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Pictures of the Month
June 2020
With the 'Pictures of the Month' epa offers you a selection of its professionally edited service. The curated photo selection highlights the most important topics of this month and brings together some of epa's most eye catching and visually appealing images selected by our Editors.
The photo selection spans all image categories ranging from economy, business and finance through to human interest, sports, arts, culture and entertainment. Thus, offering a comprehensive retrospective for each month.
This month's coverage included these topics:
- News:
e.g. Coronavirus / Covid-19, China: Hong Kong National Security Law protests, USA police violence / worldwide Black Lives Matter protests, India / China border conflict, Russia constitutional amendments, North Korea / South Korea rising tension, Poland Presidential Election, Alcoa workers protest in Spain, France hospital workers' protests, Libya civil war, Pakistan stock exchange attack, World Environment Day, cyclone Nisarga, Mexico earthquake, Russia / USA espionage trial, India / Pakaistan / Yemen locusts plague, worldwide solar eclipse. - Sports:
e.g. FC Liverpool wins Premier League, Tennis Grand Slams: Wimbledon tennis tournament cancelled, social distancing in fitness centers. - Arts, Culture and Entertainment:
e.g. Cheese made by shepherd family on Sharr Mountains in Kosovo (Photo Set), string quartet concert for nursery plantsbubble, artists at Glacier 3000, cinemas reopen, annual art exhibition in Damascus.

Ecstatic Liverpool FC celebrate outside Anfield stadium in Liverpool, Britain, 25 June 2020. Liverpool have been crowned champions of the Premier League for the first time in three decades after Chelsea FC beat Manchester City FC 2-1. Man City's failure to win this crucial duel mathematically handed the English top league title to the Liverpudlian club led by German manager Juergen Klopp. EPA-EFE/PETER POWELL

A protester during a demonstration on the Glitterplein near the Erasmus Bridge, in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, 03 June 2020 against racism and police brutality in the US and the death of 46 year old George Floyd while in police custody. A bystander's video posted online on 25 May appeared to show George Floyd, 46, pleading with arresting officers that he couldn't breathe as an officer knelt on his neck, in Minnesota, USA. The unarmed black man later died in police custody. EPA-EFE/REMKO DE WAAL

A man uses an X-ray plate to observe an annular partial solar eclipse in Cairo, Egypt, 21 June 2020. A partial solar eclipse occurs when a portion of the Earth is engulfed by the shadow (penumbra) cast by the Moon as it passes between our planet and the Sun in imperfect alignment. During this annular eclipse – the first of the decade – the Moon appears to cover the Sun, leaving the Sun's halo as a visible rim forming an annulus, popularly known as the 'ring of fire.' EPA-EFE/MOHAMED HOSSAM

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) members burn an effigy of Chinese President Xi Jinping and shout slogans during a protest against China in Mumbai, India, 19 June 2020. According to media reports, twenty Indian Army personnel including a colonel were killed in clashes with Chinese troops in the Galwan Valley of the eastern Ladakh region. EPA-EFE/DIVYAKANT SOLANKI

Members of the local election commission wearing protective suits wait with a portable ballot box outside an apartment during early voting in a referendum on amendments to the Russian Constitution in Moscow, Russia, 25 June 2020. The nationwide vote on the constitutional amendments has started on 25 June and will run for seven days until 01 July. The counting of the total results will begin right after polling stations close on 01 July. The vote had been originally scheduled to take place on 22 April but was postponed due to the ongoing pandemic of the COVID-19 disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. EPA-EFE/MAXIM SHIPENKOV

A Filipino boy collects wash up plastic bottles and other recyclable items along a coastline, ahead of World Environment Day, in Manila, Philippines, 04 June 2020. World Environment Day, a United Nations (UN) campaign to raise awareness about the protection of the environment, is celebrated every year on 05 June. EPA-EFE/FRANCIS R. MALASIG

Swarms of locusts seen flying in Bhopal, India, 14 June 2020. Locusts attacked on the various parts of Rajasthan and destroying the crops and disrupting the daily life in many cities and now the Locusts nightmare spreads to Maharashtra, Uttarpradesh and Pujnab and Haryana is also on high alert and anti Locusts sprinkling operations conducted in many states. EPA-EFE/SANJEEV GUPTA

