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Topshots of the Week (17-23 August, 2024)
A selection of some of the most striking photographs taken by AFP photojournalists from August 17th to August 23th, 2024.
Women wearing traditional hanbok dresses visit the Gyeongbokgung Palace in Seoul on August 19, 2024.
© Anthony WALLACE / AFP
US Vice President and 2024 Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris waves as she leaves the stage on the fourth and last day of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) at the United Center in Chicago, Illinois, on August 22, 2024. Vice President Kamala Harris formally accepted the party’s nomination for president today at the DNC which ran from August 19-22 in Chicago.
© Charly TRIBALLEAU / AFP
The Super Blue Moon rises near the Colosseum in Rome, on August 19, 2024.
© Marie-Laure MESSANA / AFP
People carrying umbrellas, wade through a flooded street amid rainfall in Feni on August 22, 2024.
© AFP
Smoke rises as Israeli troops target a building in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on August 22, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Hamas militant group.
© Eyad BABA / AFP
This photograph shows a picture of late French actor Alain Delon on the French newspaper Paris Match among bunches of flowers and messages displayed at the entrance gate of Delon's property La Brulerie in Douchy, central France, on August 21, 2024. Cinema legend Alain Delon, who died at 88, will be buried on August 24, 2024, a Catholic priest who is to officiate at the service told AFP, after Delon died at the age of 88, his three children told AFP in a statement on August 18, 2024, following a battle with ill health.
© Tom MASSON / AFP
Children stand alongside the "World's Largest Rubber Duck" at Rye Playland Beach in Rye, New York, on August 17, 2024. The 61-foot-tall (19-meter) duck, named "Mama Duck," is spending the weekend at the beach to celebrate the Second Annual Duck Days of Summer.
© Timothy A. CLARY / AFP
Divers of the Vigili del Fuoco, the Italian Corps. of Firefighters arrive in Porticello harbor near Palermo, with a third body at the back of the boat on August 21, 2024, two days after the British-flagged luxury yacht Bayesian sank. Divers searching for six missing people following the sinking of a superyacht off Sicily in a storm have found four bodies, a source close to the search told AFP. The Bayesian, which had 22 people aboard including 10 crew, was anchored some 700 metres from port before dawn when it was struck by a waterspout. Among the six missing were UK tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch and his 18-year-old daughter Hannah, and Jonathan Bloomer, the chair of Morgan Stanley International, and his wife Judy.
© Alberto PIZZOLI / AFP