Armistice Day and carnival season in Europe: photos of the day – Monday

Paris, France

The UK PM, Keir Starmer, and the French president, Emmanuel Macron, at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the Place Charles de Gaulle during Armistice Day commemorations. This year’s ceremony marked the 106th anniversary of the 11 November 1918 armistice that ended hostilities on the western front in the first world war

Photograph: Ludovic Marin/AFP/Getty Images

Ypres, Belgium

Military personnel prepare to lay wreaths during an Armistice Day ceremony

Photograph: Virginia Mayo/AP

London, England

Members of the armed forces take part in an Armistice Day service at the Cenotaph on Whitehall

Photograph: Henry Nicholls/AFP/Getty Images

Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine

A drone view shows an block of flats hit by a Russian missile strike

Photograph: State Emergency Service of Ukraine/Reuters

Kyiv, Ukraine

A woman and children shelter in a metro station during an air-raid alert

Photograph: Alina Smutko/Reuters

Seoul, South Korea

Members of the Korean Public Service and Transport Workers’ Union shave their heads in protest in front of the parliament building. They are demanding legislation to ensure minimum pay and safe working conditions for cargo drivers, as part of a global campaign known as the Safe Rates system

Photograph: Chris Jung/NurPhoto/Rex/Shutterstock

London, England

The Conservative party leader, Kemi Badenoch, arrives to give evidence to the Post Office Horizon IT inquiry at Aldwych House

Photograph: Maja Smiejkowska/PA

Ilagan, Philippines

A man pushes his motorcycle through flood water after Typhoon Toraji, also known as Nika, brought heavy rain to Isabela province

Photograph: Noel Celis/AP

Guadalajara, Mexico

The Japanese dancer Yumiko Yoshioka performs One Hundred Light Years of Solitude at Conjunto Santander de Artes Escénicas. Inspired by the novel One Hundred Years of Solitude by the Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez (1927-2014), Yoshioka’s work reflects on loneliness and life

Photograph: Francisco Guasco/EPA

Mexico City, Mexico

Hundreds of mariachi musicians perform traditional Mexican songs at the Plaza de la Constitución, also known as the Zócalo

Photograph: Quetzalli Nixcte-Ha/Reuters

Cologne, Germany

Revellers dressed as giraffes visit Cologne Cathedral as they celebrate the start of the carnival season. The season usually finishes on Ash Wednesday of the following year with the main festivities on Rosenmontag (Rose Monday), known as Shrove Monday in the UK

Photograph: Ina Fassbender/AFP/Getty Images

Roermond, the Netherlands

Partygoers mark the start of the carnival season in the province of Limburg on Roermond’s Station Square

Photograph: Hollandse Hoogte/Rex/Shutterstock

Den Bosch, the Netherlands

Carnival kicks off in the centre of Oeteldonk, the name the city of Den Bosch bears during the popular festival

Photograph: Hollandse Hoogte/Rex/Shutterstock

Cape Town, South Africa

An environmentalist holds a cape water lily, reintroduced to the wetlands of False Bay nature reserve to mark the presentation of the Earthshot prize in the city last week. It has not grown in the area for about 75 years

Photograph: Esa Alexander/Reuters