Fighters loyal to the United Nations-recognized Libyan Government of National Accord (GNA) pose for a picture after the area was taken over by GNA-aligned forces following clashes with rival troops loyal to Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar amid the ongoing Second Libyan Civil War (2014-present) in the town of Tarhouna (located some 65 kilometers – 40 miles – southeast of the capital, Tripoli), Libya, 05 June 2020. EPA-EFE/STR

A couple hold hands during a demonstration at a Justice for Black Lives protest in London, Britain, 03 June 2020. Protesters gathered in front of the embassy to express their feelings in regard to the death of 46 year old George Floyd while in police custody. A bystander's video posted online on 25 May appeared to show George Floyd, 46, pleading with arresting officers that he couldn't breathe as an officer knelt on his neck, in Minnesota, USA. The unarmed black man later died in police custody. EPA-EFE/FACUNDO ARRIZABALAGA

Swiss tightrope walker Freddy Nock (R) walks on a cable car cable with a opaque helmet coving his eye during the Glacier 3000, in Les Diablerets, Switzerland, 23 June 2020. While the tourist site remains closed to the public, due to the coronavirus pandemic, Glacier 3000's infrastructure will be transformed into a temporary artistic stage and will serve as a backdrop for an acrobatic shows by six artists. Freddy Nock broke three world records during a show, including walking on a cable with an inclination 39.1 degrees over a distance of 40 meters. EPA-EFE/LAURENT GILLIERON

US President Donald J. Trump poses with a bible outside St. John's Episcopal Church after delivering remarks in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, DC, USA, 01 June 2020. Trump addressed the nationwide protests following the death of George Floyd in police custody. EPA-EFE/SHAWN THEW

Pakistani security officials inspect weapons and ammunition recovered at the scene of an attack by unknown gunmen at Karachi Stock Exchange in Karachi, Pakistan, 29 June 2020. At least four gunmen and two civilians were reportedly killed and security forces have cordoned off the area as fighting is currently ongoing. EPA-EFE/REHAN KHAN

French President Emmanuel Macron (R) greets Britain's Prince Charles, Prince of Wales (L) and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall (C) after laying a wreath at the statue of former French president Charles de Gaulle at Carlton Gardens in London, Britain, 18 June 2020. French President Macron is in London to mark the 80th anniversary of former French president Charles de Gaulle's appeal to French people to resist the Nazi occupation during World War II. EPA-EFE/FACUNDO ARRIZABALAGA

US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Democratic lawmakers kneel while observing a moment of silence to honor George Floyd and victims of racial injustice, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, USA, 08 June 2020. The death of George Floyd while in police custody in Minneapolis has sparked global protests demanding policing reform. EPA-EFE/MICHAEL REYNOLDS

A persons holds a parting of George Floyd at the steps of Brooklyn Borough Hall during a Black Lives Matter protest in Brooklyn, New York, USA, 08 June 2020 (issued 09 June 2020). Another day of protests is expected in the city in response to the death of George Floyd, an African-American man who died while in Minneapolis police custody on 25 May after the arresting officer knelt on his neck for 8 minutes. EPA-EFE/JUSTIN LANE

US citizen Paul Whelan holds up a sign denouncing the legal proceedings against him as he stands inside the defendant's cage before hearing the verdict of his espionage trial at the Moscow City Court in Moscow, Russia, 15 June 2020. Whelan, a former police officer who holds quadruple citizenship of the United States, Britain, Canada and Ireland, was arrested on suspicion of being a foreign spy by Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) in late December 2018 in Moscow. The court found him guilty and sentenced Whelan to 16 years' imprisonment in a high-security penitentiary with the possibility of serving time in a labor camp. EPA-EFE/YURI KOCHETKOV

A young girl looks through an amateur astronomer’s telescope during a partial eclipse of the sun in Hong Kong, China, 21 June 2020. A partial solar eclipse occurs when a portion of the Earth is engulfed by the shadow (penumbra) cast by the Moon as it passes between our planet and the Sun in imperfect alignment. During this annular eclipse – the first of the decade – the Moon appears to cover the Sun, leaving the Sun's halo as a visible rim forming an annulus, popularly known as the 'ring of fire.' EPA-EFE/JEROME FAVRE

French Police officers gather at La Defense, Paris business district, to protest against French Interior Minister Christophe Castaner's reforms, including ditching a controversial chokehold method of arrest, in Paris, France, 15 June 2020. The police officers gathered to denounce lack of government support as protesters around the world organize protests against police brutality. EPA-EFE/CHRISTOPHE PETIT TESSON

