Indigenous men perform a ritual during a protest march at the Terra Livre Indigenous camp in Brasilia. The camp is focused on raising awareness about Indigenous rights and land issues and promoting Indigenous culture.
Photograph: Carl de Souza/AFP/Getty
Evacuations from Sudan, the battle raging in Bakhmut, protests against a judicial overhaul in Israel, and climate activism in Berlin: the most striking images this week.
An injured Ukrainian serviceman lies inside a frontline medical stabilisation point in the Donetsk region.
Photograph: Anna Kudriavtseva/Reuters
British nationals board an RAF aircraft during an evacuation from Khartoum. Britain said it had evacuated nearly 900 people from Sudan and hoped to continue evacuation flights as the country’s warring factions agreed to extend a ceasefire.
Photograph: UK MoD/Reuters
A group of migrants gathers to cross the Rio Grande in Matamoros.
Photograph: Abraham Pineda-Jacome/EPA
Greek nationals from Sudan arrive at the military airport of Elefsina as a growing number of countries continue to evacuate foreign nationals and diplomats following days of urban combat in Khartoum.
Photograph: Aris Messinis/AFP/Getty
A child looks on as Jordanian citizens and other nationals who were evacuated from Sudan arrive at Marka military airport in Amman. A 72-hour truce from Monday night initially brought relative calm to Khartoum, Sudan’s capital, and so facilitated the evacuation of thousands of foreign nationals.
Photograph: Alaa Al Sukhni/Reuters
A police officer drills through a paving stone next to the hand of an activist during a protest against the climate policy of the German government in Berlin. Climate activists tried bringing traffic to a standstill by gluing themselves to streets all over the capital.
Photograph: Markus Schreiber/AP
People watch a Yars intercontinental ballistic missile launcher on Tverskaya Street in Moscow during a rehearsal of a military parade which will take place at Red Square on 9 May to commemorate the victory over Nazi Germany in the second world war.
Photograph: Maxim Shipenkov/EPA
Ukrainian soldiers walk down a street in the frontline city of Bakhmut. Russia’s defence ministry claimed this week that it had captured another three districts in the western part of the city.
Photograph: Anatolii Stepanov/AFP/Getty
Local spiritual leaders from the Kaya-Giriama ethnic group wait for transport to visit the mass graves in the forest of Shakahola outside the coastal town of Malindi. The death toll at a ranch in Kenya owned by a pastor accused of leading a religious cult and ordering his followers to starve themselves in order to ‘meet Jesus’ has reached 90.
Photograph: Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP/Getty
Holes are seen after bodies were exhumed at the mass grave site in Shakahola. Kenyan authorities said on Thursday that one of the country’s highest-profile pastors would face charges over the ‘mass killing’ of his followers, just days after the discovery of dozens of bodies in mass graves linked to another church.
Photograph: Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP/Getty
Protesters carry a banner as they attend a mass ‘independence party’ in a demonstration against Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his nationalist coalition government’s judicial overhaul. The fight over the judicial changes ‘transcends issues of left and right, and comes down to public distrust in government’, said one of the architects of the plans, Simcha Rothman.
Photograph: Corinna Kern/Reuters
Beekeepers lift honeycombs from a beehive after using smoke to calm the bees, during the honey harvest in Rafah, along the Gaza Strip’s border with Israel.
Photograph: Fatima Shbair/AP
Indigenous men perform a ritual during a protest march at the Terra Livre Indigenous camp in Brasilia. The camp is focused on raising awareness about Indigenous rights and land issues and promoting Indigenous culture.
Photograph: Carl de Souza/AFP/Getty
An Indigenous woman participates in a protest march during the Terra Livre Indigenous camp in Brasilia.
Photograph: Carl de Souza/AFP/Getty
Following a Russian attack, first responders remove rubble at a residential building in Uman. Russian cruise missiles killed at least 19 people in the central Ukrainian cities of Uman and Dnipro, days after Ukraine’s leader, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, begged his allies for more air defence supplies.
Photograph: Bernat Armangué/AP
A dog stands by graffiti at a memorial complex on the outskirts of Izium.
Photograph: Carlos Barría/Reuters
A woman wears a mask called a battoulah in Qeshm. Qeshm Island is known as the ‘island of masked women’ where the women believe that the masks protect the eyes and face from extreme heat.
Photograph: Fatemeh Bahrami/Anadolu
A resident walks in front of a mural on a heavily damaged residential building in the frontline town of Avdiivka.
Photograph: Anatolii Stepanov/AFP/Getty
Border patrol agents hand out bin bags to migrants from China to use against the rain and cold as they wait for transport to a processing centre next to a cemetery after crossing the Rio Grande into the US from Mexico. Chinese people represent just a small proportion of the hundreds of thousands of migrants arriving at the south-west border, but are the fastest-growing demographic.
Photograph: Reuters
Ukrainian soldiers and volunteers try to load horses into a truck to evacuate them from an abandoned farm in war-hit Avdiivka.
Photograph: Libkos/AP
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