Day in Photos: Flood in Italy, Passion Play, and Star Wars Celebrations
Local residents clean up mud after heavy rain caused flooding in Monteu da Po, near Turin, Italy, on April 18, 2025. Marco Bertorello/AFP via Getty Images

Day in Photos: Flood in Italy, Passion Play, and Star Wars Celebrations

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A placard proclaims 'Studying shouldn't mean starving' (C) as students lie on the ground during a protest organized by the La Fage union to denounce student poverty, in Paris on April 18, 2025. Bertrand Guay/AFP via Getty Images
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Girls ride horses against a spring landscape near Kyiv, Ukraine, on April 18, 2025. Oleksii Pydsosonnii/The Epoch Times
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov meets with his Iranian counterpart Abbas Araghchi in Moscow on April 18, 2025. Tatyana Makeyeva/AFP via Getty Images
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Midshipmen stand on the Spanish Navy's training ship Juan Sebastian Elcano rigging as it approaches its mooring place at the Callao Naval Base in Peru, on April 18, 2025. Connie France/AFP via Getty Images
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Members of the Syrian Kurdish Asayish security forces gather at the Kurdish-run al-Hol camp, which holds relatives of suspected ISIS terrorists in the northeastern Hasakeh governorate, Syria, on April 18, 2025. Delil Souleiman/AFP via Getty Images
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Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni greets U.S. Vice President JD Vance before their meeting at Palazzo Chigi, in Rome on April 18, 2025. Antonio Masiello/Getty Images
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Tourists walk in Venice, Italy, on April 18, 2025. Venice on Friday launches the second year of a pilot program to charge day-trippers an entrance fee. Antonio Calanni/AP Photo
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Families sit on North Narrabeen Beach as a wave breaks onto a rock pool in Sydney on April 18, 2025. David Gray/AFP via Getty Images
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Soldiers from Iran's land, navy, air force and special forces parade on the occasion of National Army Day in Tehran, Iran, on April 18, 2025. Majid Saeedi/Getty Images
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An employee of French utility company Enedis checks the underground tunnels of the electrical network beneath downtown Lyon, France, on April 18, 2025. Olivier Chassignole/AFP via Getty Images
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A student mourns the dead and injured victims near the scene of a shooting at the Florida State University student center in Tallahassee, Fla., on April 18, 2025. The shooting rampage on April 17 left two dead and six injured. Miguel Rodriguez Carrillo/Getty Images
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Participants run during a Hyrox fitness race at the historic Grand Palais venue in Paris on April 18, 2025. Julien de Rosa/AFP via Getty Images
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Lebanese soldiers inspect the site of a burnt-out vehicle reportedly hit by an Israeli strike in Ghazieh, near Sidon, Lebanon, on April 18, 2025. Mahmoud Zayyat/AFP via Getty Images
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A member of the UK veterans group Rolling Thunder drives a motorcycle past the Elizabeth Tower, with its legendary bell Big Ben, at Westminster Palace in London on April 18, 2025. Over a thousand veterans—many of them bikers—who served during the Northern Ireland Troubles, rallied to protest a plan to repeal the Legacy Act, which halted inquests into Troubles-era crimes and granted conditional immunity to certain crime suspects. Benjamin Cremel/AFP via Getty Images
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Afghan men throw a boy up in the air as they relax on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan, on April 18, 2025. Wakil Kohsar/AFP via Getty Images
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The circuit during practice ahead of the F1 Grand Prix of Saudi Arabia at Jeddah Corniche Circuit in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on April 18, 2025. Rudy Carezzevoli/Getty Images
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Spectators wait out a rain delay during an Indian Premier League cricket match between the Royal Challengers Bengaluru and the Punjab Kings at M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, in Bengaluru, India, on April 18, 2025. Pankaj Nangia/Getty Images
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A visitor in costume poses while attending Star Wars Celebration Japan 2025 at the Makuhari Messe convention center in Chiba City, Tokyo, on April 18, 2025. Richard A. Brooks/AFP via Getty Images
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The Wintershall Players perform 'The Passion Of Jesus' for an audience in Trafalgar Square in London, England, on April 18, 2025. The performance features a cast of more than 100 actors, as well as horses, donkeys, and doves. It has been an annual event on Good Friday in London for over a decade, attracting thousands of spectators. The Friday before Easter has significance for Christians worldwide, as the day on which Jesus was crucified and died. Jack Taylor/Getty Images