THE best pictures of the week include protests about Covid and Governments using military-grade spyware.

An opposition Congress party worker, wearing a mask of Amit Shah, India’s home minister, looks through a scope during a protest accusing Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government of using military-grade spyware to monitor political opponents, journalists and activists, in New Delhi, India; and a truck convoy blocks the highway at the U.S. border crossing as demonstrators protesting against COVID-19 vaccine mandates gather in Coutts, Alberta.

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