Week in pictures 9 July 2022
NARA: Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is taken on a stretcher to a helicopter after being shot in front of Yamatosaidaiji Station in Nara, Japan, on July 8 (The Asahi Shimbun/Getty Images)
LONDON: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson makes a statement at No. 10 Downing Street in London on Thursday, July 7. Johnson was announcing his resignation after a series of political crises. "It is clearly now the will of the parliamentary Conservative party that there should be a new leader of that party and therefore a new prime minister," he said (Henry Nicholls/Reuters)
CHICAGO: A Lake Forest police officer walks down Central Avenue in Highland Park, Chicago, on July 4, after the July 4th parade shooting (Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune/AP)
SILVERSTONE: Formula One driver Zhou Guanyu skids across the track after a high-speed crash at the British Grand Prix on Sunday, July 3. He credited the car's halo protection device for saving his life (Ben Stansall/AFP/Getty Images)
PAMPLONA: People try to avoid the bulls during the annual “running of the bulls” in Pamplona, Spain, on Thursday, July 7. The San Fermin festival was canceled in 2020 and 2021 because of the Covid-19 pandemic (Miguel Riopa/AFP/Getty Images)