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Fire and smoke mark where a UPS cargo plane crashed near Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport, Kentucky, the United States
Abdel Fattah al-Burhan (L), head of the Sudanese Armed Forces and 'Hemedti' or Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo (R), head of the Rapid Support Forces.
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A car covered in muddy residue, trees uprooted all around, Cebu city
Manufacturers are working on 155-millimetre artillery ammunition at the Rheinmetall factory.
Mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani speaks during 'New York is not for sale' rally at Forest Hill Stadium in New York
Christian Bale as Dick Cheney, left, and Amy Adams as Lynne Cheney in a scene from 'Vice.'
People gather at the spot as the coaches of a MEMU train and a goods train collided between near Bilaspur, India
Vehicles lie piled on after flooding caused by Typhoon Kalmaegi in Cebu city, central Philippines.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and European Council President Antonio Costa attend a press conference on the day of the European Union leaders' summit in Brussels, Belgium October 23, 2025
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Edel Wamalwa, a young student in uniform, holds her baby and smiles
A man in helping a woman cross a flooded street, debris, mud and water are visible in the background. Mexico 2025
A woman radio host in Srinagar, Kashmir
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A colorful Pakistani Truck driving down a road
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Olympic rings in the Olympic Park
Autonomous truck by Einride on a road in Stockholm
Federal police officers escorting a man from Pakistan who is to be deported to his home country by plane
A bearded man in a black T-shirt printed with the words 'Mars sa Drine' speaks into a megaphone. He is surrounded by people, some holding flags, some taking photos. They are standing in front of a yellow-and-white building. Loznica, western Serbia
Young men in an alley with sandy ground in The Gambia, kicking a soccer ball and carrying plant seedlings in their arms.
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Firefighters with a ladder rescue workers after a medieval tower near the Roman Forum partially collapsed during renovation work
A tea pot sits on top of a fire inside an olive grove in the Israeli-occupied West Bank
Close-up of a man in an orange vest inspecting a tree through a device with a lens in Kampala City.
Democratic New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani (C) speaks during a campaign event with New York City elected officials on November 1, 2025
The release of gas emanating from a leak on the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline in the Baltic Sea
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A woman bends down in a green meadow to pat a horse. Two other hourses stand on the meadow, which had trees and hills in the background.
New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani (C), US Senator Bernie Sanders (L) and US Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (R) join raised hands on a stage during an election rally
A coal mine sinks deep into the ground
Lower Manhattan skyline from the Staten Island Ferry, March 14, 2019, in New York City
New York City mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo speaks to a crowd of reporters and pedestrians while campaigning in New York
Smoke billows out of the tower
Former Peruvian Prime Minister Betssy Chavez
Residents walk by a house destroyed in an earthquake
A Muslim scholar speaks to a Christian man in front of a portrait of Jesus outside a church in Lagos.
Israel's former Military Advocate General Maj. Gen. Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi, a woman wearing glasses, in court in October 2024
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Samia Suluhu Hassan behind a podium, pointing upward during a speech
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Reporter Gönna Ketels standing on Skanderbeg Square in Tirana – in the background the Skanderberg Tower can be seen
From the map of Germany three arrows with images of military equipment superimposed point to Ukraine, Yemen and Israel
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U.S. Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth shakes hands with South Korea's Defence Minister Ahn Gyu-back during his visit to the truce village in the DMZ
A yellow concrete block in between rubble
Two women look at each other while weaving a large palm basket
shot shows the silhouettes of two men and a large drone against a dimming horizon
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A woman puts a cotton bud into her ear
Men in cowboy hats carry coffin of Carlos Alberto Manzo Rodríguez through a crowd
An outside wwal of the Grand Egyptian Museum, decorated with an image of Tutankhamun
Former Commanding General of US Army Europe Ben Hodges speaking to DW. Maps on the walls behind him; a bookshelf is seen
A barbed-wire fence is seen at Pretrial Detention Centre No 1 of the Transbaikal Region of Russia's Federal Penitentiary Service
A woman with a bangage on her head and leg sits on a stretcher in a hospital in the aftermath of an earthquake,that struck overnight Afghanistan near in Mazar-i-Sharif on November 3, 2025.
Smoke billows over the village of Kfar Tebnit after an Israeli strike near Lebanon's border with Israel
Traffic policemen stand on a motorway closed by Lahore authorities due to smoggy conditions (file photo)
Close up picture of the face of Paris State Prosecutor Laure Beccuau
A Red Cross vehicle driving past the rubble of a destroyed building in the Gaza Strip
Former Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras delivers a speech in September 2025
A tilted view of the altar section of the St. Francis Catholic Church in Owo Nigeria, on June 5, 2022, after it was attacked by gunmen.
