The world in pictures

Here is a selection of the best photos from international news from Saturday April 27.


PHOTO DAMIEN MEYER, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE

French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal visits the Whelk Fair in Pirou, Normandy, accompanied by other politicians. On the sidelines of this visit, the French government announced new measures for farmers, who have been demonstrating since January to obtain better remuneration.

PHOTO WALKER PICKERING, THE NEW YORK TIMES

Residents of Elkorn, Nebraska survey the damage and sort their belongings after a tornado passed through the area. Tornadoes ripped through parts of Nebraska and Iowa on Friday, flattening dozens of homes, causing an industrial building to collapse and injuring at least nine people.

PHOTO BENJAMIN CREMEL, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE

Cyclists in retro clothing take part in the Tweed Run, a cycle route through the streets of central London. What started as a project of a group of friends in 2008 has now become a must-have. The event attracts more than 1,000 cyclists annually, most of them dressed in tweed.

PHOTO MAHMOUD ILLEAN, ASSOCIATED PRESS

Orthodox Christians walk holding palm branches on the eve of Palm Sunday on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem. As the date of Easter is established according to the Julian calendar in the Orthodox Christian tradition, it is not celebrated at the same time as among Catholics or Protestants.

PHOTO OSCAR OLSSON, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE

A crowd gathers during an anti-fascist protest outside the Moment Theater in Stockholm in response to an attack on the Left Party and Green Party meeting on April 24. Several masked men burst into a theater in Stockholm and threw smoke bombs.

PHOTO ANGELOS TZORTZINIS, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE

THE Belema three-masted French barque from the 19th centurye century, leaves the port of Piraeus, near Athens, with the Olympic flame on board to begin its journey to France, a day after Greece handed over the torch of the 2024 Games to Parisian organizers. Ten thousand torchbearers will then carry the flame across mainland France and its overseas territories in the Caribbean, the Indian Ocean and the Pacific.

PHOTO NARINDER NANU, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE

A devotee plays a musical instrument as he escorts Sikh clerics known as ‘Panj Pyare’ holding flags during a religious procession ahead of the birth anniversary of the ninth Sikh guru, Teg Bahadur, at the temple of ‘Gold in Amritsar, in northwest India.


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