A selection of news photographs from around the world.
Ethan Swope/AP
Wildfires ripped across parts of Los Angeles, California, leading to at least 10 deaths, destroying thousands of buildings and prompting mass evacuation orders. In this photograph, a firefighter battles the Eaton fire in Altadena.
Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images
The Pacific Palisades fire has become the most destructive in the history of Los Angeles.
Christina House / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images
The Eaton fire destroyed the Altadena Community Church. While strong winds and a lack of rain are driving the blazes, experts argue that climate change is worsening the underlying conditions, making such fires more common.
SALVAMENTO MARITIMO/Handout via REUTERS
A baby was born on a crowded migrant dinghy which travelled from Africa to the Canary Islands this week, the Spanish coastguard says. It has published a picture of the baby boy who was rescued alongside his mother and scores of other migrants.
Jonathan Lanza/NurPhoto via Getty Images
Venezuela’s opposition said its leader, María Corina Machado, was briefly arrested and then freed. It came after she had addressed a protest rally in Caracas on the eve of President Nicolás Maduro’s disputed inauguration. The UN expressed its alarm after it had received reports of arbitrary detentions and intimidation in Venezuela ahead of the opposition marches.
SAUL LOEB/AFP
Former US President Jimmy Carter lies in state at the Capitol Rotunda in Washington DC. The 39th US president died at the age of 100 on 29 December, 2024, at his home in Plains, Georgia.
Ben Birchall/PA
Artist Luke Jerram during the unveiling of his latest astronomical sculpture, Helios, at the Bath Assembly Rooms in England.
OLYMPIA DE MAISMONT/AFP
A devotee dances in the sacred forest in Ouidah, during the first day of the Voodoo Festival. In Benin, voodoo, or vodou, is recognised as an official religion and is followed by some 40% of the population.
Eduardo Munoz / REUTERS
Revellers parade through the streets of New Orleans on a streetcar on Twelfth Night, which kicks off Carnival season.
Khaled DESOUKI / AFP
Runners start the 32nd Egyptian Marathon in front of Queen Hatshepsut’s temple while hot air balloons rise over the west bank of the Nile river in Egypt’s southern city of Luxor.
Valery HACHE / AFP
A driver competes in stage 2B of the 47th Dakar Rally in Saudi Arabia.
TAUSEEF MUSTAFA/AFP
A man cleans snow-covered boats on the Dal Lake after a spell of fresh snowfall in Srinagar, India.
Don Arnold/WireImage
Elvis impersonator Alfred Vaz poses prior to boarding a train, departing for the Parkes Elvis Festival, at Sydney’s Central Station in Australia.
The International Commission of Human Rights Experts on Ethiopia said it was vital independent investigators continue to review the country’s dire human rights situation.” “We are gravely concerned about the situation in Ethiopia and the potential for future atrocities,” said Mohamed Chande Othman, Chairperson of the Commission. Risk factors remain…
Nadine Yousif and Jessica Murphy in Montreal BBC News Reporting fromToronto, Canada Watch: Key moments from Canada’s general election debate The leaders of Canada’s four major federal parties have squared off in their second and final debate ahead of this month’s general election, but someone off stage stole much of…
Credit: UN Women/Zhanarbek Amankulov Opinion by Naila Kabeer (london) Tuesday, August 08, 2023 Inter Press Service LONDON, Aug 08 (IPS) – Last week the IMF offered a cautious estimate of positive global economic growth for this year, warning ‘we are on track, but not out of the woods’. But with the…
Islamabad, Pakistan — When Pakistan’s 19-member new cabinet took oath on March 11, one man stood out in the lineup: Muhammad Aurangzeb, a political outsider tasked with the challenge of steering the country out of its economic woes. Aurangzeb, a veteran banker who previously headed one of Pakistan’s largest commercial banks,…
The figure is equivalent to about 11 children dying each week, “far beyond what we hear in news headlines,” Vera Knaus, the agency’s Global Lead on Migration and Displacement, told journalists attending the biweekly UN humanitarian briefing in Geneva. “We cannot continue to ignore what is happening – stand by…
Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is doing “well” after undergoing surgery for a brain bleed, his doctors say. The 79-year-old was taken to hospital in the capital, Brasília, on Monday after he had complained of a severe headache. An MRI scan revealed the bleed and Lula was transferred…
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