Week in pictures: 20-26 April 2024

BBC
·2 min read

A selection of striking news photographs taken around the world this week.

Members of Ewell St. Mary's Morris Men dancing team perform Morris dance at Leadenhall Market to celebrate St George's Day in London, Britain, 23 April 2024.
Members of Ewell St Mary's Morris Men dancing team perform at Leadenhall Market in London to celebrate St George's Day. [TOLGA AKMEN/EPA]
The hands of Belgium's Noah Kuavita is seen before competing on the pommel horse during the Men's All-Around Finals plus qualification for Team and Individual Apparatus Finals event at the Artistic Gymnastics European Championships, in Rimini, Italy, April 24, 2024.
Belgium's Noah Kuavita chalks his hands before competing on the pommel horse during the Men's Team and Individual Apparatus Finals event at the Artistic Gymnastics European Championships in Rimini, Italy. [GABRIEL BOUYS/AFP]
Runners cross Tower Bridge during the 2024 TCS London Marathon at on April 21, 2024 in London, England.
Runners cross Tower Bridge during the 2024 London Marathon. The race began in Greenwich Park, in south-east London, and ended on The Mall, in front of Buckingham Palace. [Alishia Abodunde/Getty Images]
Nadine Seiler, an abortion rights demonstrator, shouts at an anti-abortion demonstrator during a protest in Washington, U.S., April 24, 2024.
An abortion rights demonstrator shouts during a protest in support of reproductive rights, in Washington DC, on the day US Supreme Court justices listened to arguments over the legality of Idaho's Republican-backed, near-total abortion ban. [Evelyn Hockstein/REUTERS]
A Dalek interacts with visitors on day one of the Scarborough Sci Fi weekend on April 20, 2024 in Scarborough, England.
A Dalek interacts with visitors on day one of the Scarborough Sci Fi weekend in Scarborough, England. [Ian Forsyth/Getty Images]
A man takes a photograph of the city of Athens from Tourkovounia hill, as southerly winds carry waves of Saharan dust to the city, in Athens, on April 23, 2024.
A man takes a photograph as a dramatic orange haze descends over Athens, Greece, as clouds of dust are blown in from the Sahara Desert. [ANGELOS TZORTZINIS/AFP]
Brazilian Indigenous people from various ethnic groups attend a session at the National Congress in the framework of the Acampamento Terra Livre (Free Land Camp) in Brasilia on April 23, 2024.
Thousands of Brazilian Indigenous people took part in the largest annual demonstration to demand their rights during the Acampamento Terra Livre (Free Land Camp) session at the National Congress in Brasilia. [Mateus Bonomi/Anadolu via Getty Images]
Newly arrived Sudanese refugees cook food over fires outside their makeshift shelters at twilight close to a relocation camp on April 24, 2024 near Adre, Chad.
Newly arrived Sudanese refugees cook food at a relocation camp near Adre, Chad. The power struggle between Sudan's military and its former ally, the Rapid Support Forces, has killed at least 14,000 people [Dan Kitwood/Getty Images]
State Troopers arrest students and some faculty during a pro-Palestinian protest on the campus of the University of Texas in Austin, Texas, 24 April 2024
State Troopers arrest students during a pro-Palestinian protest at the University of Texas in Austin. Hundreds of people have been arrested on dozens of campuses across the US, where protests and encampments have sprung up, in support of Palestinians in Gaza. [Sandra Dahdah/ZUMA Press Wire/Shutterstock]
A koala is seen for the first time in Ouwehands Zoo, the first and only zoo in the Netherlands to house the special species, in Rhenen, Netherlands, April 25, 2024.
A koala is seen for the first time in Ouwehands Zoo in Rhenen, the first and only zoo in the Netherlands to house the special species. [Piroschka van de Wouw/REUTERS]

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