Week in pictures: 18-24 November 2023

A selection of powerful news photographs taken around the world this week.

VALENTYN OGIRENKO/Reuters A woman walks in a snow covered park during a first snowfall, amid Russia's attack in Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine November 22, 2023.VALENTYN OGIRENKO/Reuters
A woman walks through a snow-covered park in Kyiv, Ukraine.
HANNIBAL HANSCHKE/EPA Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni arrives for German-Italian government consultations at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany, 22 November 2023.HANNIBAL HANSCHKE/EPA
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni arrives for German-Italian government talks at the Chancellery in Berlin.
Ron Jenkins/Icon Sportswire/Getty Images Dolly Parton performs during halftime in the game between the Washington Commanders and the Dallas Cowboys at AT&T Stadium on November 23, 2023 in Arlington, Texas.Ron Jenkins/Icon Sportswire/Getty Images
Dolly Parton dressed as a cheerleader for her Thanksgiving performance during half-time at a football game between the Washington Commanders and the Dallas Cowboys in Arlington, Texas.
YURI KOCHETKOV/EPA Workers install decorations on a Christmas tree for the New Year and Christmas season near the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, 22 November 2023.YURI KOCHETKOV/EPA
Workers install decorations on a Christmas tree for the New Year and Christmas season near the Kremlin in Moscow. Russians are preparing to celebrate New Year's Eve on 31 December, and Christmas, which is observed on 7 January, according to the Russian Orthodox Julian calendar.
Victoria Jones/PA Media King Charles III with presents the members of the K-Pop band Blackpink with Honorary MBEs (Member of the Order of the British Empire) during a special investiture ceremony in the presence of the President of South Korea, Yoon Suk Yeol, and his wife, Kim Keon Hee, at Buckingham Palace, London. November 22, 2023.Victoria Jones/PA Media
King Charles III presents the members of the K-Pop band Blackpink with Honorary MBEs during a special investiture ceremony in the presence of the President of South Korea, Yoon Suk Yeol, and his wife, Kim Keon Hee, at Buckingham Palace in London.
Carl Court/Getty Images Geert Wilders, Dutch right-wing politician and leader of the Party for Freedom (PVV), speaks to the media as he reacts to the exit poll and early results that strongly indicate a victory for his party in the Dutch elections in Scheveningen, Netherlands.Carl Court/Getty Images
Geert Wilders, the Dutch right-wing politician and leader of the Freedom Party (PVV), speaks to the media in Scheveningen. The anti-Islam populist leader won a dramatic victory in the Netherlands general election. Before the vote, the three other big parties had ruled out taking part in a Wilders-led government.
Buda Mendes/Getty Images Aerial view of people enjoying the beach amid a record heat wave at Praia Vermelha Beach on November 18, 2023 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.Buda Mendes/Getty Images
People gather at Praia Vermelha Beach during a record heatwave in Rio de Janeiro. Brazil has recorded its hottest ever temperature - 44.8C (112.6F) - as parts of the country endure a stifling heatwave.
SHAMMI MEHRA/AFP Hindu devotees offer prayers to Sun God, on 'Chhath Puja' in Jalandhar on November 19, 2023.SHAMMI MEHRA/AFP
Hindu devotees offer prayers to the Sun God, during the Chhath Puja ritual, in Jalandhar, India.
FLORION GOGA/Reuters An MP of the Democratic Party, Albania's biggest opposition party, lights a coloured smoke bomb as a sign of protest during a parliament session in Tirana, Albania, 20 November 2023FLORION GOGA/Reuters
Albania's opposition politicians set off smoke flares in parliament in a bid to stop the chamber voting on the 2024 budget. They were protesting against what they said was increasingly authoritarian rule by the governing Socialist Party.
MICHELE SPATARI/AFP A woman prepares injera in a bakery in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on November 21, 2023.MICHELE SPATARI/AFP
A woman prepares injera, a sour fermented flatbread - Ethiopia's staple food - in a bakery in Addis Ababa.

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