Indonesian heavy metal band Sisi Selatan performed songs about love and social activism. (Dave Grunebaum/VOA) Pri Ario Damar, dean of the performing arts faculty at the Jakarta Institute of Arts. (Dave Grunebaum/VOA) During the six pm prayer break, these fans simultaneously show their Muslim faith and passion for heavy metal music. (Dave Grunebaum/VOA) Indonesian singer and song writer Denisa Dhaniswara performs at Hammersonic, Southeast Asia’s biggest annual heavy metal music festival. (Dave Grunebaum/VOA)
This handout picture released by the Israeli army shows the 401st Brigade's combat team tanks entering the Palestinian side of the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt in the southern Gaza Strip on May 7, 2024. Palestinians inspect the damage around the Derby family house struck in Israeli bombardment of Rafah's Tal al-Sultan district in the southern Gaza Strip on May 7, 2024. This handout picture released by the Israeli army shows Israeli forces operating on the Palestinian side of the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt in the southern Gaza Strip on May 7, 2024.
FILE - Activists with the rights group Odhikar demonstrate against enforced disappearances, in Khulna, Bangladesh, Dec. 10, 2021. Bangladesh made no significant progress in improving its human rights situation, a recent U.S. State Department report said. (Mohammad Nuruzzaman/VOA) FILE - Families and friends of the victims of enforced disappearance in Bangladesh demonstrate on the streets of Dhaka, Dec. 10, 2021, hours after the U.S. imposed human rights-related sanctions on Bangladesh's paramilitary force.
FILE - Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping during a meeting on April 25, 2019, as part of the second Belt and Road Forum in Beijing. Xi will visit Hungary this week on his European tour. FILE - Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic, center, adjusts an earphone as he attends a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, May 16, 2017. Xi will visit Serbia this week on his European tour.
France's President Emmanuel Macron, left, greets Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Elysee Palace in Paris, May 6, 2024. French President Emmanuel Macron, center, China's President Xi Jinping and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen attend a trilateral meeting at the Elysee Palace as part of Xi's two-day state visit to France, in Paris, May 6, 2024.
Voters queue at the Walia high school polling station in N'Djamena on May 6, 2024 during Chad's presidential election. Men show their ID's to polling station officials to vote in the school polling station in the Abena district, Bureau 2 Carré 27, in N'Djamena on May 6, 2024. A general view of a polling station in N'Djamena on May 6, 2024. Chad's transitional president and presidential election candidate Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno (C) casts his ballot at a polling station in N'Djamena on May 6, 2024. A voter marks his ballot in a voting booth at the Walia high school polling station in N'Djamena on May 6, 2024.
FILE - Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy inspects samples of military equipment and weapons, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv region, Ukraine, April 13, 2024. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Service/Handout via REUTERS) Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Kirill, right, greets Russian President Vladimir Putin after conducting an Orthodox Easter service at the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow, Russia, May 5, 2024.
Supporters of Chad's transitional prime minister and Les Transformateurs party presidential candidate Succes Masra attend his final election campaign rally at the N'Djamena racecourse, Chad, on May 4, 2024. Chad's transitional president and presidential election candidate Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno, looks on during a final campaign rally at the place des nations in N'Djamena on May 4, 2024.
A man walks next to a silhouetted Israeli soldier holding a rifle and posters of hostages kidnapped during the deadly October 7 attack by Palestinian Islamist group Hamas from Gaza, at Dizengoff Square, in Tel Aviv, Israel, May 5, 2024. A Palestinian child transporting pieces of wood walks past a building destroyed by Israeli bombardment in Gaza City on May 3, 2024.
China's President Xi Jinping and his wife Peng Liyuan wave upon their arrival for an official two-day state visit at Orly airport, south of Paris on May 5, 2024. France's Prime Minister Gabriel Attal (L) greets China's President Xi Jinping upon his arrival for an official two-day state visit, at Orly airport, south of Paris on May 5, 2024.
FILE - Kyrgyzstan's President Sadyr Japarov, left, and Russian President Vladimir Putin attend a welcome ceremony prior to their talks in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, Oct. 12, 2023. FILE - Kyrgyz male labor migrants wait to leave to work in Russia at the office of a company organizing passenger transportation to Russia in Bishkek, Oct. 17, 2023. A secondary school in Bishkek which is financed by Russian Gasprom, April 24, 2024. The school is one of the elitist educational institutions in Kyrgyzstan.
FILE - Chinese rapper Shixin Wenyue performs at a concert in Chengdu in southwestern China's Sichuan province, March 16, 2024. FILE - Chinese rapper Boss X performs at a concert in Chengdu in southwestern China's Sichuan province, March 16, 2024. FILE - Chinese rapper Boss X performs at a concert in Chengdu in southwestern China's Sichuan province, March 16, 2024.
FILE - Russian President Vladimir Putin addresses members of the Defense Ministry, the National Guard, the Interior Ministry, the Federal Security Service and the Federal Guard Service at the Kremlin, in Moscow on June 27, 2023. Graves of Russian servicemen killed in Ukraine in a cemetery in Russia’s Volgograd region on March 30, 2024.