The annular solar eclipse in Chiayi city, Taiwan, 21 June 2020. During this annular solar eclipse – the first of the decade – the moon appears to cover the sun, leaving the sun's halo as a visible rim forming an annulus, popularly known as the 'ring of fire.' EPA-EFE/RITCHIE B. TONGO

Libyan experts search for human remains during the exhumation of mass graves in Tarhuna, southeast of Tripoli, Libya on 23 June 2020. The United Nations reports that eight mass graves had been discovered in an area recently seized by the unity government after forces loyal to eastern strongman Khalifa Haftar withdrew. EPA-EFE/STR

Indian fishermen jointly push a fishing boat to anchor it near the Arabic Sea shore at the Uttan village, near Mumbai, India, 03 June 2020. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has advised fishermen not to venture out to sea along the coast of Maharashtra as a precaution against approaching tropical cyclone Nisarga. The cyclone Nisarga will landfall in Mumbai on 03 June 2020. EPA-EFE/DIVYAKANT SOLANKI

An Indian paramilitary soldier stands guard at check post along a highway leading to Ladakh, at Gagangeer some 81 kilometers from Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian Kashmir, 17 June 2020. According to news reports, twenty Indian Army personnel including a colonel were killed in the clash with Chinese troops in Galwan Valley of the eastern Ladakh region over the border fight. EPA-EFE/FAROOQ KHAN

Angry Spanish workers of the Aluminum Company of America (Alcoa) burn tyres near the company's plant during a protest against the planned closure of the aluminium producing plant in Lugo, nortwestern Spain, 30 June 2020. Spanish media reports state that the Alcoa company, that plans to fire more than 500 of its workers, has referred to low aluminum prices and high energy costs causing heavy losses, making it impossible for the plant to to compete internationally. EPA-EFE/ELISEO TRIGO

Workers remove the 30-foot obelisk Confederate memorial known as the 'Lost Cause' on the square in Decatur, Georgia, USA, 18 June 2020. In an order issued 12 June, a DeKalb County judge said the Confederate monument on the Decatur square should be 'immediately relocated'. Protesters have called for the removal of the obelisk, along with other Confederate statues and memorials across the South. EPA-EFE/ERIK S. LESSER

A view of the South Korean-built support center for the Kaesong Industrial Complex on the North Korean side of the border as seen from Mt. Papyeong, near the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) in Paju, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea, 19 June 2020. The center was severely damaged by indirect impact when North Korea carried out the demolition of the adjacent inter-Korean liaison office with explosives on 16 June. EPA-EFE/JEON HEON-KYUN

German Chancellor Angela Merkel (L) and French President Emmanuel Macron talk during a bilateral meeting at the German government's guest house Meseberg Castle in Gransee near Berlin, Germany, 29 June 2020. The meeting takes place ahead of Germany's EU Council Presidency in the second half of 2020. EPA-EFE/HAYOUNG JEON / POOL MAXPPP OUT

People are tested for COVID-19 at a makeshift coronavirus testing center, in Beijing, China, 24 June 2020. Almost three million of people were tested for COVID-19 in Beijing as the city continues the mass testing for the disease. EPA-EFE/ROMAN PILIPEY

Immigration advocates gather outside the Supreme Court following a ruling in Washington, DC, USA, 18 June 2020. The Supreme Court rejected the Trump administration's move to scrap the program, 'Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals' (DACA), in a 5-4 ruling written by Chief Justce John Roberts. The decision impacts hundreds of thousands of immigrants who were brought to the US as children. EPA-EFE/MICHAEL REYNOLDS

A woman wears a face mask with a portrait of George Floyd, an African-American man killed during his arrest by Minneapolis police officers on 25 May, during a Juneteenth holiday celebration in Los Angeles, California, USA, 19 June 2020. Juneteenth – a portmanteau between the month of June and the word 'nineteenth' – marks the day when the last enslaved people in the US were emancipated in 1865 in Galveston, Texas, more then two years after the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863. EPA-EFE/CHRISTIAN MONTERROSA

A woman is detained by police during a silent march against the national security law in Hong Kong, China, 28 June 2020. China's top legislative body is set to pass a legislation for Hong Kong aiming to prevent, stop and punish acts of secession, subversion, terrorism and collusion with foreign forces to endanger national security. EPA-EFE/JEROME FAVRE