Vehicles and people move along a road as smog envelopes areas of Lahore, Pakistan.
Close up of an officer wearsing a police vest and carrying a gun
Escorted by a guard (C) and handcuffed, Diana Loginova (L), an 18-year-old woman with blond hair, wearing glasses and a grey coat, arrives for a court hearing in St Petersburg as various other people look on
People gather at a petrol station due to shortage of petrol in Bamako, Mali
 Police cars and Ambulances are pictured outside Huntingdon Station in Huntingdon, eastern England.
A Sahrawi woman holds a Polisario Front's flag in the disputed territory of Western Sahara.
Displaced Sudanese who fled el-Fasher after the city fell to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), arrive in the town of Tawila in war-torn Sudan's western Darfur region.
Sebastian Grondinger stands smiling with his arms crossed in a square in Vienna
A lioness receives dental treatment from veterinarians of the global animal welfare organisation FOUR PAWS at the former Zoo Lujan, on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Members of the White Angel unit of Ukrainian police officers who evacuate people from the frontline towns and villages, check an area for residents, in the frontline town of Pokrovsk.
People participate in the annual Day of the Dead parade, in Mexico City, Mexico, November 1, 2025
Fire crew and ambulance at the scene of fire at Waldo's - blackened exterior also visible here since picture is one from after the fire has been put out
Khader Al Astal, Zakaria Qaddoura and a helper are checking some of the aid collected
satellite image: a general view of a berm construction in Kinin Village near El-Fasher
Members of the Kenya Red Cross airlift survivors of a landslide in Murkutwa, Chesongoch village in Elgeyo-Marakwet County, western Kenya November 1, 2025
Visitors queue outside the Louvre Museum, which opened after a jewelery theft, in Paris, France, on October 22, 2025
This view shows the COP30 logo, at the Belem's airport in Para state, Brazil. on October 25, 2025
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Former Ukrainian soldier and prisoner of war Viktor Ischenko takes part in a retreat in the Austrian Alps that combines mountaineering with trauma therapy.
A composite image shows the head of an elderly woman wearing earrings and glasses (C) superimposed on a design of various outstretched hands, one of which carries a handbag (L) while another holds up bank-wrapped 100 DM bills (top R)
Canadian PM Mark Carney
Sandra Bailey in a kilt, smiling at the camera with both hands on her hips.
A warship and two escort vessels in the sea not far away. In the foreground on the right, the blurred figures of two fishermen, seen from behind
A large building with many columns and pagoda-style roofs in a landscaped garden
Protesters burn what might be an election billboard in the streets of Arusha, Tanzania
A satellite image of a former children's hospital in el-Fasher, Sudan
Athlete Sandra Bradley lifts a rock as spectators look on in the bg
Activists spraying an orange powder at Stonehenge
The "Global Us" show logo is seen between a male head with curly hair (bottom) and a female head (top, pictured upside down) blowing up a blue balloon
Student protester Arsa Stojanovic, who was badly wounded by police, speaks to DW
A sanitary worker in a manhole in Karachi, Pakistan
Telescopic view of a comet in space
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DW's "Love Matters" host Leeza Mangaldas sits on a sofa, looking at her guest, comedian Supriya Joshi. Between the two, the episode title "Love without living together?" is superimposed in blue letters
The RSF released pictures purportedly showing the detention Abu Lulu, pictured standing in handcuffs next to other fighters holding rifles
Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban speaks to members of the media at a summit  in Copenhagen, Denmark on October 1, 2025.
An image split in three sections shows a person wearing colorful muscle shirts designed by Berlin-based Muhammed "Jim" Njie
A participant uses a megaphone during a protest march in Novi Sad, Serbia
Closeup view of black female ear
 A group of Afrikaners from South Africa holding US flags
A still from the 1979 version of the film 'Nosferatu' showing a vampire gripping a woman.
