Week in Pictures: June 29

Some striking news photos taken around the world this week.NARONG SANGNAK/EPAA Royal Thai Navy boatman participates in a sacred ceremony to worship the Royal Boat, which will be used in the King's 72nd birthday procession in Bangkok. Sawayasu Tsuji/Getty ImagesPeople wave Chinese flags during an event in Hong Kong to mark the 27th anniversary of the handover of sovereignty of Hong Kong to China from Britain on July 1, 1997.Alex Kent/Getty ImagesNew Yorkers celebrate during their annual Pride March. The event commemorates the 1969 Stonewall riots, after police raided the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village. Jerome Gilles/NurPhoto/Getty ImagesPolice used tear gas to disperse protesters at Place de la Republique in Paris, during a protest against the far-right after the results of the first round of parliamentary elections were announced. CHANDAN KHANNA/AFPA man walks on a flooded beach after Hurricane Beryl passed through, in Bridgetown, Barbados. The storm brought strong winds and heavy rain to several Caribbean islands, as the earliest Category 4 storm ever moved west.Orlando Barria/EPADebris piled high along Manresa Beach in Santo Domingo, while the Dominican Republic was largely unscathed. The storm shocked meteorologists – it took just 42 hours to transform from a tropical depression to a major hurricane.JOSH EDELSON/AFPTens of thousands of people in Northern California have been ordered to evacuate as wildfires rage across the state during a heat wave. About 28,000 people were told to leave their homes after the Thompson Fire broke out this week.Mike Egerton/PA MediaA man with hair like a tennis ball approaches the All England Croquet and Lawn Tennis Club, London, on the first day of the Wimbledon Championships. Yui Mok/PA MediaKing Charles III welcomes Sir Keir Starmer to an audience at Buckingham Palace, London, where he invites the Labour leader to become Prime Minister and form a new government, following his landslide victory in the General Election.