The week around the world in 20 pictures

Dnipro, Ukraine

Emergency personnel evacuate a woman from an apartment block heavily damaged by a Russian missile strike. More than 40 people died in the strike last weekend

Photograph: Clodagh Kilcoyne/Reuters

London, England

Nursing staff and supporters protest outside University College hospital during a day of strikes. Members of the Royal College of Nursing Union held a two-day strike as they seek a bigger pay rise for 2022-23 than the £1,400 on offer. NHS bosses implored ministers to ‘do all you can’ to end the strikes

Photograph: Leon Neal/Getty Images

Madrid, Spain

A group of naked activists demonstrate to demand the closure of fur farms

Photograph: Thomas Coex/AFP/Getty Images

Donetsk, Ukraine

A Ukrainian soldier warms himself with a candle in a house at his position on the frontline in Donbas

Photograph: Diego Herrera Carcedo/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

San Bartolome de Pinares, Spain

A horseman rides through a bonfire made with pine tree branches during the religious festival of Las Luminarias in honour of San Antonio Abad, patron saint of animals

Photograph: Manu Fernández/AP

Davos, Switzerland

Ukraine’s first lady, Olena Zelenska, after learning of a helicopter crash in Ukraine in which the interior minister, Denys Monastyrsky, died. At least 14 people including other senior officials were killed when a helicopter crashed near a kindergarten in a suburb of Kyiv

Photograph: Markus Schreiber/AP

Erkelenz, Germany

Police officers detain Greta Thunberg at a demonstration against the expansion of the Garzweiler coalmine near the village of Lützerath. Thunberg was detained with other climate activists after sitting near the edge of the opencast mine. ‘We are going to use force to bring you to the identity check, so please cooperate,’ a police officer said to the group

Photograph: Hesham Elsherif/Getty Images

Kharkiv, Ukraine

A destroyed Russian tank stands covered in snow in a forest

Photograph: Evgeniy Maloletka/AP

Lima, Peru

An anti-government protester is detained and thrown on the back of police vehicle during clashes in the capital. Thousands of people from across the country poured into Lima to take part in a march demanding the resignation of President Dina Boluarte after nearly six weeks of turmoil

Photograph: Martín Mejía/AP

Johannesburg, South Africa

Officers detain a woman in the lobby of an apartment block during disturbances after the death of a drug dealer during a police raid

Photograph: Marco Longari/AFP/Getty Images

Batu, Ethiopia

High priests take off their shoes as they reach the shore of Lake Batu with the ark of the covenant to celebrate Timkat, the Ethiopian Epiphany

Photograph: Amanuel Sileshi/AFP/Getty Images

Paris, France

Protesters throw items during a demonstration against pension changes. More than 1 million people took part in demonstrations across France as transport, schools and refineries were hit by strikes in protest at Emmanuel Macron’s plans to raise the retirement age by two years to 64

Photograph: Lewis Joly/AP

Sitz, Germany

A police rescuer helps an environmental activist in a wheelchair to the ground. Hundreds of thousands of climate activists said they would continue ‘protesting in the streets in huge numbers’ against fossil fuels, the day after Greta Thunberg was removed by German police from a condemned village atop a massive coal deposit

Photograph: Roberto Pfeil/AP

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Donetsk, Ukraine

A wounded Ukrainian soldier waits for treatment in a stabilisation hospital not far from the frontline

Photograph: Anatolii Stepanov/AFP/Getty Images

Northampton, England

A homeless woman begs outside boarded-up shops. High street closures in 2022 cost 150,000 jobs, making it the worst year for retail in five years. While the Northampton shopping area has been victim to this trend, it is also seeing a surge in independent, sole-trader stores opening in place of branches of chains

Photograph: Carl Court/Getty Images

Dnipro, Ukraine

Nadiia Yaroshenko tries to locate her cat who remains trapped in a damaged building. The cat refused to go with emergency service workers who tried to rescue him, and remained in his favourite place by a window that had been blown out

Photograph: Roman Hrytsyna/AP

Melbourne, Australia

Coco Gauff of the US serves during a match against her American compatriot Bernarda Pera at the Australian Open at Melbourne Park. Seventh seed Gauff advanced with a 6-3 6-2 victory

Photograph: Joel Carrett/EPA

Jagiroad, India

Tiwa people participate in community fishing during the Jonbeel festival. Tribal communities such as Tiwa, Karbi, Khasi and Jaintia participate in the festival, which signifies harmony and brotherhood among various tribes and communities

Photograph: Anupam Nath/AP

Dnipro, Ukraine

People at the site where an apartment block was heavily damaged by a Russian missile strike

Photograph: Clodagh Kilcoyne/Reuters