Week in pictures 26 August 2023
DIKELLA:
and volunteers work to extinguish a wildfire near the Greek village of Dikella on Tuesday, August 22. Greece is struggling with dozens of wildfires as Europe swelters under yet another extreme heat wave (Konstantinos Tsakalidis/Bloomberg/Getty Images)
ATLANTA:
The motorcade of former US President Donald Trump arrives at the Fulton County jail in Atlanta on Thursday, August 24 (Will Lanzoni/CNN)
BUDAPEST:
American Alexis Holmes runs past the Netherlands' Femke Bol, who had fallen just before the finish line during a mixed 4x400-meter relay at the World Athletics Championships on Saturday, August 19 (Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images)
LAHAINA:
This aerial photo, taken on Tuesday, August 22, shows wildfire damage in Lahaina, Hawaii. Catastrophic wildfires have killed dozens of people on the Hawaiian island of Maui, and the blaze that devastated Lahaina is now the deadliest US wildfire in over 100 years, officials said. Hundreds of people remain unaccounted for (Jae C. Hong/AP)
RUSSIA:
Yevgeny Prigozhin, the Wagner mercenary chief who staged a short-lived mutiny against Russia's military leadership in June, speaks in a video address that was published on Telegram on Monday, August 21. Two days later, he was presumed dead in a plane crash northwest of Moscow (PMC WAGNER/Reuters)
SEOUL:
People hold electronic candles during a rally in Seoul, South Korea, on Wednesday, August 23. They were protesting Japan's decision to release treated radioactive water from Fukushima into the ocean (Lee Jin-man/AP)
ZHENGZHOU:
People cool off at a water park in Zhengzhou, China, on Sunday, August 20 (VCG/Getty Images)
MECCA:
Lightning strikes a clock tower in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, on Tuesday, August 22 (Hammad Al-Huthali/AFP/Getty Images)
NAROK COUNTY:
Members of the indigenous Maasai community sing and jump Tuesday, August 22, during the inaugural Maa Cultural Week in Kenya's Narok County. The festival aims to promote peace, tourism and cultural exchange (Thomas Mukoya/Reuters)
DONETSK:
Viktoria Aksenova assesses damage at her apartment after it was hit by Russian shelling in Donetsk, Ukraine, on Wednesday, August 23 (Alexander Ermochenko/Reuters)
DIKELLA: Firefighters and volunteers work to extinguish a wildfire near the Greek village of Dikella on Tuesday, August 22. Greece is struggling with dozens of wildfires as Europe swelters under yet another extreme heat wave (Konstantinos Tsakalidis/Bloomberg/Getty Images)
ATLANTA: The motorcade of former US President Donald Trump arrives at the Fulton County jail in Atlanta on Thursday, August 24 (Will Lanzoni/CNN)
BUDAPEST: American Alexis Holmes runs past the Netherlands' Femke Bol, who had fallen just before the finish line during a mixed 4x400-meter relay at the World Athletics Championships on Saturday, August 19 (Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images)
LAHAINA: This aerial photo, taken on Tuesday, August 22, shows wildfire damage in Lahaina, Hawaii. Catastrophic wildfires have killed dozens of people on the Hawaiian island of Maui, and the blaze that devastated Lahaina is now the deadliest US wildfire in over 100 years, officials said. Hundreds of people remain unaccounted for (Jae C. Hong/AP)
RUSSIA: Yevgeny Prigozhin, the Wagner mercenary chief who staged a short-lived mutiny against Russia's military leadership in June, speaks in a video address that was published on Telegram on Monday, August 21. Two days later, he was presumed dead in a plane crash northwest of Moscow (PMC WAGNER/Reuters)
SEOUL: People hold electronic candles during a rally in Seoul, South Korea, on Wednesday, August 23. They were protesting Japan's decision to release treated radioactive water from Fukushima into the ocean (Lee Jin-man/AP)
ZHENGZHOU: People cool off at a water park in Zhengzhou, China, on Sunday, August 20 (VCG/Getty Images)
MECCA: Lightning strikes a clock tower in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, on Tuesday, August 22 (Hammad Al-Huthali/AFP/Getty Images)
NAROK COUNTY: Members of the indigenous Maasai community sing and jump Tuesday, August 22, during the inaugural Maa Cultural Week in Kenya's Narok County. The festival aims to promote peace, tourism and cultural exchange (Thomas Mukoya/Reuters)
DONETSK: Viktoria Aksenova assesses damage at her apartment after it was hit by Russian shelling in Donetsk, Ukraine, on Wednesday, August 23 (Alexander Ermochenko/Reuters)