The past seven days have been captured by the world's leading photojournalists, from Russian strikes in Kyiv to Benjamin Netanyahu's address at the United Nations, floods in Japan, and the Asian Games.
Conflict and Diplomacy
In Kyiv, young residents gathered as smoke rose over a warehouse hit by a Russian drone strike. Firefighters worked to extinguish a fire at an office building in the Solomianskyi district following a strike by a Russian Geran-5 jet-powered attack drone. In Kotelniki, Russia, a woman looked at a damaged multi-storey residential building hit by what authorities described as a Ukrainian drone strike. Kyiv has stepped up its campaign of long-range drone strikes against Russia in recent months, particularly against energy infrastructure.
In Kramatorsk, a priest and a resident walked at the site of a damaged Orthodox church after a Russian airstrike. Danish intelligence said this week that Russia could launch a limited military attack against a Nato country in the coming months, one of the starkest warnings yet by western security services. Several European intelligence chiefs have warned that Russia may be preparing more assertive actions to test Nato countries' commitment to supporting Ukraine.
UN Assembly and Political Tensions
Benjamin Netanyahu delivered an address to the United Nations on Thursday, decrying what he said was a global anti-Jewish conspiracy and swatting aside criticism of Israel's war in Gaza. He took aim at critics of the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, the international media, regional leaders such as Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the leftwing commentator Hasan Piker, and the New York City mayor, Zohran Mamdani, in an address that doubled as a stump speech for the upcoming elections in Israel.
Air Force One with Donald Trump onboard flew over a river en route to JFK airport in New York for the UN general assembly. On the first day, Trump denied that the US was running short of critical munitions, attacked the international criminal court as a 'rogue organisation', and claimed he was close to settling the war in Ukraine. At a summit meeting with Trump, the Chinese president called for extensive cooperation to avoid the 'Thucydides trap' that could put the US and China on a military collision course amid tensions over artificial intelligence, trade, and Taiwan.
Disasters and Migration
In Sakura, Japan, a car was partially submerged in floodwaters after Typhoon Dujuan brought torrential rain. In Nepal, people looked at a house damaged during August's floods at Trishuli. Nepal's prime minister, Balendra Shah, said last month's catastrophic deadly flood was a reminder that climate change keeps hurting people who didn't cause the crisis.
In the Mediterranean Sea, Sudan, a 24-year-old migrant from South Sudan, looked out to sea as the SOS Mediterranee rescue vessel sailed toward Marina di Carrara in Italy. In France, migrants tried to board a smuggler's boat off the beach of Hardelot, and the body of a man was found on the beach at Neufchâtel-Hardelot shortly after an attempted departure for England.
Fires and Community
Firefighters attempted to extinguish a forest fire near the hamlet of Baltar in Xinzo de Limia, Spain, and in Banjar, Indonesia, they worked to extinguish forest and land fires. For months, parts of Indonesia's Borneo and Sumatra islands have been ablaze, sometimes lit illegally to clear land for oil palm plantations. In Tiburon, California, a prescribed fire practitioner used a drip torch to ignite a burn at Angel Island state park.
In Madrid, members of the Madrid tenants' union formed a barricade in front of the building where 87-year-old Maricarmen was to be evicted. Police fired rounds of teargas and made repeated baton charges as they tried to open a path for a judicial committee to carry out the eviction order, which was eventually executed. In Vilnius, people participated in fire rituals during the autumn equinox festival, and in London, fans watched the football match between Millwall and West Ham while standing on Lime bikes outside the Den stadium. Carlos Edriel Yulo of the Philippines competed on the vault during the artistic gymnastics men's qualification at the Asian Games in Nagoya.
