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Topshots of the Week (December 30, 2023 - January 5, 2024 )
A selection of some of the most striking photographs taken by AFP photojournalists from the 30th of December 2023 to the 5th of January 2024.
Fireworks explode over the Sydney Harbour Bridge and Sydney Opera House during New Year's Eve celebrations in Sydney on January 1, 2024.
© Izhar KHAN / AFP
Labourers prepare a temporary tent ahead of the annual religious 'Magh Mela' festival at Sangam, the confluence of rivers Ganga, Yamuna and mythical Saraswati, in Prayagraj on January 2, 2024.
© Sanjay KANOJIA / AFP
Fire and burnt-out cars are seen after a missile strike in Kyiv on January 2,2024, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
© Genya SAVILOV / AFP
People walk past fallen utility poles and damaged buildings in the city of Wajima, Ishikawa prefecture on January 4, 2024, after a major 7.5 magnitude earthquake struck the Noto region in Ishikawa prefecture on New Year's Day. More than 50 people were reported missing on January 4 as Japanese rescuers battled to reach hundreds still cut off from help three days after a devastating earthquake left at least 78 dead.
© Kazuhiro NOGI / AFP
Reindeers are seen in front of the northern lights (aurora borealis) illuminating the sky above a Sami camp outside the village of Breivikeidet near Tromso, Norway, beyond the Arctic Circle on January 1, 2024.
© Sergei GAPON / AFP
Students wave a Somali flag during a demonstration in support of Somalia's government following the port deal signed between Ethiopia and the breakaway region of Somaliland at Eng Yariisow Stadium in Mogadishu on January 3, 2024. Somalia vowed to defend its territory after a controversial Red Sea access deal between Ethiopia and the breakaway state of Somaliland that it branded as "aggression".
© Abdishukri HAYBE / AFP
Julieta, migrant from Haiti, waits to cross the Rio Bravo river, known as Rio Grande in the United States, from Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua State, Mexico, into the US, on January 2, 2024. US border police have in recent weeks reported approximately 10,000 crossings by migrants every day, many of them fleeing poverty and violence in Central America.
© Herika MARTINEZ / AFP
A firefighter looks out of a window as he works in a multi-storey residential building destroyed by a missile attack in central Kyiv, on January 2, 2024, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Russian strikes on Ukraine's capital, Kyiv, and the northeastern city of Kharkiv killed at least five people. Russian President Vladimir Putin on January 1, 2024 vowed to intensify strikes on Ukraine. The military campaign has dragged on for nearly two years.
© Genya SAVILOV / AFP