World in focus — best photos for May 19, 2017

French artist and photographer JR poses for at a photo call for the film ‘Faces, Places’ (Visages, Villages) at the 70th edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southern France. loic Venance / AFP / May 19, 2017

Double amputee Bob MacDermott from Canada putts during the final round of the World Disabled Golf Championship at King David Mowbray Golf Club, Cape Town, South Africa. Teams of golfers with varying disabilities from the United States, Canada, South Africa, Ireland, Sweden, Spain, Britain and Denmark took part in the week-long competition. Nic Bothma / EPA / May 19, 2017

Female voters queue at a polling station in the Qom, Iran, for the presidential and municipal council elections. Iranians began voting Friday in the country’s first presidential election since its nuclear deal with world powers, as incumbent Hassan Rouhani faced a staunch challenge from a hard-line opponent over his outreach to the wider world. Ebrahim Noroozi / AP / May 19, 2017

Workers carry paper replicas of everyday items traditionally used by Chinese as offerings to pay respects to the dead in Hong Kong. Anthony Wallace / AFP / May 19, 2017

A model showcases a design during the Alice McCall show during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in Sydney, Australia. Brook Mitchell / Getty Images / May 19, 2017

A well-dressed cat on May 19, 2017, looks out a window of the Ecuadorean embassy in London, where WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been holed up for several years. Sweden’s top prosecutor dropped an investigation into a rape claim against Mr Assange on Friday, after almost seven years. Matt Dunham / AP

New Zealand driver and co-driver, Hayden Paddon and John Kennard, steer their Hyundai i20 Coupe WRC in Viana do Castelo, Portugal, on May 19, 2017, during the first stage of the Portugal WCR rally. Miguel Riopa / Agence France-Presse

Villagers in Beganding village in Karo, North Sumatra province look on as Mount Sinabung spews volcanic ash. The volcano roared back to life in 2010 for the first time in 400 years. After another period of inactivity, it erupted once more in 2013 and has remained highly active since. Ivan Damanik / AFP / May 19, 2017

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