The week’s best photos

A perching raven, a fearless climber, and more

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A raven calls out from a charred tree in Canada’s Jasper National Park. The photograph, taken by Maxime Legare-Vezina after devastating wildfires in the area last year, won the silver award for best portrait in the Bird Photographer of the Year competition

A raven calls out from a charred tree in Jasper National Park, Canada

(Image credit: Maxime Legare-Vezina / Bird Photographer of the Year)

Riot police

A Molotov cocktail is thrown at riot police during a protest over the disappearance of 43 students in Ayotzinapa, Mexico

(Image credit: Carl de Souza / Getty Images)

Titouan Leduc

French urban climber Titouan Leduc ascends the Varso Tower, one of Europe’s tallest skyscrapers, in Warsaw, Poland

(Image credit: Wojtek Radwanski / Getty Images)

A performer from Gratte Ciel

A performer balances on stilts during the FAB International Arts Festival in Bordeaux, France

(Image credit: Philippe Lopez / Getty Images)

A camel

A man pets a camel during the Maralal International Camel Derby in Kenya

(Image credit: Luis Tato / Getty Images)

Residents gather on a street in Cebu

Residents stand among the rubble in Bogo City after a powerful 6.9-magnitude earthquake devastated the central Philippines 

(Image credit: Daniel Ceng / Anadolu / Getty Images)

Mexico's Ministry of National Defense

Mexico’s Ministry of National Defense performs during a cultural event in Zapopan

(Image credit: Ulises Ruiz / Getty Images)

A deer

A red deer stag breathes in the cold dawn air in Richmond Park, London

(Image credit: Toby Melville / Reuters)

Soldiers

Soldiers wait to cast their ballots at a polling station in Chișinău, Moldova

(Image credit: Vadim Ghirda / AP)

Anti-government protesters in Antsiranana, Madagascar

Protesters call for the resignation of Madagascar’s president Andry Rajoelina in Antsiranana

(Image credit: FITA / AFP / Getty Images)

A bus and car

A man stands beside a sinkhole that formed following heavy rain in Odesa, Ukraine

(Image credit: Oleksandr Gimanov / Getty Images)

The flotilla boat in Greece

A civilian boat in the Global Sumud flotilla sets sail from the coast of Crete, Greece

(Image credit: Niccolo Celesti / Anadolu / Getty Images)

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Anahi Valenzuela, The Week US
Anahi Valenzuela, The Week US

Anahi Valenzuela has worked as an editorial assistant at The Week since 2022, where she assists with magazine content and covers the week's best photos. She started her career as a media producer at The Daily Californian and a writer for College Magazine.

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