Day in Photos: Year-Long Attack, Short-Lived Mayor, and Launched Rocket
People walk past a projection of photos of victims from Hamas's attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, on a wall in Jerusalem on Oct. 6, 2024. Ahmad Gharabli/AFP via Getty Images

Day in Photos: Year-Long Attack, Short-Lived Mayor, and Launched Rocket

A look into the world through the lens of photography.
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President Joe Biden lights a candle during a remembrance ceremony in the Blue Room of the White House with first lady Jill Biden and Rabbi Aaron Alexander (R) of Adas Israel Congregation on the one-year anniversary of the Hamas attack on Israel, Washington D.C., on Oct. 7, 2024. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images
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A sign is seen at the Pass-A-Grille Women's Club in St. Petersburg, Fla., ahead of Hurricane Milton's expected landfall in the middle of this week on Oct. 7, 2024. Bryan R. Smith/AFP via Getty Images
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Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump, speaks with Rabbi Motti Seligson as he arrives at Ohel Chabad Lubavitch in New York City on Oct. 7, 2024. Trump commemorated the one-year anniversary of the Oct. 7 massacre by visiting to Ohel Chabad Lubavitch, the final resting place of Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson the Rebbe, with the family of Edan Alexander, who was taken hostage by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023, in attendance. Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images
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The shadow of the Tokyo Sky Tree is pictured from the tower's lightning observation research site during a media tour about the disaster control functions of the Tokyo Skytree in Tokyo on Oct. 7, 2024. Philip Fong/AFP via Getty Images
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Republican vice presidential nominee, Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) speaks during a Philos Project Oct. 7 Memorial Rally at the Washington Monument in Washington, on Oct. 7, 2024. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images
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The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen speaks during the first anniversary commemoration paying tribute to victims of Hamas's Oct. 7, 2023, attacks on Israel, at the Great Synagogue in Brussels on Oct. 7, 2024. Nicolas Tucat/AFP via Getty Images
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Molecular biologist Gary Ruvkun reacts as he arrives for a press conference after winning a shared 2024 Nobel Prize with Victor Ambros in Physiology or Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Mass., on Oct. 7, 2024. Their prize was for their contributions to the discovery that tiny molecules of RNA can control the activity of critical genes in animals and plants. Scott Eisen/Getty Images
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Fire investigators view a building following an explosion in a block of flats in Clackmannanshire in Alloa, Scotland on Oct. 7, 2024. Police Scotland declared a major incident at the property on Sunday evening after a man died and three people were injured in an explosion. Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images
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Former Houston Police officer Gerald Gaines listens to closing arguments in the punishment phase of his felony murder trial in Houston on Oct. 7, 2024. Gaines was found guilty of felony murder in the 2019 deaths of Dennis Tuttle and Rhogena Nicholas. Brett Coomer/Houston Chronicle via AP
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A woman uses a sieve to separate rice grains from husk at a wholesale grain market in Amritsar, India, on Oct. 7, 2024. Narinder Nanu/AFP via Getty Images
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People raise their arms while walking past a police station in Pont-Sonde, Haiti, on Oct. 7, 2024, days after a gang attacked the town. Odelyn Joseph/AP Photo
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Election officials announce Tunisian president and candidate for re-election Kais Saied as the winner of the presidential elections, in the capital Tunis, Tunisia, on Oct. 7, 2024. Anis Mili/AP Photo
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Tourists stand on deck as the cruise ship Brilliance of the Seas enters the Miraflores locks of the Panama Canal in Panama City on Oct. 7, 2024. The 2024-2025 cruise season in Panama began Monday with the passage of the Brilliance of the Seas, which completes its 15-day itinerary between Los Angeles and New Orleans. Martin Bernetti/AFP via Getty Images
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A bartender presents ballot papers to customers at Harry's Bar, where a straw vote for US citizens living in France has been organised ahead of the U.S. Presidential elections, in Paris on Oct. 7, 2024. Geoffroy Van Der Hasselt/AFP via Getty Images
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Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. (R) delivers a speech during his meeting with South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol at the Malacanang Palace in Manila, Philippines, on Oct. 7, 2024. Ezra Acayan/Getty Images
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Tennis great Billie Jean King gestures as she is introduced by Roses President Ed Morales, left, as grand marshal of the 136th Rose Parade next year on the front steps of the Tournament House in Pasadena, Calif., on Oct. 7, 2024. Damian Dovarganes/AP Photo
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Officers from the Police Regional Marine and Underwater Search Unit demonstrate the use of their under water sonar equipment during a photo call for representatives of the media as they continue to search along the River Derwent for 34-year-old Victoria Taylor in Malton, England, on Oct. 7, 2024. Ian Forsyth/Getty Images
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An opposition protester holds a flare during an anti-government rally set up by the opposition, in Tirana, Albania, on Oct. 7, 2024. Hameraldi Agolli/AP Photo
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The overturned schoolbus which was carrying approximately 70 people when it crashed can be seen laying on its side in a field in Newtownards, Northern Ireland, on Oct. 7, 2024. A major incident was declared when a double-decker school bus overturned on Ballyblack Road East in County Down. According to the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service (NIAS), of the 43 school children and a driver who were aboard the bus, four will require hospital treatment and the rest are expected to be discharged at the scene. Charles McQuillan/Getty Images
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Supporters of slain Mayor Alejandro Arcos place candles and flowers at the entrance of the municipal building one week after he took office in Chilpancingo, Mexico, on Oct. 7, 2024. Alejandrino Gonzalez/AP Photo
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Security officials examine at the site of an explosion which occured near Karachi airport in Karachi, on late Oct. 6, 2024. A massive blast rocked a road near the airport of Pakistan's largest city as a separatist militant group claimed on Oct. 7 an attack in the area. Asif Hassan/AFP via Getty Images
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India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi (R) and Maldives President Mohamed Muizzu walk before their meeting at the Hyderabad House in New Delhi, India, on Oct. 7, 2024. Money Sharma/AFP via Getty Images
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An Afghan vendor feeds his sheep as he waits for customers at a livestock market on the outskirts of Mazar-i-Sharif in Balkh Province, Afghanistan, on Oct. 7, 2024. Atif Aryan/AFP via Getty Images
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French Prime Minister Michel Barnier delivers a speech during a ceremony organised by the Council of French Jewish Institutions (CRIF) to pay tribute to the victims of Hamas's Oct. 7, 2023, attacks on Israel, on the event's first anniversary, in Paris, on Oct. 7, 2024. Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP via Getty Images
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A worker operates a bulldozer to demolish illegally built sheds at Mermoz campus, after the country's Ministry of Education ordered students illegally occupying rooms in university halls of residence to vacate the premises, in Cocody, Abidjan, on Oct. 7, 2024. The ministerial decision comes a few days after arrests of several leaders of the country's student and school federation (FESCI) and the death of one of its members. Issouf Sanogo/AFP via Getty Images
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from launch complex-40 carrying the European Space Agency Hera spacecraft on a mission to the asteroid Dimorphos, at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, in Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Oct. 7, 2024. Steve Nesius/Reuters