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The Rynek Główny, the central square of Kraków's historic centre, pictured in 2013.

Gunman kills six in Kraków's main square, and Poland's interior minister points to far-right inspiration

A view of central Malindi, on Kenya's coast, in 2007. The Shakahola forest, where the bodies were found, lies in the Malindi sub-county of Kilifi County.

Kenyan cult leader sentenced to 200 years for the deaths of 191 people, 190 of them children

The Hôtel de Matignon, the official residence of the French prime minister, on rue de Varenne in Paris, in 2017. The social conference called by Sébastien Lecornu is set to be held there on 9 November.

France sees between 575,000 and 1.57 million protesters over pay, and Lecornu calls a social conference for Monday

Activist Joshua Wong in Hong Kong on 29 October 2019, the day the local government barred him from standing for election.

Joshua Wong sentenced to 10 more years in prison in Hong Kong for colluding with foreign forces

The headquarters of the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland, in 2007.

Climate and health

WHO says six climate and health actions could prevent 1.6 million deaths a year, one in every 40 worldwide

The European Parliament's hemicycle in Brussels, Belgium, in 2024.

European Parliament committee cuts the 2035 car CO2 target from 100% to 87.5%

European Commissioner for Enlargement Marta Kos, in an official European Commission photograph from December 2024.

Montenegro could close all its EU accession chapters by the end of 2026, European Commission says

The official portrait of Secretary of State Marco Rubio, released by the State Department in January 2025. Rubio is leading the talks with Caracas.

Washington is negotiating a status of forces agreement that could keep US troops in Venezuela long term

The Great Hall of the People in Beijing, where China receives state visits, in October 2025.

China and Oman call for shipping to resume through the Strait of Hormuz and sign 14 agreements in Beijing

The village of Pheriche, in the Khumbu region of eastern Nepal, at about 4,371 metres, in 2019.

Two helicopters collide at the Pheriche helipad in Nepal's Everest region, killing an Indian tourist

Óscar Puente on the steps of the Council of Ministers building in Madrid in November 2023, when he took over the transport ministry.

Spain's transport minister resigns after 115 deaths in two rail crashes in ten months

The entrance to the seat of Poland's Constitutional Tribunal, in Warsaw, in a photograph from 2016.

Poland's constitutional court president is suspended, and Tusk urges Nawrocki to swear in the judges elected by parliament

Crews from Ukraine's State Emergency Service (DSNS) work on rubble, in a photograph released by the service itself in 2024. The image is from the archive and does not show the attack in Komyshuvakha.

Russian bombing of a school used to hand out humanitarian aid kills 26 in Komyshuvakha, in Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia region

MINURSO headquarters in El Aaiún, Western Sahara, in 2012: Moroccan flags are flown at the entrance to the compound.

UN shuts down MINURSO in Western Sahara after 35 years and begins liquidating the mission

Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever, left, shakes hands with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in Brussels in March 2025.

Belgian PM De Wever hands his government's resignation to King Philippe after 2027 budget talks collapse

A Learjet 60, the same model as the aircraft that crashed in Palm Beach County, photographed in 2006. The jet in the photograph is not the one involved in the accident.

All nine aboard a Learjet 60 are killed as the jet falls into a Palm Beach County neighborhood

A woman carries sambaza, the small Lake Kivu fish, to sell at a market in Goma, capital of North Kivu, in 2015.

DR Congo has 28.8 million people in acute food insecurity through December, and the 2027 projection rises to 30.3 million

Displaced women sell charcoal at a market in El Fasher, capital of North Darfur, in 2015.

A year after it fell, El Fasher holds between 40,000 and 60,000 people in a city of more than 300,000

A peaceful demonstration by the "Gen Z regelt" movement at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin on the afternoon of October 31, 2026.

More than 100 police officers injured in Germany after Gen Z protests end in looting in Frankfurt

The Strait of Hormuz, between Iran to the north and the Arabian Peninsula to the south, in a true-color satellite image taken by NASA's Terra satellite in December 2020.

Rubio says Trump has not decided on new strikes on Iran, as Tehran floats a two-day plan to reopen Hormuz