Paralympics in Paris, back to school in Ukraine and Indian tea farms

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FRANCK FIFE/AFP

The Olympic flame lifts off while attached to a balloon during the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games Opening Ceremony at the Jardin des Tuileries (Tuileries Garden) in Paris on August 28, 2024.

FRANCK FIFE/AFP
FRANCK FIFE/AFP

Britain's Lucy Shuker looks on as she competes in the 1st round of the women's wheelchair doubles tennis match against the Netherlands at the Roland-Garros Stadium during the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games in Paris on August 30, 2024.

YASUYOSHI CHIBA/AFP
YASUYOSHI CHIBA/AFP

Muslims perform the Friday prayer at the Istiqlal Mosque, which will host Pope Francis during his visit to Jakarta on August 30, 2024.

ESSA AHMED/AFP
ESSA AHMED/AFP

Boys bathe in a large water puddle left after heavy rains near a camp for people displaced by conflict in Yemen's Hajjah province on August 27, 2024.

KHALED DESOUKI/AFP
KHALED DESOUKI/AFP

An Egyptian dancer performs the Tanoura outside a coffee shop at al-Muizz Street in the old Islamic quarter of Cairo on August 29, 2024.

MARVIN RECINOS/AFP
MARVIN RECINOS/AFP

Inmates exercise at the courtyard of the La Esperanza prison in San Salvador as part of the government's "Zero Leisure Plan," which offers several rehabilitation and reintegration programmes on August 29, 2024.

ISHARA S. KODIKARA/AFP
ISHARA S. KODIKARA/AFP

A woman farmer reaps leaves at a tea estate in Hatton on September 1, 2024.

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STR/AFP

Employees work on a steel tube tower production line at a factory in Haian, in eastern China's Jiangsu province on September 1, 2024.

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YURIY DYACHYSHYN/AFP

Pupils of the first grade attend a class on the first day of the new school year in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv on September 2, 2024, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

JAM STA ROSA/AFP
JAM STA ROSA/AFP

Youths wade in a storm surge along Manila Bay amid heavy rains brought by Tropical Storm Yagi in Manila on September 2, 2024.