Home Middle East From French high school students protesting to demand better learning conditions to a Flydubai flight diverted to Saudi Arabia after a crew member was attacked on board and flooded streets in Bangkok, FRANCE 24 looks back at the most shocking images of the week. Issued on: 04/10/2026 – 15:35 2 min Reading time Passengers who made an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia during a flight on the Flydubai plane arrive at Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv on September 30, 2026. © Ariel Schalit, AP A Russian jet-powered drone hits 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 walk through a flooded street after heavy rain in Bangkok, Thailand, September 28, 2026. © Sakchai Lalit, AP A protester holds a sign that says in French “8 a.m.-6 p.m., high school or custody?” During a student protest in Toulouse, southwestern France, on October 1, 2026. © Ed Jones, AFP A sculpture by Indian sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik depicts Indian pilot Smit Machchhar, captain of Flydubai flight FZ 1073, on a beach in the town of Puri, Odisha, on October 1, 2026. © AFP Supporters of Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who is running for re-election, 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 launch of Crew 13 to the International Space Station at Cape Canaveral, Florida, on the 26th. September 2026. © Joe Skipper, Reuters Protesters stage a pot-banging protest to demand political action to stop it. evictions and address the housing crisis in Spain following the eviction of an 87-year-old woman from her home in Madrid, October 1, 2026. © Violeta Santos Moura, Reuters 1 Hundreds of French schools remain closed as riot police clash with student protesters 2 G7 members to release 100 million barrels of diesel after US threatens export ban 3 Transport suspended in some French cities as school protests continue 4 UAE investigators say Omani Flydubai co-pilot was planning ‘terrorist’ attack 5 US pressures Europe to ‘immediately’ release diesel stockpiles as Trump threatens export ban 6 Russia attacks another kyiv bridge, deepening travel chaos in Ukraine capital Keywords for this article