After more than 50 days of a National Assembly without a majority, French President Emmanuel Macron on Sept. 5 named former Brexit negotiator for the European Union Michel Barnier as France’s next prime minister.
Barnier led the EU’s talks with Britain from 2016 to 2021 over its exit from the bloc.
Here are some of the photos today that caught our eye.
Afghan workers wash grapes with hot water before sun-drying them in a field on the outskirts of Guzara district on Sept. 5, 2024. Mohsen Karimi/AFP via Getty Images
People stay at a cafe terrace on a flooded St. Mark's square in Venice during high tide on Sept. 5, 2024. Marco Bertorello/AFP via Getty Images
Members of the media tour the deep sea drilling vessel Chikyu, operated by the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, at the Shimizu port in Shimizu, Japan, on Sept. 5, 2024. Tomohiro Ohsumi/Getty Images
Flags are lowered at half-mast in front of Apalachee High School in Winder, Ga., on Sept. 5, 2024. Jessica McGowan/Getty Images
Gold medalist Oksana Masters of Team USA celebrates winning during the Women's H5 Road Race at the Paris 2024 Summer Paralympic Games in Paris on Sept. 5, 2024. Michael Steele/Getty Images
Smoke rises during an ongoing Israeli military raid in Jenin, in the occupied West Bank on Sept. 5, 2024. Zain Jaafar/AFP via Getty Images
Protesters raise portraits of Israeli hostage Naama Levy, calling for action to secure the release of Israeli hostages held captive since the Oct. 7 attacks by Palestinian terrorists in the Gaza Strip, in front of the Israeli Defence Ministry in Tel Aviv on Sept. 5, 2024. Jack Guez/AFP via Getty Images
A law enforcement patrol outside the U.S. Courthouse as Hunter Biden, son of President Joe Biden, arrives for his trial on tax evasion in Los Angeles on Sept. 5, 2024. Ringo Chiu/AFP via Getty Images
Supporters arrive ahead of the start the international friendly football match between Vietnam and Russia at My Dinh National Stadium in Hanoi on Sept. 5, 2024. Nhac Nguyen/AFP via Getty Images
A released Nicaraguan political prisoner gives the thumb up while aboard a bus upon arrival at the Air Force Base in Guatemala City on Sept. 5, 2024. Johan Ordonez/AFP via Getty Images
Joel Girbach of Switzerland plays his second shot on the fourth hole on Day One of the Omega European Masters 2024 at Crans-sur-Sierre Golf Club in Crans-Montana, Switzerland, on Sept. 5, 2024. Warren Little/Getty Images
A worker walks under the Statue of King Sejong, dedicated to the 15th-century Korean monarch Sejong the Great, in Gwanghwamun Square in Seoul on Sept. 5, 2024. Anthony Wallace/AFP via Getty Images
Indonesian marines maneuver in a Landing Vehicle Tracked Personnel-7 during the Super Garuda Shield joint military exercise including Indonesia, Japan, Singapore, Australia, and the United States, in Situbondo, East Java, on Sept. 5, 2024. Juni Kriswanto/AFP via Getty Images
Finland's Prime Minister Petteri Orpo (L) welcomes Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani walk together during the latter's two-day official state visit, at Kesaeranta in Helsinki, Finland, on Sept. 5, 2024. Heikki Saukkomaa/Lehtikuva/AFP via Getty Images
New members of Sudan's Gedaref State Police Department attend a graduation ceremony in Gedaref on Sept. 5, 2024. -/AFP via Getty Images
A police operation at the residence of the 18-year-old Austrian suspect who opened fire near the Israeli consulate in Munich in Neumarkt am Wallersee, Austria, on Sept. 5, 2024. Daniel Scharinger/APA/AFP via Getty Images
Queen Mary of Denmark attends the parade on Denmark's flag day at the Christiansborg Palace Square in Copenhagen on Sept. 5, 2024. Ida Marie Odgaard/Ritzau Scanpix/AFP via Getty Images
An aerial view shows the roof of La Roca maximum security prison after a controlled explosion in Guayaquil, Ecuador, on Sept. 5, 2024. Enrique Ortiz/AFP via Getty Images
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper eat lunch at Sam Jones BBQ in Raleigh, N.C., on Sept. 5, 2024. Allison Joyce/AFP via Getty Images
Truckers eat their lunch while blocking a street during a protest against the diesel price increase in Cali, Colombia, on Sept. 5, 2024. Joaquin Sarmiento/AFP via Getty Images
An aerial view shows Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike municipal trucks as they wait to unload plastic and other waste materials to a landfill on the outskirts of Bengaluru on Sept. 5, 2024. Idrees Mohammed/AFP via Getty Images
