The battle for Bakhmut, the train crash in Greece, violence in the West Bank, and Paris fashion week – the most striking images this week
Steccato di Cutro, Italy The wreckage of the vessel from this week’s shipwreck off the coast of Italy’s Calabria region lies on a beach as an Italian coast guard helicopter patrols the coastline during a search operation in Steccato di Cutro. The bodies of many victims, including children, were recovered washed up on a tourist beach Photograph: Alessio Mamo/Getty Images
Hawara, West Bank A Palestinian boy stands in the ruins of his family apartment as he films vehicles torched in a rampage by Israeli settlers in Hawara near the West Bank city of Nablus. Hundreds of Israeli settlers went on a violent rampage in the northern West Bank, setting alight dozens of cars and homes after two settlers were killed by a Palestinian gunman Photograph: Maya Alleruzzo/AP
Donetsk, Ukraine A medic administers first aid to a wounded Ukrainian soldier near Bakhmut, the site of the heaviest battles with Russian troops. The chief of the Russian paramilitary group Wagner has said his fighters have ‘practically encircled’ Bakhmut, the eastern Ukraine city the Kremlin has been trying to seize for months. Only one road remains under Ukrainian control. Yevgeny Prigozhin, Wagner boss, called on the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, to abandon the city Photograph: Yevhen Titov/AP
Larissa, Greece Rescue crews operate at the site of a crash, where two trains collided, near the city of Larissa. The death toll from the head-on collision of two trains in central Greece is likely to rise with officials acknowledging that scores of people have yet to be accounted for 24 hours after it left at least 43 dead and many more injured Photograph: Alexandros Avramidis/Reuters
Bakhmut, Ukraine Ukrainian servicemen of the 28th Independent Mechanised Brigade fire a 2S3 Akatsiya self-propelled howitzer towards Russian positions near the frontline city of Bakhmut. As flames and smoke ring into the sky from blazing buildings, the city, almost totally encircled by Russian forces, has been raked by constant gunfire and explosions this week. Photograph: Marko Đurica/Reuters
Adıyaman, Turkey A piece of rock in Adıyaman’s Eski Kahta village first drifted, then split in two and fell on the house. The death toll from the catastrophic earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria has topped 45,000, with search and rescue teams starting to wind down their operations Photograph: Halil Kahraman/Dia/Getty Images
Shakhtarsk, Ukraine Yelena Vyacheslavskaya and her daughter, Kira, who were evacuated from Bakhmut, attend a meeting with Denis Pushilin, the Moscow-installed acting leader of the Russian-controlled parts of Ukraine’s Donetsk region, in Shakhtarsk. Amid mounting speculation that Ukraine’s defenders might be preparing to withdraw from Bakhmut, Oleksiy Danilov, the secretary of the national security and defence council of Ukraine, said its defenders had inflicted casualties on the Russian attackers at a ratio of 7:1 Photograph: Alexander Ermochenko/Reuters
Amatutu, Nigeria A department of state services official stands guard at a polling station in Amatutu during Nigeria’s election. Nigeria’s president-elect, Bola Tinubu, reached out to opposition parties and those disappointed by his victory in last weekend’s election, promising that ‘renewed hope has dawned’ in Africa’s most populous nation. The chaotic count lasted almost four days and prompted fierce criticism as well as allegations of rigging from opposition parties who promised legal action to overturn the result Photograph: Patrick Meinhardt/AFP/Getty
Kamenka, Ukraine A destroyed tank in a field in the village of Kamenka Photograph: Ihor Tkachov/AFP/Getty Images
Hatay, Turkey People walk in the street after the earthquake in Hatay Photograph: Yavuz Ozden/Dia/Getty Images
Irpin, Ukraine Women walk among destroyed buildings in Irpin. A Ukrainian Nobel peace laureate has called for the swift creation of a special tribunal to try Vladimir Putin and his associates for the crime of aggression, arguing that it could have ‘a cooling effect’ on atrocities committed by the Kremlin’s invading forces. Oleksandra Matviichuk, the head of the Centre for Civil Liberties, also said a speedy start to war crimes trials against the Russian president and soldiers could save people’s lives by deterring Russian forces from committing further crimes Photograph: Thibault Camus/AP
Taipei, Taiwan Protesters storm the stage as the Taipei mayor, Chiang Wan-an, speaks during an event marking the 76th anniversary of the February 228 massacre in Taipei. 228, also known as the 28 February massacre, occurred in 1947 when the Chinese nationalist party government of the Republic of China violently suppressed an anti-government uprising in Taiwan Photograph: Lam Yik Fei/Getty Images
Beijing, China A woman wearing traditional clothes walks past the entrance of the Forbidden City in Beijing. Xi Jinping is preparing a profound overhaul of China’s government and party institutions at this year’s National People’s Congress, which begins its annual session on Sunday. The Chinese Communist party trialed changes this week of ‘far-reaching significance’ that are expected to include a reorganisation of the bodies tasked with managing the financial and technology sectors, as well as state security. The changes will all have one goal in mind: to strengthen the party’s control Photograph: Noel Celis/AFP/Getty Images
Almolonga, Mexico A boy in festive clothing and wearing a wooden mask poses inside an abandoned hacienda during carnival celebrations in Almolonga. Every year locals from the towns of Coyolillo and Almolonga celebrate carnival to remember their African ancestors, brought as slaves to Mexico mainly from Congo, Ivory Coast, Guinea, Cape Verde, Somalia and Mali Photograph: Cristopher Rogel Blanquet/Getty
Brighton, England A police search team works through an allotment area as they continued the search for a missing baby in Brighton. Constance Marten and Mark Gordon were remanded in custody charged with the manslaughter of the baby named Victoria. The couple were arrested in Brighton on Monday and charged on Thursday after the remains of the infant were found on Wednesday afternoon Photograph: Leon Neal/Getty Images
Kyiv, Ukraine People dance in an underground passage during a missile alert in Kyiv Photograph: Efrem Lukatsky/AP
Paris, France Dancers, wearing Louboutin shoes, perform on the sidelines of Paris fashion week at the Opéra Comique Photograph: Julien de Rosa/AFP/Getty Images
Tecoluca, El Salvador Gang members wait to be taken to their cells after they were transferred to the terrorism confinement centre in Tecoluca. El Salvador’s government moved thousands of suspected gang members to a newly opened ‘megaprison’, the latest step in a controversial crackdown on crime that has caused the Central American nation’s prison population to soar Photograph: Secretaria de Prensa de la Presidencia/Reuters
Gaza A Palestinian man collects plastic as smoke rises from a fire in a landfill, east of Gaza City. The fire has raged in the main landfill near the Gaza-Israel border, with authorities appealing for help to put the fire out Photograph: Fatima Shbair/AP
Mathura, India Hindu devotees celebrate the Holi festival Photograph: Avishek Das/SOPA Images/REX/Shutterstock
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