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The week around the world in 20 pictures

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  • Athens, Greece

    A couple sit on Tourkovounia hill as southerly winds carry waves of Saharan dust. Clouds of dust blown in from the Sahara covered Athens and other Greek cities this week, one of the worst such episodes to hit the country since 2018, officials said

  • Adre, Chad

    Newly arrived Sudanese refugees cook food over fires at twilight outside their makeshift shelters close to a relocation camp near Adre. Hundreds of displaced Sudanese people living in the refugee camp have been unable to access vital medical care for injuries sustained during fierce battles in the Sudanese city of Geneina in the past year

  • New York City, US

    Students prepare to camp overnight at the Columbia University campus as they continue to protest in support of Palestinians. At least 40 pro-Palestine protest camps have arisen across US campuses after Columbia University's example earlier this month

  • Bnei Brak, Israel

    Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men and children burn leavened items in final preparation for the Passover holiday. Jews are forbidden to eat leavened foodstuffs during the Passover holiday, which celebrates the biblical story of the Israelites' escape from slavery and exodus from Egypt

  • West Bank

    A woman mourns over the body of a man who was killed in an Israeli raid at the Nur Shams camp in the occupied West Bank, during his funeral

  • Gaza

    People rush to pick up humanitarian aid packages dropped over the northern Gaza Strip

  • Wilmington, North Carolina

    Storm clouds hang over a campaign rally for Donald Trump, shortly before the event was postponed. Trump called as he was approaching the international airport to tell attenders that the event would be rescheduled 'bigger and better'. It would have been the first time he addressed supporters in public after a week of relative silence in a New York courtroom

  • Gashbari, India

    People travel towards a polling station to cast their ballot during the second phase of voting in India's general election

  • Adre, Chad

    Refugees wait for a food distribution point to open at a temporary camp. Since the beginning of the recent conflict between the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces and the the Sudanese armed forces in March 2023, more than 600,000 refugees have crossed the border from Darfur in Sudan into Chad

  • Przemysl, Poland

    Mourners light flares during a funeral ceremony for Damian Sobol, a member of the food charity World Central Kitchen, killed by an Israeli strike in Gaza, at the cemetery in his home town of Przemysl. The seven World Central Kitchen aid workers killed by Israeli airstrikes represented the 'best of humanity' and risked everything 'to feed people they did not know and will never meet', José Andrés, the celebrity chef who founded the organisation, told mourners

  • Fass Boye, Senegal

    Khady Gueye, 21, the wife of Birane Mbaye, a fisher who survived a disastrous attempt to reach Spain last year on a boat that drifted hundreds of miles off course and ended up off the Cape Verde archipelago, cooks as she carries her one-year-old daughter Maguette on her back at their kitchen in Fass Boye

  • Fass Boye, Senegal

    Fish are spread out to dry on the beach at Fass Boye. Dozens of wooden fishing boats, known as pirogues, line the beach, a sign of fishing's central role in the local economy. But like many coastal communities, the village has seen hundreds of its residents leave in search of more opportunities. Diminishing fish stocks and soaring living costs have made it hard to make ends meet, locals say. They blame overfishing by international trawlers and say their small boats can't compete

  • Arad, Israel

    Ultra-Orthodox Jews hang around the apparent remains of a ballistic missile, after a missile and drone attack by Iran on Israel, near the southern city of Arad

  • Khan Younis, Gaza

    Palestinians walk to their destroyed homes in Khan Younis to remove any belongings that remain

  • Mathare, Kenya

    Local people carry an unconscious woman who nearly drowned after being trapped in her flooded home in the village of Ngondo, after a night of heavy rainfall caused the Gitathuru River to break its banks

  • Mathare, Kenya

    Displaced children eat a meal prepared by volunteers, a day after the Gitathuru River overflowed and broke its banks due to heavy rainfall, in the village of Ngondo. According to the Kenya Red Cross Society, the floods left at least 32 dead and 15 injured, with at least 103,485 people affected

  • Dunkirk, France

    A Sudanese migrant or refugee reacts after leaving a smuggler's boat that was punctured with a knife by French police officers to prevent migrants from attempting to cross the Channel, on the beach of Gravelines. Earlier in the week five people, including a child, died in an attempt to cross the Channel in a small boat near the town of Wimereux

  • Maun, Botswana

    A poller drags a traditional boat across a dried channel near the village of Nxaraga in the Okavango Delta. A drought across southern Africa has been driven mostly by the El Nino weather pattern. Zambia, Zimbabwe and Malawi have declared a national disaster over the severe dry spell that started in January and has devastated the agricultural sector, decimating crops and pastures

  • London, England

    Peres Jepchirchir wins the women's race in a new women-only world record time during the London Marathon 2024. The longest game of cat and mouse in the 43-year history of the ­London Marathon finally came to an end on the Mall last Sunday as Jepchirchir sprinted clear of three rivals

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