The week around the world in 20 pictures

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  • Paiporta, Spain

    Volunteers clean a basement in the flood-hit town of Paiporta

    People in cleaning gear in a mud-slicked basement
  • Ain Yaaqoub, Lebanon

    Seen through a broken window, people mourn at the site of an Israeli airstrike on the Lebanese village. At least 14 people were killed and 15 others injured

    People stand amid debris on a hillside
  • Deir al-Balah, Gaza

    A child looks on as Palestinians inspect the site of an Israeli strike on the tents of displaced people

    A child looks out through a broken fence
  • Jabaliya, Gaza

    Palestinians displaced from shelters in Beit Hanoun cross the main Salah al-Din road into Jabaliya after the Israeli army gave evacuation orders

    People walking carrying bags and children with smoke behind buildings in the distance
  • Gaza

    Palestinians work to extinguish a fire at a school sheltering displaced people, after it was hit by an Israeli strike

    Two firefighters amid debris and smoke in a schoolroom
  • Ilagan, Philippines

    A man wades through a flooded street after Typhoon Toraji, also known as Nika, brought heavy rains

    A man wades through hip-deep, muddy floodwater outside a crudely made building
  • New York City, US

    Dakota Meyer of the US Marine Corps, a recipient of the Medal of Honor for his service in Afghanistan, who was chosen as the grand marshal of New York’s annual Veterans’ Day parade

    A man in military uniform waves from the back of a car with US-flag livery
  • Washington DC, US

    The US president, Joe Biden, meets the president-elect, Donald Trump, in the Oval Office of the White House

    Biden and Trump sitting in armchairs in front of a fire, shaking hands
  • Tayouneh, Lebanon

    A bomb dropped from an Israeli jet hits a building

    A bomb pictured at the moment it makes contact with buildings in Tayouned
  • Tayouneh, Lebanon

    Thick smoke and flames erupt after the Israeli bomb detonates

    A fiery explosion at the base of buildings
  • Kochav Yair, Israel

    Mourners at the funeral of the Israeli soldier Capt Itay Marcovich, who was killed in action in Lebanon

    Young people hugging each other and listening to eulogies
  • Bajo Chiquito, Panama

    Alvaro Calderini from Venezuela carries his niece across a river after they walked across the Darien Gap on their way to the US

    A man and a woman carry a child through chest-high river water
  • Bajo Chiquito, Panama

    Panamanian border police patrol the Turquesa River near Bajo Chiquito, the Panamanian village where migrants arrive after crossing the Darién Gap from Colombia

    A man holding a gun, his face obscured by a camouflage hat, sits at the front of boat making its way down a river
  • East Flores Regency, Indonesia

    The Lewotobi Laki-Laki volcano spews volcanic materials during an eruption

    A tall cloud of volcanic material seen over a green island
  • Lopburi, Thailand

    A long-tailed macaque attacks a shop worker in the Thai city. After Lopburi came out of its Covid-19 pandemic lockdown in 2022, its residents found that the monkeys, without people feeding them, had become unruly. Macaques had taken over buildings, often confronting people, stealing food and causing accidents

    A monkey biting a person’s face as a man seated on a moped looks on
  • Lopburi, Thailand

    A baby long-tailed macaque lies sedated before a sterilisation operation, part of the attempt to curb the increase of the unruly macaque population in urban areas and tourist spots in Lopburi

    An unconscious macaque lies amid surgical instruments
  • San Antonio de Areco, Argentina

    A woman rides a horse on Tradition Day, an event that marks the birth of the celebrated Argentinian writer José Hernández and aims to preserve the rural gaucho culture he championed

    A woman in a hat riding a horse with a cloudy sky behind
  • Bedgebury, England

    Scurfy twiglet (Tubaria furfuracea) mushrooms on the woodland floor at Bedgebury Pinetum in Kent. At the recent Cop16 biodiversity summit in Colombia, the British and Chilean governments co-sponsored a pledge for fungal conservation that would have raised the conservation status of funga to the same level as flora and fauna. The pledge was not adopted by the convention but, in a statement after the summit, the British government highlighted fungi’s ‘vital role in addressing the environmental crisis’

    A pale orange fringed mushroom
  • Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US

    Brandon Miller of the Charlotte Hornets dunks between Kelly Oubre Jr, left, and Jeff Dowtin Jr of the Philadelphia 76ers during an NBA game

    Three baskeball players make contact in front of the hoop
  • Málaga, Spain

    In an image taken with a slow shutter speed, Spain’s Rafael Nadal plays a shot during a training session

    A blurred image of Rafael Nadal shouting as he takes a shot
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