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Topshots of the Week (29 October - 4 November, 2022)
Selection of some of the most striking photographs taken by AFP photojournalists this past week (29 October - 4 November, 2022).
A man wearing an aquarium with goldfishes on his head walks among the pedestrians at the 'Village de Saint-Malo', the start point of the Route du Rhum solo sailing race, in Saint-Malo on November 1, 2022. The Route du Rhum solo sailing race starts on November 6, 2022, from Saint-Malo to Pointe-a-Pitre in Guadeloupe.
© Loïc VENANCE / AFP
Rescue personnel conduct search operations after a bridge across the river Machchhu collapsed at Morbi in India's Gujarat state on October 31, 2022. At least 130 people were killed in India after a colonial-era pedestrian bridge collapsed, sending scores of people tumbling into the river below, police said on October 31.
© Sam PANTHAKY / AFP
A general view shows boats during a sandstorm in Iraq's southern city of Basra, on November 2, 2022.
© Hussein FALEH / AFP
Brazilian former President (2003-2010) and candidate for the leftist Workers Party (PT) Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva holds a Brazilian flag while leaving a polling station during the presidential run-off election, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on October 30, 2022. After a bitterly divisive campaign and inconclusive first-round vote, Brazil elects its next president in a cliffhanger runoff between far-right incumbent Jair Bolsonaro and veteran leftist Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
© Carl DE SOUZA / AFP
Mamiko Moda (L) and her partner Satoko Nagamura with their son holds a same-sex partnership certificate as they pose for a photograph after a press conference at the Tokyo Metropolitan Government building in Tokyo on November 1, 2022. Tokyo began issuing partnership certificates to same-sex couples who live and work in the capital on November 1, a long-awaited move in a country without marriage equality.
© Yuichi YAMAZAKI / AFP
Television screens show a news report about the latest North Korean missile launch with file footage of a North Korean missile test, at an electronic market in Seoul on November 3, 2022. North Korea fired one long-range and two short-range ballistic missiles on November 3, Seoul's military said, with one prompting warnings for residents of a South Korean island and people in parts of northern Japan to seek shelter.
© Jung YEON-JE / AFP
A woman walks amid maple trees at Nishat Garden in Srinagar on November 1, 2022.
© Tauseef MUSTAFA / AFP
People attend a Night of the Dead celebration during the Day of the Dead in the Purepecha indigenous community of Janitzio, Michoacan state, Mexico on November 1, 2022. People adorn the tombs of the dead and remain in the pantheon throughout the night waiting for their relatives. Tradition says that on the night of November 1 and early morning of November 2, the souls of the dead return to the world of the living.
© Mario ARMAS / AFP