Day in Photos: Return of the Palestinians, Floods in Europe, and Mirror Building
Redem walk along Gaza's Al-Rashid coastal street to cross the Netzarim Corridor from the southern Gaza Strip to the north on Jan. 27, 2025. Youssef Alzanoun/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images

Day in Photos: Return of the Palestinians, Floods in Europe, and Mirror Building

A look into the world through the lens of photography.
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Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier walk through the former Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp, main camp Auschwitz I on the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the camp in Oswiecim, Poland, on Jan. 27, 2025. Jesco Denzel/Bundesregierung via Getty Images
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Swedish Coast Guard vessel KBV033 (R) and vessel Vezhen are anchored outside Karlskrona, Sweden, on Jan. 27, 2025, for examination by Swedish authorities. Swedish authorities seized the ship suspected of having sabotaged a fibre-optic cable in the Baltic Sea, the prosecutors' office announced. Johan Nilsson/TT News Agency/AFP via Getty Images
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Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Charles Q. Brown, Jr. (L) salutes Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth (R) as he arrives for his first official visit at the Pentagon as secretary in Washington on Jan. 27, 2025. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images
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Firefighters extinguish the 30-meter-high campanile of the townhall of the 12th district of Paris on Jan. 27, 2025, after it caught alight. The fire didn't cause any casualties. The fire was “under control” shortly before 7 a.m., a spokesman for the Paris fire department told AFP, which was alerted at around 3:20 a.m. and engaged some 60 fire engines and 150 firefighters to fight the blaze. Bertrand Guay/AFP via Getty Images
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NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte (L) and Portuguese Prime Minister Luis Montenegro shake hands prior to holding a meeting at Sao Bento Palace in Lisbon, Portugal, on Jan. 27, 2025. Filipe Amorim/AFP via Getty Images
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People get disappointed to find out that their visa appointment was canceled at the U.S. Embassy in Bogota, Colombia, on Jan. 27, 2025. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio ordered the suspension of the issuance of visas at the Embassy on Jan. 26 after the refusal by President Gustavo Petro of receiving flights with deported immigrants from the United States. Diego Cuevas/Getty Images
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Rescue teams search the remains of the boat Rio Cholhuaco that sank at Negro river near Osorno, Chile, on Jan. 27, 2025. According to local authorities, at least six people died when a tourist boat carrying at least 32 passengers sank near the southern Chilean city of Osorno on Jan. 26. Emilio Torres/AFP via Getty Images
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A woman takes photographs in front of the Maraya (Mirror), the world's largest mirrored building, designed by Florian Boje in Alula, Saudi Arabia, on Jan. 27, 2025. Loic Venance/AFP via Getty Images
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Residents run off after observing members of the M23 armed group walking through a street of the Keshero neighborhood in Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo, on Jan. 27, 2025. The besieged Congolese city of Goma was rocked by heavy artillery fire as France warned the regional capital was on the brink of falling to militia fighters and Rwandan troops. The M23 armed group and Rwandan soldiers entered Goma's centre on the night of Jan. 26 after weeks of advancing on the main city in Congo's mineral-rich North Kivu province. STR/AFP via Getty Images
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This aerial photograph shows students and protestors taking part in a demonstration in Belgrade, Serbia, on Jan. 27, 2025, to put pressure on the government over a fatal collapse of a train station roof in November 2024. Andrej Isakovic/AFP via Getty Images
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Vice President JD Vance and Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin speak to the press outside the Damascus Diner after receiving a briefing on recovery efforts from Hurricane Helene in Damascus, Va., on Jan. 27, 2025. Ben Curtis/POOL/AFP via Getty Images
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A woman raises her hand wearing a glove painted with red during a protest in front of the Embassy of the Republic of Serbia in Zagreb, Croatia, on Jan. 27, 2025, as part of an action organized by the Croatian Women's Network and the Center for Women's Studies. The action provided full support to all students and citizens of the Republic of Serbia in their efforts to draw attention to the state of human rights in the Republic of Serbia through a blockade and general strike. Damir Sencar/AFP via Getty Images
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A restaurant owner stands in his flooded restaurant following storm Herminia in Clecy, France, on Jan. 27, 2025. France placed swathes of Brittany on red weather alert as a violent storm brought flood levels not seen in decades. Eight other French departments were on orange weather alert for flooding, flash floods, or, in the case of the French Alps, avalanches. Lou Benoist/AFP via Getty Images
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Migratory birds fly near a Ferris wheel at an amusement park in eastern Baghdad, Iraq, on Jan. 27, 2025. Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP via Getty Images
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Residents gather beside their destroyed houses after a liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) tanker truck exploded near an industrial area in Multan, Pakistan, on Jan. 27, 2025. Shahid Saeed Mirza/AFP via Getty Images
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French chef Paul Marcon prepares dishes as he competes in the 2025 Bocuse d'Or cooking competition at the SIRHA (Salon International de la Restauration, de l'Hôtellerie et de l'Alimentation) in the Eurexpo exhibition hall in Chassieu, near Lyon, France, on Jan. 27, 2025. Jeff Pachoud/AFP via Getty Images
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The clock tower and harbour wall face high rolling seas in Porthleven, Cornwall, United Kingdom, on Jan. 27, 2025. Storm Herminia, named by the Spanish Met Office, brings heavy rain and 80 mph winds to South West UK. Hugh Hastings/Getty Images
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Lebanese army and UNIFIL soldiers deploy to prevent residents of the southern Lebanese village of Mais al-Jabal from returning to their town on Jan. 27, 2025. Lebanon's health ministry said Israeli fire killed one person on Jan. 27 and wounded seven others who Israel said approached their troops and posed an “imminent threat” in a second day of violence as residents tried by force to return to border villages, encouraged by Hezbollah. AFP via Getty Images
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Volunteers and officers from the Great River Basin Management Agency (BBWS) Citarum clean up floating debris trapped by bamboo poles in the Citarum river in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia, on Jan. 27, 2025. Timur Matahari/AFP via Getty Images
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An Afghan boy loads water canisters onto a donkey after filling them from a canal in the Chimtal district in Balkh Province on Jan. 27, 2025. Atif Aryan/AFP via Getty Images
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A customer shops for Lunar New Year ornaments at the Neihu Flower Market in Taipei, Taiwan, on Jan. 27, 2025, ahead of the Lunar New Year of the Snake which falls on Jan. 29 this year. I-Hwa Cheng/AFP via Getty Images