Young Pakistani university students sit and chat in an auditorium with two women seated in the foreground to the right and a red map of Pakistan with blue arrows blended over the left part of the screen
Close-up of rare minerals
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An Indian customs photo of a smuggled primate
Firefighters walk as people try to clear up the damage after floods in Massanassa
A bag of evidence containing the synthetic opioid fentanyl
Man standing on cliff by the seaside on an overcast day
View of passengers in a train station walking next to a FlixTrain railroad car
Atiqa Mir, a girl in a racing suit, stands on a racetrack, posing for the camera
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A black cat on a black background
A video game scene featuring an eagle flying over a desert landscape and ancient pyramids
A Taliban soldier stands guard at the Pakistan border on Oct 20, 2025
A view of trees in the Amazon rainforest
A masked man holds a sign reading "Tchiroma President" during post-electoral clashes in Douala, Cameroon
Head of the brigand of banditry repression Pascal Carreau (L) and Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau speak at a news conference at the Paris courthouse
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz (L) and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speak at lecterns backed by German and Turkish flags during a press conference
A man in a red Dia de los muertos costume with feathers in Mexico City
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Animated globe specially designed for a climate video game
Boy wearing virtual reality device in what looks like a classroom reaches out with his hands
D66 party leader Rob Jetten is all smiles as he speaks with media
White South Africans show their support for Trump in a demonstration
inundated buildings after Hurricane Melissa made landfall in St Elizabeth, Jamaica
A crane placed the first part of the tower central "Tower of Jesus Christ" on top of the church.
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This handout satellite image made available on October 31, 2025 shows smoke billowing from fires burning around El-Fasher Airport in El-Fasher.
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A group of young Africans, mostly women, walk cheerfully along a meadow in Kampala, Uganda, with plant seedlings under their arms.
Crowds of people in Tawila in Darfur. Image from October 28, 2025.
A montage depicting Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan against a campaign poster backdrop
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A group of Black demonstrators gather on a city street during a protest
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Donald Trump and Narendra Modi shake hands in Washington in October 2025
View of the back of a red Alfa Romeo
A stone bridge (Charles Bridge) and the Prague city skyline are seen from the Vltava River at sunrise
People protest in the streets of Arusha, Tanzania, on election day Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2025
US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un signing an agreement after their talks at the Capella Hotel in Singapore in June 2018
Top view of a passenger jet in parking position, surrounded by other vehicles. Some graphics are superimposed
French men and women demonstrate against President Emmanuel Macron. The poster reads: Macron, betrayal, resignation.
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Leopard 2 tank in the field
Foreign Legion soldiers in uniform march in formation down the street
In a D.C. square, federal employees queue up to receive food bags from World Central Kitchen volunteers
Group photo of the UN SDG Award finalists and judges on a stage
Friedrich Merz (left) and his wife Charlotte Merz (right) can be seen visiting Ataturk mausoleum in Ankara, a Turkish flag is visible in the background
US President Donald Trump (L) and China's President Xi Jinping shake hands as they arrive for talks at the Gimhae Air Base in Busan, South Korea
 Shipping containers are stacked at a port in Shanghai
A boat floats off the coast of Venezuela in this screen grab taken from a video released October 14, 2025
Low-angle view of displaced Sudanese women from el-Fasher carrying their belongings
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Das Satellitenbild zeigt Wirbelsturm Melissa über dem Karibischen Meer.
Under a clouded sky, a man in a white tracksuit (R) looks over his shoulder at a fallen tree in St. Catherine, Jamaica
A person in a crowd holds up a sign (in French) that reads: 'If it's not yes, it's no,' during a demonstration in support of Gisele Pelicot in the city of Rennes in September 2024
Aerial view of the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford at sea
US troops walking towards military helicopters at the Mihail Kogalniceanu air base in Romania, carrying luggage behind them. Symbolic image taken in December 2023.
Elon Musk claps and smiles in the Oval Office in 2025
A giant pumpkin pale orange pumpkin seen on the ground at a nursery in the UK
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Two men wearing caps dance next to cars in a parking lot
A sculpture made from cowhides in a corner of a room with white walls and a grey floor
A group of girls in sports jerseys doing warm-up exercises before a rugby match in rural India
A woman puts on a hat as she poses for the camera
A promotional poster of the APEC Leaders' Week inside the Gimhae International Airport, in Bushan, South Korea
President Samia Suluhu Hassan casts her ballot
Aerial view of shipping containers and container cranes at a port in Nanjing at dusk
Chile Portillo Ski Hotel in the Andes
Mothers have come with their children to be vaccinated
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View of a woman laughing in what looks like a gym or assembly hall; another woman is seen in the background
A woman walks in a street before Hurricane Melissa hits the city of Santiago de Cuba
A displaced woman sitting on the ground with others who have fled el-Fasher
Families of three arrested protesters sit on the street, their mouths bound with cloth in protest, holding up signs demanding the release of their loved ones.
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A golden Bitcoin is seen
Kenyan bus driver in Germany
Police officers escort suspects arrested during an operation out of the Vila Cruzeiro favela, in the Penha complex, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
A man's hand can be seen closeup, it is covered in a large Christian-themed tattoo
Grand Egyptian Museum facade.
Woman sitting on a sofa in her living room, singing and playing a string instrument
US President Donald Trump speaks to journalists aboard Air Force One en route to South Korea
Cyclone Montha in India