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Topshots of the Week (03-09 February 2024)
A selection of some of the most striking photographs taken by AFP photojournalists from the 3rd of February to the 9th of February 2024.
Firefighters work on the zone of a forest fire in the hills in Quilpue comune, Valparaiso region, Chile on February 3, 2024. The region of Valparaoso and Viña del Mar, in central Chile, woke up on Saturday with a partial curfew to allow the movement of evacuees and the transfer of emergency equipment in the midst of a series of unprecedented fires, authorities reported.
© Javier TORRES / AFP
An injured man with a bandaged head looks on while standing next to the rubble and debris of a destroyed building in the aftermath of Israeli bombardment on Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on February 7, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas.
© Said KHATIB / AFP
US singer-songwriter Taylor Swift accepts the Best Pop Vocal Album award for "Midnights" on stage during the 66th Annual Grammy Awards at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles on February 4, 2024.
© Valerie MACON / AFP
Britain's King Charles III and Britain's Queen Camilla wave as they leave by car from Clarence House in London on February 6, 2024. King Charles III's estranged son Prince Harry reportedly arrived in London on Tuesday after his father's diagnosis of cancer, which doctors "caught early".
© Henry NICHOLLS / AFP
Burqa-clad women line up to cast their ballots to vote at a polling station during Pakistan's national elections in Peshawar on February 8, 2024. Millions of Pakistanis began voting February 8 in an election marred by allegations of poll rigging, with the country's most popular politician in jail and a military-favoured candidate tipped to win.
© Abdul MAJEED / AFP
Members of the Syrian Civil Defence (also known as the White Helmets) stand in a candle-lit remembrance vigil with survivors of the February 6, 2023 earthquake that devastated northern Syria and Turkey, marking the first anniversary of the disaster by some of the destroyed buildings in the town of Jindayris in the northwest of Syria's Aleppo province on February 3, 2024.
© Bakr ALKASEM / AFP
Smoke billows during Israeli bombardment in Rafah on the southern Gaza Strip on February 6, 2024 amid ongoing battles between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas.
© Mahmud HAMS / AFP
A woman stands among the wreckage of a house that was abruptly destroyed by a landslide as a historic atmospheric river storm inundates the Hollywood Hills area of Los Angeles, California, on February 6, 2024. A powerful storm lashing California has left at least three people dead and caused devastating mudslides and flooding, after dumping months' worth of rain in a single day.
© David MCNEW / AFP