Day in Photos: Treasury Secretary Hearings, Keir Starmer in Kyiv, and Cave Paintings in France
President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for Treasury Secretary, Scott Bessent, testifies before the Senate Committee on Finance on Capitol Hill in Washington on Jan. 16, 2025. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times

Day in Photos: Treasury Secretary Hearings, Keir Starmer in Kyiv, and Cave Paintings in France

A look into the world through the lens of photography.
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A police officer is parked in front of a house previously unscathed by the Palisades fire and now split in half by a landslide in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles on Jan. 16, 2025. Frederic Brown/AFP via Getty Images
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Metalliferous Mobile Rescue Winder operators look on as a cage is lifted from an abandoned gold shaft in Stilfontein, South Africa, on Jan. 16, 2025. Linda Givetash/AFP via Getty Images
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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz takes out a binder as he takes a sit prior to a parliamentary investigation committee hearing on Germany's phasing out of nuclear power, where he had to testify as a witness, in Berlin, Germany, on Jan. 16, 2025. John Macdougall/AFP via Getty Images
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People walk through the rubble of their burned home due to a forest fire in Epuyen, in the Patagonian region of Chubut province, Argentina, on Jan. 16, 2025. Martin Levicoy/AFP via Getty Images
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Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer walks with Britain's ambassador to Ukraine Martin Harris, during a visit to Kyiv, Ukraine, on Jan. 16, 2025. Carl Court/AFP via Getty Images
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Police are seen outside a grammar school in the town of Spisska Stara Ves, eastern Slovakia, on Jan. 16, 2025, where a student killed at least two people and seriously wounded another in a knife attack Thursday. AFP Stringer/AFP via Getty Images
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Israeli police officers try to move protesters by force as they block roads during a protest against the cease-fire with Hamas in Jerusalem, on Jan. 16, 2025. John Wessels/AFP via Getty Images
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The sun rises behind the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Jan. 16, 2025. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images
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A worker inspects a part of induction hotplates on an oven assembly line of the Brandt plant in Saint-Jean-de-la-Ruelle near Orleans, France, on Jan. 16, 2025, on the day marking the French home equipment manufacturer's 100th anniversary. Guillaume Souvant/AFP via Getty Images
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Visitors walk past the main gate bearing the motto Arbeit Macht Frei (Work brings freedom) at the former Nazi German Auschwitz I Concentration and extermination camp in Oswiecim, Poland, on Jan. 16, 2025. Omar Marques/Getty Images
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Fire-fighting helicopters load up with water in Hout Bay Harbour to water-bomb a vegetation fire (not visible) in the mountains above the suburb, in Cape Town, South Africa, on Jan. 16, 2025. Rodger Bosch/AFP via Getty Images
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This picture taken from the Israeli side of the border with the Gaza Strip shows an Israeli army tank stationed on a hill overlooking northern Gaza, on Jan. 16, 2025, following the announcement of a truce amid the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas. Menahem Kahana/AFP via Getty Images
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France's President Emmanuel Macron and President of Angola Joao Lourenco look on during an official welcome ceremony at the Hotel des Invalides in Paris, on Jan. 16, 2025. Ludovic Marin/AFP via Getty Images
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A Blue Origin New Glenn rocket streaks into orbit after launching from the Kennedy Space Center on its maiden flight, at Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Jan. 16, 2025. Gregg Newton/AFP via Getty Images
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U.S. workers use concrete to seal an illegal tunnel bound for El Paso in the United States at the Mexico-U.S. border in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua state, Mexico, on Jan. 16, 2025. Herika Martinez/AFP via Getty Images
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Artwork featuring a cat and dragon by farm owner and artist Tanyapong Jaikham in rice fields in northern Thailand's Chiang Rai province on Jan. 16, 2025. Karanwinat Wongchaimul/AFP via Getty Images
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Palestinian official Mohammad Mustafa (L) walks with European Council President Antonio Costa as he arrives at the European Council building in Brussels, on Jan. 16, 2025. Nicolas Tucat/AFP via Getty Images
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A man prepares to place a candle with others, one for each of the 6,434 victims killed in the “Great Hanshin Earthquake,” on the eve of the 30th anniversary of the massive earthquake in Kobe, at Koyaike Park in the city of Itami, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan, on Jan. 16, 2025. Richard Brooks/AFP via Getty Images
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A man rides his bicycle past palm trees along the Gulf waters in Kuwait City, Kuwait, on Jan. 16, 2025. Yasser Al-Zayyat/AFP via Getty Images
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A picture taken in Marseille, France, on Jan. 16, 2025 shows some of the parietal paintings of the Cosquer cave. Miguel Medina/AFP via Getty Images
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Tourists watch the North face of the Eiger mountain above the village of Wengen, ahead of the Lauberhorn ski World Cup races in Wengen, Switzerland, on Jan. 16, 2025. Fabrice Coffrini/AFP via Getty Images
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U.S. astronaut Suni Williams works outside the International Space Station during a spacewalk on Jan. 16, 2025. NASA TV/AP Photo
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People work out at an outdoor gym in Dakar, Senegal, on Jan. 16, 2025. Patrick Meinhardt/AFP via Getty Images
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A worker hangs sheets of rubber to dry at the Chandrapur Rubber Estate in Thakurkuchi village, some 35 km from Guwahati in India's Assam state, on Jan. 16, 2025. Biju Boro/AFP via Getty Images
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A tanker train is seen at the Evos Hamburg GmbH petroleum storage facility in Hamburg, Germany, on Jan. 16, 2025. Morris MacMatzen/Getty Images
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Patrick Reed of the United States tees off on the eighth hole on day one of the Hero Dubai Desert Classic at Emirates Golf Club in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on Jan. 16, 2025. Richard Heathcote/Getty Images