Afghan nationals carry placards as shout slogans during a demonstration against the Taliban government in Islamabad on August 15, 2023, on the occasion of the second anniversary of the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan. Afghanistan's Taliban government marked on August 15 the second anniversary of their takeover of the country with celebrations and a public holiday, issuing a defiant statement commemorating their surge back to power. (Photo by Aamir Qureshi/AFP Photo)





People wearing traditional costumes take part in a march to mark the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples, in Mexico City, Mexico on August 9, 2023. (Photo by Henry Romero/Reuters)





Greenpeace activists climb up flagpoles to fix mockups of wind turbines in front of the Bavarian State Chancellery in Munich, southern Germany, on August 30, 2023, as they call for more wind power. (Photo by Christof Stache/AFP Photo)





A fire-fighting helicopter drops water over a wild fire near Prodromos, 100km northeast from Athens, on August 21, 2023. (Photo by Spyros Bakalis/AFP Photo)





Morocco's Hanane Ait El Haj, right, watches as Colombia's Manuela Vanegas, down, challenges Morocco's Sakina Ouzraoui during the Women's World Cup Group H soccer match between Morocco and Colombia in Perth, Australia, Thursday, August 3, 2023. (Photo by Gary Day/AP Photo)





A fighter of Wagner private mercenary group visits a makeshift memorial near former PMC Wagner Centre, associated with the founder of the Wagner Group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, in Saint Petersburg, Russia on August 24, 2023. (Photo by Anastasia Barashkova/Reuters)





Armenian police officers detain a protester outside the government building in central Yerevan on August 8, 2023. Armenian police on August 8, 2023 detained a dozen protesters, mostly war veterans, in central Yerevan after they blocked a government building, demanding authorities take steps to unblock the Lachin corridor, shut down by neighbour and foe Azerbaijan. The Lachin corridor is the sole road linking the breakaway Armenian-populated region of Nagorno-Karabakh – over which Yerevan and Baku fought two wars – with Armenia. (Photo by Karen Minasyan/AFP Photo)





A ring-tailed lemur licks a fruit popsicle, at the Attica Zoological Park in Spata suburb, eastern Athens, Friday, August 4, 2023. A large number of animals being fed frozen meals at the Attica Zoological Park outside the Greek capital Friday, as temperatures around the country touched 40C (104 degrees Fahrenheit) and were set to rise further, in the fourth heat wave in less than a month. (Photo by Thanassis Stavrakis/AP Photo)





Earl Stephens, who has the Nisga'a cultural name Chief Ni'is Joohl, centre left, with Pamela Brown, left and another member of the delegation from the Nisga'a nation pose beside the 11-metre tall memorial pole, during a visit to the National Museum of Scotland, ahead of its return to what is now British Columbia, in Edinburgh, Monday, August 28, 2023. Members of a Canadian First Nation held a spiritual ceremony on Monday at a Scottish museum to begin the homeward journey of a totem pole stolen almost a century ago. (Photo by Andrew Milligan/PA Wire via AP Photo)





A man holds a box containing blue crabs in Orbetello, Italy, Monday, August 14, 2023. Every morning, Tuscan fishermen in the Orbetello Lagoon retrieve nets left in the water to catch sea bream, sea bass and especially eels, but increasingly they are finding thousands of voracious blue crabs, an alien species that has invaded seas all over Italy, causing considerable damage to the marine ecosystem and fishing. (Photo by Luigi Navarra/AP Photo)





A horse rider of team Uzbekistan (Bottom) falls as a rider of team Russia (Red) looks on (L) during the traditional Central Asian sport of Kok-Boru (Gray Wolf) or Buzkashi (Goat Grabbing) in the Kok-Boru World Cup in Cholpon-Ata near Issyk-Kule lake, some 250kms east of Bishkek, on August 14, 2023. Mounted players compete for points by throwing a stuffed sheepskin into a well. (Photo by Vyacheslav Oseledko/AFP Photo)





A breast cancer survivor has her body painted by an artist during the seventh edition of the “A Brushstroke for Life” project, at the Cabañas Cultural Institute in Guadalajara, Mexico, on August 28, 2023. “A Brushstroke for Life” is an altruistic project involving more than 100 survivors, both women and men, to make this disease visible to the world. (Photo by Ulises Ruiz/AFP Photo)





Manchester City's Norwegian striker #09 Erling Haaland celebrates scoring the opening goal during the English Premier League football match between Sheffield United and Manchester City at Bramall Lane in Sheffield, northern England on August 27, 2023. (Photo by Darren Staples/AFP Photo)





United States' Megan Rapinoe consoles Portugal's Jessica Silva following the Women's World Cup Group E soccer match between the United States and Portugal in Auckland, New Zealand, Tuesday, August 1, 2023. (Photo by Rafaela Pontes/AP Photo)





Burned cars and destroyed buildings are pictured in the aftermath of a wildfire in Lahaina, western Maui, Hawaii on August 11, 2023. A wildfire that left Lahaina in charred ruins has killed at least 55 people, authorities said on August 10, making it one of the deadliest disasters in the US state's history. Brushfires on Maui, fueled by high winds from Hurricane Dora passing to the south of Hawaii, broke out August 8 and rapidly engulfed Lahaina. (Photo by Paula Ramon/AFP Photo)





145 swimmers take part in an effort to stretch a 78-metre-long national flag in the sea ahead of Indonesia's 78th Independence Day in Makassar, South Sulawesi, on August 12, 2023. (Photo by Muchtamir Zaide/AFP Photo)





Farmers take their tractors to the streets for a protest against a new industrial plant of Ineos in Antwerp, on August 18, 2023. The collective 'Farmers Defence Force' (FDF) is heading to Antwerp with around a thousand supporters. From the Brecht region and from the Kempen region, supporters will gather for a protest at Park Spoor Oost. They specifically choose Antwerp as the site of action because they claim N-VA is rolling out the red carpet for Ineos' new factory here. (Photo by Kristof Van Accom/Belga via AFP Photo)





Joseph Wolensky stands in the street with a sign that says “You call this a storm?” Sunday, August 20, 2023, in Palm Desert, Calif. Forecasters said Tropical Storm Hilary was the first tropical storm to hit Southern California in 84 years, bringing the potential for flash floods, mudslides, isolated tornadoes, high winds and power outages. (Photo by Mark J. Terrill/AP Photo)





A firefighter sprays water on flames during a wildfire in Chasia in the outskirts of Athens on August 22, 2023. Greece's fire brigade on August 22, 2023 ordered the evacuation of a district on Athens' northwestern flank as firefighters battled a steadily growing wave of wildfires around the country, the second in a month. Tens of thousands of people have been urged to leave the district of Ano Liosia, while at the neighbouring community of Fyli an AFP journalist saw homes on fire. (Photo by Angelos Tzortzinis/AFP Photo)