Chamberlain dvernb Posted August 27, 2022 Chamberlain Share Posted August 27, 2022 A selection of powerful news photographs taken around the world this week. Image source, Amanuel Sileshi / AFP The Ethiopian holy site in Lalibela is one of many places hosting women-only Ashenda Festival celebrations to honour the Virgin Mary. Image source, Henry Nicholls / Reuters A woman launches a kite on London's Parliament Hill during the Fly With Me kite festival, celebrating Afghan culture, a year on from the Taliban's return to power in Afghanistan. Image source, Juan Medina Reuters A migrant plays with a basketball while waiting for permission to disembark from a rescue boat in the Mediterranean Sea, near the Italian island of Sicily. Image source, Darrin Zammit Lupi / Reuters A competitor falls off the gostra - a pole covered in lard - during the week-long celebrations of the religious feast of St Julian, patron of the Maltese seaside town of St Julian's. Image source, Ampe Rogerio / EPA-EFE A woman shows her ink-marked finger after voting in the general election in Luanda, Angola. Wednesday's poll was expected to be the country's most closely fought election since independence in 1975. Image source, Joe Giddens / PA Media Shire horses Cosmo and Boy harvest the wildflower meadow at King's College, Cambridge, guided by David Lawless, from Waldburg Shires. Hay from the meadow is carted on a traditional wain and used to propagate more wildflower meadows. Image source, Clemens Bilan / EPA-EFE A competitor prepares for impact during the Berlin Pedal Battle games, where cyclists dressed as knights take part in a jousting competition. The event was set up by a group of bike couriers from the city in 2012. Image source, Ronald Wittek / EPA-EFE Yaroslava Mahuchikh, of Ukraine, celebrates winning a gold medal in the women's high jump at the European Championships in Munich. Image source, Claudia Morales / Reuters A demonstrator runs through tear gas during clashes between coca growers and police over a new coca market in La Paz, Bolivia. Image source, Jane Barlow / PA Media Aidee Arely Ramirez Arellano and Viridiana Mayte Arica Rico display their monarch butterfly costumes ahead of the final weekend of this year's show at the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo. The costumes were inspired by an image of the Duke of Edinburgh watching the butterflies. All pictures are subject to copyright. 1 Quote Link to comment
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