Students win the election in Serbia, Flávio Bolsonaro flees Brazil, a train crash in Spain and Obama on the midterm campaign trail – the past seven days as captured by the world’s leading photojournalists
Warning: this gallery contains images some readers may find distressing
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© Photograph: Marko Drobnjaković/AP
© Photograph: Marko Drobnjaković/AP
© Photograph: Marko Drobnjaković/AP
The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world
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© Composite: AAP, NurPhoto/Shutterstock, Anadolu/Getty Images
© Composite: AAP, NurPhoto/Shutterstock, Anadolu/Getty Images
© Composite: AAP, NurPhoto/Shutterstock, Anadolu/Getty Images
The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world
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© Composite: Edgar Su/Reuters
© Composite: Edgar Su/Reuters
© Composite: Edgar Su/Reuters
Afshar’s experiences as a young woman in Iran have shaped her artistic career in Australia, focusing her eye on the humanity within inhumane systems
When Hoda Afshar was a teenager, coming of age in theocratic and authoritarian Iran in the 1990s, she and her friends were repeatedly arrested and physically punished by the “morality police”, for wearing their hijabs incorrectly in public and for attending underground parties. “They used to put a few of us in small solitary confinement cells together for a night or two, it was very common for my generation to experience that,” she says.
“We are part of the nasl-e sukhteh, or ‘burned generation’; the generation born after the 1979 revolution, who had to pay the price for many of the transformations and changes that happened.”
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© Photograph: Adam Ferguson/The Guardian
© Photograph: Adam Ferguson/The Guardian
© Photograph: Adam Ferguson/The Guardian
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