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Topshots of the Week (21-27 October 2023)
A selection of some of the most striking photographs taken by AFP photojournalists from the 21th to the 27th of October 2023.
A member of the media stands behind his camera at a spot overlooking the Gaza Strip in the southern Israeli city of Sderot, on October 26, 2023, amid ongoing battles between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas movement. Israel said on October 26 that a column of tanks and infantry had launched an overnight raid into Hamas-controlled Gaza, striking "numerous" targets before retreating to home soil.
© Jack GUEZ / AFP
Demonstrators clash with riot police during a protest against the contract for the Canadian mining company FQM in Panama City on October 25, 2023. Demonstrators and police clashed Tuesday in Panama as protests over a copper mine spilled into their fifth day, with President Laurentino Cortizo vowing he would prosecute acts of "vandalism." The protesters are concerned about potential environmental damage from operations at the mine owned by First Quantum, a Canadian firm and one of the biggest copper extractors in the world. After protests erupted on Friday and continued over the weekend, demonstrators had yet to let up by Tuesday in Panama City and in other provinces.
© Roberto CISNEROS / AFP
Members of the Kenyan guard of honour stand in formation during the state visit of the President of Angola Joao Lourenco (not pictured) at the State House in Nairobi, on October 21, 2023.
© Luis TATO / AFP
Law enforcement are seen outside the home of suspect Robert Card's father and brother in Bowdoin, Maine on October 26, 2023, in the aftermath of a mass shootings in Lewiston, Maine. Hundreds of police in the US state of Maine hunted October 26, 2023 for a fugitive gunman who killed 18 people at a bowling alley and a bar, as President Joe Biden mourned "yet another senseless and tragic mass shooting." Police named the suspect as 40-year-old Robert Card -- seen in surveillance footage pointing a semi-automatic rifle as he walked into the Sparetime Recreation bowling alley.
© Angela WEISS / AFP
A woman reacts next to the rubble of a building following Israeli strikes on Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on October 24, 2023, amid ongoing battles between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas.
© Mohammed ABED / AFP
An employee adjusts the skin tone on the wax effigy of Dwayne Johnson, after the US actor complained about its pale skin tone, at the Grevin museum in Paris on October 24, 2023. Johnson, who is of Samoan and Black origin, took to Instagram this weekend to joke about the Grevin Museum's botched wax figure, which appeared to depict him with white skin, and bears only a vague likeness to his features.
© Stefano RELLANDINI / AFP
View of the damage caused after the passage of Hurricane Otis in Acapulco, Guerrero State, Mexico, taken on October 26, 2023. Hurricane Otis killed at least 27 people as it lashed Mexico's beach resort city of Acapulco as a scale-topping category 5 storm, officials said Thursday, in what residents called a "total disaster."
© Francisco ROBLES / AFP
A picture taken from the southern Israeli city of Sderot on October 25, 2023, shows smoke ascending over the northern Gaza Strip following an Israeli strike, amid the ongoing battles between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas.
© Ronaldo SCHEMIDT / AFP