Every Friday, Zaborona’s editorial team selects photos of the main events that took place around the world during the past week. This time, we show a Roma memorial at the site of a concentration camp in the Czech Republic, orange clouds of Saharan dust in Greece, the NATO Secretary General inspecting military equipment in Warsaw, and Burgundy farmers saving vineyards from freezing with a smoke screen.
Athens, Greece
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. Clouds of dust blown in from the Sahara covered Athens and other Greek cities on April 23, 2024, one of the worst such episodes to hit the country since 2018, officials said. The yellow-orange haze smothered several regions, limiting visibility and prompting warnings of breathing risks from the authorities. Photo: ANGELOS TZORTZINIS/AFP via Getty Images
Kyiv, Ukraine
Honor guard carry a portrait while people light hand flares during funeral ceremony for serviceman Pavlo Petrychenko on April 19, 2024 in Kyiv, Ukraine. Petrychenko, 31, was a participant in Euromaidan, an active participant in the initiative ‘Who ordered the murder of Katya Handziuk’ and organizer of actions in support of activist Serhii Sternenko. He died in the Donetsk Oblast during a combat mission. Photo: Oleksii Samsonov/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images
An activist with a painted face symbolizing the count of days spent in captivity attends the Free Azov rally in support of the captured defenders of Mariupol on April 21, 2024 in Kyiv, Ukraine. The participants came out to remind about the Ukrainian soldiers who have been held in Russian captivity for more than two years. Photo: Yan Dobronosov/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images
Gaza Strip
People rush to landing humanitarian aid packages dropped over the northern Gaza Strip on April 23, 2024 amid the ongoing conflict in the Palestinian territory between Israel and the militant group Hamas. Photo: -/AFP via Getty Images
Yerevan, Armenia
Armenians take part in the annual torch march on the eve of the Genocide Remembrance Day in Yerevan, on April 23, 2024, to mark the 109th anniversary of the World War I-era mass killings of Armenians under the Ottoman Empire in 1915. Photo: KAREN MINASYAN/AFP via Getty Images
Lisbon, Portugal
A child holding a red carnation and a former military are pictured on top of a Chaimite military vehicle as they take part during the 25th April demonstration at Avenida da Liberdade in Lisbon on April 25, 2024. Portugal marks the 50th anniversary of the Carnation Revolution, a military coup that put an end to Europe’s longest-lived dictatorship and 13 years of colonial wars in Africa. Photo: PATRICIA DE MELO MOREIRA/AFP via Getty Images
Maun, Botswana
This aerial view shows hippos stuck in a dried up channel near the Nxaraga village in the Okavango Delta on the outskirts of Maun on April 25, 2024. A drought across southern Africa has been driven mostly by the El Nino weather pattern, not climate change, scientists said. Zambia, Zimbabwe and Malawi have declared a national disaster over the severe dry spell that started in January and has devastated the agricultural sector, decimating crops and pastures. Scientists at the World Weather Attribution (WWA) research group found global warming had little to do with it. In a study focusing on Zimbabwe, Botswana, Zambia and Mozambique, researchers analysed historical weather data for the period from December to February — the peak of the rainy season. They found rainfall has actually increased in the region as the planet warms. But effective precipitation has remained the same, likely because higher temperatures lead to more water evaporation, they said. On the other hand, El Nino, a recurring natural weather phenomenon, brought fewer showers, increasing the likelihood of severe droughts, the data showed. Photo: MONIRUL BHUIYAN/AFP via Getty Images
Nairobi, Kenya
A girl and a boy carry a piece of furniture after visiting their house that was destroyed by floods following torrential rains at the Mathare informal settlement in Nairobi, on April 25, 2024. Torrential rains triggered floods and caused chaos across Kenya, blocking roads and bridges and engulfing homes in slum districts. The death toll from flash floods in Kenya’s capital Nairobi has risen to 13 on April 25, 2024, police said. Kenyans have been warned to stay on alert, with the forecast for more heavy rains across the country in the coming days. Photo: LUIS TATO/AFP via Getty Images
