Award-winning image, India elections and the scars of war

Tourists and Hindu devotees are seen on the 272 steps of Sri Subramaniar Swamy Temple at Batu Caves, Malaysia April 19, 2024.

A Palestinian woman embraces the body of her 5-year-old niece Saly, who was killed in an Israeli strike in Gaza on October 17, 2023. Mohammed Salem recently won the 2024 World Press Photo of the Year award for this image.

The Red Rebel Brigade, a climate activist group, gather at the Boston Public Garden during "The Funeral for Nature" with the climate activist group Extinction Rebellion (XR) in Boston, Massachusetts, on April 20, 2024.

Motorists drive their vehicles through a sandstorm in Libya's eastern city of Benghazi on April 22, 2024.

Britain's Queen Camilla (C) poses for a group photograph with the Royal Lancers at the Catterick Garrison, north England, on April 22, 2024, for her first visit to the Regiment since being appointed as their Colonel-in-Chief.

Ishag Abdullah Khatir, 30, from Geneina in West Sudan, whose leg was amputated after RSF soldiers shot him, poses for a portrait on April 20, 2024, in Adre, Chad.

A photograph taken on early April 22, 2024 in Fully, western Switzerland shows burning candles placed in a vineyard to keep the plants warm, part of the fight against the frost destroying the newly emerging buds.

Hundreds of people gather at Red Square for a rally hosted by the Communist Party of Russia on April 22, 2024, to mark the 154th birth anniversary of Russian revolutionary and USSR founder Vladimir Lenin.

A woman casts her ballot at a polling station in the first phase of voting for India's general elections in Parbatsar, Rajasthan, on April 19, 2024.