1,000 days of war in Ukraine, trapped South African miners and more

Ukrainian servicemen lay lit candles in front of the Motherland Monument during a commemoration marking the 1,000th day of the Russian invasion of Ukraine at the National Museum of History in Kyiv on November 19, 2024.

Hundreds of trapped miners at an abandoned South African mine shaft are struggling to survive in grim conditions, one of the men who managed to escape told AFP on November 17, 2024.

Voters queue to cast their votes before the opening of the polls during the 2024 Somaliland presidential election in Hargeisa on November 13, 2024.

A Waning Gibbous moon rises behind skyscrapers in Dubai on November 16, 2024.

Members of the Maori community march in a protest rally to criticise the government for its policies affecting the Indigenous Māori population in Wellington on November 19, 2024.

People light and release paper lanterns during the Yi Peng festival celebrations in northern Thailand's Chiang Mai city on November 15, 2024.

Afghan women sit next to food and winter blankets distributed by a local charity foundation in the Injīl district of Herat province on November 18, 2024.

Civil defence workers extinguish a fire as smoke rises from the site of an Israeli airstrike in Tayouneh, Beirut, Lebanon on Friday, November 15, 2024.

Spain's tennis player Carlos Alcaraz attends a training session in Malaga, southern Spain, on Monday, November 18, 2024.

A student waves a Palestinian flag during the national demonstration "No Meloni Day" against Italian government reforms outside the Ministry of Education on November 15, 2024, in Rome, Italy.