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Topshots of the Week (27 May - 2 June, 2023)
Selection of some of the most striking photographs taken by AFP photojournalists this past week (27 May - 2 June, 2023).
A man holds up a boy as they stand next to a palm tree at sunset on the outskirts of Iraq's southern city of Nasiriyah in Dhi Qar province on May 31, 2023.
© Asaad NIAZI / AFP
Greece's Stefanos Tsitsipas serves to Spain's Roberto Carballes Baena during their men's singles match on day four of the Roland-Garros Open tennis tournament at the Court Suzanne-Lenglen in Paris on May 31, 2023.
© Emmanuel DUNAND / AFP
Cadets celebrate during their graduation ceremony at the United States Air Force Academy, just north of Colorado Springs in El Paso County, Colorado, on June 1, 2023.
© Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP
The Sun sets in alignment with Manhattan streets running east-west, also known as Manhattanhenge, in New York City on May 30, 2023. Manhattanhenge occurs about the same two days in May and then again on two days in July every year.
© Ed JONES / AFP
People wait at a bus stop in front of a destroyed building during the presidential runoff vote in the quake-hit city of Kahramanmaras, Turkey, on May 28, 2023. Turkey votes on May 28, 2023 in a historic runoff that Turkish President enters as the firm favourite to extend two decades of his Islamic-rooted rule to 2028.
© Can EROK / AFP
John Turner, the 'King' of Castleton Garland Day, on horse-back, covered to the waist in a heavy, bell-shaped floral Garland, prepares to parade through the village of Castleton in the Peak District, northern England on May 29, 2023. The date of the custom coincides with Oak Apple Day and it is said to commemorate the restoration of King Charles II in 1660. The Garland is meant to represent the oak tree in which he hid after the Battle of Worcester.
© Oli SCARFF / AFP
Pilgrims place a baby against the effigy of the Rocio Virgin outside the hermitage in El Rocio village in the Andalusian province of Huelva on May 29, 2023 during the annual pilgrimage of El Rocio. The annual El Rocio pilgrimage, the largest in Spain, gathers hundreds of thousands of devotees in traditional outfits converging in a burst of colour as they make their way on horseback and on board decorated carriages across the Andalusian countryside.
© Cristina QUICLER / AFP
A local resident walks among damaged cars as leaving a multi-storey residential building, partially destroyed after night drone attacks in Kyiv on May 30, 2023. Ukraine on May 30, 2023 said it had downed 29 out of 31 drones, mainly over Kyiv and the Kyiv region in the latest Russian barrage -- the third on the capital in 24 hours.
© Sergei SUPINSKY / AFP