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Topshots of the Week (24-29 July, 2022)
Selection of some of the most striking photographs taken by AFP photojournalists this past week (July 24 to July 29, 2022).
A Ukrainien man drives past a burning house hit by a shell in the outskirts of Bakhmut, Eastern Ukraine, on July 27, 2022, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
© Bulent KILIC / AFP
Commuters make their way through a flooded street during monsoon rainfall in Hyderabad on July 24, 2022.
© Akram SHAHID / AFP
The sun sinks behind a smoky sky and burned forest at the Oak Fire on near Mariposa, California, on July 24, 2022. The fierce California wildfire expanded early Sunday burning several thousand acres and forcing evacuations, as tens of millions of Americans sweltered through scorching heat with already record-setting temperatures due to climb even further. More than 2,000 firefighters backed by 17 helicopters have been deployed against the Oak Fire, which broke out Friday near Yosemite National Park, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE) said in a report.
© David MCNEW / AFP
A Civil Security Bombardier Dash 8-Q400MR firefighting aircraft drops fire-retardant over a forest fire near Gignac, southern France, on July 26, 2022, as the country endures a dry summer with wildfires destroying numerous forests across France.
© Sylvain THOMAS / AFP
Boys stand on an arch of Napier bridge painted as chessboard on the occasion of Chess Olympiad 2022, which will be held from 28 July to 10 August, in Chennai on July 26, 2022.
© Arun SANKAR / AFP
Military vehicles are pictured during a joint Russian-Turkish patrol in the eastern countryside of the town of Darbasiyah near the border with Turkey in Syria's northeastern Hasakah province on July 28, 2022.
© Delil SOULEIMAN / AFP
A Palestinian corn vendor sits during sunset by the Mediterranean Sea in Gaza City on July 26, 2022.
© Mohammed ABED / AFP