Photos of the week
Desk report
Published: 27 Sep 2019, 03:58 pm
Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg watches as U.S. President Donald Trump enters the United Nations to speak with reporters in New York City, September 23, 2019. Thunberg angrily denounced world leaders at the U.N. Climate Action Summit for failing to tackle climate change, unleashing outrage felt by millions of her peers. "This is all wrong. I shouldn't be up here. I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean yet you all come to us young people for hope. How dare you?" said the 16-year-old. "You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words." Trump has questioned climate science and has challenged every major U.S. regulation aimed at combating climate change. REUTERS
People run as Haiti's Senator Jean Marie Ralph Fethiere fires a gun in the air, injuring Associated Press photographer Chery Dieu-Nalio, while facing angry opposition supporters in the parking lot of the Haitian Parliament and Senate, as the government attempted to confirm the appointment of nominated Prime Minister Fritz William Michel, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti September 23, 2019. The shooting came at a time when Haitians have become increasingly angry at shortages of fuel and food. Fethiere later told a local radio station he was acting in self-defence. REUTERS
Prince Harry, his wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, and their son Archie meet Archbishop Desmond Tutu (not pictured) in Cape Town, South Africa, September 25, 2019. Harry, Meghan and their four-month-old son Archie landed in South Africa for their first overseas tour as a family. They drew crowds of well-wishers, where they visited non-governmental organizations working with vulnerable communities and the youth and met with the Nobel Peace Prize laureate. REUTERS
Guajajara Indians "forest guardians" detain a logger during a search for illegal loggers on Arariboia indigenous land near the city of Amarante, Maranhao state, Brazil, September 17, 2019. Loggers and ranchers have cleared land right up to the Guajajara reservation and crossed the border increasingly in recent decades. But since 2012, when the "forest guardians" formed, they estimate that illegal incursions have fallen by half. REUTERS
Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau greets Surrey-Centre candidate Randeep Sarai at an election campaign rally in British Columbia, Canada September 24, 2019. Trudeau had been running neck-and-neck with Conservative leader Andrew Scheer until Time magazine published a picture of Trudeau in dark makeup and a turban at a 2001 "Arabian Nights" party, when he was a 29-year-old teacher. Two other images and a video of him in blackface later emerged. REUTERS
Participants in traditional attire pose for pictures during rehearsals for the Garba folk dance, in preparations for Navratri, a festival during which devotees worship the Hindu goddess Durga, in Ahmedabad, India, September 25, 2019. REUTERS
An art installation by Turkish artist Vahit Tuna shows 440 pairs of high heels, the number of women murdered by men in Turkey in 2018, symbolizing the victims of domestic violence, in Istanbul, Turkey. Picture taken September 11, 2019. REUTERS
Students clash with police during a protest in Jakarta, September 25, 2019. Indonesian students rallied against a new law governing the country's anti-corruption agency, as well as proposed new laws, including a criminal code that would ban extramarital sex and penalize insulting the president's honor. Antara Foto/Indrianto Eko Suwarso/via REUTERS
A frog is pictured on a lotus leaf after rain at a pond in Lalitpur, Nepal September 26, 2019. REUTERS
People run as Haiti's Senator Jean Marie Ralph Fethiere fires a gun in the air, injuring Associated Press photographer Chery Dieu-Nalio, while facing angry opposition supporters in the parking lot of the Haitian Parliament and Senate, as the government attempted to confirm the appointment of nominated Prime Minister Fritz William Michel, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti September 23, 2019. The shooting came at a time when Haitians have become increasingly angry at shortages of fuel and food. Fethiere later told a local radio station he was acting in self-defence. REUTERS