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Tokyo sunsets, frozen forests and more from the world
Philip FONG / AFP
People are seen on the beach as Mount Fuji is seen in the background from the Inage Seaside Park in Chiba city, a suburb of Tokyo during evening hour on 19 November 2025.
AP / Michael Probst
A road leads through a frozen forest in the Taunus region near Frankfurt, Germany, on 21 November 2025.
Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP
A Palestinian man carries a young boy on his shoulders during a film screening and children's entertainment event on the ruins of the Beach Services Sports Club in Al-Shatee refugee camp, west of Gaza City, on 23 November 2025.
Eyad BABA / AFP
Displaced Palestinian fishermen spread their nets on the beach in Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, on 20 November 2025.
REUTERS/Sarah Meyssonnier
French firefighters attend an evacuation exercise on the C1 urban cable car agency, which will connect Villeneuve-Saint-Georges, Limeil-Brevannes, Valenton and Creteil, in Limeil-Brevannes near Paris, France, on 20 November 2025.
REUTERS / Toby Melville
Deer walk through undergrowth during cold weather in Richmond Park, west London, Britain, on 21 November 2025.
CHAIDEER MAHYUDDIN / AFP
Farmers pull rice seedlings for planting at a paddy field in Lhoknga, Aceh province, on 20 November 2025.
Mahmud Turkia / AFP
Libyan men in traditional costumes ride horses during a Fantasia show in the coastal city of Zliten on 21 November 2025.
REUTERS / Alet Pretorius
People take part in a silent lie-down during a nationwide shutdown to ask the government to declare gender-based violence and femicide a national disaster in Pretoria, South Africa, on 21 November 2025.
Arun SANKAR / AFP
A fisherman casts his net in the waters of river Yamuna laden with polluted foam, on a smoggy morning in New Delhi on 20 November 2025.
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