People take part in a protest against President Donald Trump and DOGE adviser Elon Musk, in Washington on April 5, 2025. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times
Firefighters work to remove a fallen tree on one of the main overpasses leading to the southern zone of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, during a storm affecting the state on April 5, 2025. Areas of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo were under special alert due to heavy rainfall, with significant volumes that could exceed about 4 inches in 24 hours, and wind gusts of around 60 mph. Pablo Porciuncula/AFP via Getty Images
Demonstrators march with signs during a protest calling for action to secure the release of Israeli hostages held captive since the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks by Hamas terrorists, outside the Israeli Defense Ministry headquarters in central Tel Aviv, on April 5, 2025. Israeli forces launched a ground offensive in Gaza City, the military said on April 4, after renewed military operations in March ended a short-lived truce in its war with Hamas. Jack Guez/AFP via Getty Images
A mourner at the site of a Russian missile strike on a residential area where multiple children and adults were killed, in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine, April 5, 2025. Violeta Santos Moura/Reuters
A demonstration over high housing costs, held simultaneously in 40 cities across Spain, in Barcelona, on April 5, 2025. Lluis Gene/AFP via Getty Images
The Soyuz rocket is seen as it is raised into the vertical position on the launch pad at Site 31 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, on April 5, 2025. Expedition 73 crewmembers—NASA astronaut Jonny Kim, and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritskiy—are scheduled to launch aboard their Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft on April 8. Joel Kowsky/NASA via Getty Images
A protester reacts as others hold banners and chant slogans during a march against the abuse of women and children in Matatiele, South Africa, on April 5, 2025. A wave of national outrage reignited this week, with demonstrators demanding justice for a 7-year-old girl allegedly assaulted in October 2024 at Bergview College in Matatiele, South Africa. Rajesh Jantilal/AFP via Getty Images
Migrants leave with their belongings from a camp at al-Amra, on the outskirts of the Tunisian port city of Sfax on April 5, 2025, after authorities started dismantling it. Tunisia on Friday dismantled camps housing thousands of illegal immigrants from sub-Saharan Africa, police said, following a campaign against them on social media. Around 20,000 migrants had set up tents in fields in the eastern regions of El Amra and Jebeniana, national guard spokesman Houcem Eddine Jebabli told AFP. Fethi Belaid/AFP via Getty Images
Iranian banknotes are displayed by a street money exchange at Ferdowsi street, Tehran's go-to venue for foreign currency exchange, in downtown Tehran, on April 5, 2025. Vahid Salemi/AP Photo
A delegate of the main opposition Democratic Party of Ivory Coast wears a dress featuring the image of the party's president, Tidjane Thiam, as she takes part in a political bureau meeting ahead of the presidential election in Yamoussoukro, on April 5, 2025. Thiam was absent from an important meeting of his political party, less than seven months before the presidential election, for which he is a declared candidate. Issouf Sanogo/AFP via Getty Images
People view magnolia trees in bloom at a park in Kyiv, Ukraine, on April 5, 2025. Roman Pilipey/AFP via Getty Images
A man holds an umbrella as he walks between protesters gathered during a rally outside Gyeongbokgung Palace in Seoul, on April 5, 2025, to celebrate the removal from office of ex-president Yoon Suk Yeol a day earlier over his declaration of martial law last December. Anthony Wallace/AFP via Getty Images
U.S. deputy special envoy for the Middle East Morgan Ortagus meets with Lebanon's Speaker of the Parliament Nabih Berri in Beirut, Lebanon, on April 5, 2025. AFP via Getty Images
A volunteer sprays water on commuters to cool them off on a hot day along a street in Karachi, Pakistan, on April 5, 2025. Rizwan Tabassum/AFP via Getty Images
Excavators unload imported scrap at the Deendayal Port Authority in Kandla, in India's Gujarat state, on April 5, 2025. Sam Panthaky/AFP via Getty Images
The founder of private military company Blackwater, Erik Prince, arrives at a press conference after an anti-crime operation in Guayaquil, Ecuador, on April 5, 2025. Ecuador's President Daniel Noboa on March 11 announced an alliance with Prince, as the government seeks to crack down on spiraling violence related to drug trafficking. Gerardo Menoscal/AFP via Getty Images
Agnes Gully of France's Les Zamies football club (R) fights for the ball with Pam Woodworth of the New England Breakers (L) during the Grannies International Football Tournament 2025 final match at Nkowankowa stadium in Tzaneen, South Africa, on April 5, 2025. Phill Magakoe/AFP via Getty Images
