Week in pictures 19 August 2023
QUITO:
Mourners pay their respects to presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio at a memorial service in Quito, Ecuador, on Friday, August 11. Villavicencio was assassinated as he was leaving a political rally on August 9. He was 59 years old (Dolores Ochoa/AP)
AMUR:
A Soyuz-2 Fregat rocket lifts off from the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Amur Oblast, Russia, on Friday, August 11. It was carrying Luna 25, .the country’s first lunar lander in 47 years (Roscosmos State Space Corporation/AP)
PORT-AU-PRINCE:
Men run next to burning tires in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, during a protest demanding an end to gang violence on Monday, August 14. Port-au-Prince and surrounding areas have been gripped by a yearslong kidnapping-for-profit epidemic, with hundreds of Haitians targeted by gangs seeking ransom payments each year (Ralph Tedy Erol/Reuters)
TOKYO:
Doves are released at the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on Tuesday, August 15, as part of an annual memorial service for those killed during World War II (Eugene Hoshiko/AP)
SOACHA:
A firefighter walks through the smoke of a mountain fire in Soacha, Colombia, on August 14 (Fernando Vergara/AP)
MADRID:
Pedro Sánchez, Spain's acting prime minister, is greeted by Second Deputy Prime Minister Yolanda Díaz on the day of a parliament session in which lawmakers voted for a speaker and for members of parliament's executive board on Thursday, August 17. The speaker vote was won by Francina Armengol (Violeta Santos Moura/Reuters)
AL-FAW:
Shiite Muslim pilgrims wave flags as they start marching from Al-Faw, Iraq, toward Karbala, Iraq, ahead of the Arba'een religious festival on Sunday, August 13 (Hussein Faleh/AFP/Getty Images)
DONETSK:
A Ukrainian soldier fires a weapon while training in Donetsk, Ukraine, on Thursday, August 17 (Libkos/AP)
BEIJING:
A robot face capable of mimicking human-like expressions is displayed near robotic arms at the World Robot Conference in Beijing on Wednesday, August 16 (Ng Han Guan/AP)
BRISTOL:
Hot-air balloons fly over Bristol, England, during the annual Bristol International Balloon Fiesta on Sunday, August 13 (Toby Melville/Reuters)
QUITO: Mourners pay their respects to presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio at a memorial service in Quito, Ecuador, on Friday, August 11. Villavicencio was assassinated as he was leaving a political rally on August 9. He was 59 years old (Dolores Ochoa/AP)
AMUR: A Soyuz-2 Fregat rocket lifts off from the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Amur Oblast, Russia, on Friday, August 11. It was carrying Luna 25, .the country’s first lunar lander in 47 years (Roscosmos State Space Corporation/AP)
PORT-AU-PRINCE: Men run next to burning tires in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, during a protest demanding an end to gang violence on Monday, August 14. Port-au-Prince and surrounding areas have been gripped by a yearslong kidnapping-for-profit epidemic, with hundreds of Haitians targeted by gangs seeking ransom payments each year (Ralph Tedy Erol/Reuters)
TOKYO: Doves are released at the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on Tuesday, August 15, as part of an annual memorial service for those killed during World War II (Eugene Hoshiko/AP)
SOACHA: A firefighter walks through the smoke of a mountain fire in Soacha, Colombia, on August 14 (Fernando Vergara/AP)
MADRID: Pedro Sánchez, Spain's acting prime minister, is greeted by Second Deputy Prime Minister Yolanda Díaz on the day of a parliament session in which lawmakers voted for a speaker and for members of parliament's executive board on Thursday, August 17. The speaker vote was won by Francina Armengol (Violeta Santos Moura/Reuters)
AL-FAW: Shiite Muslim pilgrims wave flags as they start marching from Al-Faw, Iraq, toward Karbala, Iraq, ahead of the Arba'een religious festival on Sunday, August 13 (Hussein Faleh/AFP/Getty Images)
DONETSK: A Ukrainian soldier fires a weapon while training in Donetsk, Ukraine, on Thursday, August 17 (Libkos/AP)
BEIJING: A robot face capable of mimicking human-like expressions is displayed near robotic arms at the World Robot Conference in Beijing on Wednesday, August 16 (Ng Han Guan/AP)
BRISTOL: Hot-air balloons fly over Bristol, England, during the annual Bristol International Balloon Fiesta on Sunday, August 13 (Toby Melville/Reuters)