EgyptAir plane that crashed into the Mediterranean Sea are waiting outside the airline’s in-flight service building at Cairo International Airport. The flight was en route to Cairo from Paris.
Amr Abdallah Dalsh/Reuters
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Supporters of the Trinamool Congress political party celebrate after learning the initial poll results of the West Bengal Assembly elections in Kolkata.
Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters
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Japanese Finance Minister Taro Aso, third from left, and Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda, second from left, lead to open barrels of Japanese sake with French Finance Minister Michel Sapin, third from right, and International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde, fourth from right, during the welcome reception of the meeting of G-7 finance ministers in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, northern Japan.
Kimimasa Mayama/European Pressphoto Agency
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A man puts a national Ukrainian costume, known as the Vyshyvanka, on a figure on a monument to Kiev’s founders on the city’s Independence Square. On Thursday, Ukrainians celebrate the traditional clothing.
Sergey Dolzhenko/European Pressphoto Agency
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