
A child passes over a narrow stretch of the Rio Grande at the U.S. border with Mexico on March 29. Driven partly by a surge of Venezuelans seeking asylum, a record number of people migrated from South and Central America to the U.S., with arrivals reaching 2.5 million in the federal fiscal year that ended in October.

Shepherd Józef Klimowski, left, and others lead a flock of sheep in Nowy Targ, Poland, in the country’s southern highlands, on Oct. 8.

A woman holding a girl reacts after Israeli airstrikes hit Ridwan neighborhood of Gaza City, on Oct. 23.

Villarrica volcano as seen from Villarrica, some 800 kilometres south of Santiago, Chile, on Sept. 27. Villarrica is among the most active volcanoes in South America.

Tyre Nichols’ mother RowVaughn Wells looks on after the funeral service for her son at Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church in Memphis, Tenn., on Feb. 1. Nichols, 29, was stopped on Jan. 7, for what the Memphis Police Department said was reckless driving. After a chase ensued, “police brutalized him to the point of being unrecognizable,” family attorneys Ben Crump and Antonio Romanucci said in a statement. Nichols was taken to hospital in critical condition, according to police, where he died on Jan. 10.

Israelis donate blood at Magen David Adom emergency service in Jerusalem, following an unprecedented attack by Hamas militants on Israel, on Oct. 7.

Flames encircle a mountainside above nearby homes as the McDougall Creek wildfire roared in West Kelowna, British Columbia, on Aug.Ê18. Extreme weather conditions fueled CanadaÕs worst wildfire season on record, with thousands of fires devastating millions of acres and darkening skies thousands of miles away.

A man waits for clients while selling mangos in his street stall in the late afternoon in Kandahar City, Afghanistan, on June 12.

Ukrainian military medics treat their wounded comrade at the field hospital near Bakhmut, Ukraine, on Feb. 26.

Police officers at the Porokhovskoye cemetery, where the press service owned by Yevgeny Prigozhin said he was buried, in St. Petersburg, Russia, on Aug. 29. The announcement of the burial of the Russian mercenary chief who died in a plane crash ended days of speculation over how he would be laid to rest.

The Avenue of the Giants in Humboldt flooded after weeks of catastrophic downpours, in Redcrest, Calif. on, Jan. 13.

In a hospital in the southern Gaza Strip, a Palestinian woman cradles the body of a child killed in Israeli airstrikes on Oct. 17. Of the more than 10,000 Gazans reported killed in the first month of the war begun by the Oct. 7 massacre of Israelis by Hamas, more than 4,000 were children.

A resident rests in a makeshift shelter on a street next to a Gare Routiere, in the aftermath of a deadly earthquake, in Marrakech, Morocco, on Sept. 10.

A police officer sprays an irritant smoke at demonstrators during a protest to mark International Women’s Day in front of Mexico’s National Palace in Mexico City, Mexico, on March 8.





















































































