Week in pictures 23 Oct 2021
CENTREVILLE: First grade students at Colin L. Powell Elementary school in Centreville, Virginia, watch a video of Gen. Colin Powellon Tuesday, October 19. Powell, a trailblazing military leader who went on to become the first Black secretary of state, died at the age of 84 due to complications from Covid-19, his family said (Kenny Holston/Getty Images)
ITZEHOE: A 96-year-old former Nazi concentration camp secretary, named by German media as Irmgard Furchner, is led into a courtroom at the start of her trial in Itzehoe, Germany, on Tuesday, October 19. Furchner is accused of being an accessory to murder in more than 11,000 cases, when she was a stenographer and typist in the commandant's office at the Stutthof camp in Nazi-occupied Poland (Christian Charisius/Pool/AFP/Getty Images)
JIUQUAN: The Long March-2F rocket, carrying the Shenzhou-13 spacecraft and three astronauts launches at Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the Gobi Desert, Mongolia, on Saturday, October 16. This is China’s second crewed mission to build its own space station (Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters)
LIBYA: Migrants struggle to stay afloat before being rescued about 35 miles off the coast of Libya on Monday, October 18 (Valeria Mongelli/AP)