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From the desperate search for workers trapped in flooded hydropower tunnels in Nepal to women mourning victims of a suspected US strike on an Iranian wedding, FRANCE 24 reviews the week’s most compelling images.
Issued on: 06/09/2026 – 16:21
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A man takes pictures on a devastated area near the Trishuli River, following the deadly flash floods and a mudslide, in Devighat, Nuwakot district, Nepal on September 4, 2026. © Athit Perawongmetha, Reuters
Women attend a mass funeral procession for people killed by an alleged US missile strike on a wedding celebration in Kuhestak, southern Iran, on September 3, 2026. Five people, including a four-year-old boy and a 16-year-old, were killed in the US bombardment. © Razieh Poudat, AP
Local residents look at a heavily damaged residential building following a Russian strike in Kyiv on September 1, 2026. Russia launched a barrage of drones and ballistic missiles at Kyiv and its surrounding region, killing at least 12 people and wounding 21 more. © Vladyslav Musiienko, AFP
A Palestinian man scans a valley with a flashlight as cars move on the top of a hill during a volunteer night watch to help prevent Israeli settler attacks in the West Bank town of Sinjil on September 2, 2026. © Leo Correa, AP
Army personnel carry a worker who was trapped inside a tunnel during a rescue operation at the Trishuli-3A Hydropower Project in Nepal’s Rasuwa district. Two hydropower workers were pulled from a tunnel buried by debris in Nepal on September 4, more than a week after catastrophic flooding swept through the area, government ministers said. © Nepal Army via AFP
Naomi Osaka, of Japan, arrives to compete against Anastasia Zakharova, of Russia, during the first round of the US Open tennis championships on August 31, 2026, in New York, USA. © Adam Hunger, AP
Left to right: Britain’s Prime Minister Andy Burnham, France’s President Emmanuel Macron and Britain’s King Charles III attend a preview event for the Bayeux Tapestry Exhibition at the British Museum in London on September 2, 2026. © Ludovic Marin, AFP
Two migrants use a smartphone as they spend the night next to makeshift shelters on El Trampolin beach in the Spanish exclave of Ceuta on September 1, 2026. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has accused Israel, Russia and the far right of spreading disinformation about the mass entry of around 70,000 migrants into Ceuta, the vast majority of whom have since been returned to Morocco. © Antonio Sempere, AFP
King Haakon VIII of Norway (L) takes an oath of allegiance to Norway’s constitution as his daughter Crown Princess Ingrid Alexandra of Norway looks on in the main chamber of the Norwegian Parliament, the Storting, in Oslo on September 1, 2026. © Lise Aserud, AFP
Riders representing teams Uzbekistan and Mongolia compete in a Kokpar match during the VI World Nomad Games at a hippodrome in Cholpon-Ata in the Issyk-Kul region, Kyrgyzstan, September 4, 2026. Kokpar, a traditional Central Asian horseback sport closely related to the Kyrgyz game Kok-Boru, involves riders competing to seize and carry a goat carcass and score by delivering it to a designated goal area. © Pavel Mikheyevk, Reuters
A young Iraqi dives into the Shatt al-Arab River in Basra amid soaring temperatures on August 31, 2026. © Hussein Faleh, AFP
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