World in pictures, June 18, 2025
10 ImagesThe best photos from the international wire agencies as chosen by The Age picture editors
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A man gestures as he waits to board a migrant dinghy to sail into the English Channel on June 17, 2025 in Gravelines, France. A record number of migrants have made the illegal crossing from France to the UK via small boats so far this year. Figures surpassed the 16,000 mark last week, which is 42% more than the same point last year.Credit:Carl Court/Getty Images
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Aymara women rest after protesting the economic crisis, in La Paz, Bolivia.Credit:Juan Karita/AP
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A man sits in a Bakerloo Line carriage covered in graffiti in London, England. According to Transport for London commissioner Andy Lord, more than 3,000 graffiti “tags” a week are being removed from Tube trains, with 23,000 instances of graffiti removed over the last two months. The increase in graffiti has particularly affected the older Bakerloo and Central lines, which are not outfitted with CCTV cameras.Credit:Carl Court/Getty Images
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A man, wearing a beret with a Cuban flag and an image of Ernesto “Che” Guevara, attends a rally in support of President Gustavo Petro’s intention to call a referendum on labor reform, in Cali, Colombia.Credit:Santiago Saldarriaga/AP
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John Sennen Kelly, a Tuam Mother and Baby home survivor who lived the first five years of his life at the Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home takes one last look around the remembrance garden as he pays his last respects ahead of the site closure on June 15, 2025 in Tuam, Ireland. From 1925 to 1961 hundreds of children died at the St Mary’s Mother and Baby home, a maternity home for unmarried mothers and their children, in Tuam, County Galway.Credit:Charles McQuillan/Getty Images
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Victims of this week’s floods look on as South African President Cyril Ramaphosa addresses them, in Mthatha, South Africa.Credit:Themba Hadebe/AP
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A pro-choice protester holds up a placard in front of demonstrators from the pro-life group ‘Christian Concern’ as activists gather near Parliament, where MPs are voting on the decriminalisation of abortion in London, United Kingdom.Credit:Alishia Abodunde/Getty Images
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Migrants board a dinghy to sail into the English Channel in Gravelines, France.Credit:Carl Court/Getty Images
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People shop in a market in Damascus, Syria. Syria will be reconnected to the international SWIFT payment system within weeks, marking a major step in the country’s attempt to revive its economy and reintegrate with global markets after more than a decade of war and isolation.Credit:Ed Ram/Getty Images
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People hold hands along Sao Conrado beach for a symbolic group hug with the sea on World Oceans Day, in Rio de Janeiro.Credit:Silvia Izquierdo/AP
