Week in pictures: 22-28 October 2022

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

An aircraft in front of the sunImage source, Irakli Gedenidze / Reuters

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A picture taken through a telescope outside Tbilisi, Georgia, shows a silhouette of an aircraft against the sun during a partial solar eclipse.

Image source, Aaron Chown / PA Media

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The Green Man is seen at October Plenty, Borough Market's annual Autumn Harvest festival, in London, which returns for the first time since the start of the Covid pandemic.

Image source, Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah / Reuters

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Protesters march during a rally against military rule in Khartoum, Sudan. The protests are taking place across the country to mark the first anniversary of a coup that halted a democratic transition.

Image source, Robert Ghement / EPA-EFE

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A schoolgirl walks with a group of Orthodox nuns who carry fresh yellow chrysanthemums as they accompany the relics of Saint Dimitrie Basarabov, the patron saint of Romania's capital, during a procession in front of Patriarchal Cathedral in Bucharest.

Image source, Fabio Frustaci / EPA-EFE

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In Italy, the newly elected far-right leader Giorgia Meloni made her first appearance as prime minister in the Chamber of Deputies, the lower house of parliament, in Rome.

Image source, Kevin Coombs / Reuters

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Liz Truss defended her lower-tax vision for the UK after leaving office as the shortest-serving British prime minister in history.

Image source, Aaron Chown / PA Media

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After an audience with King Charles III in which he was invited to form the next government, Rishi Sunak warned of "difficult decisions" ahead, in his first speech as prime minister.

Image source, Darrin Zammit Lupi / Reuters

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A child looks at a giant Halloween pumpkin made from papier mache in Valletta, Malta.

Image source, Alex Plavevski / EPA-EFE

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A man undergoes a coronavirus PCR test at a makeshift testing booth in Shanghai. Dozens of cities across China, including Wuhan where the coronavirus was first recorded, have gone into lockdown - as the country pursues leader Xi Jinping's zero-Covid policy.

Image source, Russell Cheyne / Reuters

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People cross a footbridge over the River Garry near Pitlochry in Scotland as the trees display their beautiful autumn colours.

Image source, Metin Aktas/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

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A Ukrainian soldier looks on from a tank as he and his crew patrol in Bakhmut city, The town - which sits in the Donetsk region and had a pre-war population of 70,000 - has been the centre of Russian attacks for months.

Image source, Navesh Chitrakar / Reuters

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A woman picks marigold flowers, used to make garlands and offer prayers, before selling them at a market for the five-day Nepalese Hindu festival of Tihar in Kathmandu.

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