Washington, DC
Supporters of Ukraine rally outside the U.S. Capitol after the Senate passed a foreign aid bill on April 23, 2024 in Washington, DC. The Senate passed the national security supplemental package which includes $95 billion in aid for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan. Photo: Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images
Saint-Emilion, France
A worker spreads burning straw on the ground in a vineyard to create a smoke screen to keep temperatures above 0°Celsius and prevent vines from freezing due to a cold wave hitting the region, near Saint-Emilion, south-western France, on April 23, 2024. Temperatures are dropping and buds are already appearing: from Var to Burgundy, farmers are facing a week of danger, with the risk of frosts that could destroy future harvests. Photo: CHRISTOPHE ARCHAMBAULT/AFP via Getty Images
Qingyuan, China
This aerial photograph taken on April 22, 2024 shows a flooded island after heavy rains in Qingyuan, in southern China’s Guangdong province. More than 100,000 people have been evacuated due to heavy rain and fatal floods in southern China, with the government issuing its highest-level rainstorm warning for the affected area on April 23. Photo: STR/AFP via Getty Images
Arad, Israel
A member of the Israeli military personnel examines a part of an Iranian ballistic missile, recently located in an open area near the southern city of Arad, on April 24, 2024. Iran carried out an unprecedented direct attack on Israel overnight April 13-14, using more than 300 drones, cruise missiles and ballistic missiles, in retaliation for a deadly April 1 air strike on the Iranian consulate in Damascus. Nearly all were intercepted, according to the Israeli army. Photo: OREN ZIV/AFP via Getty Images
Dovhenke, Ukraine
A local resident, Natalya Demchenko, 52, caresses a blind dog in the village of Dovhenke, Kharkiv region, on April 23, 2024, amid the Russian invasion in Ukraine. The village was under Russian occupation from June 11 to September 10, 2022 and served as a bridgehead for the offensive in the Sloviansk direction. The lands in and around the village are still heavily mined. Photo: ANATOLII STEPANOV/AFP via Getty Images
Lety, Czech Republic
A man looks on names of voctims and survivors at the Roma memorial placed on the site of the former concentration camp in Lety, Czech Republic, on April 23, 2024, near the village of Lety, South Bohemia. A Roma memorial opened in the Czech Republic on April 23, 2024 in the place of a wartime concentration camp turned into a sprawling pig farm during the communist rule of 1948-1989. Photo: MICHAL CIZEK/AFP via Getty Images
Ciudad Juárez, Mexico
Migrant people of different nationalities seeking asylum in the United States travel on freight cars of the Mexican train known as “The Beast” as they arrive at the border city of Ciudad Juárez, in Chihuahua state, Mexico on April 24, 2024. Photo: HERIKA MARTINEZ/AFP via Getty Images
Warsaw, Poland
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg (R) and Britain’s Prime Minister Rishi Sunak inspect military equipment at the Warsaw Armoured Brigade in Warsaw, Poland, on April 23, 2024. The talks of Britain’s Prime Minister Rishi Sunak with his Polish counterpart Donald Tusk and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg are expected to focus on Ukraine and wider European security. While in Poland’s capital, the British Prime minister will announce £500 million ($617 million) in additional military funding for Kyiv in its more-than two-year battle against Russia’s full-scale invasion, his Downing Street office said in a statement. Photo: ALASTAIR GRANT/POOL/AFP via Getty Images
Jerusalem, Israel
Ultra-Orthodox Jews burn leavened items during the Biur Chametz ritual in Jerusalem’s Mea Sharim district on April 22, 2024, during the final preparations before the start of the week-long Jewish Passover holiday. Photo: RONALDO SCHEMIDT/AFP via Getty Images
Quito, Ecuador
Soldiers carry electoral material at a school in Quito on April 20, 2024, on the eve of a referendum on tougher measures against organized crime. Millions of Ecuadorans will cast ballots in a referendum on Sunday to decide whether to green-light stricter measures against organized crime in a country gripped by bloody gang wars. Photo: RODRIGO BUENDIA/AFP via Getty Images
