Day in Photos: VE Day Rehearsal, Candlelight Vigil in India, and NATO Chief Visits Pentagon
A Royal Navy Merlin helicopter hovers above the Cornish countryside in southwest England on April 24, 2025, en-route to join British aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales following its deployment to the Indo-Pacific region. Richard Pohle/Pool/AFP via Getty Images

Day in Photos: VE Day Rehearsal, Candlelight Vigil in India, and NATO Chief Visits Pentagon

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People pay homage to slain tourists who were killed by gunmen in Kashmir's Pahalgam, during a rally in Kolkata, on April 24, 2025. At least 26 people were killed April 22 in Indian-administered Kashmir when gunmen opened fire on tourists, security sources said, in the region's deadliest attack on civilians since 2000. Dibyangshu Sarkar/AFP via Getty Images
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President Donald Trump shakes hands with Norway's Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store at the White House, ahead of their bilateral meeting in Washington on April 24, 2025. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images
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Rescue workers clear rubble after a Russian strike in a residential neighborhood in Kyiv, Ukraine, on April 24, 2025. Alex Babenko/AP Photo
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Members of the King's Troop rehearse movements with ceremonial guns as the Royal Horse Artillery begins preparations for the Royal Windsor Horse Show and VE Day military procession at Woolwich Barracks in London on April 24, 2025. As one of the most senior regiments in the British Army, the King's Troop will have a high-profile role in the VE Day military procession in London on May 5. Alishia Abodunde/Getty Images
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A sniper and a French security officer survey the area from the roof of a building following a knife attack in which one student was killed and three other were wounded at the Notre-Dame de Toutes-Aides high school, in Nantes, France on April 24, 2025. A student armed with a knife attacked four of his classmates before being subdued by teaching staff. France's Prime Minister called for “more intensive checks around and inside schools.
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Germany's interim Economic Minister Robert Habeck holds up a graph that shows “Exports and imports of goods and services in relation to GDP” for different countries to illustrate Germany's growing dependence on exports from 1970 to 2025, as he presents the spring 2025 German economy forecast to the media in Berlin on April 24, 2025.  Sean Gallup/Getty Images
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The remains of an overhead door and awning destroyed by a wildfire in Forked River, N.J., on April 24, 2025. A wildfire that officials say could end up being the largest in New Jersey in the past 20 years continues to burn. As of Wednesday, April 23, at 7 p.m., the Jones Road Wildfire was 50 percent contained after burning 13,250 acres, the New Jersey Forest Fire Service said. Adam Gray/Getty Images
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Participants with Israel's flag walk along a railway track leading to the gate of the former Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi death camp in Brzezinka (Birkenau) near Oswiecim, Poland, during the annual March of the Living to honor victims of the Holocaust on April 24, 2025. Wojtek Radwanski/AFP via Getty Images
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Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy looks on as he leaves a joint press conference with South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa during an official visit to South Africa, at the Union Buildings in Pretoria, on April 24, 2025. Phill Magakoe/AFP via Getty Images
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Pakistani security personnel stand guard at the Indian High Commission in Islamabad, on April 24, 2025, during an anti-India protest. Hundreds of Pakistanis joined protests across the country on April 24, including in Kashmir, to rage against Indian threats after a deadly attack on tourists across the contested border. Ghulam Rasool/AFP via Getty Images
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Thai Marine Corps members take part in an amphibious warfare exercise at Chulabhorn Camp in Thailand's southern Narathiwat province, on April 24, 2025. Madaree Tohlala/AFP via Getty Images
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Tourists stand in front of the Pantheon, a 2nd century Roman temple, in Rome on April 24, 2025. Andrej Isakovic/AFP via Getty Images
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NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte shakes hands with Defense Department senior personnel as U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth looks on, at the Pentagon in Washington on April 24, 2025. Rutte is in Washington from April 24 to 25 and has scheduled meetings with Hegseth, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and National Security Adviser Mike Waltz. Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images
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Members of Tunisian security forces dispense disinfectants as they dismantle a makeshift camp for migrants from sub-Saharan Africa at Ben Farhat farm near the Tunisian city of Sfax, on April 24, 2025. Tunisia on April 4 started dismantling camps housing thousands of undocumented migrants from sub-Saharan Africa, police said. Mohamed Khalil/AFP via Getty Images
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UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer meets European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen as she arrives at 10 Downing Street in London on April 24, 2025. Alishia Abodunde/Getty Images
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A picture shows a view of the Mosul Grand Mosque in the northern Iraqi city on April 24, 2025, during a sand storm. Zaid Al-Obeidi/AFP via Getty Images
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Men lift national flags during a rally called for by Sudan's Popular Front for Liberation and Justice in Port Sudan, on April 24, 2025, to denounce the siege imposed by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on El-Fasher city and express support for its residents. Since April 2023, the war between the country's army and the RSF has killed tens of thousands, uprooted 13 million and created what the UN describes as the world's worst humanitarian crisis. El-Fasher, the state capital of North Darfur, remains the last major city in the vast Darfur region that the paramilitary group has not conquered. AFP via Getty Images
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Randy Nichols puts guns on a display wall at the Springfield Armory booth at the 2025 NRA Annual Meetings & Exhibits at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta on April 24, 2025. The 154th NRA Annual Meetings & Exhibits is held from April 24-27, and features over 14 acres of the latest guns and gear, seminars, workshops, special events. Joe Raedle/Getty Images
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Andrei Kozlov, an Israeli hostage who was kidnapped by Hamas terrorists from the Nova music festival in October 2023 and freed by an Israeli rescue mission in June 2024, paints the scene of his rescue at a studio in New York City on April 24, 2025. Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times
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A Tanzanian police officer attempts to detain a supporter of opposition leader and former presidential candidate from the opposition Chadema party, Tundu Lissu, outside the Kisutu Residents Magistrate Court in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, on April 24, 2025. Reuters/Emmanuel Herman
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People gather to pay their respects during the ANZAC (Australian and New Zealand Army Corps) Day dawn service at the Shrine of Remembrance, to remember soldiers who died in the line of duty, in Melbourne on April 25, 2025. Martin Keep/AFP via Getty Images
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The training ship Georg Stage sails to Toldboden in Copenhagen on April 24, 2025. The ship turns 90 this year and will hold a three-day celebration including an open ship and a cake competition at the quay. Thomas Traasdahl/Ritzau Scanpix/AFP via Getty Images