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Topshots of the Week (22-28 October, 2022)
Selection of some of the most striking photographs taken by AFP photojournalists this past week (22-28 October, 2022).
Mount Fuji (back L), Japan's highest mountain, is seen behind the residential buildings of Kawasaki, from Tamagawa Green Zone Baseball Field in Tokyo on October 26, 2022.
© Philip FONG / AFP
A member of Ukrainian National Guard fires a mortar launcher at a position along the front line in Kharkiv region on October 25, 2022, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
© Sergey BOBOK / AFP
An elderly volunteer smokes a cigarette while transporting bread to a nearby village with his car in the frontline town of Bakhmut, in eastern Ukraine's Donetsk region, on October 27, 2022, amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The eastern Ukraine town, known for its salt mines and vineyards, has been under attack for months by Russian forces, who are mostly on the defensive in other regions across Ukraine.
© Dimitar DILKOFF / AFP
A woman lights earthen lamps on the occasion of Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights, at her house in Guwahati on October 24, 2022.
© Biju BORO / AFP
Men clean a cemetery in Manila on October 25, 2022, ahead of All Saints’ Day on November 1.
© Jam STA ROSA / AFP
A woman carrying plastic bottles helps her child in Dire Dawa, Ethiopia, on October 23, 2022.
© Amanuel SILESHI / AFP
A woman wades through clogged tidal water after the cyclone Sitrang hits in Kalapara on October 25, 2022. At least nine people have died after a cyclone slammed into Bangladesh, forcing the evacuation of around a million people from their homes, officials said.
© Munir UZ ZAMAN / AFP
Labourers work at a construction site as the moon partially obscures the sun during a partial solar eclipse visible from Gurgaon on October 25, 2022.
© Vinay GUPTA / AFP