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Garment workers were deemed essential employees during Bangladesh's lockdown and some resumed work in Dhaka last month. Zabed Hasnain Chowdhury/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images hide caption
For Bangladesh's Struggling Garment Workers, Hunger Is A Bigger Worry Than Pandemic
People attend a rally in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin on Monday to commemorate George Floyd and protest against racism and police violence. Markus Schreiber/AP hide caption
Marchers shout slogans and hold up placards Tuesday during a "rally for justice" in Sydney, protesting the deaths of members of the Aboriginal community in Australia and the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man who died in police custody in Minneapolis. Minn. Peter Parks/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
A volunteer wearing a protective suit checks the body temperature of homeless people standing in line to get free lunch packets on the roadside after the government eased a nationwide lockdown, in New Delhi, late last month. Prakash Singh/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
This photo provided courtesy of the White family, shows U.S. Navy veteran Michael White in Mashhad, Iran. AP (courtesy of the White family) hide caption
Protesters gather Tuesday in Paris. Thousands of people defied a police ban and converged on the main Paris courthouse for a demonstration to show solidarity with U.S. protesters and to denounce the death of a black man in French police custody. Michel Euler/AP hide caption
Russian President Vladimir Putin, shown here earlier this month, declared a state of emergency on Wednesday in a region of Siberia after more than 20,000 tons of diesel fuel spilled from a power plant storage facility and fouled waterways. Alexei Nikolsky/AP hide caption
People attending a vigil for the victims of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre hold a banner reading "Hong Kong independence" at Victoria Park in Causeway Bay, Hong Kong, on Thursday. Official applications for the rally were denied. Kin Cheung/AP hide caption
On Tiananmen Anniversary, Hong Kong Criminalizes Mocking China's National Anthem
Riot police clear away media gathered in Hong Kong last week ahead of debate on a bill that would criminalize abuse of the Chinese national anthem. China has accused the U.S. of "double standards" in its support for anti-China protests in Hong Kong and its criticism of Beijing's human rights record. Vincent Yu/AP hide caption
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán at a news conference on May 15. Andrej Isakovic/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, shown here leaving Downing Street in London on Wednesday, published a column in The Times of London urging China to rethink its proposed national security law. Chris J Ratcliffe/Getty Images hide caption
Anders Tegnell, Sweden's chief epidemiologist, addresses a news conference Wednesday in Stockholm. "There are things we could have done better," Tegnell told a Swedish newspaper. Anders Wiklund/TT News Agency/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Students wear masks May 17 outside a school in the Israeli city of Modiin. Israeli students in all grades went back to school last month. Xinhua News Agency/Getty Images hide caption
Commuters drive along Marine Drive amid heavy rainfall in Mumbai on Wednesday as cyclone Nisarga neared landfall on India's west coast. Punit Paranjpe/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Black Lives Matter rallies have been held in Toronto and in cities across Canada in the wake of the killing of George Floyd. Arindam Shivaani/NurPhoto via Getty Images hide caption
Muslim pilgrims circumambulate the Kaaba during last year's pilgrimage to Islam's holiest sites in Saudi Arabia. This year's hajj is in doubt — and Indonesia has canceled its participation because of COVID-19. Ashraf Amra/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images hide caption
Surviving Autocracy, by Masha Gessen Riverhead Books hide caption
Almost two weeks before the reopening, teacher Jane Cooper used a two-meter length of ruler and pipe to check seat spacing in her classroom at Lostock Hall Primary school in Poynton near Manchester, England. Jon Super/AP hide caption
Commuters wait to board buses in Mexico City on Monday. Fernando Llano/AP hide caption