Day in Photos: Sand Storm in Iraq, Memorial Day for Fallen Soldiers, and Nazi Concentration CampDay in Photos: Sand Storm in Iraq, Memorial Day for Fallen Soldiers, and Nazi Concentration Camp
Police officers control traffic during a sand storm in city of Nasiriyah in Iraq's southern Dhi Qar province, on April 29, 2025. Asaad Niazi/AFP via Getty Images

Day in Photos: Sand Storm in Iraq, Memorial Day for Fallen Soldiers, and Nazi Concentration Camp

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni shake hands during a press conference following their meeting at Villa Doria Pamphili in Rome on April 29, 2025. Antonio Masiello/Getty Images
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Soldiers salute after placing Israeli flags with black ribbons on graves of fallen soldiers, ahead of Israel's annual Memorial Day for fallen soldiers at Kiryat Shaul military cemetery in Tel Aviv, Israel, on April 29, 2025. Yom HaZikaron is the national remembrance day observed in Israel for Israeli soldiers who lost their lives in the struggle that led to the establishment of the State of Israel. Amir Levy/Getty Images
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Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney arrives on stage at his campaign headquarters after the Liberal Party won the Canadian election in Ottawa on April 29, 2025. Justin Tang/The Canadian Press via AP
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An Airbus Beluga jumbo jet from European manufacturer Airbus flies over Perpignan in the Pyrenees-Orientales department in the south of France on April 29, 2025. JC Milhet/Hans Lucas/AFP via Getty Images
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Veterinarians push sheep into a sheep dip during a campaign to combat the rise of Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever, a viral tick-borne disease transmitted to humans, at a farm in Tabah near the city of Hillah in the Iraqi province of Babylon, on April 29, 2025. Karar Jabbar/AFP via Getty Images
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A refiner pours liquid gold from a furnace into casts at the ABC Refinery smelter in Sydney on April 29, 2025. David Gray/AFP via Getty Images
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Poland's President Andrzej Duda and participants of the Three Seas Initiative Summit (3SI) take their seats for talks at the Royal Castle in Warsaw, Poland, on April 29, 2025. The Three Seas Initiative (3SI) describes itself as “a politically inspired, commercially driven platform for improving connectivity between thirteen EU member states allocated between Baltic, Adriatic, and Black seas.
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Members of the Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment take part in the annual Major General's inspection in Hyde Park in London on April 29, 2025. The inspection is a key test in the regiment's preparation for the King's birthday parade, also known as “Trooping The Colour.
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King Frederik X of Denmark (R) and Greenland's Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen pass in front of an iceberg in the Nuuk fjord, Greenland, on April 29, 2025, during a boat tour. Ida Marie Odgaard/Ritzau Scanpix/AFP via Getty Images
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A man stops to take a photo as firefighters tackle a blaze at the St. Marylebone 132Kv electrical substation in London on April 29, 2025. Residents were evacuated from their homes surrounding the fire, with some properties damaged. Leon Neal/Getty Images
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People wait on a platform as metro operations resume partially and power begins to return following a huge outage that hit Spain and Portugal, in Madrid on April 29, 2025. Violeta Santos Moura/Reuters
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Russia's President Vladimir Putin meets with his Belarus's counterpart Alexander Lukashenko in Volgograd, on April 29, 2025. Mikhail Metzel/POOL/AFP via Getty Images
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Japan's Foreign Affairs Minister Takeshi Iwaya (C) and Senegal's Minister of Professional Training Amadou Moustapha Ndieck Sarre speak with a student during a visit to the Senegal-Japan Vocational and Technical Training Center in Dakar, Senegal, on April 29, 2025. Seyllou/AFP via Getty Images
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A French pilot sits on a French Air and Space Force multirole fighter aircraft parked on the runway of an air base near Zagreb, Croatia, on April 29, 2025, after the first day of joint military exercises. Damir Sencar/AFP via Getty Images
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Italian ecclesiastical tailor Raniero Mancinelli, 87, stands for a portrait in his famed shop Mancinelli Clero, located close to the Vatican in Rome on April 29, 2025. Mancinelli has personally handcrafted cassocks for Pope John Paul II, Pope Benedict XVI, and Pope Francis; his shop has been a fixture in the Borgo Pio neighborhood for over six decades. He is one of the last remaining ecclesiastical tailors in Rome and continues to create handmade liturgical vestments worn by popes, cardinals, bishops, and priests around the world. Mario Tama/Getty Images
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Lily of the May flowers are seen in Quimper, France, on April 29, 2025. Fred Tanneau/AFP via Getty Images
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Police stand guard as bulldozers are used to raze a residential settlement of illegal Bangladeshi nationals near Chandola Lake in Ahmedabad under municipal orders, on April 29, 2025. Indian police detained 1,024 Bangladeshi migrants in a sweeping crackdown in the western state of Gujarat aimed at deporting people living there illegally, the state government said April 26. Sam Panthaky/AFP via Getty Images
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President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media before boarding Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington on April 29, 2025. Trump will travel to Michigan for a 100th Day in Office rally. Win McNamee/Getty Images
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A worker makes a clay pot inside his pottery workshop in Kandahar, Afghanistan, on April 29, 2025. Sanaullah Seiam/AFP via Getty Images
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Defendant Daniela Klette (C), a former member of German far-left terrorist group The Red Army Faction (RAF), waves as she stands between her lawyers Lukas Theune (L) and Undine Weyers (R), during the continuation of her trial for armed robbery and attempted murder in Celle, Germany, on April 29, 2025. The radical anti-capitalist group, also known as the
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An aerial view of three derelict former fishing boats, the Pavonia WK53, the Mint BF300 and the Girl Claire B8, near Salen, on the Isle of Mull, Scotland, on April 29, 2025. Oli Scarff/AFP via Getty Images
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A visitor walks past the “Mechanical Workshop” where women were engaged in slave labor at the Ravensbrück concentration camp, close to Fuerstenberg, north of Berlin, on April 29, 2025. Ravensbrück, a Nazi concentration camp for women from 1939 to 1945, was liberated by Soviet troops on April 30, 2025.  John Macdougall/AFP via Getty Images
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People raise their hand as they take the oath of allegiance during a Naturalization Ceremony aboard USS New York (LPD-21) during Fleet Week in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., on April 29, 2025. Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images
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Afghan horse riders compete in buzkashi, a Central Asian sport, at a field in Khash District of Badakhshan Province, on April 29, 2025. Omer Abrar/AFP via Getty Images
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North Kivu's military governor Maj. Gen. Evariste Somo Kakule and Vice-Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Maxime Prevot are pictured during a meeting with the North Kivu province governor, in Beni, Democratic Republic of Congo, on April 29, 2025. Prevot is on a diplomatic mission to East and Central Africa to contribute to a lasting solution to the conflict in the East of the Democratic Republic of Congo. He will visit Uganda, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Nicolas Maeterlinck/Belga Mag/AFP via Getty Images
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A surfer wearing a stormtrooper costume rides the tidal bore on a paddle board, at Mont Saint-Michel Bay, France, on April 29, 2025. Lou Benoist/AFP via Getty Images
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One of two female Iberian lynxes (Lynx pardinus), named Vouga and Valeriana, from the Silves breeding center managed by the Portuguese government, runs after its release in Astudillo, Palencia province, Spain, on April 29, 2025. Cesar Manso/AFP via Getty Images