Week in pictures: 5 – 11 March
A selection of powerful news photographs taken around the world this week.
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak talks to the media while travelling on a train to Paris for a summit with French President Emmanuel Macron. At the summit, Mr Sunak announced the UK would give France almost £500m over three years to help stop migrants crossing the Channel in small boats.
People gather outside a building following a Russian missile strike in Kyiv. At least nine people were killed and power was lost at Europe’s largest nuclear plant after Russia launched missiles across Ukraine.
Protesters are sprayed by water cannon during clashes near the Georgian parliament in Tbilisi. Thousands of people have taken to the streets this week to demonstrate against a law which would class non-government and media groups as “foreign agents” if they receive more than 20% of their funds from abroad.
A woman and a child play in the snow on the beach at Blyth in Northumberland. Weather warnings have been in place as heavy snow fell during the week in many areas across the UK.
Hundreds of people took a swim at sunrise at Portobello Beach in Edinburgh for International Women’s Day. Money raised from the event was donated to the charity Women’s Aid.
Revellers stained with coloured powder cheer during the Holi festival celebrations in Chennai, India. Holi, also known as the Festival of Colours, is an ancient Hindu festival celebrating spring, love and new life.
Blind grooms attend a mass wedding in the old city of Sanaa, Yemen, for 40 couples who are blind and visually impaired. The event is held by a Yemeni charity to make it easier for blind and visually impaired people to start families in the war-torn country.
Women take part in a self-defence class combining martial arts with simple street fighting techniques in the Iztapalapa neighbourhood of Mexico City.
US Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell arrives to testify before the Senate Banking Committee in Washington DC. The head of the US central bank warned that officials could raise interest rates further and faster than previously expected in order to stabilise prices.
Britain’s Jazmin Sawyers celebrates on the podium after winning gold in the women’s long jump final at the European Athletics Indoor Championships in Atakoy Arena, Istanbul. She set an indoor national record with her jump.
