PHOTO SAMEER AL-DOUMY, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE ARCHIVES
Migrants carry a rubber boat on the beach at Gravelines, near Dunkirk, northern France, as they prepare to cross the English Channel to England on October 12. More than 40,000 migrants have already attempted this perilous crossing in 2022, a record. At least 203 people have died or gone missing trying to reach England from northern France since 2014.
PHOTO ALKIS KONSTANTINIDIS, REUTERS ARCHIVES
Yana Bachek is consoled by her relatives after collapsing in tears next to the body of her father, Victor Gubarev, killed at 79 in a Russian bombardment of Kharkiv on April 18. Second largest city in Ukraine with its 1.4 million inhabitants and located near the Donbass, Kharkiv is a strategic target for Moscow, which does not hesitate to pound the city with heavy artillery, causing many civilian casualties.
PHOTO CESAR MANSO, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE ARCHIVES
Firefighters battle a massive forest fire in Pumarejo de Tera, near Zamora, northern Spain, on June 18. While many countries experienced record temperatures last summer, the flames ravaged forests in different parts of the world, from California to northern Morocco, including Gironde in southwestern France. Back home, Newfoundland has had a particularly destructive wildfire season.
PHOTO EVGENIY MALOLETKA, ASSOCIATED PRESS ARCHIVES
A wounded pregnant woman is evacuated on a stretcher by Ukrainian rescuers after the shelling of a maternity ward in Mariupol on March 9. A strike by the Russian air force which injured 17 and aroused the indignation of the international community.
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Two people talk while sitting on a dry stretch of the Yangtze, China’s largest river, in Wuhan on September 2. China faced an unprecedented drought last summer, the result of much less rainfall than usual and a heat wave of unprecedented magnitude.
PHOTO GREGORY BULL, ASSOCIATED PRESS ARCHIVES
In the hands of US authorities after crossing the border from Mexico, migrants, including many women and children, are seated at the foot of the wall that separates the United States from its southern neighbor, in Yuma, Arizona, August 23. A breach in the border palisade turned last summer into an informal crossing point for many migrants who want to file an asylum application on American soil.
PHOTO ADITYA AJI, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE ARCHIVES
A villager carries the body of his son wrapped in a shroud, in Cianjur, on the Indonesian island of Java. More than 330 people lost their lives and at least 7,700 others were injured following an earthquake measuring 5.6 on the Richter scale on 21 November.
PHOTO VINCENT WEST, REUTERS ARCHIVES
The revelers were numerous and had a great time for the return of the Pamplona celebrations after two years of absence due to the pandemic, on July 6. The epic fiesta, one of the most famous in Spain, is best known for its bull runs.
PHOTO YASIN AKGUL, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE ARCHIVES
Nasibe Samsaei, an Iranian living in Turkey, cuts off her ponytail during a protest outside the Iranian consulate in Istanbul on September 21. All over the world, women are cutting their hair in support of Iranian women. Since the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini after her arrest by the morality police, Iran has been rocked by an unprecedented wave of protests. Despite a crackdown that killed hundreds, the authorities failed to stem the protest movement. Women are required to adhere to a strict dress code in the Islamic Republic, including wearing the veil in public.
PHOTO DIMITAR DILKOFF, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE ARCHIVES
Ukrainian refugees cross a destroyed bridge as they attempt to flee Russian shelling in the town of Irpin, northwest of Kyiv, on March 7. According to figures from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) published on August 17, the Ukrainians displaced following the invasion of Russian troops amounted to 6.5 million.
PHOTO ELOISA LOPEZ, REUTERS ARCHIVES
A woman wades through a flooded street in San Ildefonso, a locality in the province of Bulacan, in the Philippines, following the passage of the super-typhoon. noru, September 26. At least 12 people have been killed by the most powerful typhoon recorded in 2022 in the archipelago of 7000 islands. Year after year, the Philippines are hit by around twenty typhoons. However, climate change is worsening this meteorological phenomenon, warn scientists.
PHOTO ALEXANDER NEMENOV, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE ARCHIVES
Vladimir Putin is seen on a giant screen in Moscow’s Red Square September 30 as the Russian President celebrates the annexation of new Ukrainian regions in a decidedly anti-Western speech. Following “referendums” orchestrated by the Kremlin, Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhya joined Russia. Kherson was recaptured by Ukrainian forces on November 11.
PHOTO ANUSHREE FADNAVIS, REUTERS ARCHIVES
A man looking for items that can be reused browses the Bhalswa landfill in New Delhi. Smoke rises from this mountain of rubbish in the Indian capital where rubbish is burned, on June 5, the date of the United Nations World Environment Day.