The week in pictures: Disaster averted on Flydubai flight, French school protests and Bangkok floods
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From French highschoolers protesting to demand better learning conditions to a Flydubai flight diverted to Saudi Arabia after a flightcrew member's onboard attack and flooded streets in Bangkok, FRANCE 24 looks back at the week's most striking pictures.
By: FRANCE 24 Passengers who experienced an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia during a flight on Flydubai plane arrive at Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv on September 30, 2026. © Ariel Schalit, AP A Russian jet-powered drone strikes a bridge in Kyiv on October 2, 2026. © Valentyn Ogirenko, Reuters Relatives gather around the bodies of Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes during funerals in Gaza on October 1, 2026. © Yousef Al Zanoun, AP People wade through a flooded street after heavy rain in Bangkok, Thailand on September 28, 2026. © Sakchai Lalit, AP A protester holds a placard reading in French "8am-6pm, high school or custody?" during a student protest in Toulouse, southwestern France on October 1, 2026. © Ed Jones, AFP A sculpture made by Indian sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik depicts India's pilot Smit Machchhar, the captain of Flydubai flight FZ 1073, at a beach in Odisha's Puri city on October 1, 2026. © AFP Supporters of Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who is running for reelection, attend a carnival-style campaign rally in Rio de Janeiro on September 27, 2026. © Silvia Izquierdo, AP Media witnesses recount the moments before the execution of convicted murderer Christa Pike was halted on September 30, 2026, in Nashville, Tennessee. © George Walker IV, AP NASA astronaut and Mission Commander Jessica Watkins, NASA astronaut and pilot Luke Delaney, Canadian Space Agency (CSA) astronaut and mission specialist Joshua Kutryk, and Roscosmos cosmonaut and mission specialist Sergey Teteryatnikov pose after arriving to prepare for the Crew 13 launch to the International Space Station in Cape Canaveral, Florida, September 26, 2026. © Joe Skipper, Reuters Demonstrators stage a pot-banging protest to demand political action to stop evictions and address Spain's housing crisis following the eviction of an 87-year-old woman from her home in Madrid, October 1, 2026. © Violeta Santos Moura, Reuters Read next
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