News in Pics, Feb 18: Best shots from around the world

Gu Ailing of China in action in the women's freeski halfpipe final run during the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games at the Genting Snow Park H & S Stadium in Zhangjiakou. Credit: Reuters Photo

Snow falls around a demonstrator waving a flag during a protest by truck drivers over pandemic health rules and the Trudeau government, outside the parliament of Canada in Ottawa. Credit: AFP Photo

A woman carries a picture at the site of a mudslide at Morro da Oficina after pouring rains in Petropolis, Brazil. Credit: Reuters Photo

A woman stands inside among debris after the reported shelling of a kindergarten in the settlement of Stanytsia Luhanska, Ukraine. Credit: AFP Photo

Internally displaced people wash themselves in a school in the village of Afdera, 225 kms of Semera, Ethiopia. Credit: AFP Photo

French President Emmanuel Macron (2-R), flanked by Ghana's President Nana Afuko Addo (R), Senegal's President Macky Sall (2-L), and European Council President Charles Michel (L), holds a joint press conference on France's engagement in the Sahel region, at the Elysee Palace in Paris. Credit: AFP Photo