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Topshots of the Week (9-15 December 2023)
A selection of some of the most striking photographs taken by AFP photojournalists from the 9th of December to the 15st of December 2023.
A winter swimming enthusiast swims in an ice hole at a lake in the Siberian city of Novosibirsk with the air temperature at around minus 35 degrees Celsius on December 9, 2023. The tattoo reads "Glory to the Rus (referring to Russia)".
© Vladimir NIKOLAYEV / AFP
A diver dressed in a Santa Claus costume feeds the fish at Sunshine Aquarium during preparations for the upcoming Christmas special event in Tokyo on December 14, 2023.
© Kazuhiro NOGI / AFP
A picture taken from Rafah shows flares lighting the skies over Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip during Israeli strikes, on December 14, 2023, amid continuing battles between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas. Thousands of civilians, both Palestinians and Israelis, have died since October 7, 2023, after Palestinian Hamas militants based in the Gaza Strip entered southern Israel in an unprecedented attack triggering a war declared by Israel on Hamas with retaliatory bombings on Gaza.
© Mahmud HAMS / AFP
Newly-arrived Rohingya refugees receive food donated by people at a beach in Laweueng, Pidie district in Indonesia's Aceh province on December 10, 2023. More than 300 Rohingya refugees, mostly women and children, were stranded on the coasts of western Indonesia on December 10, as local authorities leave them in limbo without certainty about shelters.
© Chaideer MAHYUDDIN / AFP
In this aerial view, the landmark Kuwait Towers and other skyscrapers pierce through the cloud cover over Kuwait City on December 10, 2023.
© Yasser AL-ZAYYAT / AFP
An Israeli soldier lights the sixth candle of the sixth day of the Jewish Hanukkah holiday at a position near the Gaza border on December 12, 2023, amid continuing battles between Israel and the militant group Hamas.
© Menahem KAHANA / AFP
A man steers a boat across Dal Lake on a foggy day in Srinagar on December 12, 2023.
© Tauseef MUSTAFA / AFP
COP28 president Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber (C) applauds among other officials before a plenary session during the United Nations climate summit in Dubai on December 13, 2023. Nations adopted the first ever UN climate deal that calls for the world to transition away from fossil fuels. "We have the basis to make transformational change happen," COP28 president Sultan Al Jaber said at the UN climate summit in Dubai before the deal was adopted by consensus, prompting delegates to rise and applaud.
© Giuseppe CACACE / AFP