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Topshots of the Week (6-12 August, 2022)

 

Selection of some of the most striking photographs taken by AFP photojournalists this past week (6-12 August, 2022).

 

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People release paper lanterns on the Motoyasu River beside the Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall, commonly known as the atomic bomb dome, to mark the 77th anniversary of the world's first atomic bomb attack in Hiroshima on August 6, 2022.
© Philip FONG / AFP

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A tourist walks past the Setiaku temple on a foggy morning at Dieng mountain area in Banjarnegara, Central Java province on August 6, 2022.
© Garry LOTULUNG / AFP

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The last voter casts his vote before closing time of Kenya's general election at the Masurura primary school polling station in Masurura on August 9, 2022.
© Yasuyoshi CHIBA / AFP

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A silhouette is seen in front of flames at a wildfire near Belin-Beliet, southwestern France, overnight on August 11, 2022. French officials warned that flare-ups could cause a massive wildfire to further spread in the country's parched southwest, where fresh blazes have already blackened swathes of land this week.
© Thibaud MORITZ / AFP

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A Palestinian woman checks the damage as she walks through rubble in front of her home in Gaza city early on August 8, 2022, following a cease fire between Israel and Palestinian militants. Israel agreed last night to an Egyptian proposed truce with in Gaza with Islamic Jihad after three days of intense conflict.
© Mahmud HAMS / AFP

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Children play at the symbolic cemetery of cars shot by Russian troops , some painted by local artists, in Irpin, on August 9, 2022, amid Russian invasion of Ukraine.
© Sergei SUPINSKY / AFP

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Cubans look the massive fire at a fuel depot in Matanzas, Cuba, on August 8, 2022. Helicopters scrambled to contain a days-old blaze that felled a third tank at a fuel depot on Monday as the search continued for 16 missing firefighters.
© Yamil LAGE / AFP

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A photo taken August 7, 2022 shows lava flowing from the vulcano in Fagradalsfjall, Iceland, around 40 kilometres from the capital Reykjavik, following an eruption that has been ongoing since August 3, 2022.
© Jeremie RICHARD / AFP