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Topshots of the Week (13-19 July, 2024)
A selection of some of the most striking photographs taken by AFP photojournalists from July 13th to July 19th, 2024.
A spectator sits atop a bicycle suspended above the race route during the 16th stage of the 111th edition of the Tour de France cycling race, 188,6 km between Gruissan and Nimes, southern France, on July 16, 2024.
© Marco BERTORELLO / AFP
US former President and 2024 Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is seen with a bandage on his ear after being wounded in an assassination attempt during the first day of the 2024 Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, July 15, 2024. Donald Trump won formal nomination as the Republican presidential candidate and picked a right-wing loyalist for running mate, kicking off a triumphalist party convention in the wake of last weekend's failed assassination attempt.
© Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP
A kid plays with a water fountain in a playground in New York's Brooklyn borough on July 18, 2024.
© Charly TRIBALLEAU / AFP
A woman (C) suffering from tear gas inhalation is helped away by during renewed demonstrations in Nairobi on July 16, 2024. Police were out in force in the centre of Kenya's capital on Tuesday after calls for more demonstrations against the embattled government of President William Ruto. Activists led by young Gen-Z Kenyans launched peaceful rallies a month ago against deeply unpopular tax hikes but they descended into deadly violence last month, prompting Ruto to drop the planned increases.
© Tony KARUMBA / AFP
French forward Kylian Mbappe poses for members of the media during his first appearance as a Real Madrid player at Santiago Bernabeu Stadium in Madrid on July 16, 2024, after signing his new five-season contract. Still celebrating Spain's Euro 2024 triumph, Real Madrid fans have even more to cheer this July 16, 2024, as French superstar Kylian Mbappe is officially presented to a packed-out Santiago Bernabeu stadium.
© Oscar DEL POZO / AFP
Palestinians check the destruction at the UN-run Al-Razi School in the Nuseirat refugee camp after an Israeli strike on July 16, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict in the Palestinian territory between Israel and Hamas. The Palestinian Red Crescent said a the strike at the UN-run school killed five people.
© Eyad BABA / AFP
Smoke rises from the burning vehicles after protesters set them on fire near the Disaster Management Directorate office, during the ongoing anti-quota protest in Dhaka on July 18, 2024. Bangladeshi students set fire to the country's state broadcaster on July 18, a day after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina appeared on the network seeking to calm escalating clashes that have killed at least 32 people.
© AFP
Lights illuminate the sky during a drone, lights and fireworks show in front of the Eiffel Tower as part of the annual Bastille Day celebrations and ahead of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, on July 14, 2024.
© Dimitar DILKOFF / AFP