The Week in Photos: From Waterlining in Austria to a Robot Cop in Dubai

A round-up of images from Viewfinder, Pacific Standard's daily photo feature.

Author:: Pacific Standard Staff
Publish date:: Jun 3, 2017

Waterliner Ludwig Mayerlen walks a 90-meter-long line over the Danube river attached from a tree to Georg Danzer bridge in Vienna, Austria, on June 2nd, 2017. — Waterliner Ludwig Mayerlen walks a 90-meter-long line over the Danube river attached from a tree to Georg Danzer bridge in Vienna, Austria, on June 2nd, 2017.
(Photo: Joe Klamar/AFP/Getty Images)

Bhutanese men prepare traditional shoes at a Folk Heritage Museum in Thimphu on June 1st, 2017, during a visit there by Japanese Princess Mako. — Bhutanese men prepare traditional shoes at a Folk Heritage Museum in Thimphu on June 1st, 2017, during a visit there by Japanese Princess Mako.
(Photo: Diptendu Dutta/AFP/Getty Images)

The world's first operational police robot stands at attention in Dubai before a military cannon is fired to mark the end of the fasting day on May 31st, 2017, for Muslims observing Ramadan. — The world's first operational police robot stands at attention in Dubai before a military cannon is fired to mark the end of the fasting day on May 31st, 2017, for Muslims observing Ramadan.
(Photo: Giuseppe Cacace/AFP/Getty Images)

An Exocet missile undergoes testing at the Direction générale de l'armement on May 30th, 2017, in western France. — An Exocet missile undergoes testing at the Direction générale de l'armement on May 30th, 2017, in western France.
(Photo: Damien Meyer/AFP/Getty Images)

A veteran walks through Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia, on May 29th, 2017. — A veteran walks through Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia, on May 29th, 2017.
(Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

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Government worker Laurie Ridgley watches as Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney tours the binding facility where President Donald Trump's FY'18 budget books are being produced, at the Government Publishing Office, on May 19th, 2017.

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A man dressed in a clown outfit distributes balloons to children as confetti is thrown by the Dome of the Rock inside al-Aqsa Mosque compound, in Jerusalem's old city on the first day of Eid al-Adha on September 1st, 2017.

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Migrants walk next to the Roya River on August 8th, 2017, in Ventimiglia, close to the French border.

A round-up of images from Viewfinder, Pacific Standard's daily photo feature.

A Libyan coast guardsman stands on a boat during the rescue of 147 undocumented immigrants attempting to reach Europe off the coastal town of Zawiyah, 45 kilometers west of the capital Tripoli, on June 27th, 2017. More than 8,000 migrants have been rescued in waters off Libya during the past 48 hours in difficult weather conditions, Italy's coastguard said.

A round-up of images from Viewfinder, Pacific Standard's daily photo feature.

Protesters gather outside the Embassy of Myanmar in Pretoria on September 15th, 2017, during a demonstration against Naypyidaw's alleged "ethnic cleansing" of its Rohingya minority. The march by hundreds of demonstrators outside Myanmar's embassy turned violent on September 15th, an AFP journalist reported, and police outside the mission in Pretoria fired teargas and stun grenades to disperse the angry crowd.

A round-up of images from Viewfinder, Pacific Standard's daily photo feature.