A cinema staff member sprays disinfectant inside the Savoy cinema hall in Colombo, Sri Lanka, 29 June 2020.The Sri Lankan government has lifted the island-wide curfew on 28 June and is preparing for a full reopening of businesses and activities to avoid an economic slump. EPA-EFE/CHAMILA KARUNARATHNE

A rescue operation in the aftermath of a boat capsizing in the Buriganga river in Dhaka, Bangladesh, 29 June 2020. According to local media reports and Fire Service, a total of 28 bodies were recovered after a launch carrying more than 50 passengers capsized in the river near the Shyambazar area in Dhaka. EPA-EFE/MONIRUL ALAM

Indian army trucks tavel along a highway leading to Ladakh, in Gagangeer, Ganderbal district, Jammu and Kashmir, India, 22 June 2020. According to media reports, India has deployed high altitude warfare forces along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in northern India, after skirmishes with China broke out earlier in the month over a long running border stand-off between the two nations. EPA-EFE/STRINGER

A photo taken with a drone shows people painting an 'All Black Lives Matter' mural on Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California, USA, 13 June 2020. An eyewitness video showing the deadly arrest of 46-year-old African-American George Floyd in Minneapolis on 25 May sparked worldwide protests against police brutality. EPA-EFE/CHRISTIAN MONTERROSA

Borjan, 13, a shepherd of Balje family watches the flock graze on a pasture in the Sharr Mountains, Kosovo, 19 June 2020 (issued 22 June 2020). The Balje family is one of just a few shepherd families that still uses the Sharr mountains, which are over 1800 meters in altitude, to graze their sheep. The family produce over a 1000 kilograms cheese in a season. The Sharr cheese is traditionally made from unpasteurized sheep's milk as cows were unable to climb the highland to suitable pastures. Plants an herbs on the mountain give the cheese a distinctive and unique flavour. EPA-EFE/VALDRIN XHEMAJ

A string quartet performs in front of more than 2,200 nursery plants in the audience's seats at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, Spain, 22 June 2020. The concert is an initiative by artist Eugenio Ampudia. The plants will be donated to healthcare workers at the Clinic Hospital in Barcelona. EPA-EFE/Quique Garcia

Visitors admire the works displayed at the annual spring exhibition of plastic arts on its opening night at the famous Khan As'ad Pasha building in the Old City of Damascus, Syria, 30 June 2020. EPA-EFE/YOUSSEF BADAWI

A group of pro-China activists hold banners and Chinese national flags during a march to the US Consulate General in Hong Kong, China, 26 June 2020. Demonstrators were protesting against the US Senate backed legislation that would impose mandatory sanctions on individuals or companies that back efforts by China to restrict Hong Kong's autonomy, as the government in Beijing moves to implement a new security law for the city and to denounce the US' 'intervention' in China's national affairs. EPA-EFE/JEROME FAVRE

An aerial picture taken with a drone shows bodies of victims who died with coronavirus, during burial procession carried by Iraqi Shiite group Imam Ali Brigades at a cemetery in the holy city of Najaf, southern Iraq, 28 June 2020 (issued on 29 June 2020). The Iraqi authorities have imposed strict measures to stem the spread of coronavirus after the rise in the number of infections. EPA-EFE/ALI Al-MUMEN

Members of the police and fire department observe the damage caused by a collapsed fence wall in Oaxaca, Mexico, 23 June 2020. The 7.5 magnitude earthquake that shook central and southern Mexico on Tuesday has left at least two dead in the southern state of Oaxaca, epicenter of the telluric movement that triggered the seismic alert in the country's capital. EPA-EFE/Oscar Mendez

The main gates at the Wimbledon Tennis Championships complex in south west London, Britain, 29 June 2020. It would have been the opening day of the Wimbledon Tennis Championships today had it not been for the Covid-19 Pandemic. It's the first time Wimbledon has been canceled since World War II. Meanwhile British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has changed the two meter distancing rules from two meters to one. Pubs, galleries and cinemas can reopen their doors from 04 July. EPA-EFE/ANDY RAIN

Peet (R) trains his students surrounded by plastic sheets to ensure social distancing at the Inspire South Bay Fitness gym amid the coronavirus pandemic in Redondo Beach, California, 22 June 2020. Los Angeles County’s businesses continue to reopen despite the recent spike incoronavirus infections. EPA-EFE/ETIENNE LAURENT

