Week in pictures 24 February 2024
MOSCOW: Police officers detain a man during a gathering in memory of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny near the Wall of Grief monument to the victims of political repressions in Moscow, on Saturday, February 17 (REUTERS/Stringer)
KAPPARA: People hang portraits of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny at the front gate of the Russian embassy as people attend a protest and vigil held following the death of Navalny, in Kappara, Malta, on Monday, February 19 (REUTERS/Darrin Zammit Lupi)
GHAZIYEH: A man salvages items at a damaged site that was hit by an airstrike on Monday, after what Lebanon's state media said was a series of Israeli strikes around Ghaziyeh on Lebanon's coast around 60 km north of the border with Israel, during a media tour, on Tuesday, Februray 20 (REUTERS/Aziz Taher)
PARIS: A sign reading "Due to a strike, the Eiffel Tower is closed. We apoligize" hangs in front of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, on Monday, February 19 (REUTERS/Sarah Meyssonnier)
SHAMBHU: Farmers, who are marching towards New Delhi to press for better crop prices promised to them in 2021, run for cover amidst tear gas fired by police to disperse them at Shambhu barrier, a border crossing between Punjab and Haryana states, on Wednesday, February 21 (REUTERS/Adnan Abidi)
DONETSK: Passengers look out of a bus window at the body of a woman killed by recent shelling in the course of Russia-Ukraine conflict in Donetsk, Russian-controlled Ukraine, on Tuesday, February 20 (REUTERS/Alexander Ermochenko)
BRUSSELS: Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of Alexei Navalny, takes part in a meeting of European Union foreign ministers in Brussels, on Monday, February 19 (REUTERS/Yves Herman/Pool)
ATHENS: Greek beekeepers use smokers, among stacked hives in front of the country's parliament, to protest over issues affecting their trade, one day after thousands of farmers with their tractors descended on the capital, in Athens, on Thursday, February 22 (REUTERS/Louisa Gouliamaki)
ROME: A view of scaffolding around a baroque sculpted bronze canopy by Gian Lorenzo Bernini over the high altar of St. Peter's Basilica in preparation for its restoration, at the Vatican, on Wednesday, February 21 (REUTERS/Yara Nardi)
RAFAH: Mourners react as the bodies of Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes lie at Abu Yousef Al-Najjar hospital, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on Sunday, February 18 (REUTERS/Mohammed Salem)