People gather around a bonfire following the earthquake in Kahramanmaraş
Photograph: Çağla Gürdoğan/Reuters
The earthquake in Syria and Turkey, funerals in Lviv, LeBron James becomes NBA’s all-time leading scorer and Vermeer at the Rijksmuseum – the most striking images this week
Rescuers and civilians look for survivors under the rubble of collapsed buildings in Kahramanmaraş, close to the earthquake’s epicentre. The latest report of the death toll in Turkey is now 19,388, according to the president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who said 77,711 people had been injured. Erdoğan also said the Turkish authorities’ response to earthquakes in the country’s south was not moving as fast as the government wanted
Photograph: Adem Altan/AFP/Getty Images
Smoke fills the air during a wildfire near the city of Santa Juana. Chilean firefighters were battling to hold back forest fires as authorities warned that persistent hot and dry weather could potentially exacerbate what are already the deadliest blazes in the country’s recent history. The fires have coincided with a long drought that has lasted for more than thirteen years and with an unprecedented heatwave in the south
Photograph: Pablo Hidalgo/EPA
Earthquake survivors shelter in a tent in Hatay, the day after the 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck the country’s southeast. Rescuers in Turkey and Syria braved freezing weather, aftershocks and collapsing buildings, as they dug for survivors buried by an earthquake that killed more than 20,000 people. International rescue missions were rushing to Turkey and Syria after one of the most powerful earthquakes to hit the region in at least a century
Photograph: Bülent Kılıç/AFP/Getty Images
People search for survivors following the earthquake in Hatay
Photograph: Ümit Bektaş/Reuters
Protesters clash with police during a demonstration against the government of president Dina Boluarte in Lima. Peru has called on citizens to report social media users suspected of supporting or inciting ‘acts of terrorism’, as the country reels from two months of protests which have claimed at least 59 lives. In a move condemned by human rights organisations, the country’s interior ministry said this week that the criminal definition of ‘apology for terrorism’ was being modified to include the use of social media, after the first jail sentences for the alleged crime last month
Photograph: Ernesto Benavides/AFP/Getty Images
A devotee attends the festive divine liturgy held by Metropolitan Epiphanius, the primate of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, on the fourth anniversary of his enthronement at St Sophia’s Cathedral in Kyiv
Photograph: Roman Pilipey/Getty Images
Emergency workers and medics rescue a woman out of the debris of a collapsed building in Elbistan
Photograph: Ismsail Coskun/AP
LeBron James of the Los Angeles Lakers reacts after scoring to pass Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s record and become the NBA’s all-time leading scorer against the Oklahoma City Thunder in Los Angeles. The game was paused after James’ record-breaking shot for an on-court ceremony with Abdul-Jabbar and NBA commissioner Adam Silver. ‘I just want to say, thank you to the Laker faithful. You guys are one of a kind,’ James said. ‘To be able to be in the presence of such a legend as great as Kareem, it’s very humbling. Please give a standing ovation to the Captain, please’
Photograph: Harry How/Getty Images
Nadia cries over the coffin of her son Oleg Kunynets, a Ukrainian military serviceman who was killed in the east of the country, during his funeral in Lviv. Russia launched a major offensive this week in eastern Ukraine and was trying to break through defences near the town of Kreminna, the governor for the Luhansk region said.
Photograph: Emilio Morenatti/AP
Palestinian protesters block the main road with burning tyres in the West Bank city of Jericho. Israeli forces said that they killed several armed fighters during an army raid in Jericho, the latest violence in a period of escalating tensions that has raised fears of a third intifada, or Palestinian uprising
Photograph: Nasser Nasser/AP
The remnants of a large balloon drift above the Atlantic Ocean just off the coast of South Carolina. The downing of the suspected Chinese spy balloon by a missile from an F-22 fighter jet created a spectacle over one of the state’s tourism hubs and drew crowds reacting with a mixture of bewildered gazing, distress and cheering. The balloon incident burst the facade of a three-month, uneasy peace between China and the US since the summit between Xi Jinping and Joe Biden in November
Photograph: Chad Fish/AP
Lovers embrace against a backdrop of the Shard and the City of London shrouded in mist
Photograph: Andy Hall/The Observer
An ox stands surrounded by burned trees in Santa Juana. Wildfires are spreading in southern and central Chile, triggering evacuations and the declaration of a state of emergency in some regions. Record summer temperatures of more than 40ºC (104ºF) were hampering efforts to tackle dozens of wildfires across central Chile that have prompted the declaration of a state of emergency in three regions
Photograph: Matias Delacroix/AP
People wade in the Renaico river under a smoked-filled sky caused by wildfires
Photograph: Matias Delacroix/AP
Siekopai indigenous people outside a house during the second binational meeting of the Siekopai nation community in the Amazon region of Lagartococha. Displaced by decades of war and commercial and cultural intrusions, they live scattered between villages straddling the border between Ecuador and Peru. Teetering on the brink of cultural extinction, Siekopai leaders say it is a matter of survival to reclaim their ancestral land – still largely untouched in the remote heart of the Amazon
Photograph: Pedro Pardo/AFP/Getty Images
Activists from Greenpeace participate in an action on a Shell platform, on its way to the North Sea, to expand an existing oil and gas field, off the coast of Cherbourg
Photograph: Lou Benoist/AFP/Getty Images
Children pass by an abandoned building in Isabela de Sagua. This peninsula – just 130 miles south of the Florida Keys – is poised to become a barometer for measuring the impact of US immigration policy. A ‘parole’ programme announced in January that allows up to 30,000 migrants from Cuba and other countries to enter the United States each month provided they apply online, find a financial sponsor and pay airfare. ‘Everyone is talking about it,’ said fisherman Carlos Hernandez. He said people were desperate to flee the worst economic crisis to hit the country in decades
Photograph: Alexandre Meneghini/Reuters
Visitors look at the painting Girl with a Pearl Earring by Johannes Vermeer during the opening of the Vermeer exhibition at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. The exhibition contains 28 works which were created in 20 years, between 1654 and 1674. There are only 37 known paintings by Vermeer. A few are contested, an unknown but probably small number long lost, and one was stolen from Boston in 1990 and has never resurfaced
Photograph: Koen van Weel/EPA
People gather around a bonfire following the earthquake in Kahramanmaraş
Photograph: Çağla Gürdoğan/Reuters
The hot springs at Güroymak, Bitlis, maintain a temperature of about 40°C, even when the outside temperature is as low as -14°C
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