Topshots of the Week (20-26 May, 2023)
Selection of some of the most striking photographs taken by AFP photojournalists this past week (20-26 May, 2023).
Beirut (AFP) | 28/12/2025 - 13:46:46 | Syrian forces kill two dispersing Alawite protests: monitor
Mogadishu (AFP) | 28/12/2025 - 13:45:35 | Israel's recognition of Somaliland 'threat' to regional stability: Somali president
Paris (AFP) | 28/12/2025 - 11:54:13 | Bardot was 'legend' who embodied a 'life of freedom', says leader Macron
Paris (AFP) | 28/12/2025 - 10:55:26 | French legend Brigitte Bardot dead at 91: foundation
Yangon (AFP) | 28/12/2025 - 10:38:27 | Polls close in first round of Myanmar's junta-run election: AFP
Yangon (AFP) | 28/12/2025 - 07:44:49 | UN says Myanmar needs 'free, fair, inclusive and credible' elections
Naypyidaw (AFP) | 28/12/2025 - 04:03:42 | Myanmar junta chief says election is 'free and fair': AFP
Naypyidaw (AFP) | 28/12/2025 - 03:29:55 | Myanmar junta chief says election is 'free and fair': AFP
Naypyidaw (AFP) | 28/12/2025 - 02:42:49 | Myanmar junta chief votes in military-run election: AFP
Yangon (AFP) | 28/12/2025 - 00:36:14 | Polls open in Myanmar's military-run elections: AFP
Selection of some of the most striking photographs taken by AFP photojournalists this past week (20-26 May, 2023).
Directed by Boris Tilquin and Christophe Hermans, the new documentary Merckx dedicated to cycling champion Eddy Merckx, will be presented on Friday 31 January 2025 as a world premiere at the International Film Festival Rotterdam. This is a co-production of FACTSTORY, a subsidiary of AFP, in collaboration with the Belgian production companies Ka Visuel and Watertower in co-production with RTBF, ARTE G.E.I.E. and VRTT.
Selection of some of the most striking photographs taken by AFP photojournalists this past week (13-19 May, 2023).
Selection of some of the most striking photographs taken by AFP photojournalists this past week (6-12 May, 2023).
Poverty, hunger, the effects of climate change and armed conflicts, such as the war in Ukraine, mean that the number of migrants trying to reach Europe, continues to rise.
Selection of some of the most striking photographs taken by AFP photojournalists this past week (28 April - 5 May, 2023).
A plane flies by a statue of the Louvre as the waxing gibbous moon rises in Paris, on May 3, 2023.
© Stefano RELLANDINI / AFP
Selection of some of the most striking photographs taken by AFP photojournalists this past week (21-28 April, 2023).
Selection of some of the most striking photographs taken by AFP photojournalists this past week (15-21 April, 2023).
Selection of some of the most striking photographs taken by AFP photojournalists this past week (8-14 April, 2023).
A plume of steam and gas billows from the Cotopaxi volcano as seen from Quito, Ecuador, on April 10, 2023.
© Rodrigo BUENDIA / AFP