Photos of the week: Greta Thunberg’s UN address and Afghanistan elections

16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg’s strongly-worded speech at United Nations Climate Action Summit to final campaign rallies for elections in Afghanistan that are set to take place today; a roundup of top photos from across the world.

Updated on: Sep 28, 2019 5:50 PM IST

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16-year-old Swedish Climate activist Greta Thunberg speaks at the 2019 United Nations Climate Action Summit at UN headquarters in New York City, New York, US. (Carlo Allegri / REUTERS)

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Britain's Prince Harry walks through a minefield in Dirico, Angola, during a visit to see the work of landmine clearance charity the Halo Trust, on day five of the royal tour of Africa. Prince Harry is following in the footsteps of his late mother, Princess Diana, whose walk through an active mine field in Angola years ago helped to lead to a global ban on the deadly weapons. (Dominic Lipinski / AP)

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Members of the South Korean Taekwondo demonstration team perform during a visit by Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov at Kukkiwon, the headquarters and academy of World Taekwondo, in Seoul, South Korea. (Ahn Young-joon / AP)

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A police officer carries a sack of confiscated drugs to be destroyed during a disposal operation near the mouth of the Bayano River, near Chepo, Panama. Public security agents in Panama incinerated more than 24 tons of cocaine in an area away from communities. (Arnulfo Franco / AP)

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US President Donald Trump participates in the "Howdy Modi" event with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Houston, Texas, US. (Jonathan Ernst / REUTERS)

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A cat looks on as a Palestinian fisherman pulls a net on a beach in the northern Gaza Strip. (Mohammed Salem / REUTERS)

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FC Barcelona's Lionel Messi poses after winning the Best FIFA Men's player award with the winner of the Best FIFA Men's coach award Liverpool manager Juergen Klopp, winner of the Best FIFA Women's player award USA's Megan Rapinoe and the winner of the Best FIFA Women's coach award USA's coach Jill Ellis. (Flavio Lo Scalzo / REUTERS)

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British passengers board an Airbus A380 airliner that is being used for transporting Thomas Cook customers at Dalaman Airport after Thomas Cook, the world's oldest travel firm, collapsed stranding hundreds of thousands of holidaymakers around the globe and sparking the largest peacetime repatriation effort in British history, in Dalaman, Turkey. (Umit Bektas / REUTERS)

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People run as Haiti's Senator Jean Marie Ralph Fethiere (PHTK) fires a gun in the air, injuring Chery Dieu-Nalio, a photographer for Associated Press, while facing opposition supporters in the parking lot of the Haitian Parliament and Senate, as the government attempted to confirm the appointment of nominated Prime Minister Fritz William Michel, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. (Andres Martinez Casares / REUTERS)

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) announces the House of Representatives will launch a formal inquiry into the impeachment of US President Donald Trump following a closed House Democratic caucus meeting at the US Capitol in Washington, US. (Kevin Lamarque / REUTERS)

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People on bikes gather near a damaged road after an earthquake in Mirpur, Pakistan. (Akhtar Soomro / REUTERS)

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Children hold newly-hatched baby sea turtles born at a protective nesting site set-up as part of the Israeli Sea Turtle Rescue Centre's conservation programme, at a beach near Mikhmoret north of Tel Aviv, Israel. (Amir Cohen / REUTERS)

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The Soyuz MS-15 spacecraft carrying the crew formed of Jessica Meir of the US, Oleg Skripochka of Russia and Hazzaa Ali Almansoori of United Arab Emirates blasts off to the International Space Station (ISS) from the launchpad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan. (Shamil Zhumatov / REUTERS)

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A frog is pictured on the leaf of a lotus after the rain at a pond in Lalitpur, Nepal. (Navesh Chitrakar / REUTERS)

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A performer carries a chain outside the colonial-era indoor Queen Elizabeth stadium, the venue of the first community dialogue held by Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam in Hong Kong, China. (Jorge Silva / REUTERS)

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Visitors reach for a beer mug during the opening of the Oktoberfest beer festival in a festival tent at the Theresienwiese fair grounds in Munich, southern Germany. (Christof Stache / AFP)

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Amazigh (Berber) men arrive with a donkey to take part in the annual "Engagement Moussem" festival near the village of Imilchil in central Morocco's high Atlas Mountains. (Fadel Senna / AFP)

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A painting entitled "The Mocking of Christ" by the late 13th century Florentine artist Cenni di Pepo also known as Cimabue, at Paris, France. (Philippe Lopez / AFP)

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A Palestinian man carries a bunch of dates during the yearly harvest in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip. (Said Khatib / AFP)

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Chinese female troops take part in marching drills ahead of an October 1 military parade to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China at a camp on the outskirts of Beijing, China. (Wang Zhao / AFP)

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French cattle breeder and tobacco productor Patrick Maury, providing tobacco leaves to France Tabac plant, checks his production in Mazeyrolles, southwestern France. (Mehdi Fedouach / AFP)

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Rochdale's English defender Luke Matheson (L) vies with Manchester United's Dutch midfielder Tahith Chong (R) during the English League Cup third round football match between Manchester United and Rochdale at Old Trafford in Manchester, north-west England. (Paul Ellis / AFP)

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Smoke billows from a Seveso classified Lubrizol factory on fire in Rouen, northwestern France. Residents of twelve towns including Rouen have been asked to stay at home after a fire broke out at a Lubrizol factory classified Seveso high-threshold site, according to the prefect of Normandy. (Philippe Lopez / AFP)

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Plainclothes police officers arrest a student protester during a rally in Makassar, South Sulawesi province, Indonesia. (Bahauddin Raja Baso / AP)

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Afghans listen to speeches during the final campaign rally for Abdullah Abdullah, Chief Executive of Afghanistan in Bamiyan, Afghanistan. Afghans will head to the polls today. (Paula Bronstein / Getty Images)