Pulitzer Prize winning Reuters' photojournalist Danish Siddiqui was killed in in Spin Boldak district, Kandahar, Afghanistan, while he was embedded with Afghan Special Forces on a combat-and-rescue mission which came under attack from the Taliban. Earlier this week, his humvee was targeted and Siddiqui managed to capture a visual of one of the rockets hitting the armour plate overhead. He was brilliant at in-depth features, delving deep to reveal the human face caught in conflicts. A selection of his recent works, in tribute to a man who was both brave and empathetic
Rakesh Tikait, a leader of Bharatiya Kisan Union, one of the largest farmers' unions, is helped onto the stage at a Maha Panchayat or grand village council meeting as part of a farmers' protest against the three new farm laws, at Kandela village in Jind district, Haryana, India, February 3, 2021.