Week in pictures: 22 - 28 January 2022
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A selection of powerful news photographs taken around the world this week.
A Ukrainian service member holds a next generation light anti-tank weapon, supplied by the UK, during drills at Ukraine's International Peacekeeping Security Centre near Yavoriv.
Boris Johnson returns to 10 Downing Street after attending the weekly Prime Minister's Questions. On Tuesday, Met Police commissioner Dame Cressida Dick announced that an investigation had been launched into parties held in Downing Street and Whitehall during the coronavirus pandemic.
On Holocaust Memorial Day, survivor Jack Waksal stands in front of the Holocaust Memorial in Miami Beach, Florida, US. World leaders and survivors marked the day with remembrance services and events. The day was also the 77th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp, in what was then-Nazi-occupied Poland.
A woman looks at her house, which was destroyed by Tropical Storm Ana at Kanjedza village, in Chikwawa district, southern Malawi. The country has suffered a nationwide power cut and some areas have been declared disaster zones.
Medical staff on stand-by at a speed skating training session for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, China.
Palestinians ride horses at sunset along a beach in Gaza City.
Honduran president-elect Xiomara Castro greets supporters as she arrives at the National Stadium in Tegucigalpa, for her inauguration ceremony. Ms Castro was sworn in as Honduras's first female president. She has promised to tackle powerful drug trafficking gangs and liberalise strict abortion laws.
People enjoy a tube ride in the snow at a park in Shenyang in China's north-eastern Liaoning province.
A model presents a creation by designer Elie Saab during a fitting session ahead of his Haute Couture spring-summer 2022 collection show in Paris, France.
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