Day in Photos: Outgoing President, Raging Wildfire, and Seoul Halloween Crush
A wildfire approaches houses in the village of And Loutro, south of Athens, Greece, on Sept. 30, 2024. At least two people were found dead and seven villages were evacuated due to the fire. Valerie Gache/AFP via Getty Images

Day in Photos: Outgoing President, Raging Wildfire, and Seoul Halloween Crush

A look into the world through the lens of photography.
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U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken (R) participates in a memorandum of cooperation signing ceremony on “High-Standard, Market-Oriented Trade of Critical Minerals” with Norwegian Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide at the Department of State in Washington, on Sept. 30, 2024. Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images
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A motorist passes flood damage at a bridge across Mill Creek in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene in Old Fort, N. C., on Sept. 30, 2024. Sean Rayford/Getty Images
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Director of the Board of Elections Tyler Burns holds a test ballot during a mail-in ballot processing demonstration at the Board of Elections office in Doylestown, Pa., on Sept. 30, 2024. Hannah Beier/Getty Images
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An aerial view shows the area affected by monsoon flooding in Roshi village of Nepal's Kavre district on Sept. 30, 2024. Search and rescue teams in Nepal's capital picked through wrecked homes on September 30 after waters receded from monsoon floods that killed at least 209 people around the Himalayan republic. Prabin Ranabhat/AFP via Getty Images
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French right-wing leader Marine Le Pen (C) is flanked by police officers as she arrives at a courthouse in Paris on Sept. 30, 2024. Louise Delmotte/AP Photo
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President Joe Biden speaks during an event celebrating the 2024 U.S. Olympic and Paralympic teams on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington on Sept. 30, 2024. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images
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J.A. Bayona gives a speech during the ceremony of the Honoris Causa doctors for the Universitat de Barcelona in Barcelona, Spain, on Sept. 30, 2024. The Universitat de Barcelona has named the film director Juan Antonio Bayona, the painter Lita Cabellut, the sculptor Jaume Plensa, and the actress Núria Espert honorary doctors in recognition of their long artistic career and international projection. Cesc Maymo/Getty Images
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A Bangladeshi vendor takes a nap in a wholesale market in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on Sept. 30, 2024. Munir Uz Zaman/AFP via Getty Images
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Ukrainian servicemen of the 26th artillery brigade fire an AHS Krab self-propelled howitzer toward Russian positions near the front line in the Chasiv Yar area in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, on Sept. 30, 2024. Genya Savilov/AFP via Getty Images
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Outgoing Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador gestures after delivering his last daily conference at the National Palace in Mexico City on Sept. 30, 2024. Alfredo Estrella/AFP via Getty Images
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A rainbow is seen over the city of Taipei during sunset as Typhoon Krathon is expected to hit Taiwan on Sept. 30, 2024, Yan Zhao/AFP via Getty Images
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A visitor takes a picture with a phone of a bouquet of flowers left on one of the steles of the Holocaust memorial in Berlin on Sept. 30, 2024. John Macdougall/AFP via Getty Images
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Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump delivers remarks to the press in the aftermath of powerful storm Helene at Chez What furniture store in Valdosta, Ga., on Sept. 30, 2024. Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images
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The Eiffel Tower is illuminated in pink to mark breast cancer awarness month, also known as “Pink October” in Paris on Sept. 30, 2024. Thomas Samson/AFP via Getty Images
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Family members (purple) of those who died in the 2022 Itaewon crowd crush disaster try to block a car carrying Yongsan-gu District Office mayor Park Hee-young at the Seoul Western District Court in Seoul on Sept. 30, 2024, after the mayor was found not guilty in the Itaewon case. A South Korean court handed a three-year jail term Sept. 30 to a former Seoul district police chief over the Halloween incident that killed more than 150 people, the Yonhap news agency reported. The Seoul court, however, found local official Park Hee-young, head of the Yongsan Ward office, not guilty on similar charges. Jung Yeon-Je/AFP via Getty Images
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A sign announces a massive 80 percent off sale on all items on the shelves of the empty Geant Casino Valence 2 supermarket on the day of the definitive closure of the food superstore for lack of a buyer as part of the nationwide transfer of the brand to the Auchan and Intermarche banners in Valence in southeastern France on Sept. 30 2024. Nicolas Guyonnet/Hans Lucas/AFP via Getty Images
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South Korean Choi Soon-hwa, 81-year-old, competes during the 2024 Miss Universe Korea in Seoul, South Korea, on Sept. 30, 2024. AP Photo/Lee Jin-man
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Passengers disembark a Bulgarian government evacuation flight from Lebanon at Sofia airport, Bulgaria, on Sept. 30, 2024. Nikolay Doychinov/AFP via Getty Images
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A security staff member stands next to a giant wooden carving sculpture at the Queen Sirikit National Convention Center in Bangkok, Thailand, on Sept. 30, 2024. Manan Vatsyayana/AFP via Getty Images
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Members of the National Guard extinguish a fire set by opposition MPs by burning their Parliament chairs in front of the Parliament to protest the arrest of their colleague opposition MP Ervin Salianji in Tirana, Albania, on Sept. 30, 2024. Leader of the centre-right Democratic Party, Ervin Salianji, was sentenced to one-year imprisonment and convicted of “giving false evidence” in a drug trafficking case involving the brother of a Socialist MP. Judges suspected certain members of the opposition of having produced false recordings. Adnan Beci/AFP via Getty Images