West Bank, Palestine
People gather to watch from a hilltop near Ofer military prison in the occupied West Bank, located north of Jerusalem, before the Israeli release of Palestinian prisoners in exchange for hostages held by Hamas in Gaza
Photograph: Hazem Bader/AFP/Getty Images

West Bank, Palestine
A freed Palestinian prisoner is greeted in Ramallah after their release from an Israeli jail as part of a ceasefire deal between Hamas and Israel
Photograph: Ammar Awad/Reuters

Tel Aviv, Israel
People in ‘hostages square’ watch a broadcast of Israelis being released by Hamas from captivity in Gaza
Photograph: Oded Balilty/AP

Petah Tikva, Israel
Freed Israeli hostage Guy Gilboa-Dalal gestures from a van as he arrives at Beilinson hospital after he was released from Hamas captivity
Photograph: Ariel Schalit/AP

Ramat Gan, Israel
Ziv Berman, one of the Israeli hostages released by Hamas, gestures from the window of an Israeli helicopter
Photograph: Ahmad Gharabli/Israeli Army/AFP/Getty Images

Jerusalem
Donald Trump, the US president, and Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, at the Knesset, which Trump addressed
Photograph: Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters

Portland, US
A protester is detained outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) facility in Oregon
Photograph: Jenny Kane/AP

Pyongyang, North Korea
The North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, addresses a crowd gathered to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the Workers’ party at the May Day stadium
Photograph: KCNA VIA KNS/AFP/Getty Images

Poza Rica, Mexico
A pickup truck hangs over a fence in Veracruz state after a tropical storm caused flooding
Photograph: Félix Márquez/AP

Paris, France
The singer Carla Bruni rides a bike near her home in Paris. Her husband, the former French president Nicolas Sarkozy, is due in court on 13 October when a date for his imprisonment is to be set. Sarkozy and 12 others, including three former ministers, stood trial for criminal conspiracy to receive funds for a presidential campaign from the regime of late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi
Photograph: Sadak Souici/EPA

Caracas, Venezuela
People from various Indigenous ethnic groups walk during a rally on Indigenous Resistance Day
Photograph: Jesús Vargas/Getty Images

Beijing, China
Traffic at a standstill during the morning rush hour
Photograph: Maxim Shemetov/Reuters

Timbuktu, Mali
The annual, public replastering of Djinguereber Mosque. The 2025 replaster marks the 700th anniversary of the mosque’s construction
Photograph: Hameye Capii/AFP/Getty Images

Lagos, Nigeria
Dancers perform at the Slum Party, an initiative founded in 2019 to curb gang violence in the Oworonshoki suburb
Photograph: Emmanuel Adegboye/EPA
