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Topshots of the Week (24-30 June, 2023)
Selection of some of the most striking photographs taken by AFP photojournalists this past week (24-30 June, 2023).
A woman admires an artwork entitled 'The Hope of the Polka Dots Buried in Infinity Will Eternally Cover the Universe' which features in an exhibition by Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama entitled 'You, Me and the Balloons' in the Aviva Studios gallery in Manchester, northwest England, on June 29, 2023. The exhibition, which opens to the public from June 30, 2023 and runs until August 28, 2023, features as part of the Manchester International Festival 2023.
© Oli SCARFF / AFP
People look at burning tyres blocking a street in Bordeaux, south-western France on late June 29, 2023, during riots and incidents nationwide after the killing of a 17-year-old boy by a police officer's gunshot following a refusal to comply in a western suburb of Paris.
© Philippe LOPEZ / AFP
Israel's C-130J Super Hercules 'Samson' aircraft launches anti-missile flares during the graduation ceremony of Israeli Air Force pilots at the Hatzerim base in the Negev desert, near the southern city of Beer Sheva, on June 29, 2023.
© Jack GUEZ / AFP
Players of the French women's 3X3 basketball team perform an exhibition match at the top of the Pic du Midi, in La Mongie, southwestern France, on June 27, 2023.
© Valentine CHAPUIS / AFP
People sit on a swing ride at an amusement park in Basra on June 29, 2023 during the Eid al-Adha Muslim holiday.
© Hussein FALEH / AFP
Members of Wagner group prepare to pull out from the headquarters of the Southern Military District to return to their base in Rostov-on-Don late on June 24, 2023. Rebel mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin who sent his fighters to topple the military leaders in Moscow will leave for Belarus and a criminal case against him will be dropped as part of a deal to avoid "bloodshed," the Kremlin said on June 24.
© Roman ROMOKHOV / AFP
This aerial view shows Muslim worshippers gathering for the morning prayers of Eid al-Adha at the municipal stadium in Syria's rebel-held northwestern city of Idlib on June 28, 2023. Known as the "big" festival, Eid al-Adha, or Feast of Sacrifice, is celebrated each year by Muslims sacrificing various animals according to religious traditions, including cows, camels, goats, and sheep.
© Omar HAJ KADOUR / AFP
A vendor waits for customers in front of her lantern shop in Hoi An, Vietnam's Quang Nam province on June 24, 2023.
© Nhac NGUYEN / AFP