Day in Photos: Western Leaders in Kyiv, Trump Meets Macron, and Jhumur Mass Dance
European leaders attend a ceremony at the memorial to the fallen Ukrainian soldiers on Independence Square in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Feb. 24, 2025. Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP

Day in Photos: Western Leaders in Kyiv, Trump Meets Macron, and Jhumur Mass Dance

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President Donald Trump greets French President Emmanuel Macron at the White House in Washington on Feb. 24, 2025. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times
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A view of tents in front of a ruined high-rise building in northern Gaza City, Jabalia refugee camp, on Feb. 24, 2025. In winter and cold, Palestinian citizens continue their daily lives in the ruins of their homes. Youssef Alzanoun/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images
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Members of Marseille Naval Fire Battalion (Marins-Pompiers de Marseille) arrive with a demining robot in front of the Russian Consulate in Marseille, France, after three improvised explosive devices were thrown on Feb. 24, 2025. No one was injured, and only two of the three devices detonated in the attack on the third anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, a police source said. Miguel Medina/AFP via Getty Images
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German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock and German Minister of Economics and Climate Protection and main candidate of Germany’s Green party Robert Habeck pose as they arrive to address a press conference in Berlin on Feb. 24, 2025, one day after the German general elections. With more than 28 percent of the vote, Merz’s CDU/CSU bloc handily defeated Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats (SPD) and the Greens coalition, as the anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) celebrated a record of more than 20 percent support. John Macdougall/AFP via Getty Images
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Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum holds a Mexican flag during a military ceremony to commemorate the Mexican Flag Day at Marte Military Sports Field in Mexico City on Feb. 24, 2025. Yuri Cortez/AFP via Getty Images
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Members of the National Disaster Response Force prepare for a rescue operation at Srisailam Left Bank Canal project tunnel in Nagarkurnool district of India’s Telangana state on Feb. 24, 2025. Search teams had little chance of safely rescuing eight workers trapped inside an irrigation tunnel in southern India after it collapsed during construction on the weekend, a minister said on Feb. 24. The accident occurred on Feb. 22, in the state of Telangana after a sudden inflow of water and soil caused a part of the tunnel to cave in. AFP via Getty Images
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U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth welcomes Saudi Minister of Defense Khalid bin Salman at the Pentagon in Arlington, Va., on Feb. 24, 2025. On Feb. 15, Hegseth conducted an introductory call to reinforce the vital defense partnership between the United States and Saudi Arabia. Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images
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A woman lays a flower in front of the Mulhouse town hall during a gathering to pay tribute to Lino Sousa Loureiro, the victim of a fatal stabbing that French President Emmanuel Macron called an “Islamist terror act,” in Mulhouse, France, on Feb. 24, 2025. The knife-wielding suspect, identified by prosecutors as a 37-year-old Algerian-born man who arrived in France illegally in 2014 and was on a terror watchlist and meant for extradition, was arrested at the site of Saturday’s attack in the eastern city of Mulhouse. Sebastien Bozon/AFP via Getty Images
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During a parade in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, police officers stand on guard on Feb. 24, 2025. Hardy Bope/AFP via Getty Images
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Venezuelans deported from the United States arrive at Simon Bolivar International Airport in La Guaira, Venezuela, on Feb. 24, 2025. The United States deported 242 Venezuelans who arrived in their country on the third day of repatriation flights. The repatriations are part of a deal reached by the governments of the United States and Venezuela in January and also part of the Trump administration’s plan to deport millions of Venezuelans allegedly living illegally in the United States. Jesus Vargas/Getty Images
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Serbian police officers block the entrance to the city hall in Novi Sad while local opposition demonstrators throw eggs, flour, and paint at them during the election of the new mayor of Novi Sad on Feb. 24, 2025. Nenad Mihajlovic/AFP via Getty Images
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Filipino President Ferdinand Marcos attends a meeting with Japanese Defense Minister Gen Nakatani at the Malacañang presidential palace in Manila on Feb. 24, 2025. Francis R. Malasig/POOL/AFP via Getty Images
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A firefighter inspects the damage to a destroyed private house after the explosion of an aerial guided bomb in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region on Feb. 24, 2025, on the third anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Sergey Bobok/AFP via Getty Images
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Dancers perform
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A man beside wooden votive tablets placed by students and parents containing messages for academic success at the Yushima Tenmangu shrine in Tokyo, Japan, on Feb. 24, 2025, amid the annual entrance exam season. Kazuhiro Nogi/AFP via Getty Images
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The police remove pro-Palestinian activists as they block the entrance to the headquarters of Danish shipping giant Maersk in Copenhagen, Denmark, on Feb. 24, 2025. The demonstrators are protesting against the shipping company’s transport of military equipment to Israel. Mads Claus Rasmussen/Ritzau Scanpix/AFP via Getty Images
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An Afghan man drinks tea near the Tamim Ansar cemetery in Kabul on Feb. 24, 2025. Wakil Kohsar/AFP via Getty Images
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Polish Minister of Defence Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz (L) and Slovakian Defence Minister Robert Kalinak (C) inspect an honor guard during a welcoming ceremony in front of the Ministry building in Warsaw, Poland, on Feb. 24, 2025. Wojtek Radwanski/AFP via Getty Images
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A white-eye bird perches on a blossoming plum tree at Tokyo’s Yushima Tenmangu shrine on Feb. 24, 2025. Kazuhiro Nogi/AFP via Getty Images