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BRITAIN NORTHERN IRELAND GOVERNMENT
epa09950867 (L-R) Sinn Fein Stormont Leader Michelle OâNeill with her Sinn Fein party leader Mary Lou McDonald and Sinn Feinâs Conor Murphy arrive at Hillsborough Castle in Northern Ireland, 16 May 2022. The British Prime Minister Johnson is due to have talks with the political parties in Northern Ireland regarding issues surrounding the Brexit's Northern Ireland Protocol following the 05 May local elections. EPA/MARK MARLOW
SRI LANKA ECONOMIC CRISIS
epa09950863 Vehicles queue to fetch fuel from a gas station amid a fuel shortage in Colombo, Sri Lanka, 16 May 2022. Protests have been rocking the country for weeks, calling for the resignation of the president over the alleged failure to address the worsening current economic crisis. Sri Lanka faces its worst economic crisis in decades due to the lack of foreign exchange, resulting in severe shortages in food, fuel, medicine, and imported goods. EPA/CHAMILA KARUNARATHNE
SWEDEN NATO MEMBERSHIP PRESSER
epa09950860 Sweden's Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson gives a news conference in Stockholm, Sweden, 16 May 2022. Sweden's government has decided to apply for a NATO membership. The leaders of Sweden and Finland have confirmed they will apply for NATO membership as a result of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The move would bring the expansion of the Western military alliance to 32 member countries. EPA/HENRIK MONTGOMERY SWEDEN OUT
TURKEY UKRAINE RUSSIA CONFLICT
epa09950855 Ukrainian singer Ruslana (C), speaks during a press conference, as they arrive in Istanbul to ask Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to support the rescue of soldiers and civilians in Mariupol, in Istanbul, Turkey, 16 May 2022. Ukrainian wives and mothers of Mariupol defenders have arrived to Istanbul and they are planning to go to Ankara to meet with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to ask for support. EPA/SEDAT SUNA
GERMANY PARIES REGIONAL ELECTIONS
epa09950854 North Rhine-Westphalia chairwoman of the Green party Mona Neubaur (R) address a press conference on the results of the previous day's regional elections in German federal state North Rhine-Westphalia, in Berlin, Germany, 16 May 2022. Preliminary official results show that the Buendnis90/Die Gruenen (Alliance90/The Greens) party received 18.2 percent of the valid votes when Germany's most populous federal state held regional elections on 15 May. EPA/Christian Marquardt / POOL
SRI LANKA POLITICAL ECONOMIC CRISIS
epa09950851 Members of Sri Lanka's Socialist Youth Union hold placards as they shout slogans during a protest march in Colombo, Sri Lanka, 16 May 2022. Protesters demanded the resignation of the president over the alleged failure to address the economic crisis, and also demanded immediate arrest of those who attacked the Occupy Galle Face protest on 09 May. According to Sri Lanka Police, at least nine people died, more than 220 people were injured and dozens of vehicles and houses were torched during political unrest that broke out in Sri Lanka on 09 and 10 May during which the government enforced an island-wide curfew. Thousands of protesters staged the Occupy Galle Face protest since over a month in front of the Presidential Secretariat calling for the resignation of the president over the alleged failure to address the economic crisis. EPA/CHAMILA KARUNARATHNE
RUSSIA BUSINESS UKRAINE CONFLICT
epa09950840 A view of a closed McDonalds restaurant in Podolsk, outside Moscow, Russia, 16 May 2022. US global fast food franchise on 16 May 2022 in a press release announced that it 'will exit the Russian market and has initiated a process to sell its Russian business.' On 24 February, Russian troops invaded Ukrainian territory starting a conflict that has provoked destruction and a humanitarian crisis. According to the UNHCR, more than six million refugees have fled Ukraine and a further 7.7 million people have been displaced internally within Ukraine since. EPA/MAXIM SHIPENKOV
HUNGARY PRIME MINISTER INAUGURATION
epa09950823 Chairman of Fidesz Party Viktor Orban (C) takes his oath as Prime Minister of Hungary after he was re-elected for his fourth consecutive term in the Hungarian Parliament in Budapest, Hungary, 16 May 2022. EPA/Tibor Illyes HUNGARY OUT
GERMANYBERLINMUSEUM
(220516) -- BERLIN, May 16, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Photo taken on May 15, 2022 shows a mural painting of Kizil Grottoes at the Museum of Asian Art in Berlin, Germany. (Xinhua/Ren Pengfei)
GERMANY BULGARIA DIPLOMACY
epa09950821 German Chancellor Olaf Scholz waits to welcome Bulgaria's President Radev ahead of bilateral talks in Berlin, Germany, 16 May 2022. The Bulgarian president is paying an official visit to Germany. EPA/FILIP SINGER
