University students chant slogans and hold signs during a protest march in support of arrested Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu in Istanbul on March 20, 2025. On March 19, Imamoglu, who was due to be selected as a presidential candidate for the opposition Republican People's Party, was among 100 people arrested on an array of charges, from corruption to terrorism. Critics called the arrests politically motivated. Chris McGrath/Getty Images
An officer with Indonesia's National Narcotics Agency burns various drugs during a media event in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, on March 20, 2025. Chaideer Mahyuddin/AFP via Getty Images
A U.S. Army CH-47 Chinook helicopter carries equipment during a joint river-crossing exercise between South Korea and the United States as part of the Freedom Shield 25 training in Yeoncheon, South Korea, on March 20, 2025. Jung Yeon-Je/AFP via Getty Images
Displaced Palestinians carry their belongings as they set up camp at a landfill in the Yarmuk area in Gaza City, on March 20, 2025. Israel has continued strikes and expanded ground operations in Gaza after issuing what it called a “final warning” for Palestinians to return hostages and remove Hamas from power. Omar Al-Qattaa/AFP via Getty Images
People sit on a ledge in the spring sun outside the Bank of England ahead of its latest interest rate decision in London on March 20, 2025. Dan Kitwood/Getty Images
Members of the Forensic Pathology Services look at a crime scene where four people were killed and others injured at the Enkomeni Taxi Rank in Johannesburg on March 20, 2025. South African police said a similar shooting occurred near the city the previous day, killing three others. The shootings are believed to be linked to rivalry between taxi associations. Emmanuel Croset/AFP via Getty Images
Workers cover an asparagus field with mulching plastics in Zauchwitz, Brandenburg, Germany, on March 20, 2025. The heat of the sun collects faster under the dark film and favors growth. Brandenburg's producers are expecting an early asparagus harvest this year due to mild temperatures. Ralf Hirschberger/AFP via Getty Images
A suspension bridge that collapsed is seen in Duale, Guayas province, Ecuador, on March 20, 2025. The collapse of the busy 200-meter-long suspension bridge carrying several vehicles left at least one dead, five injured, and two missing, authorities said. Marcos Pin/AFP via Getty Images
U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem stands among wrapped packages of cocaine and marijuana that were offloaded from U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Stone at Port Everglades in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., on March 20, 2025. The Coast Guard offloaded approximately 45,600 pounds of illicit narcotics worth more than $517.5 million. Joe Raedle/Getty Images
A protester throws a Molotov cocktail during a demonstration rejecting the ratification of the Law on the Indonesian National Armed Forces, in front of the West Java Regional People's Representative Council Building in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia, on March 20, 2025. Protesters argued that the law would further expand the role of the military in the civil bureaucracy and extend the retirement age of high-ranking military officers. Dimas Rachmatsyah/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images
An employee works in front of a batch of glass bottles at cognac producer Chateau de Montifaud in Jarnac-Champagne, France, on March 20, 2025. Romain Perrocheau/AFP via Getty Images
Water cannons are used as Israeli protesters and police scuffle during a demonstration calling for an end to the war in Gaza and the return of hostages held by Hamas since the Oct. 7, 2023 attacks, in front of the prime minister's residence in Jerusalem, on March 20, 2025. Menahem Kahana/AFP via Getty Images
A hospital director shows bullet holes in one of the internal walls of the Saudi hospital in Khartoum, Sudan, on March 20, 2025. Most hospitals and schools no longer function in the capital due to an ongoing war that broke out in April 2023. The conflict has left thousands dead and uprooted more than 12 million, according to UN figures, with many living in makeshift camps and over 3.5 million fleeing across the country's borders. Ebrahim Hamid/AFP via Getty Images
A worker is seen at the Thyssenkrupp steel mill in Duisburg, Germany, on March 20, 2025. The European Commission is enacting its European Steel Action Plan to restore competitiveness to the European steel sector, which has been impacted by high energy costs and recent U.S. tariffs, and faces stiff competition from abroad, particularly in Asia. Hesham Elsherif/Getty Images
People explore the basalt columns of the Giant's Causeway on Northern Ireland's north coast, on March 20, 2025. Henry Nicholls/AFP via Getty Images
Venezuelan migrants exit a plane upon arrival at Simon Bolivar International Airport in Maiquetia, Venezuela, on March 20, 2025. Venezuela on Thursday flew home a plane of its citizens from Mexico, most of them U.S.-bound migrants whose journey came to a premature end as Washington cracks down on illegal immigrants. Pedro Mattey/AFP via Getty Images
French National Police drive their buggy vehicles as they patrol the beach of Bleriot to prevent migrants from boarding smugglers' boats in Sangatte, France, on March 20, 2025. A migrant died on March 19 near Gravelines in northern France, while attempting to cross the English Channel to England, less than 24 hours after a similar death in Pas-de-Calais. Sameer Al-Doumy/AFP via Getty Images
A worker from Ivory Coast cleans fish at Noryangjin Fish Market in Seoul, South Korea, on March 20, 2025. Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP via Getty Images
A cow grazes on a farm in Ruthsburg, Md., on March 20, 2025. Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images
Iraqi Kurdish dancers celebrate the Nowruz New Year festival in the town of Akre, about 100 kilometres north of Arbil in Iraq's northern autonomous Kurdish region, on March 20, 2025. Millions of people across the Middle East, Asia, and Eastern Europe celebrate the festival, which marks the start of spring. Safin Hamid/AFP via Getty Images
A bridge destroyed during the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 is seen in the town of Irpen, near Kyiv, Ukraine, on March 20, 2025. Oleksii Pydsosonnii/The Epoch Times
A white stork is seen in its nest in Tremsdorf, Germany, on March 20, 2025, the first day of spring. Ralf Hirschberger/AFP via Getty Images
Houses in the middle of a flooded area after the passage of Storm Laurence, as Storm Martinho looms, in El Palmar de Troya, Spain, on March 20, 2024. The storm is sweeping across the Iberian Peninsula and has caused numerous fallen trees and left one person injured in Portugal. Cristina Quicler/AFP via Getty Images
A Japan Airlines passenger plane lands as people visit a market in Taipei, Taiwan, on March 20, 2025. I-Hwa Cheng/AFP via Getty Images
A woman attempts to salvage some of her belongings from a burnt house destroyed in a night fire in a Roma settlement in Velky Saris, near Presov, Slovakia, on March 20, 2025. Four children and an adult died in the fire in the eastern Slovak slum late on March 19, rescue services and local officials said. Peter Lazar/AFP via Getty Images
The Carnival Adventure cruise ship is moored at Melbourne's Station Pier, Australia, on March 20, 2025. William West/AFP via Getty Images
A woman poses for a photograph beneath cherry blossoms in the gardens surrounding Saint Paul's Cathedral in London on March 20, 2025. The astronomical spring season begins on March 20, the date of the spring equinox. Leon Neal/Getty Images
