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Topshots of the Week (30 July - 5 Aug, 2022)
Selection of some of the most striking photographs taken by AFP photojournalists this past week (July 30 to August 5, 2022).
KAI T-50 Golden Eagle aircraft of the South Korean Air Force's 53rd Air Demonstration Group "Black Eagles" aerobatic team perform during the Pyramids Air Show 2022 above the (R to L) Great Pyramid of Khufu, the Pyramid of Khafre, and the Pyramid of Menkaure at the Giza Pyramids Necropolis on the southwestern outskirts of the Egyptian capital on August 3, 2022.
© Mahmoud KHALED / AFP
Chinese military helicopters fly past Pingtan island, one of mainland China's closest point from Taiwan, in Fujian province on August 4, 2022, ahead of massive military drills off Taiwan following US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to the self-ruled island. China is due on August 4 to kick off its largest-ever military exercises encircling Taiwan, in a show of force straddling vital international shipping lanes following a visit to the self-ruled island by US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
© Hector RETAMAL / AFP
A kitten singed whiskers that survived the McKinney Fire hides in rocks in the Klamath National Forest northwest of Yreka, California, on July 31, 2022. The largest fire in California this year is forcing thousands of people to evacuate as it destroys homes and rips through the state's dry terrain, whipped up by strong winds and lightning storms. The McKinney Fire was zero percent contained, CalFire said, spreading more than 51,000 acres near the city of Yreka.
© David MCNEW / AFP
England's Sophie Unwin (L) and pilot Goergia Holt compete in the women's para-sport 1000m time trial tandem B final cycling ebent on day three of the Commonwealth Games, at the Lee Valley VeloPark in east London, on July 31, 2022.
© Adrian DENNIS / AFP
People look at the lava flowing at the scene of the newly erupted volcano at Grindavik, Iceland on August 3, 2022. A volcano erupted on August 3, 2022 in Iceland in a fissure near Reykjavik, the Icelandic Meteorological Office (IMO) said as lava could be seen spewing out of the ground in live images on local media. The eruption was some 40 kilometres (25 miles) from Reykjavik, near the site of the Mount Fagradalsfjall volcano that erupted for six months in March-September 2021, mesmerising tourists and spectators who flocked to the scene.
© Jeremie RICHARD / AFP
Part of the grain silos in the port of Beirut collapses, due to an ongoing fire since the beginning of last month, on August 4, 2022, on the day that crisis-hit Lebanon marks two years since a giant explosion ripped through the capital. On August 4, 2020, the dockside blast of haphazardly stored ammonium nitrate, one of history's biggest non-nuclear explosions, killed more than 200 people, wounded thousands and decimated vast areas of the capital.
© Ibrahim AMRO / AFP
This aerial view shows Kenya's Deputy President and presidential candidate William Ruto of Kenya Kwanza (One Kenya) political party coalition speaking to supporters from a car during his rally in Thika, Kenya, on August 3, 2022.
© Yasuyoshi CHIBA / AFP
A boatman walks on a floating dock made of plastic cubes along the flooded banks of river Ganges after a rise in the water level due to heavy rains in Allahabad on July 30, 2022.
© Sanjay KANOJIA / AFP