Week in pictures 8 April 2023
NEW YORK: Former US President Donald Trump sits in a New York courtroom with his defense team on Tuesday, April 4(Seth Wenig for Associated Press)
PARIS: Police form a cordon between a vandalized shop window and a fire that was set on the street during demonstrations in Paris on Thursday, April 6. There have been nationwide protests in France since the government raised the retirement age for most workers from 62 to 64(Alain Jocard/AFP/Getty Images)
WARSAW:A car carrying Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and first lady Olena Zelenska arrives at the Presidential Palace in Warsaw, Poland, on Wednesday, April 5. It was Zelensky's first formal visit to the country since Russia invaded Ukraine last year(Michal Dyjuk/AP)
NIDDERAU: A railroad crossing is seen in the middle of a flooded meadow in Nidderau, Germany, on Monday, April 3. Large areas in the lowlands were flooded after days of rain(Boris Roessler/picture-alliance/dpa/AP)
HOUSTON: (from left) NASA astronauts Christina Koch, Victor Glover, Reid Wiseman (foreground) and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen celebrate on Monday, April 3, after being selected for the upcoming Artemis II mission. The lunar flyby, scheduled for November 2024, will be the first crewed moon mission in five decades(Josh Valcarcel/NASA)
WYNNE: This aerial photo shows tornado damage in Wynne, Arkansas, on Saturday, April 1. A storm outbreak the day before spawned more than 50 tornado reports in at least seven states(Cheney Orr/Reuters)
TAWANG: Young Buddhist monks play between prayers at a monastery in Tawang, India, on Wednesday, April 5(Arun Sankar/AFP/Getty Images)
PLANICA: German ski jumper Andreas Wellinger competes in a World Cup event in Planica, Slovenia, on Saturday, April 1(Borut Zivulovic/Reuters)
COLOMBO: A dancer performs with fire during a Gammaduwa performance at a Buddhist temple in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on Friday, March 31(Dinuka Liyanawatte/Reuters)
BASRA: A water buffalo grazes in a field in front of the Nahr Bin Omar oil field near Basra, Iraq, on Tuesday, April 4(Hussein Faleh/AFP/Getty Images)