
Wounded Ukrainian soldiers in Bakhmut, Israeli airstrikes in Gaza, the Mauna Loa volcano eruption in Hawaii, and Morocco celebrate at the World Cup in Qatar – the most striking images this week
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Bakhmut, Ukraine
A Ukrainian soldier, wounded in the conflict, receives treatment at a hospital
Photograph: Metin Aktas/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
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Shinile, Ethiopia
Passengers look on after boarding an old train in Shinile. More than a century after the French laid a railroad in eastern Ethiopia, the old track remains indispensable for trade and transport, even with the recent arrival of a modern, Chinese-built line
Photograph: Amanuel Sileshi/AFP/Getty Images
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Bakhmut, Ukraine
A person enters a shop amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine
Photograph: Anatolii Stepanov/AFP/Getty Images
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Shanghai, China
A health worker waits for people to take swab samples to test for Covid-19 inside a compound in the Jing’an district of the city
Photograph: Héctor Retamal/AFP/Getty Images
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Lima, Peru
A group of people take shelter during clashes between protesters and police on the outskirts of the city, where the former president Pedro Castillo is detained
Photograph: Aldair Mejia/EPA
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Lumajang, Indonesia
People stand before Mount Semeru after a volcanic eruption at the village of Kajar Kuning. Mount Semeru erupted this week, spewing hot ash clouds a mile high and rivers of lava down its side, while sparking the evacuation of nearly 2,000 people one year after its last major eruption killed dozens
Photograph: Juni Kriswanto/AFP/Getty Images
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Kyiv, Ukraine
Citizens shelter in the metro as Russia launches another missile attack. Ukrainian officials expect a new wave of Russian bombing this week, with previous rounds targeting critical infrastructure and causing massive water and power cuts
Photograph: Shannon Stapleton/Reuters
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Srinagar, India
A man burns tree leaves to make charcoal at a park
Photograph: Tauseef Mustafa/AFP/Getty Images
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Kyiv, Ukraine
A child rests in a cot in front of a window protected by sandbags in the intensive care unit for newborns at Okhmatdyt hospital
Photograph: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images
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Bandung, Indonesia
Siti Sarah and Al Fikri Ibnu Sofyan, wife and the third son of Agus Sofyan, a police officer who was killed in a suspected suicide bombing at a district police station, mourn during his funeral
Photograph: Willy Kurniawan/Reuters
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Kherson, Ukraine
Maryna stands outside the door of her neighbour’s damaged flat in a residential building following a Russian strike in the southern Ukrainian city
Photograph: Anatolii Stepanov/AFP/Getty Images
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Milan, Italy
Environmental activists from the Last Generation (Ultima Generazione) smear paint on the facade of La Scala to raise awareness about the climate crisis on the opening day of the theatre’s new season
Photograph: Piero Cruciatti/AFP/Getty Images
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Texas, US
Border Patrol and Texas law enforcement agents detain people near the border between the US and Mexico in McAllen. The group had crossed the Rio Grande from Mexico before being pursued and captured
Photograph: John Moore/Getty Images
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Gaza
Smoke and flames rise after an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip
Photograph: Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters
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Lima, Peru
Protesters who support the ousted president Pedro Castillo confront the police on the outskirts of the prefecture of Lima
Photograph: Aldair Mejia/EPA
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Lumajang, Indonesia
People walk past houses following a volcanic eruption by Mount Semeru at the village of Kajar Kuning
Photograph: Juni Kriswanto/AFP/Getty Images
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Texas, US
Brittney Griner disembarks from a plane after landing in San Antonio. The American basketball star returned to the US after being freed in a high-profile prisoner exchange from nearly 10 months in detention in Russia
Photograph: Suzanne Cordeiro/AFP/Getty Images
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Shenyang, China
A winter swimming enthusiast in a partly frozen lake after snowfall at Shenyang, in north-eastern China’s Liaoning province
Photograph: AFP/Getty Images
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Mauna Loa, Hawaii
Molten bombs are thrown into the air by the lava fountains at Fissure 3 on the north-east rift zone of Mauna Loa. Fountains of lava and rivers of molten rock were spewing from the world’s biggest volcano, as the first eruption there in almost four decades showed no signs of abating
Photograph: D Downs/US Geological Survey/AFP/Getty Images
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Al-Rayyan, Qatar
Morocco’s players celebrate at the end of the World Cup match against Spain at the Education City Stadium
Photograph: Glyn Kirk/AFP/Getty Images
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