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Topshots of the Week (8-14 April, 2023)
Selection of some of the most striking photographs taken by AFP photojournalists this past week (8-14 April, 2023).
A plume of steam and gas billows from the Cotopaxi volcano as seen from Quito, Ecuador, on April 10, 2023.
© Rodrigo BUENDIA / AFP
A protestor holding a red flare faces off with CRS riot police during a demonstration on the 12th day of action after the government pushed a pensions reform through parliament without a vote, using the article 49.3 of the constitution, in Nantes, western France on April 13, 2023. France faced nationwide protests and strikes on April 13, 2023, to denounce the French government's pension reform on the eve of a ruling from France's Constitutional Council on the reform.
© Loïc VENANCE / AFP
An injured elderly man talks on a mobile phone after he was rescued by emergency workers from a partially destroyed residential building following a shelling in Sloviansk, on April 14, 2023, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
© Anatolii STEPANOV / AFP
French anti-riot police officers stand next to a fire in front of one of the entrances of former Convent of the Jacobins after France's Constitutional Council approved the key elements of French President's pension reform, in Rennes, western France, on April 14, 2023. France has been rocked by three months of demonstrations and strikes over Macron's bid to raise the retirement age to 64 from 62, with around two in three voters against the changes, according to polls.
© Damien MEYER / AFP
Donald Trump impersonator Neil Greenfield waits outside Trump Tower in New York on April 12, 2023 as crowds gather to see former US President Donald Trump who is scheduled to return to New York City tonight to prepare for a deposition tomorrow in the Manhattan offices of New York State Attorney General Letitia James.
© Timothy A. CLARY / AFP
An Air Asia plane descends towards Chiang Mai International Airport amid high levels of air pollution in Chiang Mai on April 10, 2023.
© Lillian SUWANRUMPHA / AFP
Heads of dummies representing (L-R) a corrupt Venezuelan politician, US President Joe Biden and Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, are being burnt during the traditional "Burning of Judas" ritual, held in the framework of the celebration of Holy Week, in San Agustin neighbourhood in Caracas, on April 9, 2023.
© Federico PARRA / AFP
A group of brides are seen waiting at the International Pentecostal Holiness Church in Zuurbekom, south of Johannesburg, as they take part in a mass wedding ceremony where 80 couples got married during the Easter Sunday service on April 9, 2023.
© Ihsaan HAFFEJEE / AFP