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Topshots of the Week (3-9 June, 2023)
Selection of some of the most striking photographs taken by AFP photojournalists this past week (3-9 June, 2023).
Protestors light flares during a demonstration organised in memory of Clement Meric, in Paris, on June 4, 2023. Ten years after the death of anti-fascist activist Clement Meric in 2013 following a brawl with skinheads, several gatherings are being organised in his memory, culminating in a demonstration in Paris on June 4, 2023.
© Alain JOCARD / AFP
Children swim in the Buriganga River in Dhaka on June 6, 2023.
© Munir UZ ZAMAN / AFP
Brazilian Indigenous people from different tribes take part in a demonstration against the so-called legal thesis Marco Temporal (Temporal Milestone), a proposal that could jeopardize the protection of ancestral lands, a day before the country's highest court is due to resume hearing the case, in Brasilia, on June 7, 2023. The lower house passed on May 30, 2023, a controversial bill barring Indigenous reservations on lands where native peoples were not present in 1988, when the current Constitution was adopted. Indigenous groups argue that cutoff violates their rights, given that many native peoples were forced from their ancestral lands, especially during Brazil's 1964-1985 military dictatorship.
© Evaristo SA / AFP
A plane passes in front of the sun on a hazy evening as smoke from wildfires in Canada cause hazy conditions in Washington, DC, on June 7, 2023. A Code Red Air Quality Alert, for unhealthy and unsafe air, is in effect Wednesday for the Washington area.
© Andrew CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP
Ukrainian security forces transport local residents in a boat during an evacuation from a flooded area in Kherson on June 7, 2023, following damages sustained at Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant dam. Ukraine was evacuating thousands of people on June 7 after an attack on a major Russian-held dam unleashed a torrent of water, inundating two dozen villages and sparking fears of a humanitarian disaster.
© Aleksey FILIPPOV / AFP
An aerial view shows the Cuauhthemoc ship passing under the Flaubert Bridge as it sails down the river Seine during the Armada of old vessels and tall ships in Rouen, northwestern France, on June 8, 2023.
© Lou BENOIST / AFP
In this photograph taken on June 4, 2023, farmers walk amidst a locusts swarm near a wheat field at Kandali area in Sholgara district, Balkh province.
© Wakil KOHSAR / AFP
Rescue workers gather around damaged carriages at the accident site of a three-train collision near Balasore, about 200 km (125 miles) from the state capital Bhubaneswar in the eastern state of Odisha, on June 3, 2023. At least 288 people were killed and more than 850 injured in a horrific three-train collision in India, officials said on June 3, the country's deadliest rail accident in more than 20 years.
© Dibyangshu SARKAR / AFP