French protests, floods and a felled tree: photos of the day – Wednesday

Baku, Azerbaijan

Matiul Haq Khalis, the head of Afghanistan’s National Environmental Protection Agency, walks through the Cop29 UN Climate Summit

Photograph: Rafiq Maqbool/AP

Florida, US

A motorcade carrying president-elect Donald Trump leaves his Mar-a-Lago estate

Photograph: Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP

Northumberland, UK

Forestry workers fell a 40ft Sitka spruce tree in Northumberland’s Kielder forest before it makes the 330-mile journey south to Westminster. The spruce was selected from Kielder forest’s 150 million trees to stand at the foot of Big Ben in Parliament Square this Christmas

Photograph: Owen Humphreys/PA

Brussels, Belgium

The US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, talks to the press following a North Atlantic Council meeting at Nato’s headquarters. Blinken is on a one-day visit for Ukraine talks with the Nato chief, the European Union diplomacy head and Ukraine’s foreign minister

Photograph: Nicolas Tucat/EPA

Indonesia

A satellite image shows Mount Lewotobi Laki Laki spewing ash and smoke during an eruption in East Nusa Tenggara

Photograph: Copernicus Sentinel-2/AFP/Getty Images

Merseyside, UK

The health secretary, Wes Streeting, on stage during the second day of the 2024 NHS Providers conference and exhibition at the ACC Liverpool

Photograph: Peter Byrne/PA

Hargeisa, Somalia

A voter carrying a baby on her back gets her biometrics registered before casting her vote at a polling station during the 2024 Somaliland presidential election. Somaliland, a breakaway region of Somalia, is holding a presidential election at a time of diplomatic tensions in the Horn of Africa

Photograph: Luis Tato/AFP/Getty Images

Taunggyi, Myanmar

A vendor prepares her stall as she waits for customers at a street market in Myanmar’s north-east Shan state

Photograph: Sai Aung Main/AFP/Getty Images

Valencia, Spain

Volunteers clean a street in Paiporta. The damage caused by Storm Dana that hit eastern Spain on 29 October has left at least 222 people dead and dozens missing, while the threat of a new Dana has curtailed the enormous work to respond to the countless calls for help

Photograph: Jorge Zapata/EPA

Khan Younis, Gaza

Palestinians inspect the damage following Israeli shelling at a camp housing internally displaced people. More than 43,700 Palestinians and over 1,400 Israelis have been killed, according to the Palestinian health ministry and the Israeli Army, since Hamas militants launched an attack against Israel from the Gaza Strip on 7 October 2023, and the subsequent Israeli operations in Gaza and the West Bank

Photograph: Haitham Imad/EPA

Kostiantynivka, Ukraine

A woman carries water in canisters as Ukrainian emergency services deliver water to neighbourhoods that have lost their water supply due to Russian shelling of the city

Photograph: Diego Herrera Carcedo/Anadolu/Getty Images

Clermont-Ferrand, France

Protesters try to break the door of the Michelin headquarters during a demonstration. Michelin announced on 5 November that its decision to close down the plants in Cholet and Vannes in western France, which together employ more than 1,250 people, had been made ‘as a last resort’

Photograph: Olivier Chassignole/AFP/Getty Images

London, UK

King Charles holds an audience with Right Reverend Graham Usher, the bishop of Norwich, at Buckingham Palace, as he is appointed lord high almoner

Photograph: Aaron Chown/Reuters

Joun, Lebanon

People hug as they stand amid the rubble of buildings destroyed by Israeli strikes

Photograph: Aziz Taher/Reuters

Málaga, Andalusia

The overflowing Guadalhorce river in Cártama. The regions of Axarquía, Costa del Sol and Guadalhorce in Málaga are under a red alert for extreme risk due to a forecast of heavy rainfall

Photograph: Carlos Diaz/EPA

Berlin, Germany

Chancellor Olaf Scholz attends a session at the Bundestag, where he was expected to give a speech, following the breakdown of his three-party coalition.

Photograph: John MacDougall/AFP/Getty Images

Guwahati, India

A fisherman is silhouetted as he casts his net along the banks of the Brahmaputra river

Photograph: Biju Boro/AFP/Getty Images

New York, US

A plane flies overhead as the sun sets behind the Statue of Liberty

Photograph: Angela Weiss/AFP/Getty Images