Every week, Zaborona publishes 20 photos that highlight important events of the last seven days. This time, the editorial team has selected images from around the world, showing the events in Ukraine, the consequences of the global disruption of Microsoft’s services, the discovery of a huge natural gas field in Bolivia, and a fashion show with garments made of waste in Uganda.
Toretsk, Ukraine
In this aerial drone image, damage to the city and it’s buildings can be seen after heavy artillery, guided bomb attacks by Russia on July 24, 2024 in Toretsk, Ukraine. Residents of Toretsk have fled the town in recent weeks as Russia has escalated its attacks in the area. Photo: Kostiantyn Liberov/Libkos/Getty Images
Tapachula, Mexico
Migrants, mostly from Central America and Venezuela, set out in a US-bound caravan to escape poverty and violence, on the outskirts of Tapachula, State of Chiapas, Mexico, on July 23, 2024. Tapachula, near the country’s southern border with Guatemala, sees hundreds of thousands of undocumented migrants passing through each year after they cross the Guatemalan-Mexican border heading towards the United States to escape poverty and violence. Photo: ISAAC GUZMAN/AFP via Getty Images
Schneitzlreuth, Germany
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (R) reacts during lunch with mountain soldiers during a visit of the German Federal Armed Forces Bundeswehr mountain infantry brigade in Schneizlreuth, southern Germany, on July 22, 2024. Photo: ALEXANDRA BEIER/POOL/AFP via Getty Images
Paris, France
Jack Laugher of Team Great Britain practices during a diving training session ahead of the Paris Olympic Games on July 23, 2024 in Paris, France. Photo: Clive Rose/Getty Images
New York, USA
A Common Tern carries a fish at Centerport Harbor on July 19, 2024 in Centerport, New York. The Long Island region provides a welcome habitat to a large variety of birds and wildlife. Photo: Bruce Bennett/Getty Images
Hodeida, Yemen
A man takes pictures of a raging fire at oil storage tanks a day after Israeli strikes on the port of Yemen’s Huthi-held city of Hodeida on July 21, 2024. Yemen’s Huthi rebels on July 21 promised a “huge” retaliation against Israel following a deadly strike on the port of Hodeida, as regional fallout widens from months of war in Gaza. Photo: -/AFP via Getty Images
Marbella, Spain
A baby Loggerhead sea turtle carries a tracking device at Puerto Banus beach in Marbella on July 23, 2024. Due to climate change, the Mediterranean Sea is one of the seas that has warmed the most, and the presence of loggerhead turtles has increased in these waters. Photo: JORGE GUERRERO/AFP via Getty Images
Bogota, Colombia
View of the shoes of a contestant during the Miss Gay International Contest at the Thatron Club in Bogota on July 20, 2024. Miss Gay International is the most important drag pageant in Colombia, highlighting the visibility of the trans population and the art of drag since 2000. Photo: ESTEBAN VEGA LA-ROTTA/AFP via Getty Images
Nouakchott, Mauritania
Bystanders look at covered bodies of migrants who perished in a shipwreck off the coast of Mauritania while on a beach outside Nouakchott on July 24, 2024. At least 15 migrants have died and dozens are missing after their boat capsized off Mauritania, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and local sources said Wednesday, the latest in a string of migrant tragedies off the coast of West Africa. A Mauritanian coastguard official told AFP on condition of anonymity that at least 25 bodies had been recovered while 103 people were rescued, while several dozen were missing following Monday’s disaster. Photo: MED LEMINE RAJEL/AFP via Getty Images
Caracas, Venezuela
A supporter of Venezuelan President and presidential candidate Nicolas Maduro with a tattoo on his front of the eyes of the late Venezuelan President, Hugo Chavez, attends his campaign closing rally in Caracas on July 25, 2024, ahead of Sunday’s presidential election. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his main rival in the July 28 presidential elections, opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia, close their campaigns on Thursday amidst Maduro’s warnings of a “bloodbath” or a military insurrection if he is defeated. Photo: YURI CORTEZ/AFP via Getty Images
Al-Jawadiyah, Syria
Riders race their horses at dawn to avoid the summer heat, during an event close to the village of Karhuk, which is known for its purebred Arabian horses, in al-Jawadiyah district (Jal Aga), near the Syria-Turkey border on July 19, 2024. More than 100 horsemen from the region participated in the race, which consists of ten rounds or less according to the ages of the Arabian horses, with the winner and runners-up receiving money and a trophy. Photo: DELIL SOULEIMAN/AFP via Getty Images