Ireland's Fianna Fail party leader Micheal Martin leaves the Convention Centre after being elected by the Irish Parliament as Taoiseach (the prime minister of the Republic of Ireland) in Dublin, Ireland, 27 June 2020. Due to social distancing the Irish Parliament is sitting in the convention centre. A new government led by Mr. Martin will form a historic coalition with Fine Gael led by Leo Varadker and the Green Party. EPA-EFE/Aidan Crawley

New York City Police officers are reflected in a mirror held by a protester in Washington Square Park during a demonstration over the arrest in Minnesota of George Floyd, who later died in police custody, in New York , New York, USA, 02 June 2020. A bystander's video posted online on 25 May, appeared to show George Floyd, 46, pleading with arresting officers that he couldn't breathe as an officer knelt on his neck. The unarmed black man later died in police custody. EPA-EFE/JUSTIN LANE

An image taken with a drone shows rows of beach parasols in the Tuscan resort town of Viareggio, Italy, 28 May 2020 (issued 29 May 2020). The beaches of Italy are set to reopen amid the ongoing pandemic of the COVID-19 disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, though beachgoers will be required to maintain a minimum social distance of 5 meters (16.4 feet) between each other and adopt certain hygienic measures. EPA-EFE/FABIO MUZZI

LAPD Commander Cory Palka (C) takes a knee next to protesters next to Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti's house as thousands of protesters took the street to demonstrate following the death of George Floyd, in Los Angeles, California, USA, 02 June 2020. A bystander's video posted online on 25 May, shows George Floyd, 46, pleading with arresting officers that he couldn't breathe as one officer knelt on his neck. The unarmed black man soon became unresponsive, and was later pronounced dead. According to news reports on 29 May, Derek Chauvin, the police officer in the center of the incident has been taken into custody and charged with murder in the George Floyd killing. EPA-EFE/ETIENNE LAURENT

A protester holding a French flag faces police forces during a protest against goverment policies and demand better employment conditions for hospital workers in Paris, France, 16 June 2020. Hospital unions have called on their members to take part in a nationwide one-day strike and demonstrations. Their longstanding demands include improved pay and conditions, increased public funding and an end to the prevalent system of short-term contracts for bio-cleaning and hospital staff. EPA-EFE/CHRISTOPHE PETIT TESSON

Part of a memorial to those killed by police, which refers to George Floyd is pictured in the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest, and area near an abandoned police precinct where activists continue protest, in Seattle, Washington, USA, 25 June 2020. Seattle mayor Jenny Durkan has called for the protest to be disbursed and for the precinct to be reoccupied, but remaining protesters have moved their tents closer to the police station and refuse to leave until their demands are met, which include a 50 percent cut the Seattle Police Department budget. EPA-EFE/STEPHEN BRASHEAR

Protesters put their hands in the air as police clear out Lafayette Park across the street from the White House after protesters attempted to pull down the Andrew Jackson statue in the park, in Washington DC, USA, 22 June 2020. Police used chemical agents to clear out Lafayette Park and skirmishes broke out between protesters and police. The death of George Floyd in the Minneapolis police custody on 25 May 2020 has sparked global protests demanding justice and racial equality. EPA-EFE/MICHAEL REYNOLDS

Hundreds of people queue in their cars to get the Corinavirus test by the Florida Army National Guard's members, at the testing Location at Hard Rock Cafe Miami's Super Bowl stadium's parking lot in Miami, Florida, USA, 30 June 2020. EPA-EFE/CRISTOBAL HERRERA

People light candles on a park gate for a candlelit vigil to commemorate the 1989 Beijing Tiananmen Square Massacre anniversary in Hong Kong, China, 04 June 2020. The annual candle light vigil, organised by the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China, has been called off by police for the first time in 30 years amid a ban on large gatherings due to the Covid-19 pandemic. EPA-EFE/JEROME FAVRE

A general view ahead of an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Board of Governors meeting at the IAEA headquarters of the UN seat in Vienna, Austria, 15 June 2020. Due to measures aimed at slowing down the pandemic COVID-19 disease, caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, the IAEA Board of Governors meeting is held as a video conference. EPA-EFE/CHRISTIAN BRUNA

Former Polish President and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Lech Walesa vote in the presidential election run-off at a polling station in Gdansk, Poland, 28 June 2020. Poles are voting to elect their president for a five-year term. The vote had been due to take place on 10 May but was delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Polling stations are open in Poland from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. If none of the eleven contenders in the race wins more than 50 percent of the vote, under Polish election rules, a second round will be held on 12 July. EPA-EFE/ADAM WARZAWA POLAND OUT