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Topshots of the Week (15-21 April, 2023)
Selection of some of the most striking photographs taken by AFP photojournalists this past week (15-21 April, 2023).
The SpaceX Starship explodes after launch for a flight test from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, on April 20, 2023. The rocket successfully blasted off at 8:33 am Central Time (1333 GMT). The Starship capsule had been scheduled to separate from the first-stage rocket booster three minutes into the flight but separation failed to occur and the rocket blew up.
© Patrick T.FALLON / AFP
A photograph taken on April 16, 2023 shows an archery target depicting a portrait of Russian President Vladimir Putin during a festival marking Orthodox Easter in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
© Yuriy DYACHYSHYN / AFP
Demonstrators take part in a concert of pans to protest during French President Emmanuel Macron’s televised address to the nation, after signing into law a pensions reform, in front Paris' 10th district city hall, in Paris on April 17, 2023.
© Geoffroy VAN DER HASSELT / AFP
US journalist Evan Gershkovich, arrested on espionage charges, stands inside a defendants' cage before a hearing to consider an appeal on his arrest at the Moscow City Court in Moscow on April 18, 2023.
© Natalia KOLESNIKOVA / AFP
This picture taken on April 16, 2023, shows Sudanese army soldiers, loyal to army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, posing for a picture at the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) base in the Red Sea city of Port Sudan. Battling fighters in Sudan said they had agreed to an hours-long humanitarian pause, including to evacuate wounded, on the second day of raging urban battles that killed more than 50 civilians including three UN staff and sparking international outcry.
© AFP
Muslim worshippers pray around the Kaaba, Islam's holiest shrine, at the Grand Mosque in the holy city of Mecca on April 17, 2023, on the night of 27 Ramadan, believed to be Laylat al-Qadr, one of the holiest nights during the holy fasting month of Ramadan.
© Abdel Ghani BASHIR / AFP
This photograph taken Chornomorets Stadium in Odesa on April 19, 2023, shows football fans of Chernomorets Odesa raising flares as they line the road during the funeral procession of Sergiy Fedik, a football fan and Ukrainian serviceman killed near Bakhmut, Donetsk region, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
© Oleksandr GIMANOV / AFP
Swallows perch on electrical power lines at sunset in Eldorado dos Carajas, Para state, Brazil, on April 19, 2023.
© Nelson ALMEIDA / AFP