Week in pictures: 16-22 October 2021
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A selection of powerful news photographs taken around the world this week.
A police officer moves floral tributes for Sir David Amess, which were left near the entrance of the Belfairs Methodist Church in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex. A 25-year-old man has been charged with murder and the preparation of terrorist acts, after the UK Conservative MP was stabbed to death during a constituency surgery.
US actor Alec Baldwin is seen outside the Santa Fe County Sheriff's office, following a fatal accident with a prop gun on a New Mexico film set. Director of photography Halyna Hutchins died and director Joel Souza was injured when the actor discharged the firearm, while filming the 19th Century western Rust.
A man watches the sunset from St Stephen's Green bandstand in Dublin.
Rescue workers push an overturned vehicle at the site of a landslide in Kokkayar, India. More than 180 people have died after heavy rainfall triggered flash floods in the Indian states of Uttarakhand and Kerala, and neighbouring Nepal.
Greek Actress Xanthi Georgiou, playing the role of the High Priestess, lights the Olympic torch during the flame-lighting ceremony for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, at the Ancient Olympia archaeological site.
A man installs a floral decoration at a market place in Lahore, Pakistan, ahead of the celebrations for Eid-e-Milad-un-Nabi, which marks the birthday of Prophet Mohammad.
Detainees released from Insein Prison celebrate with a crowd in Yangon, Myanmar, as authorities released thousands of people jailed for protesting against a February coup which ousted the civilian government.
A man sleeps on shoe shine chairs in Nairobi, after Kenya's president ordered the immediate lifting of a curfew which had been in place since March 2020.
An assistant displays Mexican painter Frida Kahlo's 1949 self-portrait Diego y yo (Diego and I) at Sotheby's auction house in London. The painting, which carries an estimate in excess of $30 million, is due to be auctioned next month in New York.
African ostriches are seen during a sunny autumn day at a farm in Snepele, Latvia.
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