Hollywood, Los Angeles, US
Rihanna before performing at the 95th annual Academy Awards ceremony at the Dolby theatre
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Tecoluca, El Salvador
Police officers keep watch during the second arrival of inmates belonging to the MS-13 and 18 gangs to the new prison, a terrorist confinement centre
Photograph: El Salvador’s Presidency Press Office/AFP/Getty Images
Dolyna, Ukraine
Crater holes in fields after strikes in the village amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine
Photograph: Ihor Tkachov/AFP/Getty Images
Tel Aviv, Israel
Mounted police confront protesters during a rally against the government’s judicial overhaul bill. A compromise proposal presented by Israel’s president, Isaac Herzog, on the controversial changes has been rejected by the governing coalition, putting a swift end to hopes that the country’s political crisis can be immediately resolved
Photograph: Gil Cohen-Magen/AFP/Getty Images
Paris, France
Firefighters work on a fire during a protest near Place de la Concorde after the French government pushed a pensions overhaul through parliament without a vote. President Macron instructed the prime minister, Élisabeth Borne, to invoke article 49.3, which allows the government to adopt a bill without a parliamentary vote, because he said there was too much economic risk to the country if MPs voted against it
Photograph: Thomas Samson/AFP/Getty Images
Sleman, Indonesia
Thick smoke rises during an eruption from Mount Merapi, Indonesia’s most active volcano, as seen from the village of Tunggularum. Residents in the nearby community have been warned to halt any activities in the danger zones, which range between three and seven kilometres’ radius from the crater, an official statement said
Photograph: Devi Rahman/AFP/Getty Images
Nantes, France
A riot police officer takes position during a demonstration on the eighth day of strikes and protests across the country against the government’s proposed pensions overhaul. Strikes have escalated in France as the interior minister spoke of protesters wreaking havoc across the country and some MPs called for police protection, amid anger at the government pushing through a rise in the pension age without a parliamentary vote
Photograph: Loïc Venance/AFP/Getty Images
Kostyantynivka, Ukraine
An elderly woman stands near a burning building following shelling in the city in the Donetsk region. The international criminal court (ICC) in The Hague has issued an arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin. Moscow said this week it did not recognise the jurisdiction of the ICC. ‘We do not recognise this court; we do not recognise its jurisdiction,’ Putin’s spokesperson, Dmitry Peskov, told journalists in Moscow
Photograph: Sergey Shestak/AFP/Getty Images
Blantyre, Malawi
A man stands outside his damaged home. The death toll from Cyclone Freddy in Malawi and Mozambique rose to more than 200, after the record-breaking storm triggered floods and landslides
Photograph: Thoko Chikondi/AP
Photograph: Ignacio Marin/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
Mammoth Lakes, California, US
Snow falls as people prepare to cross a street during another winter storm in the Sierra Nevada mountains. Mountain communities still digging out from earlier storms at lower elevations are facing possible flooding due to rainfall runoff from the state’s 10th atmospheric river storm
Photograph: Mario Tama/Getty Images
Iskenderun, Turkey
Mehmet Dogru, six, plays inside an open coffin at Cankaya cemetery, where his family moved in the aftermath of the deadly earthquake. Last month’s devastating quakes killed more than 54,000 people in Turkey and Syria and left millions homeless. Mehmet’s family lives in a tent behind the morgue, next to a bus that shelters the family of his uncle, who works at the cemetery as an undertaker
Photograph: Susana Vera/Reuters
Bohorodychne, Ukraine
People from the village cross the Siversky Donets River on a destroyed bridge to retrieve bread from the other side
Photograph: Anatolii Stepanov/AFP/Getty Images
Nantes, France
Protesters clashes with police officers as they stand in a cloud of teargas during a demonstration in Nantes. The French government used controversial special constitutional powers to force through a rise in the pension age amid chaotic scenes in parliament in which radical left MPs sang La Marseillaise at the top of their voices to stop the prime minister, Élisabeth Borne, from speaking
Photograph: Jeremías González/AP
Basra, Iraq
The capsized hull of the Al Mansur, a private yacht of the former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, in the Shatt al-Arab waterway in the city. The Al-Mansur now lays on its side, having capsized 20 years ago after it was struck during the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq that ended Saddam’s decades of rule
Photograph: Hussein Faleh/AFP/Getty Images
Chasiv Yar, Ukraine
A destroyed statue of the Russian writer Maxim Gorky
Photograph: Aris Messinis/AFP/Getty Images
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
A portrait of a man holding dolls found in rubbish by men and women living in the favelas who have been unemployed for four years
Photograph: Fabio Teixeira/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
