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Topshots of the Week (20-26 August, 2022)
Selection of some of the most striking photographs taken by AFP photojournalists this past week (20-26 August, 2022).
A drone flying a giant Ukrainian national flag passes over the Motherland monument during Ukraine's Independence Day on August 24, 2022, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
© Dimitar DILKOFF / AFP
A fisherman stands on the banks of China's largest freshwater Poyang Lake in Juijiang, China's central Jiangxi province on August 23, 2022.
© Noel CELIS / AFP
South Korean emergency services personnel wearing protective clothing participate in an anti-terror and anti-chemical terror drill on the sidelines of the joint South Korea-US Ulchi Freedom Shield (UFS) military exercise, at a shopping mall in Seoul on August 23, 2022.
© Anthony WALLACE / AFP
People are seen at the dried-up riverbed of the Jialing river, a tributary of the Yangtze River in China's southwestern city of Chongqing on August 25, 2022.
© Noel CELIS / AFP
A supporter of Angolan opposition party National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) holds a party flag during the UNITA final campaign rally ahead of general elections, in Luanda, on August 22, 2022. Angolans head to the polls on August 24, 2022, to vote in general elections.
© John WESSELS / AFP
Russian ideologue Alexander Dugin attends a farewell ceremony of his daughter Daria Dugina, who was killed in a car bomb explosion the previous week, at the Ostankino TV centre in Moscow on August 23, 2022. Daria Dugina followed in her father's footsteps, becoming a well-known media personality who worked for pro-Kremlin television channels including Russia Today and Tsargrad.
© Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV / AFP
A surfer catches a wave at Sunset, an offshore surfing spot close to Hout Bay, that produces some of South Africa's biggest waves in Cape Town, on August 22, 2022. This spot needs a variety of conditions like wind, swell size, wave period and direction, that often follows storms, to produce huge waves on an offshore reef, which attracts and challenges the surfers.
© Rodger BOSCH / AFP
Policemen push a bed as people celebrate the World Day of Laziness in Itagui, Colombia, on August 21, 2022.
© Fredy BUILES / AFP