The week in pictures: a French woman in space, wildfires in Europe and the war in Ukraine

France 24 reports a week of vivid images, including astronaut Sophie Adenot becoming the first French woman to perform a spacewalk, raging wildfires sweeping Belgium and other parts of Europe, deadly Russian drone strikes in Ukraine, and torrential rain battering the Philippines. The coverage shows how both conflict and climate extremes dominated recent headlines. The feed does not include further detail.

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