Kencho Shacha Gozdi district, Ethiopia
A man reacts as residents and volunteers dig in the mud in search for bodies at the scene of a landslide in Kencho Shacha Gozdi on July 25, 2024. The death toll from landslides in a remote region of southern Ethiopia has risen to 257, the United Nations said Thursday, warning that the number of victims could soar to up to 500. Rescuers are pressing on with the grim search for bodies and survivors in the stricken locality of Kencho Shacha Gozdi, with crowds of distraught locals digging through a sea of mud, often using just their bare hands and shovels. Photo: MICHELE SPATARI/AFP via Getty Images
Chasiv Yar, Ukraine
A Ukrainian serviceman of the 225th Separate Assault Battalion patrols as he walks past an apartment building destroyed by an airstrike in the town of Chasiv Yar, Donetsk region, on July 24, 2024, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Photo: ANATOLII STEPANOV/AFP via Getty Images
Drass, India
An Indian army soldier stands guard on Lamochan mountain overlooking Drass at Kargil district on July 25, 2024 on the eve of Kargil Vijay Diwas. India on July 26, marks 25 years since its last major armed conflict with arch-rival Pakistan, a high-altitude battle in the Himalayan foothills that briefly appeared poised to escalate into nuclear war. Photo: TAUSEEF MUSTAFA/AFP via Getty Images
Alto Beni, Bolivia
A woman and children look at Bolivia’s state-run oil company Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales Bolivianos (YPFB) Mayaya Centro-X1 natural gas field in Alto Beni, Caranavi Province, Bolivia, on July 23, 2024. Bolivia discovered a massive natural gas field with reserves of 1.7 trillion cubic feet, its biggest discovery of the fuel since 2005, President Luis Arce informed earlier this month. Photo: AIZAR RALDES/AFP via Getty Images
Quezon City, Philippines
A resident holds on to a street sign in a road flooded by Typhoon Gaemi and monsoon rains on July 24, 2024 in Quezon city, Metro Manila, Philippines. Monsoon rains, intensified by Typhoon Gaemi, have caused flooding and landslides throughout the Philippines, resulting in at least eight deaths and displacing over 600,000 people. The typhoon, located east of Taiwan Wednesday with up to 162 kph winds, did not make landfall in the Philippines but enhanced monsoon rains. In the region around the capital Manila, government work and schools were suspended due to severe overnight flooding. Photo: Ezra Acayan/Getty Images
Lviv, Ukraine
Sofiya Semchyshyn (L), daughter of Iryna Farion, her husband Vasyl Osoba (R), their children Dmytro and Eva (C) hold portrait of Iryna Farion during a funeral ceremony at the Saint Peter and Paul Garrison Church on July 22, 2024 in Lviv, Ukraine. Saints Peter and Paul Garrison Church held a farewell ceremony for Ukrainian linguist and former people’s deputy Iryna Farion. She was buried in the Lychakiv cemetery. Farion died on July 19, after she was shot in the head by an 18-year-old suspect. Photo: Les Kasyanov/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images
Bangkok, Thailand
Passengers seated at Suvarnabhumi Airport with piles of luggage as a global IT disruption caused by a Microsoft outage and a Crowdstrike IT problem combine to affect users on July 19, 2024 in Bangkok, Thailand, on July 19, 2024 in Bangkok, Thailand. A significant global outage affecting Microsoft services, particularly Microsoft 365, has caused widespread disruptions across various sectors, including airlines, banks, and health systems. The outage was attributed to a glitch in CrowdStrike’s “Falcon Sensor” software, which impacted Windows systems, leading to thousands of flight cancellations and operational chaos in multiple industries. Microsoft has reported that the underlying cause of the outage has been fixed, but residual effects continue to impact some users as the company works on full recovery. Photo: Mailee Osten-Tan/Getty Images
Kampala, Uganda
A traditional healer performs at the Namuwongo Reclaimed Shebang Fashion Show in Kampala on July 20, 2024. In Namunwongo, one of the poorest and the second-largest slum in Kampala, Ugandan designers showcased collections recycled from waste. The collections were inspired by stories from the community, reflacting how waste affect their residents. Photo: KABIR DHANJI/AFP via Getty Images
