The best photos of the week: from a Kurdish refugee camp to flooding in Pakistan

Striking pictures from around the world

The Kurdish-run al-Hol camp, which holds relatives of suspected ISIS group fighters in the north-eastern Hasakeh governorate, during a security operation by the Kurdish Asayish security forces and the special forces of the Syrian Democratic Forces. AFP

Lightning over Chongqing, China. This picture by Luo Xing is shortlisted for the Weather Photographer of the Year award. Photo: Weather Photographer of the Year

A woman selling eggs passes a man preparing to launch his boat in Luanda, Angola. Reuters

Cosplayer Abdulla Mubarak in his Captain America costume. Ruel Pableo for The National

Sweden's Armand Duplantis in action during the men's pole vault final at the 2022 European Championships in Munich, Germany. Reuters

A rainbow frames the start of the women's gold medal beach volleyball match between Latvia and Switzerland at the 2022 European Championships in Munich, Germany. Reuters

Pupils on their way to school on the first day of in-person classes in Macabebe, Pampanga province, Philippines. Reuters

High school pupils during a military education and training session ahead of the new semester in Handan, Hebei province, China. AFP

Migrants on board a Proactiva Open Arms rescue boat in the central Mediterranean have breakfast on their sixth day waiting for a safe port to disembark. Reuters

Septuagenarian Ohn Myint watches a performing youth as his granddaughter Han Myint Mo, right, looks on during a juggling training session in Yangon, keeping up a Myanmar juggling tradition on the edge of extinction. AFP

A participant during the Berlin Pedal Battle games, where cyclists in knight's armour battle in a jousting competition, a martial game originally practised by medieval knights on horses, fighting with lances. The idea originated in 2012 with a group of bike couriers from Berlin. EPA

Riderless horses in the traditional Palio di San Bartolomeo race along the renaissance streets of Ronciglione, Italy. Reuters

Ruins of a house in the village of Aceredo exposed by the low water level in the Lindoso reservoir, near Lobios, north-west Spain. People living in the village were forced to leave their homes in 1992 when the reservoir was built. Four other villages were also flooded by the reservoir. AFP

Dry sections of Poyang Lake in Jiujiang, Jiangxi province, China. AFP

Police arrive to control opponents and supporters of Argentinian Vice President Cristina Fernandez who gathered outside her home after a state prosecutor asked for a 12-year prison sentence for Ms Fernandez, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. EPA

A supporter of Angolan opposition party National Union for the Total Independence of Angola in Luanda during a final campaign rally before the general election on August 24. AFP

A horse from the Garrison Savannah Racetrack on the beach during its daily swim and bath near Bridgetown, Barbados. AP Photo

Salt evaporation ponds in Anfeh, northern Lebanon. Reuters

Flooding in Al-Managil, Jazeera State, Sudan. Reuters

David Lawless and his son Toby work with shire horses Cosmo and Boy to harvest the wildflower meadow at King's College Cambridge, England. AP

Firefighters battle a blaze at Galaktika shopping mall after it was shelled during the course of the Russia-Ukraine conflict in Donetsk, Ukraine. Reuters

A boy cycles along a flooded road near the Ganges River in Allahabad as water levels rose after monsoon rains. AFP

South Korean emergency services personnel in protective clothing during an anti-terrorism and anti-chemical exercise at Lotte shopping mall in Seoul, South Korea. Getty Images

Campaign posters for Joao Lourenco on palm trees along the beach front in Luanda. AFP

Larry the cat beneath an of Ukraine's national bloom, the sunflower, outside Number 10 Downing Street in London to mark Ukrainian Independence Day. AFP

Visitors enter an infinity mirror room entitled 'My Heart is Dancing into the Universe', part of the exhibition One with Eternity, featuring the work of Yayoi Kusama, at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, DC. EPA

The annual beach horse races in Sanlucar de Barrameda near Cadiz. Originally the horse races were informal competitions between horse owners who used them to transport fish from the old port to the local markets and nearby towns, the first official race organised by the Royal Horse Races Society of Sanlucar was on August 31, 1845. AFP

Hot air balloons launch in Goreme Historical National Park, east of Nevesehir in central Turkey's historical Cappadocia region. AFP

An angler is seen at the dried-up riverbed of the Jialing river, a tributary of the Yangtze River in China's southwestern city of Chongqing. AFP

Flooding after heavy monsoon rains in Rajanpur district of Punjab province, Pakistan. AFP

Tim Knowles

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Friday's best photos: from horse racing on the beach to egg sellers in Angola

Thursday's best photos: from hot air balloons in Turkey to flooding in Pakistan

Wednesday's best photos: from Ukraine Independence Day to flooding in Sudan

Tuesday's best photos: from six months of war in Ukraine to protests in Argentina

Monday's best photos: from drought in China to back to school in the Philippines

Sunday's best photos: from wall of death to Brad Pitt learning to pose in Seoul

Saturday's best photos: from World Surf League to sea turtle release

Updated: August 26, 2022, 6:01 PM