The week in pictures

One of India's most prominent political activists ended a 16-year hunger strike on Tuesday, licking honey from her hand and declaring: "I will never forget this moment." Irom Sharmila had been force-fed through a tube in her nose and held by police since November 2000, when she began her hunger strike to protest against a law that gives immense power to security forces in the northeastern state of Manipur. [Anupam Nath/AP]

Ukrainian servicemen are seen at their positions on the front line near Avdeyevka, Ukraine. [Gleb Garanich/Reuters]

People from Nigeria and the Ivory Coast rest on a vessel after being rescued in the central Mediterranean Sea, close to the Libyan territorial waters. [Manu Brabo/AP]

Brazil's national security force officers aim their weapons during a police operation in search for criminals in Vila do Joao, part of the Mare complex of slums, during the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. A police officer died after being shot in the head when he and two Rio Olympics security workers got lost near a slum and encountered gunfire. [Felipe Dana/AP]

A woman shows the body of her son, who suffers from a skin disease, at a camp for internally displaced people near Sanaa, Yemen. [Khaled Abdullah/Reuters]

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan travelled to Russia to meet with his counterpart, Vladimir Putin, for the first time since apologising in late June for the downing of a Russian fighter jet along the Syrian border in November last year. [Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP]

Civilians and police officers use water buckets to help to extinguish a forest fire near houses at Sao Joao Latrao, Funchal, in Madeira, Portugal. [Duarte Sa/Reuters]

A worker holds a hand-made [Donald] Trump sign as US President Barack Obama rides past in his motorcade to a golf outing at Mink Meadows Golf Club during his annual family summer vacation on Martha's Vineyard, in Massachusetts. [Jonathan Ernst/Reuters]