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Topshots of the Week (03-09 August, 2024)
A selection of some of the most striking photographs taken by AFP photojournalists from August 3rd to August 9th, 2024.
A whale breaches as Costa Rica's Brisa Hennessy (R) competes in the women's surfing semi-finals, during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, in Teahupo'o, on the French Polynesian Island of Tahiti, on August 5, 2024.
© Jérôme BROUILLET / AFP
US Democratic vice presidential candidate Minnesota Governor Tim Walz speaks as Vice President and 2024 Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris looks on at Temple University's Liacouras Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, August 6, 2024, on the first day of their "Battleground State Tour".
© Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP
An employee operates to maintain the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games cauldron attached to a balloon carrying the Olympic flame in the Tuileries garden in Paris, on August 7, 2024, during the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
© Joël SAGET / AFP
A protestor gestures while is being detained by Kenyan security forces during a demonstration in Nairobi on August 8, 2024. Kenyan police were out on the streets of the capital Nairobi, roadblocks were set up on major arteries and many shops were shut on Thursday after young activists called for new anti-government protests. The East African nation has been rocked by weeks of sometimes deadly demonstrations mostly led by young Gen-Z Kenyans against President William Ruto's two-year-old administration.
© Simon MAINA / AFP
US' Raven Saunders competes in the women's shot put qualification of the athletics event at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at Stade de France in Saint-Denis, north of Paris, on August 8, 2024.
© Ben STANSALL / AFP
Anti-government protestors attempt to vandalise a statue of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Bangladesh's founding father and parent of the country's ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, in Dhaka on August 5, 2024. Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's 15-year rule ended on August 5, as she fled after more than a month of deadly protests as the military announced it would form an interim government.
© Abu SUFIAN JEWEL / AFP
Italy's Sofia Raffaeli performs with the ball in the rhytmic gymnastics' individual all-around qualification during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at the Porte de la Chapelle Arena in Paris, on August 8, 2024.
© Gabriel BOUYS / AFP
Rockets fired from southern Lebanon are intercepted by Israel's Iron Dome air defence system over the Upper Galilee region in northern Israel, on August 4, 2024, amid ongoing cross-border clashes between Israeli troops and Lebanon's Hezbollah fighters. Middle East tensions soared Saturday as Iran and its allies readied their response to the assassination of Hamas's political leader, blamed on Israel, spurring fears of a regional war.
© Jalaa MAREY / AFP