Pictures of the Week: June 15 – 22

Petros Giannakouris—AP
Petros Giannakouris—AP
June 15, 2012. New Democracy party leader Antonis Samaras, bottom right, waves to supporters during the main pre-election campaign in central Athens.

From Aung San Suu Kyi’s Nobel lecture in Norway and the death of Rodney King in California to violent mining strikes in Spain and a New Democracy in Greece, TIME’s photo department presents the best images of the week.

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