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Topshots of the Week (27 August - 2 September, 2022)
Selection of some of the most striking photographs taken by AFP photojournalists this past week (27 August - 2 September, 2022).
A picture shows the Kurdish-run al-Hol camp, which holds relatives of suspected Islamic State (IS) group fighters in the northeastern Hasakeh governorate, during a security operation by the Kurdish Asayish security forces and the special forces of the Syrian Democratic Forces, on August 26, 2022.
© Delil SOULEIMAN / AFP
USA's Serena Williams celebrates her win against Estonia's Anett Kontaveit during their 2022 US Open Tennis tournament women's singles second round match at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York, on August 31, 2022.
© Corey SIPKIN / AFP
People who fled their flood hit homes stand outside temporary tents set along a road during a heavy monsoon rainfall in Sukkur of Sindh province, on August 27, 2022. Thousands of people living near flood-swollen rivers in Pakistan's north were ordered to evacuate on August 27 as the death toll from devastating monsoon rains neared 1,000 with no end in sight.
© Asif HASSAN / AFP
Aerial view of a burnt area in the Amazon rainforest, near the Lago do Cunia Extractive Reserve, on the border of the states of Rondonia and Amazonas, northern Brazil, on August 31, 2022. Experts say Amazon fires are caused mainly by illegal farmers, ranchers and speculators clearing land and torching the trees.
© Douglas MAGNO / AFP
Antonina, 9, holds a Ukrainian language schoolbook after an online lesson on the first school day at her home in the village of Pokrovske, on September 1, 2022, amid Russian invasion of Ukraine. In Pokrovske, a tiny village of 24 people in the Mykolayev region of southern Ukraine, nine-year-old Antonina Sidorenko started school to the steady sound of cannons in this town near the front line.
© Dimitar DILKOFF / AFP
Visitors cut a cake depicting late Britain's Princess Diana in front of Kensington Palace, in central London, on August 31, 2022 during a gathering to pay a memorial tribute on the 25th anniversary of the Princess of Wales's death. Flowers and other tributes were laid on August 31, 2022 at princess Diana's former London home and above the Paris road tunnel where she lost her life, to mark the 25th anniversary of her death. The former Lady Diana Spencer, whose fairytale marriage to Prince Charles captivated the world until it publicly unravelled with infidelity and divorce, died in a car crash in the French capital on August 31, 1997.
© Carlos JASSO / AFP
Ukrainian artillery unit fires with a BM-27 Uragan, a self-propelled 220 mm multiple rocket launcher, at a position near a frontline in Donetsk region on August 27, 2022, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
© Anatolii STEPANOV / AFP
Mercedes' British driver Lewis Hamilton (R) collides with Alpine's Spanish driver Fernando Alonso (C) during the Belgian Formula One Grand Prix at Spa-Francorchamps racetrack at Spa, on August 28, 2022.
© John THYS / AFP