Africa's week in pictures: 17 - 23 May 2024
A selection of the week's best photos from across the continent and beyond:
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A selection of the week's best photos from across the continent and beyond:
Images subject to copyright
Former President Donald Trump left some of the country’s most powerful CEOs scratching their heads, cringing, or just outright laughing during a private meeting in the nation’s capital on Thursday.On MSNBC’s Morning Joe on Friday, CNBC anchor Andrew Ross Sorkin said he’d spoken to several CEOs who were at the gathering, including many who considered themselves pro-Trump. Among the attendees were Apple’s Tim Cook and JPMorgan Chase’s Jamie Dimon.“They walked away from that meeting, I think, a bit
It has been another bad week for Vladimir Putin. In direct response to his unprovoked invasion, Ukraine has this week been able to sign a 10-year security pact with America - a bridge to its eventual membership of NATO, even if that is still a very, very long way away. EU accession talks for Ukraine will also begin before the end of the month.
Alyssa Farah Griffin says the former attorney general "danced" around this fact during a recent interview on CNN.
Ukrainian forces have struck a military airfield in Russia, targeting warplanes and glide-bomb facilities used to launch deadly attacks against Ukraine, a security source has revealed. The source said the operation on Thursday night was part of a "sustained campaign to degrade the Russian Air Force" just as Ukraine has done with Russia's Black Sea Fleet. Satellite imagery shared by the source purported to show two SU-34 fighter-bombers at the Morozovsk airbase in southern Russia as well as a white structure before the attack.
‘I spoke to every president since I’ve been alive, including Ronald Reagan, I’ll have you know,’ former tennis star says
Draft of summit’s final declaration calls for Ukraine’s territorial integrity to be respected
‘I know one thing: she voted for me, according to what she said,’ claimed the former president
China’s support for Russia is “enabling” its war in Ukraine, leaders of the world’s most advanced economies warned Friday in a hardening of tone against Beijing, threatening further sanctions against actors that materially support Moscow’s war machine.
President Biden’s reelection campaign unveiled a bilingual video Saturday, attacking former President Trump for his aversion to the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy — a 2012 program that protects immigrants who came to the U.S. as children from deportation. The video, titled “Here to Stay,” features clips from DACA recipients — more…
Roy faces charges over a speech she gave about Kashmir in 2010
Trump is celebrating his 78th birthday in West Palm Beach with his fan club — who all have to pay at least $35 to be there
One survivor told the BBC the bump stocks decision was "a slap in the face", but others had mixed feelings.
When Donald Trump spoke at the Libertarian convention last month, he was booed almost ceaselessly—with one major exception.Trump got a reprieve when he promised to commute the sentence of Ross Ulbricht, the creator of dark web marketplace Silk Road, which facilitated the sale of narcotics. Ulbricht, who was sentenced to life in prison in 2015, is far from a household name. But in that room of cheering libertarians, some of whom had been distributing “Free Ross” signs, there appeared to be nothin
The soldiers were returning from an operation in Rafah when their vehicle is understood to have exploded.
The former president is pressing Republicans to retaliate against Biden and Democrats after his conviction in a New York criminal trial
Peter Dutton has again refused to release any detail of his nuclear plan, despite repeated questioning in a fiery interview.
Afghan women tell the BBC they were beaten and tortured for protesting against the Taliban.
Hollywood celebrities George Clooney and Julia Roberts were among the guests at a fundraiser for Joe Biden that raised $42 million for his re-election campaign.
Lara Trump, the co-Chair of the Republican National Committee (RNC) and former President Trump’s daughter-in-law, promised Friday to prosecute anyone who cheats in an election, threatening “we will track you down.” “This year is the year we do it,” Lara Trump said at Turning Point USA’s Detroit convention. “We are also sending a loud and…
Slaughter of cows, which Hindus worship as a deity, is banned in most of India, as is consumption of their meat