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Topshots of the Week (27 April - 03 May 2024)
A selection of some of the most striking photographs taken by AFP photojournalists from 27th April to 3rd May 2024.
This aerial photo shows a fisherman collecting dead fish caused by renovation works and the ongoing hot weather conditions from a reservoir in southern Vietnam's Dong Nai province on April 30, 2024. Hundreds of thousands of fish have died in a reservoir in southern Vietnam's Dong Nai province, with locals and media reports suggesting the brutal heatwave and lake's management are to blame.
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Palestinian Mahdi Karira works on a puppet made of old tin cans at his workshop in Deir el-Balah, in the central Gaza strip, on April 27, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the militant Hamas group. Before the war, Karira had a whole store of brightly-coloured puppets and often took them to perform in theatres. Now, he performs in camps for displaced people after Israeli bombardment forced him to flee his home in Gaza City to Deir al-Balah, in the centre of the narrow strip.
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A boatman steers a boat with residents along a canal in the interior of Dal Lake after water levels rose due to heavy rains, in Srinagar on April 30, 2024.
© Touseef MUSTAFA / AFP
Palestinian children stand in a camp for displaced people in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip by the border with Egypt on April 28, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas.
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People observe a flooded street after heavy rains in Encantado, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil on May 1, 2024. At least ten people died and 21 are missing due to heavy rains in the southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul, authorities said Wednesday.
© Gustavo GHISLENI / AFP
Employees of the Louvre Museum hang the painting "Liberty Leading the People" (1830) by French artist Eugene Delacroix (1798-1863) after its restoration inside the Louvre Museum in Paris, on April 30, 2024. The public will discover the true colours of the iconic painting, yellowed by decades of layers of varnish and grime, when the artwork goes back on display at the Louvre on May 2, 2024, following six month of restoration work.
© Dimitar DILKOFF / AFP
A child playfully takes a dip in a lake to get respite from the heat on a summer afternoon in Dhaka on April 29, 2024.
© Munir UZ ZAMAN / AFP
A man stands on top of a tree trunk in an area full of damaged trees, mud and debris carried by water following flash floods and landslides in Mai Mahiu, on April 30, 2024. At least 48 people died on April 29, 2024 when a dam burst its bank near a town in Kenya's Rift Valley, President of Kenya William Ruto said on April 30, 2024. The disaster raises the total death toll over the March-May wet season in Kenya to more than 170 as heavier than usual rainfall pounds East Africa, compounded by the El Nino weather pattern.
© Luis TATO / AFP