Photographs of The Week
Desk Report
Published: 19 Aug 2021, 09:50 pm
(Kabul, Afghanistan) Farzia, 28, who lost her husband in Baghlan one week ago fighting the Taliban, sits with her children, Subhan, five, and Ismael, two, in a tent at a makeshift camp in Shahr-e Naw park. People displaced by the Taliban advance are flooding into Kabul to escape the takeover of their provinces. (Photograph: Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)
(Evia, Greece) An elderly resident reacts as a wildfire approaches her house in the village of Gouves. Thousands of residents were evacuated by boat after wildfires hit Greece’s second largest island. (Photograph: Konstantinos Tsakalidis/Bloomberg/Getty Images)
(Bangkok, Thailand) Anti-government protesters react after riot police fired teargas among them. (Photograph: Sirachai Arunrugstichai/Getty Images)
(Tokyo, Japan) The Russian Olympic Committee team compete in the free routine artistic swimming event during the 2020 Olympic Games. (Photograph: François-Xavier Marit/AFP/Getty Images)
(Evia, Greece) A woman sleeps in her car on the beach as a wildfire rages in the village of Pefki on Evia island. A multinational force of nearly 900 firefighters were at the scene in a desperate effort to stop the conflagration enveloping the northern town of Istiaia. (Photograph: Angelos Tzortzinis/AFP/Getty Images)
The end of the Tokyo Olympic Games, the Taliban advance in Afghanistan, forest fires in Greece and protests in Bangkok – the most striking images from around the world this week..